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...white view of blacks seems to have changed, too. Integration is becoming accepted, except when attempts are made to eliminate de facto segregation by busing. This is about the same reception integration has received in the rest of the country. This doesn't mean, however, that the race question is quiet. George Wallace did win a close runoff in 1970 by waging perhaps the most blatantly racist campaign of the past decade. And during gossip over a meal-one afternoon a Baptist minister grinned and told us how "Down our way there was this nigger that killed a woman...
...Stennis amendment more simply would extend school segregation to cover instances of de facto as well as de jure discrimination...
...letter to the Commission, Kreisberg criticized the CRR's criterion for readmission-existence of a "potential danger of further violation"-as "vague and undefined," "arbitrary and capricious," and "ex post facto...
...skeptics who criticized the ex post facto nature of those restrictions, Nuremberg mainly proved that losing a war had become a crime under international law. Few recalled that some Allied leaders had wanted no trials?just summary executions. Nuremberg also produced a new U.N.-approved rule of civilized behavior: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." The U.S. Manual of Courts-Martial
...OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: The major obstacles to peace now are the occupied territories. Nearly three out of four Israelis (73%) are prepared to give back some for overall peace, even though 18% prefer to retain the present de facto borders and 3% actually want to expand them. Only 4% would return all the occupied land. Fully 93% of Israelis approve Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and such expansions as the controversial housing projects at Nebi Samwil on which Israels Housing Ministry has begun work...