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...children were for the most part unaccompanied--an obvious change from last year and the year before, when anxious mothers, fathers, older brothers and sisters held their hands and told them to try not to be afraid if the white folks over where they were headed, in South Boston, Charlestown and Hyde Park, called them names, tried to barricade their buses, or, as grown adults did often and shamelessly in 1974 and 1975, heckled and threw rocks through bus windows at defenseless and orderly children...
...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 all day. Thursday night a Charlestown woman who sent her children past the boycott received a dreaded phone-call--beware of fire-bombs. Friday night, right here in Roxbury, police arrested a black youth, Henry Alexander Jr., at his home...
...hardly rouse the water, or muss the bed, compared with the incidents of last year--the knifings, vigilante marches and the partially obliterated signs of "gger go home" painted on the walls of traditionally Irish and all-white South Boston High School. A picture of an overturned car in Charlestown made the national papers, and all three networks sent cameras and sound equipment to record fist-waving parents as they shouted "Never, never, never" along South Boston's streets. Over 900 citizens, mostly white and anti-busing, rode the paddy wagons to the local jails in the first two years...
...shared bitterness of parents all over Boston glares forth in the treatment a group of mothers at Charlestown High on Wednesday gave to reporters and cameramen, most of whom were there just because they "had to be" themselves. To publicize their anger and to be photographed, the demonstrators stood outside the high school and hurled bottles and bricks. But when press arrived, they jeered at them and cried. "You guys are vultures." Together, of course, these two actions make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure...
Police helicopters were not hovering over the schools, and the sharpshooter had long been removed from the roof of Charlestown High. Few parents were demonstrating or spewing venom at the cops. About one-third of the city's 75,000 public school children were being bused, but black and white kids were largely coexisting. The Boston schools thus opened without serious incident-in marked contrast to the year before...