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Right and Duty. Congressional committees also approved a $61.3 billion appropriation for Labor and HEW that was $2.1 billion more than Carter had requested. Given these setbacks, Carter's press-conference response was a measured one. Said he: "I respect the Congress, and I will work day and night to reach an agreeable solution to these potential threats to harmony." But, he added, "I have to reserve the right and the duty to say no when spending is excessive...
...gimmickry has the full blessings of the Carter Administration, which has set as a goal the inoculation by the fall of 1979 of 90% of all American youngsters-not only against measles but against five other avoidable diseases as well: polio, whooping cough, German measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Says HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr.: "Our national failure to protect our young from preventable diseases is shocking [and] a national disgrace...
Education experts, like Senator Edward Brooke (R., Mass.), ranking minority member on the HEW-Labor subcommittee on appropriations, fear that the money crunch will force schools to "mainstream" ill-prepared students into regular classrooms rather than putting them in small special classes. This could prompt a parental backlash. Says Professor Frances Connor, chairman of the special education department of Columbia University's Teachers College: "If you had a child who was just about at the entry level for college, and you felt that his needs were not being met because the handicapped children required a lot of the teacher...
That attitude was underscored by a surprise decision on welfare reform. Although Carter had made a major campaign point of prompt reform, he dashed that prospect with the curious explanation that the welfare mess "is worse than we thought." Several options for revamping welfare had been prepared by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and debated in five White House meetings over the past month, but none of them was acceptable to Carter essentially because they all cost too much money...
...given day), Sweden's cars are being priced out of the world market. The merger will strengthen the Swedish auto industry by combining Volvo and Saab sales forces, distribution setups and parts supplies abroad. It will also enable Saab and Volvo to bring out a hew line of models, presumably based on a synthesis of Saab's sporty front-wheel drive design and Volvo's vaunted safety features...