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...improve a lame oratorical style, he does remain well ahead in the polls. He also has a $550,000 campaign chest that Shriver, who is not wealthy, cannot match without money from the Kennedys or other generous contributors. Nonetheless, there is no sign that the old Peace Corps and OEO boss will back out. Last week camera crews were busy in Union Mills, Md., filming scenes of the old Shriver family gristmill for a campaign documentary...
...people that they have rights." CLAO is a neighborhood law office at 235 Broadway opened by the Harvard Law School. Six full-time attorneys and about 100 law students provide free legal aid for Cambridge residents whose income falls below a set limit. The office is funded by an OEO grant with a ten per cent contribution from the Law School...
...passed into law, the amendment might have its greatest impact on future programs in the South, where the governors of such states as Mississippi and Alabama would be comforted to know that they could veto civil rights actions by OEO lawyers...
Already lawyers in the South Florida Migrant Legal Services program are in trouble with Governor Claude Kirk. He threatened to veto the program when the OEO lawyers brought legal action on behalf of migrant workers against, among others, the Florida State Employment Service. In a compromise, the lawyers agreed to permit appointment to their governing board of more members who may not be sympathetic to such suits...
...Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly did not do so because OEO Director Sargent Shriver was prepared to override...