Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern resistance, President Nixon has announced that he will respect and enforce the law. Responsibility for enforcement rests with the Justice Department, which may bring suit to force compliance from recalcitrant school districts. Local authorities have taken their cue from the Chief Executive. Realizing that further resistance is fruitless, they have struck their Confederate colors and opened once all-white schools to black children. Schools in about 30 Mississippi districts desegregated without serious incident last January; Greenville, S.C., where whites are in the majority, went even further, and actively integrated their 104 schools, reassigning and busing pupils...
...visit to Burma, Thant flew back to New York for consultations with ambassadors of the four powers (the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France) that are attempting to restore the Middle East ceasefire. Thant said he had returned to examine "positive elements" in the talks; the participants, after 28 fruitless meetings, wondered what he meant. They have agreed that Israel should withdraw from occupied territories. But they are far from agreement on security guarantees for Israel, and without them, there is little hope for a settlement...
...Illinois at the time. In response to his polite letter of protest, the clerk of the circuit court sent Fischer a computerized notice declaring that payment of the fine was due. He wrote a second explanation. The computer replied with another message demanding $5. The fruitless ex: change between Fischer and the machine continued for four months, leading to a curt notice saying, in essence: pay up or face arrest...