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Negro parents responded to the busing edict with Operation Exodus. They privately arranged to bus 300 of their children out of the Roxbury schools which were doomed to over-crowding and possible double sessions. Residents of Dorchester, West Roxbury, Jamacia Plain, Hyde Park, and Roslindale all got a taste of the real thing, as Negro children began to enroll in their schools...
...American pro-India policy would indicate blindness to the larger issues involved. Pakistan behaved nicely while her infant economy remained in the cradle, but now that she has grown and seeks regional markets, she finds trade with many of her Asian neighbors proscribed by U.S. edict. Although a charter member of SEATO, she finds American troops pouring into Southeast Asia without her consultation or approval. Worst of all, she finds herself dependent upon an annual AID dole which may be snatched away if she does the slightest thing naughty. Pakistan thus represents the case of the fledgling country brought...
...battle started when miners dynamited the local police headquarters to protest a government edict reducing wages and laying off unnecessary workers. The government responded by putting the entire country under a state of siege and ordering 6,500 troops to the area. After a day-long skirmish that left 26 miners and six soldiers dead and some 100 wounded on both sides, the miners retreated into the mines...
Urban Impatience. The riots were triggered by a government edict that would have shunted failing students over 17 into technical curriculums. Only 300 of Morocco's 62,000 high school students were affected, but the innocuous announcement was enough to touch off a powder keg of underlying discontent. Unfortunately, Moroccans have plenty to be discontented about...
...HCUA's abrupt about-face ruling apparently resulted from a wee-hours session between H. Reed Ellis '65, Chairman of the HCUA, and William P. Saum '65, Elections Chairman, who laid down the original edict...