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Civil rights leaders are more worried about the vote's symbolism than its practical effects, which may not be extensive. Says N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund Attorney Steve Ralston: "Our concern is that it's the first in a potentially long series of acts by Congress that will backtrack seriously on the gains made in civil rights." If implemented, the measure would not affect past desegregation orders, and it might not affect the 75 cases now pending. Furthermore, the rider would not stop busing suits; it would simply stop those filed by the Justice Department and hence...
...white reaction and bureaucratic obstruction have dampened the reform movement, she added. "There will be no repeal of the discriminatory legislation. Race classification and the Group Areas Act will remain," Suzman said, adding, "Africans have political rights only in their homelands. They are excluded from South African political power...
...welcome. But given the background of Harvard's inaction on race-related issues; given the multiplication of racial incidents on other campuses, including recent convulsions at Williams College; and given the spread of racist violence in cities across America, many students rightly look askance at this merely symbolic act of support. Deans Epps, Fox, and Moses, President Horner, and general counsel Daniel Steiner '54 all should be devoting their energies to showing Third World and other minority groups that they are genuinely welcome here. Deans should accompany their symbolic acts with substantive ones...
...administrators moved faster to implement the recommendations of last year's race relations report; and if Harvard's leaders made it clear that student pressure isn't the only way to budge them to take steps for the welfare of Harvard's minority students--that they can and will act on the basis of their own belief that such students deserve to be here--then may be when administrators attend rallies like Saturday's, they could feel at one with the student demonstrators...
...Many believers fear that it amounts to the most willful act of puritanical vandalism since Cromwell's Roundheads defaced the statues and shattered the stained glass," an editorial in the London Daily Mail thundered last week. What was enraging the editors? It turned out to be the publication of the Church of England's new Alternative Service Book. The book will henceforth be used in liturgy as a modernized alternative to the version of the Book of Common Prayer issued in the 17th century, just after the Roundheads lost power...