Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Western newsmen have summed up Jordan's civil war as a confrontation between "fed" and "Bed"-that is, between the Palestinian fedayeen and the Bedouins, who make up the largest segment (250,000) of the other Jordanians. To a certain extent this is true, for the Bedouins remain the backbone of Hussein's 56,000-man army. Yet increasing numbers of "Beds" are joining the "feds." Arabs estimate that up to 15% of the guerrillas are non-Palestinians. No fewer than 2,500 members of the Beni Sakhr, Jordan's most powerful Bedouin tribe, have joined Arafat...
...complicate matters, evasions of unitary plans still persist throughout the South despite the genuine progress of recent months. In Alabama's Jefferson County, civil rights lawyers claim, as many as 10,000 white students who were supposed to enter black schools this fall have remained in their old schoolhouses. The charge is that white parents have lied about where their children live, using "mattress addresses" in white neighborhoods other than their own. Preliminary checks by the Health, Education and Welfare Department have turned up at least 14 school systems where the use of various forms of "ability grouping...
Emeroinq Issue. Nonetheless, HEW's Office of Civil Rights concedes that it has found some form of racial isolation in approximately one-fifth of the 158 desegregated districts it has surveyed. When schools report their racial composition near the end of the year, officials expect the figures to show that about half of the South's students attend truly integrated schools-a tolerable record compared with those of many Northern districts, but not quite the record that is implied by the Nixon Administration...
...civil rights lawyers implied that similar standards should be applied to Southern districts with plans like that of Mobile, Ala., the third district at issue before the court. In that city, blacks have appealed a lower-court ruling that Mobile's current steps toward integration are "reasonable"-even though blacks calculate that two-thirds of their elementary schoolchildren in metropolitan Mobile are still in all-black schools. The principles on which the lower court based its decision were defended by U.S. Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, who appeared as a friend of the court to explain the Nixon Administration...
KPFT Houston tried to continue the Pacifica tradition. Though its management was anti-war and pro-civil rights it offered equal (and free) time to opposing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. The station's gravest sin was the amateurism of its largely volunteer staff, which tended to stumble over music introductions and play tapes backward. That hardly seemed enough to earn it the enmity of the community. Yet twice within its first seven months, the KPFT transmitter was dynamited out of business. The first bombing, in May, silenced it for four weeks. The second, this month, threatened...