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...Michigan became the first university to have federal funds withheld by HEW on charges of sex discrimination. Threatened with the loss of as much as $3.5 million, the university reluctantly agreed to an "affirmative action plan." But it has moved slowly in fulfilling its promises to end discrimination, and last month HEW investigators were once again in Ann Arbor demanding answers to charges that the university has still not complied with HEW guidelines. With the university's replies finally in hand, HEW is expected to produce a report on the U. of M. that could affect the status...
...plan established a need criteria which applies to all incoming students. Departments must fund students within $1000 of their calculated need -- using the funds withheld and an added sum to attract promising students who may not qualify for need-based stipends...
There is also evidence which indicates that Saravelas may have withheld the GCLE evaluation from some of the staff. The evaluation was mailed in separate envelopes to each and every member of the Bureau's core staff. But when I checked with members of the agency to see if they had received their copy, which was mailed to them in care of the Bureau, a few said that they had not. Little did Cambridge know that when it hired a director for its youth Resources Bureau it may also have hired a postmaster...
...year later the Senate was disturbed enough by F.D.R.'s impoundment policies to impose some restrictions on them. But the House would not go along, arguing that in time of war. the Chief Executive's power over the budget should not be restrained. In 1949 Harry Truman withheld funds to build a 58-wing Air Force when he thought a 48-wing would do. President Johnson cut back funds appropriated for a variety of domestic programs...
IMPOUNDING. There is no more direct challenge to congressional power than Nixon's refusal to spend money Congress has appropriated. This issue apparently is headed for a momentous collision in the courts. Presidents have refused to spend funds in the past as far back as Thomas Jefferson, who withheld some $50,000 that had been authorized for gunboats to patrol the Mississippi River. But this was generally done then because the need had passed or a project cost less than had been expected. Nixon has used this device as an expanded veto power, impounding some $6 billion in water...