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That sentence tied a certain kind of federal medical school aid to the stipulation that the schools for two years admit third-year transfer students from foreign medical schools at the direction of the secretary of HEW...
...Rehabilitation Act was long overdue when it was passed, and though a costly measure for all taxpayers, it is potentially a great boon to the 46 million handicapped people in the U.S. But in the months ahead, there will have to be numerous clarifications and modifications of the HEW guidelines, and other federal agencies still have to publish their own requirements under the law. As the regulations are defined and refined, the spirit of the law will be more important than the letter. Overzealous enforcement could drive well-meaning institutions to distraction, if not out of business, and thus handicap...
...HEW has ordered all the institutions around the country that it touches to file plans by next week showing how they intend to comply with the new regulations. The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, responsible for enforcing building-access requirements, has been accepting complaints for the past two years but so far has issued only two formal citations of violation (both of them against federal agencies). Institutions not federally funded have until 1980 to bring their buildings constructed before 1973 into compliance...
...what 'reasonable accommodations' and 'undue hardships' mean? We are at our wits' end in deciding what to do." Duke estimates it would cost $1 million to make every building on its hilly campus accessible. Says Frederick Ford, executive vice president and treasurer of Purdue: "HEW writes hundreds of pages of regulations and in very fine print. The question is: How in the world can you realistically implement them...
...busy executive may, in the course of a day, have to put in a call or write to city hall in San Francisco. Or, on behalf of an errant salesman, reach a bail-bond outfit in Buffalo. Or a Toledo TV station. Or the Manufactured Housing Institute. Or HEW in Atlanta, or EPA in Boston, or a bus terminal in Minneapolis...