Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Writer Malcolm considers togetherness "vulgar and stupid," but she warns that feminism "may be an even more invidious cause of unhappiness and discontent." It may well be, if some of its extreme tenets are adopted. But chances are that society will heed only the movement's legitimate demands. All...
The biggest victories in the Government's fitful war on poverty have been won by 1,950 young attorneys who constitute the Office of Economic Opportunity's legal services program. Their accomplishments range from winning rent-strike rights for tenants in Washington, D.C., to the expansion of welfare...
The central question is whether the program's most visible achievements were successes or excesses. OEO Director Donald Rumsfeld, who did the firing, apparently felt that Lenzner's activist approach failed to take account of political realities. When California legal services offices won expansion of the medical aid...
Crunch. Lenzner's backers argue that legal rights are legal rights whatever the political realities. And they see other indications that the program is being emasculated. A year ago, it was decided that all new lawyers had to be cleared by the White House. More recently, Rumsfeld proposed to...
Last week some of Rumsfeld's political fears materialized. The Senate Finance Committee voted to forbid payment of federal salaries to any lawyer who challenges U.S. welfare policies. Rumsfeld vigorously urged the Senate to reverse the committee, saying the new rule "could seriously inhibit" the program. Also last week...