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...districts surveyed have not significantly desegregated. In the Northeast and North Central states, about a third of the school districts have desegregated in the past decade, while in the West fewer than a quarter of them have done so. Interestingly, the courts provided the major impetus in about a third, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in a quarter and local pressures in more than 40% of the desegregated districts...
...next director will inherit an organization of over 400,000 members with considerable prestige among blacks and whites alike, but with harsh problems-including continuing failure to recruit younger staff members, worsening black unemployment and the loss of the Civil Rights impetus of the '60s. As a result of Wilkins' blast, the next director may also have inherited a tarnished public relations image. That is a problem the N.A.A.C.P., thanks largely to Wilkins, has not had for years...
...sometimes overlooked that the ambitious American policy drew much of its impetus from the Quebec Act, that tyrannical but farsighted statute by which George Ill's ministers reorganized the status of Canada within the Empire two years ago. The act denied Canadians both self-government and the right to trial by jury. But it confirmed the nearly feudal authority of the French landowning seigneurs, established the freedom (and thus the power) of Roman Catholicism in Canada, and granted to Canada great tracts of land spreading westward along the Ohio River...
...great from my point of view, but I think the impetus should come from them," he said...
...immediate impetus for Machel's action was the growing conflict along the border between Rhodesian government forces and guerrillas of the Zimbabwe Liberation Army, which is dedicated to overthrowing Smith's regime by force. Only days before Machel's tough speech, Rhodesia had boasted of engaging in "hot pursuit" operations against the guerrillas-even though Machel had warned that such incursions into Mozambique's territory would be considered an act of war. According to Machel, Rhodesian jets strafed the border village of Pafuri, killing seven Mozambican civilians and two soldiers. He said that Mozambique had shot...