Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because "they are asking for it and they are going to get it." On March 13, 1973, Nixon seemed to be offering the use of the IRS to investigate the financing of McGovern's campaign and raised no objection when Dean said that he already had access to such information from...
Even oceanographers have been running into unaccustomed political storms. Marine scientists have discovered that the more they reveal about the secrets-and hidden wealth-of the seas, the more they find access to their vast oceanic laboratory being barred by chary governments. Jealously guarding what they believe to be their private offshore Klondikes, more and more coastal nations have been applying the same restrictions on oceanographic studies as they have on offshore fishing. The Brazilians, for example, allow no unauthorized exploration within their 200-mile limit; they do not want outsiders charging around making discoveries that may bring multinational...
Flannery, who is now director of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, says that Detroit is representative of the type of case that will suffer without access to the center's resources. "There will be a large number of cases in which back-up centers won't be missed," Flannery explains. "These are the run-of-the-mill cases, such as consumer fraud and welfare cases. But there are many cases that require resources in terms of personnel and time available. Many local offices are avalanched and aren't well-equipped to undertake more reform...
...action suits, including ones relating to students' rights and the right of native Alaskan children to public education. Without the resources of the Harvard center, it is unlikely that local agencies would have had the time or ability to litigate these cases successfully. Nor would neighborhood attorneys have had access to less dramatic forms of assistance, such as pamphlets sent them by the center to help with an individual's particular problem. Nor would they have access to the center's monthly publication. Inequality, which contains studies intended to aid local lawyers with common legal problems in education. In Flannery...
Legal aid for the poor has become an accepted concept in American society, but without the proper back-up resources, it can only serve as a thin cushion insulating a large class of citizens from the shocks of poverty. With the limiting of the poor's access to the courts, perhaps social change will take place in the nation's streets...