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"No, everything around here is pretty calm," a middle-aged black man leaning against the steep cement stairwell to his wooden apartment house said, sipping from a carton of Tropicana and taking in some of the already intense morning sun. "You see, we already had busing here, so it ain...
RACE. Both Ford and Carter oppose "forced busing," but neither favors a constitutional amendment banning it. Both say they would support court decisions on individual cases, though the President has argued that some federal judges "have gone too far" in drawing up integration plans, notably in Boston. The President has...
Ford is helped by the fact that voters are well disposed toward the free-market system and are not hostile to business. While 39% feel that more federal regulation of business would help the economy, 59% do not. In contrast to the attitude of the Democratic-controlled Congress, voters want...
The commission sharply criticizes the political leaders in troubled Boston and Louisville. Elected officials in Louisville, the report finds, "abdicated their responsibility to maintain law and order" during the busing violence last year. Boston Mayor Kevin White and the city council, says the commission, displayed a "virtual total lack of...
The report also censures President Ford for his "equivocal public comments" that bolstered antibusing groups in Boston and his proposals to legislate curbs on busing that "undermine the desegregation process and jeopardize the rights of minority students." Ford failed to respond directly to the charges, saying simply that his Administration...