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...definition of "equivalent," to be set by the Department of HEW will determine how restrictive the law will...
However, Harvard's policy since November 1973 (Its AA plan was finally accepted by HEW after two draft rejections) has been very weak on paper and even weaker in practice...
Finally the telephone rang. "I was on my way out the door," recalls Washington Lawyer Joseph Califano Jr., "and the Governor just said, 'Joe, I want you to come and help out at HEW.' " The Governor, of course, was Jimmy Carter, and the job was one of the nation's biggest: running the most visibly cumbersome bureaucracy of them all, the $140 billion, 149,000 employee Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Attorney General in mind. Her interview with Carter last week was described as having gone poorly. Said one Jordan associate: "He did not feel comfortable with her." Although the job was not specifically offered, she ruled out consideration of the U.N. position, and her friends advised her to avoid HEW as being what one called "a bureaucratic snake pit." Some Carter advisers were afraid that if she were given Justice, she might leave as early as 1978 to run for the Senate from Texas. Others questioned whether she had the management ability to run the Justice Department. Despite Young...
Prudent Course. Faced with these incriminating statistics and lacking any evidence of an impending swine-flu outbreak, federal officials took what Dr. Theodore Cooper, HEW assistant secretary for health, last week described as "the only prudent course of action": they immediately halted the program until they could prove or disprove the link between the vaccine and the paralysis. The investigation, which has already determined that no single batch of vaccine can be blamed, will take at least a month. If the vaccine is cleared, Cooper says, he will recommend resumption of the program-both to provide protection against swine...