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Undertaken at the request of Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, the Accounting Office's report is a damning document. Its conclusions are based entirely on the DBS's own records and show that the agency consistently released vaccines that it knew were of dubious quality. Some of them even failed to match the strength claimed by their manufacturers. DBS did not reject a single lot of flu vaccine, although some tested out at less than 1 % of purported potency. Nor did it stop the sale of weak vaccines that were known to produce annoying side effects. One drug...
...that Democratic contenders have to travel to reach their party's nomination for President. The number of politicians still willing to speak out unequivocally against all antibusing moves was dwindling, but at least three persisted: Florida Governor Reubin Askew. New York Mayor John Lindsay and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Protested Ribicoff: "If politicians continue to fan blind passions, we are lost. Busing is not the issue at all. The basic issue is whether America is going to have apartheid. I don't think we can exist on that basis...
...Administration proposals also wind through the Congress, the legal situation would remain confused. But already it was clear, protested Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that even the mild Scott-Mansfield amendment "serves public notice that we have given up the struggle to end discrimination." Ribicoff's own proposal has been to insist that all school districts, North and South, be racially balanced within ten years-which would require either massive busing or, as Ribicoff prefers, radically altered neighborhoods...
...This can't be passed in the Senate unless the President pushes and shoves," said Ribicoff. "There has been a world of change in that now." Ribicoff says he would like to take credit for a clever maneuver that coaxed the President and his men to push. Actually, he was surprised-and pleased -that it worked out that...
...Ribicoff's plan is more generous than the Administration's bill. He would set the basic support level for a jobless family of four at $3,000, compared with the bill's $2,400; he would also raise the maximum income at which working families would remain eligible for welfare aid from the bill...