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...Kissinger's coup of the Cabinet departments was not as simple as that. It involved a devious circumvention of the bureaucracy through the skillful use of study memoranda and detailed, lengthy questionnaires. According to several men who were close associates of Kissinger at the time, Kissinger came to power determined not to rely on normal channels for information concerning each of the policy undertakings. His attitude was that one couldn't expect anything imaginative or innovative from the bureaucracy, that one would instead have to develop pipelines of one's own. And so he proceeded to ensnare the Cabinet departments...
Interviews-Second-year law students (2L's in HVD jargon) go to Charlestown and Billerica jails and the Youth Service Board Detention Center, where they interview inmates to gather information for the Massachusetts Defenders Committee (MDC). The memoranda prepared from these sessions and the results of any other basic pre-trial investigation are used either by MDC attorneys or third-year law students (3L's), who are allowed in court under proper supervision. Between 700 and 1000 such interviews were conducted last year, according to Robert J. Katz, a second-year law student and recently elected President...
...cases tried by HVD are selected from two sources. First, from the memoranda of the jail interviews the officers pick out a certain number of cases, and with the agreement of the client and MDC, HVD takes over presentation. Secondly, HVD represents a growing number of people who walk into the office or call seeking help. These clients usually know HVD by reputation or have been represented by the organization before...
...Memoranda were issued by the supervisor of Housing and Sanitation, the Building Department, and the Electrical Department, Cremins said...
...appear as an objective, disinterested, University-wide Committee enforcing basic rules of conduct for the University community. This is not the case. Instead of examining substantive issues, causes, and actions and equally applying the entire Resolution, the CRR has churned out a characteristically obtuse and deceptive collection of deliberations, memoranda, directives and guidelines. Whenever any of these documents is scrutinized the underlying assumption always persists: The CRR and the Administration are right, the students are responsible...