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...Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), a Federal program, supports most of this work, but the future of Federal funding--and thus of the Center--is in doubt. OEO itself is in danger of being disbanded by the Nixon administration, although a Federal judge stalled this action when he ruled last month that Congressional approval to end OEO would be necessary...
...OEO has informed the Center that it will continue to receive monthly grants until Congress acts on a forthcoming Law Service Commission bill, which President Nixon will propose...
...move that may bolster Flannery's doubts, The Crimson learned yesterday that an outside research agency, originally hired by the OEO to evaluate various neighborhood programs, began last week to evaluate law reform centers exclusively...
When asked whether or not this investigation was unusual, Roger Detweiler, Chief of the Support Branch Operations Division of OEO's Legal Services, said that "It is normal to evaluate programs, but what is unusal is that all the law reform agencies are being evaluated at once...
...reform centers concentrate on research and act as back-up agencies for the legal aid officers, which directly serve poor clients. These smaller agencies are still being regularly funded by the OEO with year-long grants...