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Ohrenberger's timing made it appear that he had thrown the plan hastily together at the last minute when it became clear that Operation Exodus would go into effect-with a good deal of publicity-the next...
That night about 275 families signed up for Operation Exodus, and the next day 400 children boarded buses for four white schools which had had vacancies last spring. At two of the schools, the principals refused to let the Negro children into the classrooms since they did not have transfer slips from their Roxbury principals. At one of these, all the schoolchildren, white and black alike, were locked out until an unsuspecting janitor opened a door and the Exodus children streamed inside...
Four new schools took in Exodus children the next day, and at present 327 kids are being bused to 13 schools outside Roxbury...
...central question which the Operation Exodus incident raises is, why did Eisenstadt introduce his resolution when he did? While he and Mrs. Hicks portray the ban on busing as a defense of the neighborhood school, over 1000 students had been bused last year, without raising a public objection from anyone on the School Committee. If Eisenstadt had not put the busing plan to a vote, it probably would not have become a partisan issue...
Already perceiving some of the problems posed by a potential flood of 50,000-200,000 refugees, Johnson has asked Congress for 12.6 million dollars to conduct an "orderly systematic immigration" of the Cubans. Also, he has asked Castro to discourage (instead of encourgaging) a Dunkirk-like exodus which would violate U.S. immigration rules and health code. But these assuage merely superficial difficulties of transportation and processing...