Word: programing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...priority. On the first full day of his presidency, Echeverria ordered plans to be drawn up for the incorporation of Mexico's farmers into the social security system. At week's end he headed off to the desert regions of north central Mexico to launch a program for rehabilitation of one of the country's poorest areas. The real revolutionary, he had said in his inaugural address, is the upright public servant and the honest citizen, rather than the "dreamer of revolutions, the anarchist, the agent provocateur...
...Senate floor without presidential pressure on members who feared that a break for the Taosenos would invite other Indians to press land claims against the Government. Now it goes to the White House for Nixon's signature, which is assured. Meanwhile, another part of the President's program is moving faster than anyone expected. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, traditionally staffed by patronage appointees, is being reorganized to permit the tribes to have greater control over their destinies...
...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 services nationwide. Such a record hardly seems to call for the firing of the program director, Terry Lenzner, and his deputy, Frank Jones. But that is exactly what happened (TIME, Nov. 30). Now the OEO legal services division is full of deepening suspicion that the firing was a clear sign...
...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 rolls, for instance, the state government somehow had to find an extra $200 million. Governor Ronald Reagan's complaints could be heard clearly in Washington...
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 move basic responsibility for the program from Lenzner and the 850 local OEO law offices to regional OEO directors, who are all political appointees. Rumsfeld scrapped the plan in the face of harsh criticism by the American Bar Association among others, but replaced it with a variation that some A.B.A...