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...seems that after two years of tinkering, the unwieldy components of the desegregation plan have fallen workably, if not neatly, into place. The troopers, the new administrators, the shuffled administrators, the elected parent and student councils, all have had a full summer to prepare. Still, imposing this "blanket" program citywide has been somewhat like pulling an actual blanket over the sheets to make a bed. Straighten a section and a wrinkle appears there; soothe a ten mile-square district here and a minor outburts erupts there. Wednesday, in Charlestown, white youths pelted troopers and new, bussed arrivals, then boycotted classes...
...seems that after two years of tinkering, the unwieldy components of the desegregation plan have fallen workably, if not neatly, into place. The troopers, the new administrators, the shuffled administrators, the elected parent and student councils, all have had a full summer to prepare. Still, imposing this "blanket" program citywide has been somewhat like pulling an actual blanket over the sheets to make a bed. Straighten a section and a wrinkle appears there; soothe a ten-square mile district here and a minor outburst erupts there...
...convention. Wearing a blue and gold Legion overseas cap lettered "Georgia, Post No. 2," the candidate said that while the U.S. needs to cut military wastefulness, its armed forces should remain as strong as the Russians'. Then he gave a real zinger to the Legionnaires. He opposed a blanket amnesty for the men who had deserted or dodged the draft during Viet Nam, he said, because that implied approval of what they had done. But, he added, "I intend to grant a blanket pardon...
...That common-sense qualification was seized upon by Senator Robert Dole, Ford's running mate, whose chief function seems to be to hound the Democratic candidate. Dole had just addressed the Legionnaires in Seattle, where he roused cheers by saying that Ford would give Viet Nam evaders "no blanket pardon, no blanket amnesty, no blanket clemency." Hurrying to Des Moines, Dole noted that Carter had taken two positions on embargoes and, sounding a theme the Republicans are bound to emphasize, cited this as an example of Carter's "unreliable flexibility." Dole was reminded that Ford himself had said...
...course, is that there is no hard news. During strategy sessions in his sprawling ranch house with aides and advisers, Carter may be-probably is-making decisions that will vitally shape the course of the oncoming presidential campaign, scheduled to begin in earnest after Labor Day. But the security blanket of secrecy imposed on such decisions by Carter and his staff has been virtually total. Reporters have thus had to content themselves with scratching about for some interesting stories about the early days of Plains and the economic impact of Carter's candidacy on the little hamlet, plus such...