Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always, Rusk has maintained his calm. "I'm just chuckling these days and leaving it all to them," he says. This time, he may well get the last chuckle. Governor Lester Maddox, who has been bitingly critical of Rusk, cannot legally alter the makeup of the board of regents with new appointments until after the first of the year. The board's moderates, who constitute a majority, were not planning to wait. They scheduled a special meeting for this week, intending to approve Rusk's appointment...
Another factor in Londonderry's continued calm was the presence of 6,000 British troops. Most important, however, is that the Catholic minority, outnumbered 2,000,000 to 1,000,000, is well on the way to winning most of its civil rights goals-at least on paper. A rule that gave property owners extra votes has been eliminated. A nonpartisan commission has been appointed to study Londonderry's public housing, long allocated on the basis of political patronage. The "B-specials," an almost exclusively Protestant force of part-time cops, have been disarmed. They will eventually...