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Midway through 1970, the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)-which provides Federal funding for the Center through Harvard-changed the Center's funding from a Research and Development grant to a litigation-oriented Legal Services grant. Since then, the CLE has become increasingly involved in litigation...
...group of young Harvard graduates, charging Harvard with unresponsiveness toward the Cambridge community, has nominated former OEO director Terry F. Lenzner '61 as a candidate for the Board of Overseers...
Lenzner, 31, is a lawyer who has worked in the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department, for the N. Y. Board of Education, and for the OEO Legal Services where he was national director for 18 months...
...Justice Department is also trying to punish the defense lawyers, who work for an OEO-sponsored legal service in Los Angeles. The law service is being shut down in June, largely because the government's lawyer, Guy Goodwin, filed a complaint against it in Washington. Goodwin has also threatened to prosecute the defense lawyers for obstructing justice because they advised their clients to remain silent...
...even if Head Start has not raised average urban reading levels, who can evaluate the enhancement of life for those children who did, in fact, enter a new world of words and ideas? Moreover, at least one functioning arm of the OEO clearly has a continuing effect: lawyers for the agency have helped organize the poor in their demands for help. Above all, however ineptly, the War on Poverty pointed to the problem of pride: the fact that a measure of self-respect, as well as respect from society, has to go with welfare...