There are safeguards in effect and proposed that will preclude abuses of the humanitarian purposes of the effort to reduce poverty. The proposed authorizations lean heavily toward provision for programs directly affecting people. Activities like Headstart. programs for migrant workers and elderly citizens and those providing medical services. food and legal services. all cope specifically with the needs of people. Extension of the Office of Economic Opportunity as provided in S. 3016. a measure I helped to draft in the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. is essential if we as a people are to continue to be responsive to the needs of the less fortunate. I shall hope for the day when there is no need for the Office of Economic Opportunity. but until that time there must be an unstinting national effort to end the cycle of poverty by eliminating the root causes of economic hardship.