Word: calif
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...Mass.; and Riverside, Calif...
PASADENA, CALIF. This city peacefully integrated its public schools in 1970 by busing 43% of its 26,000 students. Since then, says School District Administrator Peter Hagen, white students' achievement in the nearly integrated schools has actually improved, but "we have not been able to bring the black and brown students' scores up to the performances of whites and Orientals." White parents transferred about 7,500 pupils to private and parochial schools; only about 120 subsequently returned to public schools, leaving them 58% nonwhite, up from...
...South and the North are getting blacker, as white parents continue to transfer their children to private systems or move to the suburbs. Since court-ordered desegregation went into effect in Memphis in 1973, the white enrollment in the schools has declined from 50% to 30%. Schools in Inglewood, Calif., were 62% white when integrated in 1970; now they are 80% nonwhite, and a federal court agreed in May to let the city abandon crosstown busing since it no longer can accomplish desegregation...
Calmly, almost casually, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, 26, last week discussed her reasons for aiming a loaded Colt .45 automatic at President Ford in Sacramento, Calif. She claimed to have endangered the life of the President -and thereby revived the national nightmare of political assassination -solely to win a new trial for her master and mentor, Charles Manson. The psychopathic guru had been sentenced to jail for life, along with three of his women followers, for the sadistic slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969. Somehow the act of threatening Ford made sense to Squeaky Fromme. Referring...