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WHEN KENNEDY SCHOOL LECTURER ROBERT B. REICH BECAME THE FIRST HARVARD PROFESSOR TO LEAVE FOR THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. MORE NAMES WERE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW. HOWEVER, IT SEEMS HARVARD EMPLOYEES ARE RIDING A TIDAL WAVE OF APPOINTMENTS TO WASHINGTON--A SIGHT UNSEEN SINCE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY '40--LEAVING A VACUUM INSIDE THE IVORY TOWER. THIS WEEK, ONE OF HARVARD'S FIVE VICE PRESIDENTS, JOHN H. SHATTUCK, WAS NOMINATED TO A POST IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT, BRINGING THE UNOFFICIAL UNIVERSITY TALLY TO 11, AND RUMORS ARE CIRCULATING ABOUT YET MORE APPOINTMENTS...
...only Senate confirmation thus far has been of former Lecturer on Public Policy Robert B. Reich as secretary of labor. But others are soon to follow, and Kennedy School faculty are concerned about the departures...
Assistant Professor of Public Policy John D. Donahue will leave to serve as Reich's advisor, a position Singer said did not require Senate confirmation...
...MUCH HAVE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS had to do with the decline in union membership to 16% of the work force, the lowest in 50 years? Plenty, say labor leaders: unfriendly Administrations have enabled employers to stall off union- representation elections for years and even break strikes. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich now proposes to change all that. Meeting with the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Florida, Reich repledged Bill Clinton's support for a law to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers (the certainty of a George Bush veto long kept the Democratic majorities in Congress...
...Jack in the Box restaurants; or of vaccinations that save not only lives but also health costs down the line. But Clinton's advisers acknowledge that his plans -- and the potential costs -- go much further. Clinton has been impressed by the arguments of counselors like Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Laura Tyson, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, who contend that the government must help America's industries to become more competitive players in the global marketplace. That means subsidizing new technologies and industries, retraining workers and pressuring foreign competitors on their trading practices...