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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...
WHEN asked why he refused to parcel out any real power to his ministers, Nasser once replied: "Show me ten men I can trust and I'll start delegating authority." Apparently he never found them. Before his death, Nasser refused to groom a political heir. The resulting vacuum in leadership could lead to chaos, to a collective leadership or even to a sudden coup d'etat executed by a young unknown, just as happened 18 years...
...Your cause is a lost cause without population control, and race, war, poverty, and environment are really part and parcel of the same big mess. The wars we're fighting in Vietnam and Laos, for example, are immensely destructive to the environment. We've defoliated an estimated 20 per cent and much of the ecological destruction there is going to be permanent," says Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb...
...billion in fiscal 1971. Such expenditures would surely wipe out this year's anticipated budget surplus. To pay for the postal raises, the President asked Congress to increase first-class mail rates from 6? to 10? and to boost second-class and bulk third-class mail and parcel-post rates by 5% to 15%. In addition, he called for a speedup in collection of estate and gift taxes. Portions of the deal face trouble in Congress, which appears reluctant to raise mail rates...
...Mama, no woman would ever forget her baby. That's just untrue. Your baby is part and parcel of your mind naturally like your...