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The domestic wars have simmered down as well. For three years, the Christmas holidays at South Boston High School had merely meant a lull in the racial conflict over busing. This year school officials have unplugged the airport metal detectors once used to screen students for weapons, the police have...
Atlantans rightly pride themselves on their good race relations. Blacks and whites worked together to head off serious racial strife in the 1960s. They avoided further confrontations in the 1970s by compromising on a token voluntary school busing program. For four years Atlanta has had a black mayor, Maynard Jackson...
This defense is problematic at best, since it relies on value judgements, not facts. A great many reasonable Americans strongly objected to Nixon's statecraft. Many were horrified by the secret invasion of Cambodia, the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam, or the determined attempts to undermine couet-ordered busing programs...
The criticism fails to shake Berger, now 76 and recently retired as a senior fellow in legal history at Harvard. "I've been accustomed to swimming upstream a good deal of my life," he says. Berger concedes it would be "utterly unrealistic" to expect the Supreme Court to reverse...
As the first nonwhite to serve on the school committee in 76 years, John D. O'Bryant had to have some substance. O'Bryant has worked as a community activist in education for years and ran a strong but unsuccessful race for the same job two years ago. He may...