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...part of his continuing scheme to keep the South in his column in the 1972 election, President Nixon took an extraordinary step two weeks ago. He disavowed a school-integration plan for Austin, Texas, drafted by his own Department of Health, Education and Welfare; he ordered HEW and the Justice Department to "hold busing to the minimum required...
...terse sentences, Nixon thereby gave recalcitrant school districts in the South-and North-an official excuse for making little haste very slowly. In the Austin case, U.S. District Judge Jack Roberts had rejected the HEW proposal, which called for extensive busing; Roberts had opted instead for an alternative advanced by the local school board, which planned only intermittent busing of pupils as a sort of intramural cultural-exchange program...
There was some reason for the Government's retreat on the Austin busing question; the HEW plan had some technical weaknesses. Still, Richardson thought he had persuaded Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell to carry out the busing decision (TIME, Aug. 9). He was informed of the President's move at the last minute, and carried no personal plea or protest to Nixon...
...bill: "I do not think that in the long term this country will reward the President for attempting to pit public opinion against the rule of law announced by the Supreme Court." In New York, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund said that it may intervene in the Austin case in advocacy of the HEW plan...
...John Tower that the Government would proceed no further than the law absolutely requires, the crusty Texas Republican was not easily appeased. "It appears that he does not really oppose forced busing-or he lacks the resolve necessary to control those who pursue it in his name," Tower said. Austin...