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...Administration, Ribicoff developed expertise on the subject that is respected by his colleagues, and his leadership seemed vital to the bill's slim chances for favorable action this year. Amazingly, however, until last week no important White House official had even talked to Ribicoff about the matter. Instead, HEW offended him by releasing what he considered inflated statistics on the cost of an amendment he had suggested...
...longer going to lead the fight for the bill, charging that the Administration did not seem interested in its own program. Aware that Ribicoff might well be the key to passage, Nixon quickly telephoned the Senator to assure him that he did indeed want it passed. HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman called on Ribicoff to seek a compromise on their different approaches to reform, whereupon a pleased Ribicoff announced that "I'm enlisted in this fight for the duration...
Gerald Hawes, an HEW employee who was serving as a grand juror in California's Marin County, recently resigned in disgust at such jury docility. Hawes was on the panel investigating George Jackson's killing in San Quentin, and for background he had read the transcript of the Angela Davis grand jury hearing. Not a single question was asked by a juror in that case, Hawes reports, and in the Jackson case, he says, the prosecutor specifically urged the jurors to ask no questions. Several grand jurors in the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick case also reported feeling frustrated; they...
...Graduate Women's Organization judges it inappropriate at this time for the American Council on Education to name presidents of two universities (Harvard and Michigan) charged with discrimination against women to a five-member committee of university presidents to establish, in cooperation with HEW, uniform guidelines to enforce race and sex discrimination regulations...
...HEW is also reviewing the hiring of minorities and women at the University of Massachusetts, MIT and Yale...