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Attack on De Facto While a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions has struck down school segregation in the South, the North has remained largely untouched. The reason is that segregation was created by law in the South, whereas it was supposed to have resulted from circumstances in the North. This comforting distinction has now been challenged by a federal court ruling in Detroit. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. Roth declared that what appears to be de facto segregation in the Detroit school system is actually de jure and must be abolished...
...wondered if it might be beside the point. "It is unfortunate that we cannot deal with public school segregation on a no-fault basis, for if racial segregation in our public schools is an evil, then it should make no difference whether we classify it de jure or de facto. Our objective, legally, should be to remedy a condition which we believe needs correction...
...overflight could once provoke crisis, as the Francis Gary Powers incident did in 1960, the elaborately precise spy satellite systems of the U.S. and Soviet Union a decade later have created and enforced a de facto "open skies" policy between the two superpowers. Today such satellites slide through space like disembodied eyes recording an astonishing variety of information. Just over a month ago, for example, the Pentagon revealed that the latest Soviet S59 ICBM ground tubes are exactly 20 ft. in diameter...
...members is the future of reunion plans with the 3,200,000 members of the United Presbyterian Church, which has grown apart from the Southern church ever since the Civil War. The North-South split among the Presbyterians is exacerbated by differences in theology and de facto racial practices. Blacks in the Northern church recently barred consideration of reunion until at least 1973 because of what they see as lingering bigotry in some Southern congregations. Southern conservatives resent such things as the 1967 changes in Northern ordination vows, which eliminated a reference to Scripture as "the only infallible rule...
...They are political questions, and can be resolved only through participation in the process of change-by going outside of one's self, by acting collectively. Despite confusion and private doubts. Mayday was a collective action, is a social fact, and will "mean" some thing when history decides post facto what everything...