Word: shrivers
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Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver called the Secretary's suggestion "an extremely significant proposal for all Americans...
Gutter Language. Whether the poverty program burnishes or tarnishes Shriver's reputation remains to be seen. A recent poll commissioned by the G.O.P. National Committee shows that supporters of the program increased from 34% to 48% in the past year, while the skeptics held steady at 36%. Thus, barring a major scandal, it seems unlikely that Republicans at the national level will question the continuation of the poverty program in the fall campaign. They are certain to criticize its failures and question its administration...
...Shriver concedes his mistakes. "Maybe we started too much, too fast, getting too many people excited," he says. "Maybe we should have started one program at a time. But there was great need." Among other blunders for which he was blamed was a $40,000 grant last summer to Playwright LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem to produce, as Shriver later admitted, "vile racist plays in language of the gutter...
...federal, city and private funds for an immense three-year program. So far, it has received barely $10 million-including $3,456,096 in OEO money-and even that turned out to be more than it could account for. Close to $400,000 could not be traced, and Shriver's OEO turned off the federal spigot for five weeks while HARYOU launched an audit under the supervision-naturally-of Livingston Wingate. As a result, North America's most crowded Negro slum has been largely deprived of the benefits it now desperately needs...
Fuddle Factory. "There are bound to be some casualties in any war," says Shriver. His own war is still in its experimental stage, too young to be judged an overall failure or a probable success. In any case, Shriver has no doubts that it is worth fighting. Disturbed by the criticism that has plagued him from the first, Shriver confided during a recent audience with the Pope: "Some people are quoting the Bible against us in the poverty war, saying, The poor always ye have with you.' " Did His Holiness know an effective rejoinder to that? He did indeed...