Shultz is confident as he enters new post
WASHINGTON (UPI)—George P. Shultz, the former dean who has been assigned the task of bringing managerial efficiency to the $200 billion a year federal bureaucracy, said he was confident he would have the complete backing of President Nixon.
Shultz is scheduled to leave the cabinet and his post as labor secretary on July 1 to become the first director of the newly created Office of Management and Budget.
In an interview with two UPI newsmen, Shultz said details of the new office had not yet been worked out. He indicated the job would evolve, probably as a result of day to day problem solving.
Shultz said he would report directly to Nixon from an office in the White House. He will not be required to filter his views through any other White House aide, he added.
Asked if he had been assured of the President's backing in any controversies that might arise out of efforts to root out inefficiency and waste, Shultz replied: "It is his policies we will be carrying out. I am sure he will back his policies."
Shultz brushed aside specific questions about the details of his new job during the interview conducted in his Labor Department office. He seemed relaxed and confident as he talked. One wall of the office is lined with books making it look more appropriate to the University of Chicago, where he was once dean of the School of Business Administration, than to a federal department.
"If this organization is to perform well, it shouldn't regard itself as a fixed and rigid structure," he said. "We will have to deal with problems as they come along.
"If we are able to make the government operation more effective, we will either save money in the sense of doing the same thing at less cost or we will be able to accomplish more with the money that is spent."
It is generally conceded that the government wastes billions every year because of overlapping programs and general inefficiency. Shultz said, one of his jobs would be to coordinate the efforts of various departments.
Although the new office will have a finger on every program, Shultz said it would not attempt to dictate day to day policy.
Shultz said he had been assured of direct access to the President. Many top officials, including some cabinet officers have complained publicly or privately that they are unable to make their views heard by the President.
Dissidents criticize AMA at convention
BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland (UPI)—Ian Paisley, militant Protestant leader, won election to the British Parliament and Bernadette Devlin, his arch foe, also won reelection.
Some groups, including the Medical Committee on Human Rights (MCHR) turned down the invitation. But representatives of about 25 others came to the forum and took over speakers' platform in a steady stream of criticism against the AMA which included some bits of "guerrilla theater."
AMA officials refused to grant demands of the dissidents to address the policy making house of delegates, but voted to let them air their views at an open forum.
Their polling triumphs set the stage for confrontations between them on the floor of the House of Commons at Westminster.
"Of course my election will help peace in Northern Ireland," Paisley said after winning away the Unionist-held seat at North Antrim, "I will be in the House of Commons to answer the lies and slander of Bernadette Devlin."
"Medical aid is a right and not a privilege," was the gist of each speaker's argument. Shouts of "right on" filled the room.
Miss Devlin, the 23 year old campion of Northern Ireland's minority Roman Catholics and of its civil rights movement, successfully defended her mid-UIster seat which she won 13 months ago.
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CHICAGO (UPI)—The American Medical Association opened its 119th annual convention Sunday with a conciliatory gesture toward dissident medical and welfare groups threatening to disrupt its sessions.
The speakers refused to be interrupted. One continued his speech against the AMA even when a white smocked girl collapsed in front of the podium and fell to the floor, feigning death.
The five day convention is expected to attract about 10,000 physicians and the 244 member house of delegates was scheduled to take up such proposals as a liberalized abortion policy, shortening the time it takes to become a doctor, providing more doctors for slum areas, and measures to reduce mounting medical costs.
The forum for the expression of criticism of the world's largest medical meeting was an unprecedented move by the AMA, which hoped to forestall disruptions for a third consecutive year.
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The AMA hinted other "peace" moves would be made to insure uninterrupted meetings. Dr. Ernest Howard, the organization's executive vice-president, said "steps were being taken to prevent disruption" but refused to say what they were.
About six other girls, attired in black witches' costumes, rushed to the prostrate actress and chanted rhyming satirical stanzas on various types of members of the AMA.
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