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...four years, until threatened with court action, Carbide refused to supply the government with any information regarding its pollution. Then last April, HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson '41 ordered pollution at the plant reduced at a fixed schedule. Carbide ignored the first deadline last September, saying that it was impossible to obtain a low-sulphur fuel necessary to meet it, but asked the government for $5,500,000 for anti-pollution research...
...serious question the plan raises is whether it would do that anywhere except on Government organization charts. HEW was itself a product of Hoover-inspired accretion, but its example hardly inspires confidence; many, in fact, have proposed that it be broken down into smaller segments to make the maze more manageable...
Albert has already shown a willingness to assail the Nixon Administration when he thinks it has been wrong. When Nixon vetoed a Labor-HEW appropriations bill on the grounds that it was inflationary, Albert acidly urged that he "utilize the awesome power of his office not against the children, the sick, the aged and the poor, but rather against the giant monopolies that are the true culprits causing inflation." He has accused the White House of "primitive medieval economic bloodletting" and nee-dlingly labeled the state of the economy as only "the first Nixon recession...
...actual contents of the HEW letter to Harvard are a closely-guarded secret. According to one source, the "University is scrambling around to find data," and "HEW compiled pages and pages of statistics indicating where discrimination is prevalent...
According to one University source, the HEW action will cost Michigan $5.5 million to fund the evaluation and pay women reparations. The University of Pennsylvania, meanwhile-not yet approached by HEW-announced Friday several new guidelines and programs to provide equal opportunity to women in the university...