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Mondale's loyalists have fought back by citing instances in which their man advised against Carter policies but lost. They insist he opposed the decision to let U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young resign, argued for the retention of HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and criticized the call for resignations of all Cabinet and senior White House staff members in July...
...final draft of the document, which HEW officials originally promised for last December, has still not been released. Richard Ogden, assistant audit director in HEW's regional office, refuses to comment about the content of the agency's charges, saying only that the final report will be ready sometime this December. Federal officials are even more tight-lipped about the investigation...
Meanwhile, Harvard officials are waiting, gnashing their teeth and talking about the agency's failure to uncover the documents that will vindicate the University. Thomas O'Brien, vice-president for financial affairs, predicts that HEW will eventually only demand that the University return a few hundred thousand dollars due to insufficient documentation--in contrast to the $2.5 million the original audit asserted had been misused. Both O'Brien and other University officials say the agency derived the $2.5 million figure after dissecting only a small part of the total--and then extrapolating the results...
...funds," says Howard J. Levy, assistant dean for financial affairs at the SPH. "It's hard to put a time clock in the head of a professor and see when he was thinking about which federally-funded project he may be working on," he adds. Scott says the HEW assessment of the University's record-keeping for wages "seems a little unfair. I would not object as much if they told us to change it in the future," Scott insists, "but they're talking about a system used from July 1974 until 1977. Now is a wonderful time to tell...
...says the agency has made "no attempt to arrive at a balanced judgement; what they look for--when they come in every three or five years--is insufficient documentation." Scott puts it more simply when he says, "Harvard manages its funds in a way that makes sense to Harvard. HEW has criticized us for not documenting our expenditures very well--but they did not find the right documents." Both are convinced that when the University is allowed to scrutinize the audit in detail, the vast majority of the discrepancies will be "negotiated away." Meanwhile, in the Office of Research Contracts...