Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, HEW is here to stay, as is the welfare state. In part, the Federal Government got into the social services business because a capitalist society, reeling from the Great Depression, seemed unable to respond to pressing human needs, at least not fast enough. But there is now a growing feeling that the private sector has surrendered too much to the public. More and more Americans are objecting not just to the size of their taxes but to how the money is being spent. Today unbounded bureaucracy, consuming ever more of the national income, is a problem endemic...
...department wastes $6 billion annually. To try to straighten out the programs and cut down the waste, Califano set up a watchdog bureau similar to the President's Office of Management and Budget. The office has department-wide oversight of budgeting, planning, procurement, and reorganization. Though HEW deals with human beings and not hardware, Califano wants to quantify program goals as much as possible. He has set up targets for reducing waste and improving services and is keeping a monthly watch on the progress that is being made. The campaign is already paying off. The average time for processing disability...
...executive, Joseph Anthony Califano Jr., 47, is delighted that he has one of the toughest challenges in Washington. Says he: "I love this job! I think it is the greatest job in the Government. We're at the frontier of most of the social and human issues that government touches in a democracy. I mean, this is where...
Under a 1975 West German-Yugoslav extradition treaty, 81 people have been exchanged. Political prisoners, however, fall into a shady area. Except for crimes against human life, such as murder, acts considered to be politically motivated are not extraditable offenses. That leaves Bonn in a quandary. Turning over political prisoners would be improper. But not turning over prisoners that Belgrade wants could delay or possibly prevent the return of the R. A.F. four...
Hauntingly reminiscent of the Viet Nam War, those scenes of human agony were shown on television newscasts across China last week. The dramatic scenes reflected an extraordinary political scenario: the virtual collapse of fraternal relations between Hanoi and Peking, which Chinese propagandists had once described as being as close "as lips are to teeth." Complaining bitterly about the Vietnamese government's maltreatment of 1.2 million Chinese whose forebears settled in Viet Nam more than a century ago, the New China News Agency raged that "persecuted and ostracized" Chinese last week were fleeing for safety into the People's Republic...