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...Spelman College and Yale Law School, Marian Wright became the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi. In 1968 she went to Washington, soon became chief counsel to Ralph Abernathy's Poor People's Campaign. Later, as director of the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm, she pressed the Government to enforce federal agency guidelines in desegregation cases. With husband Peter (see below), Mrs. Edelman moved to Boston in 1970, is now director of the Children's Defense Fund, a broadened outgrowth of her Washington work. Her current concern: treatment of retarded, poor...
...Washington public-interest lobby called the Center for Public Financing of Elections recently asked all 27 U.S. Senators facing re-election this year how they propose to conduct the fund raising for their campaigns. Twenty-three Watergate-wise Senators-some of modest means, others of considerable personal wealth-said they will make full public disclosure of all campaign receipts and expenditures. Sixteen said they will limit cash donations to $100 or less. They will, of course, take larger donations made by check, but twelve reported they will accept no gift larger than $3,000, which is the limit that...
...American Civil Liberties Union makes eleven charges; the AFL-CIO lists 19, and a public-interest law group, concentrating solely on criminal charges, lists "28 violations of law" committed by the President "or by persons answerable to him." Some of these lists give the impression of piling on charges, so that if one does not stick, another will. There are four mam categories to consider, of which the last two are the more compelling...
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a member of NORML's advisory board, will argue the suit for the Washington-based public-interest group...
...Lines. Nevertheless, Tax Analysts and Advocates, a public-interest, tax-law firm based in Washington, has challenged the write-off on a variety of grounds. The organization charges that the deed transferring the papers to the archives was signed by neither Nixon nor the General Services Administration but by a White House legal aide. The tax group also claims that the President did not clearly transfer "dominion and control" over the papers; there are restrictions on who can see them and quote from them...