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...bishops of the U.S. charged that federal anti-poverty programs "coerce" the poor into practicing contraception, a number of influential Protestant leaders went on record to assert that they were all for birth control. In a letter to President Johnson, Welfare Secretary John Gardner, and Sargent Shriver of the OEO, the secretary of the United Presbyterians' General Council, Dr. Theophilus Taylor, stated his denomination's support for federal birth control programs, and labeled the bishops' charge as "completely unfounded...
...OEO failed to mention that the project had had political enemies in a state that President Johnson is anxious to see solidly Democratic again. Segregationist Sen. John Stennis had attacked CDGM consistently since its inception in 1965, and even moderates who backed the Administration had complained that the project was controlled by excivil rights workers preaching "black power" and separatism. Apparently, part of the price of a Democratic Mississippi was CDGM's demise...
...middle of the block stands Watts Happening, the coffee house started by some members of the community after the riots. In an area studded by Teen Posts, offices of OEO and OIC and Headstart, it is one of the few establishments that the residents can call their own: they own it, they run it, and they decide what happens in it. It is here, accompanied by Afro-Cuban jazz made by local musicians, that the "grassroots" voices can be heard. Tortured images of Negro life by local artists cover the walls. African sculpture stands in the corners. Just inside...
Early this year, the Philadelphia Bar Association organized Community Legal Service, Inc., a nonprofit corporation financed by nearly $750,000 in OEO funds. The service proposed to open twelve neighborhood law offices under a 20-man board of directors, including four leading lawyers and seven representatives from the slums. When a sizable minority of lawyers opposed the plan, the issue was turned over to Judge Raymond Pace Alexander of the Court of Common Pleas. After long hearings, Judge Alexander handed down a detailed decision upholding the service as not only lawful but also thoroughly beneficial to the community...
Another Goal. As if echoing that sentiment, the 25,000-member American Trial Lawyers Association last week reversed its previous opposition to the OEO plan as "costly, wasteful and inferior." Meeting in Los Angeles, the association warmly endorsed the idea and offered the aid of all members.* Even more approvingly, the American Bar Association last week urged Congress to double the OEO legal-aid budget to "a minimum" of $52 million. The goal is not only equal justice for the poor, said the A.B.A. It is also urgently needed "respect for law" in the "greatest breeding ground of the criminal...