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...President and Congress finally ended their seven-month battle over the Labor-HEW appropriation bill for the current fiscal year. The final outcome was a compromise: Nixon got a $700 million cut from $19.7 billion he had vetoed as inflationary; the Democrats in Congress ended up with $760 million more than the President had originally proposed. Actual spending will come to just over $19 billion, since Nixon was given the right to withhold 2% of the total...
Bitter Disappointment. Scott's was not the only voice raised against Administration civil rights policy last week. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch announced the replacement of Leon Panetta, the ousted Office of Civil Rights chief, with J. Stanley Pottinger, 30, a lawyer in HEW's San Francisco regional office. The appointment did nothing to soothe the anger of those who had supported Panetta. Two OCR officials resigned, 125 staff members sent the President a 1etter expressing "bitter disappointment" with the Administration's performance on civil rights, and' 1,800 departmental employees signed a petition...
Whatever its intent, it is a phrase that will undoubtedly cling to Moynihan and the Nixon Administration. The President liked the memorandum and asked for its wide circulation. It went to three other White House assistants, four Cabinet members, and no fewer than 25 copies circulated around HEW, where, Moynihan suspects, the leak occurred. Reaction from liberals was swift. Twenty-one civil rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White...
AMID the furor over the Stennis and Whitten amendments, the forced resignation of HEW Civil Rights Chief Leon Panetta and Senator Abraham Ribicoff's blistering attack on Northern hypocrisy, the nature and precise scope of existing U.S. law on race and the schools have largely been obscured. At issue are two sets of vital distinctions: the difference between integration and desegregation, and that between de jure, or governmentally imposed, and de facto, or accidental residential segregation...
Notwithstanding Wiley's claim, L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, said yesterday he is confident Harvard's minority hiring program is sufficient to get HEW approval. "We think our program is very good," he said...