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As many public schools reopened last week, parents and politicians alike seemed to be more concerned about the buses outside than the classrooms within. Last June Congress declared that no new court-ordered busing could proceed until the exhaustion of all appeals, if busing was solely "for the purpose of...
Justice William Rehnquist, generally considered the most conservative member of the Supreme Court, has refused to stay busing orders in Nashville and Oklahoma City. His fellow Nixon appointee, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., did the same in a case from Augusta, Ga. Powell concluded that Augusta's busing was...
Only Vote. The convention convincingly demonstrated that Nixon had effectively silenced most of his critics on the left by co-opting many of their ideas, such as improved relations with Communist countries, arms limitation, a guaranteed income, health insurance -although he has not really pushed the domestic programs hard in...
The contrast between the Republican Convention and that of the Democrats in July transcends political beliefs--it goes beyond a platform for or against forced busing, beyond immediate withdrawal from Indochina, beyond tax structures--even though those beliefs are the foundation of November's choice. The contrast lies too in...
The aid bill--for which Harvard had straggly lobbied until an anti-busing amendment was attached in the Senate--also authorizes an unprecedented $1 billion-a-year program of direct grants to colleges and universities to be used at the school's discretion.