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...expressed their scorn for the Secretary of State. They denounced Soviet-U.S. detente as "appeasement" caused by a "Munich mentality." Calling for greater U.S. vigilance in the face of the Soviet military buildup, Ch'iao cited a Russian proverb: "When you dance with a bear, keep your ax handy...
...Ax-Handle Saturday. Not only have the academies spawned resegregation, but many urban school districts -especially in Atlanta, Richmond, Charleston, S.C., and Houston-have become increasingly black because a large number of whites have moved to the suburbs. Another pattern of resegregation occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes. Sometimes the black students segregate themselves. For example, at the season's first pep rally this year at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., all the blacks sat on one side of the gym while the whites sat on the other Says...
...busing, but primarily to move black students-30% of the roughly 115,000 students-from throughout the county to inner-city all-black schools. During that period, civil rights demonstrations by black groups prompted a violent reaction from the conservative working-class whites. In 1960 a Ku Klux Klan "ax-handle Saturday" resulted in a riot in which blacks who were peacefully picketing for integrated restaurants were severely beaten...
...students attending 58 private schools), has dropped somewhat. Says one black student: "Black and white students get along better, do things together, and color is nothing." How Jacksonville managed to desegregate without widespread violence is accounted for by some by the taste of what the city got on "ax-handle Saturday." Others credit the blacks' patience and restraint, or the fatiguing 15 years of school-board resistance that gave whites time to adjust to the idea. But as one local observer put it, "Maybe Jacksonville just muddled through...
Under the hot Arizona sun, the two bitter enemies circled each other like battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin...