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...even Ornstein confesses that something odd happens when all of this ambition and money come together in the 257-sq.-mi. Beltway cooker. Being the focus of national news creates an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Economic security diminishes sympathy and understanding. The concerns of Pittsburgh and Bakersfield and a thousand other places grow more and more remote...
Joseph W. Romita Bakersfield, Calif...
...less about Soviet missiles and accusations of Administration sleaziness than he does about how those issues-and all others-threaten his boss. For Mike Deaver, at 46, has essentially one aim in life, and that is serving Ronald Reagan. For 18 years, after he stopped selling IBM supplies in Bakersfield, Calif, and got into politics, Deaver has been confidant, protector, image polisher and keeper of state and family secrets. Now he knows Ronald Reagan better than any other man alive...
...Reagan Administration, which has tried to put the brakes on busing for the past three years, seems to agree. Last week the Justice Department approved a school-desegregation plan for Bakersfield, Calif., that does not include forced busing but instead relies on the creation of four elementary magnet schools to win the voluntary cooperation of the city's white parents. Says William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights: "This is a blueprint for school desegregation in the future without relying on mandatory busing, which does not work in a very meaningful...
...Bakersfield decision quickly brought to the surface once again the emotional issue of school desegregation. After the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1975 charged that the Bakersfield school district operated racially imbalanced schools, the district resisted busing. "The question now is whether the Justice Department is really committed to enforcing the law which requires desegregating schools," declared Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Magnet schools by themselves do not achieve desegregation...