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Perhaps no community feels as aggrieved as Los Angeles, where Superior Court Judge Alfred Gitelson has ordered the vast city (52 miles long and 20 miles wide) to allow none of its 583 schools to have an enrollment more than 50% black. One attorney estimates that
...this would require 5,000 extra buses to transport 250,000 children daily. Gitelson scoffs at all such huge estimates as "merely an exercise in mathematics." Yet the plan does seem impractical, and City Councilman Marvin Braude just could be right when he calls it "a disaster for our community." In a typical if oversimplified anti-integration complaint, he argues that "you just can't solve all the inequities in our society by putting the burden on small schoolchildren." Given the Administration's current stance, Los Angeles too hopes to be rescued by the President if higher courts...
...states have adopted legislation dealing with de facto segregation, but judicial opinion remains divided. U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Skelly Wright ruled in a 1967 case involving Washington, D.C., that de facto segregation is just as illegal as that imposed by local law. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred Gitelson, noting that the result of segregation was the same regardless of the cause, partly brushed aside the distinction between the two types in a decision last month. He gave the Los Angeles Board of Education until June 1 to come up with a master plan for the racial integration...
...North's ambivalence was further dramatized by Superior Court Judge Al fred Gitelson's ruling that Los Angeles was violating the rights of its black and Mexican American children-who constitute 44% of the city's 654,000 students-by keeping most of them in schools with few whites. Gitelson accepted arguments of the American Civil Liberties Union, which had filed the suit, and found the school board guilty of de jure segregation by building new schools, drawing new attendance districts and creating busing policies without regard for the fact that they would not achieve integration...
...Thank you so much for the article on David Gitelson [Feb. 9]. I went to school with Dave from ages eleven to 13, and we used to be driven to school in the same car pool. During those few years, we would talk, and his humility was so great that he thought nothing of once-at the expense of a fist fight-stopping two boys from kicking over anthills. After he was killed, I called two local papers and asked the editors why they hadn't done a column on , him, and one answer was, "Is that story really...