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Damned Little Milk. When the 90th Congress convenes next month, nothing will occupy more of its attention than the future shape and direction of the Great Society. There will be demands for expanding it; as Poverty War Commander Sargent Shriver puts it, "We were just about to put the bottle in the baby's mouth, and we find there's damned little milk to give." There will be equally strident demands for contracting it; with the Viet Nam war siphoning off billions of dollars, a big budgetary deficit is in prospect unless spending is cut somewhere...
Advice & Device. The Government has undergone a similar change of heart. Until recently, says Sargent Shriver, generalissimo of the war on poverty, birth control was "like syphilis-politically, you couldn't talk about it." Now the Government is not only talking about it but-in a limited way-doing something as well...
Washington currently spends more than $25 million a year to help provide contraceptive know-how to 180,000 women in 41 states. Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, which cautiously began underwriting projects nearly two years ago in communities like Corpus Christi, Texas, supports programs in 75 cities from Juneau, Alaska, to San Juan, P.R. Half a dozen Government agencies-notably the Department of Health, Education and Welfare-finance the dissemination of advice and devices from pills to diaphragms. Even the Defense Department has joined the act by making drugs, contraceptives and sterilization available to 500,000 military wives...
...Commitment. The columnists are equally skillful at exposing far-out leftists. They have devoted column after column to the black-power machinations of S.N.C.C., and they convincingly defended Sargent Shriver in his effort to take the Mississippi poverty program out of S.N.C.C.'s hands. "We have a very, very low ideological commitment," says Evans, who takes pride in the fact that the column cannot be identified with any political party or doctrine. "We are resolutely middle of the road," says Novak...
...Roman Catholic 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...