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...occasion by the vounteer efforts of private lawyers. Then in 1962, Lyndon Johnson launched the "War on Poverty," which created a federal Legal Services Program under the auspices of the Office for Economic Opportunity (OEO). Over the next decade, however, that program fell out of the Administration's good grace: Vice President Spiro Agnew labelled its lawyers "ideological vigilantes, and many officials in the federal government saw the program as a prime example of the "War on Poverty's" misplaced energies...
AFTER DRAWING attention to his discovery. Masson quickly fell from grace among Freud's Toronto disciples. He was abruptly dismissed from his post, his critics claiming Masson had publicizd his opinions prematurely and in a flamboyant manner. Typically, Masson rebelled...
...Grace Slick, 40, rock vocalist with the 1960s Jefferson Airplane (later Starship), on the apolitical content of lyrics in the 1980s: "If you wanted to write a song that directly affected the problems of today's college student, it would deal with the perils of being a preppie...
SHUTLZ'S fall from grace has been much less obvious or dramatic, but in many ways much more interesting. After all, Weinberger, for all his supposed bureaucratic skills, was still known, was skill known as a hard-liner on defense. But Shultz was real giant-killer, the man waiting in the wings all during Haig's failed vicarship, ready to restore cool, business-like leadership to an aggressive U.S. foreign policy...
THERE seems some kind of lesson in Shultz and Weinberger's fall from grace. The man some people think is going to be the next secretary of state--if Reagan makes it to the Oval Office again--is Kissinger, another refugee from the Nixon White House. He has been called the greatest diplomat in the world, but he earned that title at a terrible human and ethical cost, as journalists like William Shawcross and Seymour Hersh have shown in recent years. Kissinger is everything Shultz and Weinberger are not. Where the later are bureaucratically clumsy, the former is manipulative. Where...