Word: lenzner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest challenge developed five months ago, when a senior OEO official announced a plan that threatened to take authority for funding and policy direction away from National Legal Services Director Terry Lenzner and parcel it out to OEO's 10 regional directors. All are political appointees, and only two are lawyers. Opposition to the plan quickly welled up among Legal Services' 2,000 salaried lawyers, most of them young activists. In addition, officers of the American Bar Association and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association deluged OEO Director Donald Rumsfeld with embarrassing questions...