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...unhappiest part of the President's school proposals was their sequence. Had he but placed his recommendations for increased aid to needy schools first and the call for a busing moratorium second, we might have felt that it was deprived schoolchildren and their education that he truly cared about. As was, by hitting first hardest on the "evils" of busing, he gave the unmistakable impression that his first concern was votes, not children...
...electric company that was sold to the Chilean government in 1970. In Paris, no agreement has been reached with the 16 nations to whom Chile owes $2.5 billion (including more than $1 billion to the U.S.). Although the 16 creditors turned down a Chilean request for a three-year moratorium on debt payments and a stretch-out over the succeeding ten years, they reported slight progress and agreed to meet again next week...
...school board of Buffalo, which refused by a 4-3 vote to comply with an order by New York Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist to present a plan for a better racial balance in its 98 public schools. When New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller endorsed Nixon's busing moratorium and urged state education officials to review their probusing policies, he was stiffly rebuked by the New York Board of Regents, which supervises all public education in the state. "In a multiracial society," a Regents statement said, "a person cannot be considered educated if he remains unexposed on a personal basis...
...fate of the President's busing moratorium and proposals for improving inferior schools remained in doubt in Congress. Although they probably enjoy strong support, they are opposed by some key committee chairmen, including the House Education Committee's Carl Perkins of Kentucky. As hearings opened in a Senate subcommittee, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson defended Nixon's proposals. Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton bluntly branded Richardson's arguments for the President's compensatory education plan "hypocritical hogwash...
Boston's record of de facto school segregation is as bad as any in the nation, and President Nixon's call for a moratorium on new busing will undoubtedly strengthen the resistance. Boston's school committee has used several means to avoid integration. One of its favorites was the rule of "open enrollment," which theoretically (but only theoretically) permitted any student to transfer to any school that had an empty seat. But the main tactic, and the main rallying cry of the school committee's then-Chairman Louise Day Hicks, was to argue that the "neighborhood...