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...dirty work, and the old man has been getting all the gravy." So Stephen Elko reportedly complained to the FBI about his former boss, Daniel Flood, 74, a 30-year Congressman from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the flamboyant head of the powerful House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor and HEW. Largely on the basis of Elko's testimony, a Los Angeles federal grand jury last week indicted Flood on three charges of perjury, including one stemming, from a statement he made denying receipt of $5,000 in bribes to help some now-defunct West Coast trade schools...
...complicated application forms. But the Opportunity Act proponents counter by saying that the Internal Revenue Service will have to set up a completely new bureaucratic network to administer the tax credits and collect much of the same data that the Office of Health. Education and Welfare already monitors. HEW, however, has come under fire recently for permitting rampant fraud and abuse of some of its financial aid programs...
...highlighting the negative aspects of cigarette smoking through the HEW campaign and the positive aspects of tobacco farming during his North Carolina trip, the President has contributed to the national debate on this issue. Though Hugh Sidey may be confused by these activities, President Carter has walked a fine but reasonable line of tobacco politics...
...political rehabilitation. The tactics called for praise of tobacco farming, a promise of continued price supports. That North Carolina's tobacco somehow ends up in those cigarettes that Carter's Government is trying to keep people from using was buried beneath some good-natured kidding about HEW Secretary Joe Califano...
While Carter may have helped his standing in North Carolina, there was some question about what effect all this will have in the rest of the country, where three quarters of the people do not smoke, and where 80% of the 53 million cigarette smokers, says HEW, would like to quit if they could. Back in Washington, Nonsmoker Carter has put his Administration firmly behind preventive medicine. The evidence amassed by HEW stands like an Everest on this health horizon. Cigarette smoking is considered by federal authorities the biggest acquired cause of poor health. They claim that 320,000 people...