Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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POINT by point, the Communist negotiators tore apart Richard Nixon's latest peace plan to end the Viet Nam War. Almost with relish, they announced in the baroque grand ballroom of Paris' Majestic Hotel last week their "total and categorical" rejection of the five-point program. Nonetheless, Chief U.S. Negotiator David Bruce patiently replied that the U.S. "will not take your comments today as your final position" and that "all proposals, yours as well as our own," are still open to discussion. Thus Nixon's program and an eight-point plan submitted by the Viet Cong...
...five years the Legal Services Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity has championed the rights of the poor with one hand, while fending off attacks from local and state governments with the other. Now, Legal Services lawyers feel that they need a third hand to repel an assault from a new quarter: the OEO itself...
...vulnerable to pressure from city halls and statehouses. "When a difficult case comes up, like suing Governor Reagan," says one A.B.A. representative, "there's a tremendous amount of political pressure. A regional OEO director can't resist it the way an attorney can. And when a legal program has to start giving in to political pressure, you might just as well junk the whole program...
...suing local and state government agencies on behalf of their indigent clients. At issue are legal rights to everything from welfare to public housing and health care. Such zeal prompted a regional OEO director's unsuccessful attempts to hold up funds for Chicago's Legal Services program until he could extract a promise not to sue the city. In addition, some Legal Services firebrands have alienated conservative elements in their communities of militants...
Despite run-ins with government agencies and recent shortages of funds, Legal Services has doubled its case load, from 610,000 in 1969 to an estimated 1,200,000 next year. In 1971, the program is expected to reach 28% of the nation's poor, compared with 14% in 1969. Meanwhile, the cost per case to taxpayers has dropped from...