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As the opening of another school year approaches, the U.S. faces fresh agonies over an old and divisive issue: desegregation of the public schools. Racial integration of the nation's classrooms remains the law of the land, but public support for large-scale busing of schoolchildren to achieve that...
For the second year in a row, Boston seems headed for turmoil over busing. Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's Phase Two plan for school desegregation, announced in May, calls for the busing of some 25,000 students, up from 18,000 last year, to ensure that...
Given the tempers on all sides, the prospects are that Boston will need every one of the more than 2,000 police and National Guardsmen who will be on hand to try to keep the peace when the buses begin to roll week after next. Boston's black community...
Citing what he called "the practicalities of the situation," Federal District Court Judge Robert E. DeMascio rejected two cumbersome plans that had been prepared to put into effect a Supreme Court desegregation order. One of them, proposed by the N.A.A.C.P., would have bused some 77,000 of Detroit's...
DeMascio argued plausibly that almost any large-scale busing scheme would yield only "negligible desegregation results" in the Motor City. Last year the Supreme Court ruled out "cross-district" busing of students between the city and the mostly white suburbs; thus limited to the city proper, busing could not do...