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Because of numerous charges of corruption and political heavy-handedness, and the pressures of the busing crisis. White's liberal image has been severely tarnished in recent years, straining but not breaking his friendship with Frank. Frank notes, "White is clearly to the left of the city on racial matters...
OTHER ISSUES. Americans have not substantially changed their views on most of the big campaign issues. They heavily favor mandatory registration of all handguns (65% to 30%) and constitutional amendments to ensure equal rights for women (66% to 27%). They oppose busing (49% to 42%), and are against the proposed...
The parade itself, maneuvering a circuitous route through Southie's narrow and deteriorating streets, was a curious rag-tag affair composed mainly of badly coordinated local groups, political and patriotic floats, and the ever-present military contingent. Louise Day Hicks, the anti-busing Boston city councillor, led a float with...
Lupo writes out of sympathy and sadness for a city afflicted by tensions that stretch far beyond its precincts. Boston failed to cope peacefully with its school-busing crisis of 1974 in part because Boston had never been a unified city. It was schizophrenic: "A chic Boston, of specialty shops...
It was in that febrile setting that a school-integration plan ordered the busing of children between the city's most antagonistic neighborhoods (Irish Catholic South Boston and black Roxbury). It was resisted by every defiant or foot-dragging means possible by a Boston School Committee that exploited the...