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An emotional impasse over new restrictions against busing children to integrate schools was broken by the House of Representatives last week when it passed a compromise that satisfied almost no one. It survived mainly because it had been attached, incongruously, to a landmark bill providing discretionary federal aid for the...
On the surface, the whole higher education bill seemed doomed under the conflicting crossfire of the busing arguments. Opposed were liberal Congressmen, the House Black Caucus, the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, the UAW and the League of Women Voters, all because they did not want...
Incongruous. The bill will postpone the implementation of any lower-court orders to bus or transfer students for the purpose of racial balance until all appeals to higher courts have been resolved, but not beyond Jan. 1, 1974. Federal funds could be used to carry out court-ordered busing if...
The aid bill--for which Harvard had strongly 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 schools' discretion.
For the past ten years at West Junior High School in Waterloo, Iowa, Alice Margaret Hayes, 67, has been reading the story Little Brown Koko and the Preacher's Watermelon to her speech and drama class. When black students began busing to the school three years ago, Mrs. Hayes...