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TO many Americans, the most important journeys of election year 1972 are not the candidates' peregrinations, or even President Nixon's visits to Moscow and Peking, but the trips that their children-black or white, Northern or Southern-take each day in school buses. The familiar, homely yellow...
For years, busing was primarily a Southern concern as courts ordered school districts to dismantle dual school systems. But in the past year, court-dictated busing spread to Northern cities, giving rise to boycotts and sporadic violence in such disparate places as Pontiac, Mich., and San Francisco's Chinatown...
Freedom of Choice. The amendment languished in committee for months. Then a court order requiring massive busing in Richmond (see box) and other cities reopened resistance. A recent Gallup poll showed that 77% of Americans-black and white-disapproved of busing as a means of racially balancing school enrollment.
George Wallace, running in the Florida Democratic primary, has made busing the keystone of his campaign, lashing the Administration and his opponents alike for approving court-ordered busing. With his candidacy in jeopardy, Senator Henry Jackson has offered an antibusing amendment that would guarantee "freedom of choice to attend neighborhood...
There is already some of that. In Richmond, resistance to the desegregation order is in its seventh week. A white boycott of Augusta, Ga., schools last week left classrooms virtually empty, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter endorsed a one-day, statewide boycott to be held next week in sympathy. The...