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...vowed to cut down on Government regulations and make them more understandable. Thus, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano must have been proud a few days back as he announced that his department-the Government's biggest spender-was starting a five-year campaign to make HEW's edicts briefer, simpler and fewer. He even gave the campaign a nice snappy title: Operation Common Sense. Great, but the HEW flacks handed reporters 43 pages of verbiage to explain how much sense Common Sense made. And Califano topped it all off by announcing that a new position...
...schools' major objection to the law is that they will have no voice in the transfer process: HEW, in fact, will summarily assign eligible students to existing openings. Med schools rarely accept transfers anyway, since very few good students tend to drop out. Thus the schools, which A.A.M.C. says have doubled their enrollment in the past decade, will be forced to fit even more students into facilities already filled to capacity. More important, many of the foreign medical schools are considered inadequate by U.S. standards, and many Americans studying medicine there are likely to be rejects from U.S. schools...
Even this delicately balanced brief was not acceptable to some Cabinet members, who engaged in a lively debate with the President last week. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano argued that un less the criticism of quotas was "softened," hundreds of affirmative-action programs under negotiation by his department would be jeopardized. The two blacks in the Cabinet were equally adamant. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris maintained that housing and job discrimination would be encouraged, and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young warned that the Administration's position on Bakke would never be forgotten by blacks. Carter reportedly maintained that he was inclined...
...will cost the average American only about five cents each to create a consumer voice within federal agencies." Nader said of the proposed $15 million agency, an appropriation equal to about one hour of the Pentagon or HEW budget...
Does anyone ever stop to think that if middle-income Americans were not so overburdened by taxes to feed, clothe, doctor and educate "needier" families, they would be able to afford to educate their own children without help from HEW...