Word: exoduses
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What they got was Operation Exodus, a group of parents who, without pay, and without much professional help, are busing more than 800 children out of predominantly Negro areas such as Roxbury into schools elsewhere in the city. Exodus' success in the Negro community has been startling. Its enrollment this year is almost double that of last, and there is a waiting list. The parents have done more than supervising the busing; from their storefront office on Roxbury's Blue Hill Avenue, they have started tutorial and recreational programs...
Until recently, this was largely the fault of the School Committee. With the committee's approval, Exodus could have applied for a share of the large amount of Federal money available for educational "demonstration projects." But the committee, though it gave such approval to a program for busing Negro children to suburban schools, wasn't willing to give it to Exodus...
Only on Christmas day, when the prisons were serving a holiday banquet, was there a pause in the exodus. One escapee even re-enacted a stunt from the Peter Sellers movie Two Way Stretch: he rode to freedom secreted in side a prison garbage truck, all the while desperately ducking the automatic arm that crushes the refuse. Lest would-be escapees lack so antic an imagination, the Mountbatten committee provided a few suggestions of its own. As it out lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped...
...Exodus 20: 13 and Deuteronomy 5: 17 both give us the same commandment: "Thou shalt not kill." I find no qualifying statement that says this refers only to the killing of others...
Both had good reason to try to settle their differences. Wilson, under Commonwealth pressure, had promised to ask the U.N. for mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia unless the rebel regime came to terms. Such sanctions would hurt the Smith regime, perhaps even to the point of causing a white exodus from Rhodesia. But they could also bring Britain into direct confrontation with South Africa, its fourth largest customer, which announced that it would support Rhodesia to the hilt...