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...receive an automatic pay increase of $1,272 from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, an unheard-of notion came over him: to help in the fight against excessive Government spending, he would reject the raise. Ex: plains Bavas, 49, who was working under a HEW contract at Northwestern University as an expert on intergovernmental affairs: "I really didn't need the money. I had no debts, and my mortgage ends in two years...
...this noble gesture, Bavas won no applause, no commendations. Instead, HEW officials in Washington told him that it is illegal for a Government employee to turn down a pay increase; otherwise, they explained, some cost-conscious officials might make a habit of pressuring subordinates to do the same. HEW promptly raised his salary...
Everybody was worried. North Carolina University officials did not want their school to become the first state university system ever to lose federal funding in a desegregation dispute with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano did not want voters in tobacco country to become even angrier at him (and at the President) in the wake of his antismoking campaign. Besides, a legal row with the state could slow school integration...
...renovation at the state's five predominantly black campuses, where 70% of the state university's 20,500 black students are enrolled. To pay for the improvements, the Governor agreed to pass up a planned $40 million tax cut. But the effort failed. The university concluded that HEW'S demands were "rigid" and last week sued to prevent the department from cutting off at least $20 million in federal...
...negotiations with HEW foundered on the question of what to do with these duplicate programs. Califano demanded that in addition to spending more money on black campuses, North Carolina agree to reduce program duplication if integration lagged during the next four years. He also demanded that the school desist from starting any major, potentially popular, new programs at its white campuses. North Carolina insisted that decisions about where programs were offered were none of HEW's business and that strengthening of courses at the black schools was the key to further integration. Said U.N.C. President William Friday: "Our basic...