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HEALTH: More hits. The World Health Organization's global disease-eradication programs have made considerable progress in the control of malaria and other diseases...
...offensive, U.S. and South Vietnamese officials cast a critical eye on their Hamlet Evaluation System (H.E.S.), which was supposed to determine the relative extent of both the government and V.C. control. The system was found to be misleading. Districts were often shamelessly gerrymandered to create impressions of progress that had no relation to reality. A complex new scheme was devised that requires field advisers to answer no fewer than 149 multiple-choice questions; the replies are fed into a computer in Saigon, which digests them and then prints out alphabetical ratings...
...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...
Policing racial hostility is difficult: the U.S. Attorney's staff in charge of the Birmingham area has only two lawyers regularly assigned to keep up with more than 60 school systems. In recent weeks, federal courts have made limited progress. They have outlawed sex segregation in Coffeeville, Miss., and Concordia Parish, La. (the practice continues in several Georgia counties). They have also ruled that merging school systems must continue to employ black principals and teachers instead of demoting or firing them and hiring whites...
...which would further that goal, may get through Congress this year, but results would not appear for some time afterward. Hence the real issue before the Supreme Court is whether it will make blacks wait-or whether the court will continue to lead the nation's slow progress toward a genuinely integrated society...