Word: formerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...described as "educationally and administratively sound both in terms of substance and in terms of timing." Why did the Government decide to block those plans this year? Leonard says that it was because HEW needs additional time to study and perhaps refine them. Another report, by William E. Cresswell, former administrative assistant to Senator John Stennis, claims that the Nixon Administration traded a delay in desegregation for Stennis' vote on its ABM approval (TIME, Sept...
Political Goals. Informed observers believe that Leonard has been chosen to carry out some of the promises that Republicans made to Southern politicians during last year's presidential campaign. Speaking for many critics, a former lawyer in Leonard's division says: "He was made to understand that he should enforce civil rights laws, but only in a manner consistent with the Administration's political goals." When 65 lawyers in his division protested the delay in Mississippi desegregation last month, Leonard handled the revolt like a loyal party man. Once a decision is made in the department...
...been no easy job. In a friend of the court brief a respected group called the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law attacked Leonard's assertion that the division lacked "bodies and people" to enforce desegregation throughout the South this year. The committee, which includes former Justice Department Official John Doar (a Republican who headed Leonard's division with distinction under President Kennedy), promised to enlist enough volunteer attorneys, if need be, to finish the job for Leonard...
...National Commission on Urban Problems, headed by former Senator Paul Douglas, has castigated urban renewal as "a failure quite irrelevant to the housing needs of the poor." Some projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as an architectural gem when it was built in 1954 for $117 million, has become a center of vandalism, muggings, dope, sexual perversion, rape and homicide. Stairwells and hallways reek of old garbage and excrement. Recently, elevator repairmen refused to work in the buildings because of repeated sniping incidents. Despite low rents...
...real question is whether the system discriminates against certain types of social criticism by means of the two types of control that are exercised: criteria for appointments and support for research. I do not propose to examine the former, although a think a case could be made for deliberately seeking a greater variety of social and political views in the Center for International Affairs and the departments from which it draws its members...