Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black bus, its windows wire-meshed to ward off rocks and grenades, rolled through the gate into Tan Son Nhut Air base on the edge of Saigon. Special police and South Vietnamese air force guards?ordinarily sticklers for formality?barely glanced up as they waved the vehicle on. Among the mixed load of American and Vietnamese passengers was Howard Hagen, an aircraft technician from Odessa, Texas, and more recently from Danang, South Viet Nam. "I just wish it hadn't turned out this way," said Hagen. "I'm leaving with a sad heart...
...argued that the state has no right to force anyone to be sent to a particular school on a bus against their will. The courts of the land, from city to state to federal, have found otherwise many times. Is it really necessary to point out that busing is an old invention? Students have been bused to school for decades. The real issue must be the particular school and its quality, not the means used to get students to class. If Mr. Ferrara's suggestion is to be taken seriously, an informed and completely free choice of public schools should...
...addition, the pattern in most cities has been to close predominantly black schools with many black personnel and bus the students to white schools. This suggests to students that black institutions and personnel are inferior to white ones and, as black columnist William Raspberry writes, "essays to black children that they are somehow improved by the presence of whites." This humiliating experience, Raspberry says, suggests to black children that there is something wrong with them that only whites can cure. The humiliation causes feelings of inferiority and has negative psychological effects...
...Danang, according to a South Vietnamese businessman who was there after the fall and then made his way to Saigon, the normal population of 500,000 was swollen to almost twice that number by refugees. Military government experts were preoccupied with getting the refugees back to their homes; bus service has already been established from Danang and Qui Nhon to as far north as Hanoi...
...Beirut sector of Ain Rumanneh. That neighborhood happens to be a stronghold of a fiercely nationalist, right-wing and predominantly Maronite Christian party, the 75,000-member Phalange, whose private 6,000-member militia is the largest in the country. The Phalangists in the area apparently decided that the bus was a provocation, and their militia opened fire, killing 26 aboard the bus and wounding 19. That touched off a battle that raged for five days, embroiling much of Beirut. Before it was over, an estimated 150 people had been killed, and 300 more wounded...