Wednesday, August 6, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Wednesday, August 6, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page f-we Government warns N. Carolina to carry out it's desegregation Ioans WASHINGTON (lP)-The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) is threatening enforcement action against North Carolina for failing to carry out its plan to desegregate the state's public colleges and universities. HEW made public yesterday a letter from its Office for Civil Rights to Gov. James Holshouser, giving the state 10 days from July 31 to demonstrate that the state is eliminating its former dual system in higher education. LETTERS WERE sent this week to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Arkansas giving them 30 to 60 days to correct less serious problems in desegregating their public college systems. Lou Mathis, spokesman for the U.S. Office for Civil Rights, said the letter to North Carolina marks the first time that the government has come so close to taking enforcement action against a state's higher education system. The letter from Martin Gerry, acting director of the office, said that unless North Carolina submits evidence that it is eliminating its dual system Gerry "will have no alternative but to refer this matter to the department's Office of General Counsel for the initiation of formal administrative enforcement proceedings against the state." ENFORCEMENT hearings could lead to the cut-off of federal funds from North Carolina's 16 four-year institutions and 57 com- munity colleges. Gerry's letter charged that North Carolina had violated its June 21, 1974 agreement to eliminate discrimination in the in- stitutions and to take affirmative action to overcome effects from prior discrimination. Specifically, he said, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors decided to locate a school of veterinary medicine at North Carolina State without considering "the positive effect on the desegregation of predominantly black North Carolina A&T" by locating the school there. Gerry said that was a direct violation of the state's desegregation plan. GERRY'S LETTER also charged that the Board of Governors had failed to complete its long-range plan, which effectively post- poned other progress in desegregation for more than a year. HEW did not release copies of letters sent by its regional offices to the other seven states. Mathis said the letters did not imply that those states would be taken to an enforcement: hearing. Last week, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund asked a federal judge in Washington to invalidate HEW's approval of the eight states' plans to desegregate their higher education systems, and to order HEW to withhold all federal funds by July 1, 1976 from colleges in those states failing to submit an adequate new plan. JOHN DEAN, former counsel to former President Richard Nixon, talks with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman on the set of the film "All The President's Men" during a visit to Warner Bros. yesterday. Redford and Hoffman star in the film based upon the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. AMENDMENTS RETRO ACTIVE: Laws Changed NEW DELHI, India IA--The person for the opposition group Indian Parliament retroactively reported. Top opposition leaders changed the election laws yes- are in jail under Gandhi's June terday to wipe out statutes un- 26 emergency declaration. der which Prime Minister In- The government barred In- dira Oasdhi was convicted for dian newspapers from reporting her 1971 campaigr tactics. Most that she would benefit from the Inda were a ofthe amendments, or even from de- action because ofcesrhp scribing them. Morning news- The amendments were design- papers carried skeletal dispatch- ed to ensure victory for Gandhi es saying only that the Indian in a Supreme Court battlewhere electoral c o d e w a S being she is trying to get:her June 12 amended. conviction overturned .to escape Supreme Court hearings in the a mandatory penalty brring case open Monday. But top le- her from elective office 'for six gal, sources said .they had now years. become "academic" since the HER GOVERNMENT al o offenses are no longer offenses amended the penalty, putting in- under the rewritten laws. the president's hands the deci- LAW MINISTER BR. Gok- sion whether a convicted office- hale told the lower house of holder should lose office for six Parliament that the amend- years. ments were brought to clear up President Fakhruddin Ali Ah- confusion in the law, not to bail med, the largely ceremonial Gandhi out of her legal entangle- head of state, was named as the ments. Congress party presidential can- "In my opinion, it is useless didate by Gandhi and takes his to say that this is made for any orders from her as head of gov- one case," he declared. "It can ernment. leave no doubt that it is not in- A delegation of 20 opposition tended to be applied to any one politicians conferred with him individual." foiansournyeterda evningh The amend m e n t s sailed for an hour yesterday evenig, through the lower house on a asking him to refuse to sign the voice vote with only one "nay." amendments bill and to order They come up in the upper better conditions for political house today, where the crush- prisoners. ing majority of the ruling Con- gress p a r t y is expected to AHMED REPLIED that- they steamroll them through. wereaskng im fr smeting In any case, there was no op- were asking him for somethig position left in either house. All he had no power.to do, a spokes- key opposition members walked - - out of Parliament and declared a boycott of its current emer- gency session two weeks ago to protest the arrest of ;heir lead- ers under the emergency rules. Ar The lone dissenter was Mohan p ° -CHARING CROSS rf9X BOOKSTORE 316 S. STATE TUES.-,FRI. 11 ' SATURDAYC10- C~assf~edUSED, FINE, SH LARLY ROOKS in India Dharia, recently kicked out of the Congress party for calling on Gandhi to resign because of her conviction. He said it was plain the government was push- ing for quick passage of the amendments to make sure of her Supreme Court case. Senate votes' unanimouslyto after -state mental- health codle LANSING (UPI) - The state state's new mental health code ter admission and a full court Senate has sent a bill to Gov. so that doctors who sign invol- hearing held 14 days after. William Milliken aimed at insur- untary commitment p a p e r s Sen. ' John Otterbacher (D- ing that disturbed and mentally would have to make only one Grand Rapids), sponsor of the ill persons receive prompt ad- court appearance, measure, said many persons mission to mental institutions. 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