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...says Mrs. Louise Day Hicks 46 chairman of the five-man Boston School Committee, which sets policy for Boston's public schools. For months she has been waging a determined fight to keep Negroes from busing their children out of the black districts into white neighborhood schools, even though the city has an "open enrollment" policy that permits any child to transfer to any school where there is room...
...against himself. Four Justices argued that the 14th Amendment's due-process clause was a form of "shorthand" for all the guarantees spelled out in the first eight amendments, and that the Bill of Rights thus applied to the states. To give the states greater latitude, however, a five-man majority ruled that state courts would violate due-process only by action that "shocks the conscience" or otherwise imperils "ordered liberty...
...resolution asking church agencies and parishes to confine their investments to corporations that have "demonstrated their commitment to equal opportunity in employment." In Chicago, churches belonging to the city's nondenominational Conference on Religion and Race all have fair-employment clauses in their hiring contracts; next month a five-man committee of financial experts will begin a study of one Protestant denomination's financial portfolio to see how its assets can best be used to further integration. The United Presbyterian Church insists on fair-employment clauses in all contracts, is also planning to invest its funds in integrated...
...special envoy, President Johnson sent John Bartlow Martin, 49, to plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled...
...between Ecuador and Peru over a disputed strip of jungle. Not surprisingly, the Dominican Republic has been a frequent customer; in 1960, when Dictator Rafael Trujillo's goons tried to murder Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, the OAS imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions. Last week's five-man peace team was the 13th OAS delegation to visit the country since...