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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues involved now are almost completely different from those of 1975. Today, minority groups in Boston are the ones hesitant to embrace the desegregation scheme. And although the shadow of racial politics still hangs over the current debate, everyone involved--white and Black--agrees that the Boston Public School System must remain desegregated...
...current desegregation plan has been beset by political controversy. Since December, when the plan was first announced, opposition has centered not on its merits as an instrument of desegregation but on the politics of its formation...
...current controversy grew out of a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in September, 1987, which declared the Boston Public School System "as desegregated as possible given the realities of modern urban life." With that ruling, the Boston school system had the opportunity to move away from the mandatory busing system which had been in place for 15 years to a more flexible school assignment plan...
...Administration's tight controls on the free exchange of information, Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck and Director of Policy Analysis Muriel Morisey Spence '69 last week issued a 32-page report urging President Bush to undertake a "Presidential Initiative on Information Policy" that would overhaul current federal information policies...
...develop superconductors partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy 188,000 jobs and $9 billion a year and was a major factor contributing to the nation's record trade deficit...