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However, there is a very slim chance of having a voluntary busing program involved in an effort to balance school children racially and socially, he said. Before the proposal would affect Cambridge, state laws would first have to be passed with funding to enact the program, Wylie added.
If Kissinger has helped focus Ford's views on foreign policy, in domestic matters the President sometimes forgets the larger view now required of him as President. At his press conference, held in the Rose Garden to the accompaniment of a mockingbird in a magnolia tree, Ford candidly spoke...
Much of the violence took place along Dorchester Street, a four-lane thoroughfare that is the main artery of South Boston, the center of opposition to forced busing. With feelings running high over the busing order, "Southie" swarmed with police, including 300 members of the elite Tactical Patrol Force brought...
About 45,000 of Boston's 94,000 pupils have now been assigned to schools they would not normally have attended. This involves busing more than 18,000 students, including 8,510 whites. Under the plan, the South Boston and Roxbury school districts have been combined; 1,271 white...
When school started this fall, Southie swiftly developed what some residents call a "Belfast mentality," the attitude of a beleaguered and persecuted minority. Southie parents argue that forced busing not only will destroy the concept of community schools but also compel their own children to travel into high-crime neighborhoods...