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...past seven years, in fact, the Boston School Committee has been making political hay out of race relations. Through legal manuvering the School Committee has managed to resist integration while politically issuing statements urging the repeal of the Racial Imbalance Act. Yet recent developments in the state court could bring the Committee's long resistance...
...would go to jail before I would let a single child be bused without parental consent," even though the plan, as mentioned, does not call for forced busing. "The people will not accept this," stated ex-Committee Committee chairman James Hennigan. "The only solution I can see is the repeal of the Racial Imbalance Law and to start all over again...
Already he has created a mellower mood among Democrats. Although identified with the conservative Texas faction, he has pledged not to try to repeal the reforms that have given greater clout to minorities, women and young people. He announced that he would fill nine of the committee's 25 at-large posts with blacks-not a matter of quotas, he insists, but recognition of the heavy black Democratic vote in November. He backed Oregon State Chairman Caroline Wilkins for vice chairman over the wives of prominent politicians. "I want a strong, visible woman," says Strauss, "not just somebody...
...religious clauses of Article 44 have long been an embarrassment to both church and state. All three parties in the Irish Dáil (Parliament) have favored their repeal for the past five years. Ireland's Catholic primate, William Cardinal Conway, has declared repeatedly that he "would not shed a tear" to see them go. Two months ago, Prime Minister Jack Lynch cautiously decided to put the question to the Irish people in a referendum...
Despite the fact that Cardinal Conway and most of the church hierarchy supported the referendum, many Catholic priests and laymen feared that repeal would have a sort of moral domino effect, leading the country toward permissiveness and degeneracy. "Do the fathers and mothers of Ireland want to see their children reared in an Irish-type St. Pauli, Soho or Pigalle?" demanded Dublin Accountant Desmond Broadberry, father of 17 children and member of the committee to "Defend 44." (He was referring to the pleasure zones of Hamburg, London and Paris.) "We urge a massive yes to a new Ireland...