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...Education Commissioner Harold Howe, who has spoken out sharply against de facto segregation in recent months, the survey represents the factual basis for an all-out Government attack on the racial imbalance of the nation's schools. Within the next few weeks, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare plans to organize a special section to investigate de facto segregation in Northern states. Legislation now before Congress would withdraw federal aid for a year from school districts failing to desegregate, and would provide $50 million in technical assistance to those that are actively correcting racial imbalance...
...cent opposed a continuation of the war at its present intensity. Fifty four per cent favor free elections, even if the Viet Cong win, but almost exactly the same percentage opposed even a gradual withdrawal. Seventy per cent favor a United Nations-supervised truce, preserving current de facto political divisions. But 77 per cent oppose any kind of withdrawal which would risk the loss of Laos or Thailand, the possible result of such a truce...
...April, Moscow noised the notion of a joint meeting of the nations of Eastern and Western Europe to discuss their "collective security." By the terms of the Soviet proposal, the U.S., not being European, would be excluded. Such a conference would also imply de facto recognition of East Germany. Thus the notion was ignored in the West, except by the Danes, who may well broach in Brussels a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact conference-including the U.S. But Washington has an antipathy to any major conference in which the outcome is cloudy, and even the Danes cannot see any way around...
...cent opposed a continuation of the war at its presnt intensity. Fifty four per cent favor free elections, even if the Viet Cong win, but almost exactly the same percentage opposed even a gradual withdrawal. Seventy per cent favor a United Nations-supervised truce, preserving current de facto political divisions. But 77 per cent oppose any kind of withdrawal which would risk the loss of Laos or Thailand, the possible result of such a truce...
...that Title VI has begun to make some headway in the South, it is time that the federal government show some concern with the problem of Northern de facto segregation. The Office of Education is carrying out studies in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Chester, Pa., to determine the type of guidelines that should be applied to schools in the North. We hope that it will not be long before federal education officials finish their research and are able...