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...apparently unprecedented action by federal officials yesterday, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) released the full text of a preliminary draft audit recommending the return of $2.5 million "improperly charged" to federal grants at the School of Public Health...
...remember the last time a draft of an audit like this was released," John Blamphin, an HEW spokesman, said last night. He said HEW decided to release the report in response to the request of a Congressional committee and to partial news accounts about the audit which appeared in the national press this week...
...situation is about to change. The Ethics Advisory Board of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has just given IVF a moral go-ahead and urged HEW to lift the ban. While doing so, it nevertheless recommended research limitations that may influence future policy with regard to such matters as selective human breeding...
...HEW Secretary Joseph Califano must act on the recommendations before they have the force of law. Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged Califano to continue the ban because there is already "public repugnance" over tax funding of abortions. Whatever Califano decides, Father McCormick predicts that his board's report is "going to be controversial, not only in the Catholic community but in every other...
...Sometimes it takes an event like this to pull people together. I just hope all these people will continue to show up at other demonstrations, and to protest with us at Seabrook (the Hew Hampshire town slated as the site for a new nuclear generating facility)," James M. Burns, another Clamshell member said...