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By William M. W?lch
AP Writer
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UNC, failed to reach a settlement
with the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare,
HEW, in its long-standing
desegregation dispute, and the
university Board of Governors on
Friday put further negotiations in
the hands of its lawyers.
The board authorized its attorneys
to prepare to file a law-suit
against HEW if necessary, but
university sources said privately
they had not given up hope that an
' agreement could still be reached.
The issue of eliminating
programs duplicated on mostly
white and historically black
campuses, regarded as a question
of control of the university system
by UNC officials, was the stum- j
bling block to a settlement, Gov.
Jim Hunt said.
Hunt had offered to ask the state
legislature for a $40 million appropriation
for improvements on
tfre UNC system's five
predominantly black campus as
part of the settlement. UNC
President William Friday said that
money, with $30 million already
appropriated for the campuses,
amounted to a $70 million package
of new programs and buildings.
In Washington, an HEW official
who asked not to be identified!
expressed dismay over the UNC i
board's actions. But he said HEW
had extended for 30 days the
Monday deadline for UNC to
respond to the department's enforcement
proceedings aimed at
cutting off part of the university's
$89 million in annual federal aid.
HEW Secretary Joseph A.
Califano Jr. said Friday night, "I
am disappointed that despite the
efforts of Gov. Hunt, President
Friday and this department, we
were not successful in reaching an
agreement on an acceptable plan
to desegregate the university
system. Consequently, in order to
meet our obligations under the
court order in the litigation begun
in 1970, Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 and the Constitution of
the United States, we must continue
the administrative
proceedings. In the absence of an
agreement, the target date
deferral of federal funds will
commence on May 2.
"I still consider a negotiated
settlement to be far more desirable
than litigation, for, during the
course of litigation ? which can
last for years ? those who suffer
most will be the students, not Gov.
Hunt, President Friday or the
board of governors," he said.
Meeting in closed session for
four hours Friday, the Board of
Governors adopted a resolution
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authorizing its attorneys to continue
"good faith negotiations."
The resolution also instructed
the lawyers to file a suit against
HEW on Monday or thereafter if no
settlement could be reached and if
board chairman William A.
Johnson gives final authorization.
The action left the university's
next move up to Washington attorney
Charles Morgan and his
firm. Morgan refused to comment
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on the suit or where it would be
filed.
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