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...President's busing moratorium and proposals for improving inferior schools remained in doubt in Congress. Although they probably enjoy strong support, they are opposed by some key committee chairmen, including the House Education Committee's Carl Perkins of Kentucky. As hearings opened in a Senate subcommittee, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson defended Nixon's proposals. Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton bluntly branded Richardson's arguments for the President's compensatory education plan "hypocritical hogwash...
...Health, Education and Welfare finally decided to impose a deadline. It gave the Boston school committee until Feb. 9 to draw up a plan for desegregation or face possible court action plus the loss of financial aid. "Why have they singled us out?" protested a committee member. Replied HEW's Civil Rights Director J. Stanley Pottinger: "Because we received a complaint 18 months ago, and our review has shown meat...
...Boston stood to lose some $300 million in aid and construction money, the committee did nothing about producing a desegregation plan. "We cannot respond in the time they have given us," said Chairman James Hennigan (Mrs. Hicks had run unsuccessfully for mayor and then moved on to Congress). While HEW's legal machinery slowly turned, the N.A.A.C.P. sponsored a class action against the school authorities by 55 parents and children, demanding a prompt end to "racially discriminatory policies." At the same time, the state board of education voted to draw up its own desegregation plan in case the courts...
Repeal seems highly unlikely, however, and despite President Nixon's speech, pro-integration officials emphasize that HEW never asked for new busing. It asks a new plan, which could include new schools, new district boundaries, or new routes for present buses. As one official observes: "HEW can't legally not proceed against Boston." Among blacks, too, feelings are running high. Says Ruth Batson, a civil rights worker at Boston University: "Black people have got sick of this whole foolishness. We absolutely cannot continue to live...
...HEW officials have stated that the U.S. currently has a shortage of some 50,000 physicians. The American Medical Association disagrees. Reporting in the A.M.A. Journal on the results of a yearlong study of medical manpower, Henry Mason of the association's department of undergraduate medical education concludes that the problem is not scarcity but uneven distribution. In South Dakota, for example, there is only one internist for every 12,813 people. In 18 states, there is only one pediatrician for each 20,000. Obstetrician-gynecologists are also unevenly distributed; while the national median...