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...Senate caucus room with your family at your side. I don't know what to call this one." With this characteristic bit of mock diffidence, Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy revealed at a Boston news conference late last week that he was-"de facto, de jure"-again a candidate for the presidency. The poet, professor and paladin of politics also confirmed that he had assented to the establishment of a McCarthy-for-President committee in Massachusetts...
...national mythology like Geronimo. Sitting Bull and Cochise, but also those of men like Standing Bear and Donehogawa (Ely Parker). Standing Bear was the plaintiff in an 1879 civil rights litigation which resulted in the United States Government, through the decision of Judge Elmer S. Dundy, recognizing the de jure humanity of the American Indian. Donehogawa, born a chief of the once-powerful Seneca Iroquois, became a self-taught lawyer only to discover that Indians need not apply to the bar of New York, went on to become a civil engineer, a friend of Ulysses S. Grant when the future...
...supposed to have resulted from circumstances in the North. This comforting distinction has now been challenged by a federal court ruling in Detroit. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. Roth declared that what appears to be de facto segregation in the Detroit school system is actually de jure and must be abolished...
...particulars Roth wondered if it might be beside the point. "It is unfortunate that we cannot deal with public school segregation on a no-fault basis, for if racial segregation in our public schools is an evil, then it should make no difference whether we classify it de jure or de facto. Our objective, legally, should be to remedy a condition which we believe needs correction...
...Burger Court has served notice that it will not retreat from the Warren Court's sweeping school desegregation manifestoes, at least so far as Southern de jure segregation is concerned. Last term it ordered Southern public schools to desegregate "at once." This term it told lower-court judges to use all means necessary, including busing, to dismantle the South's dual school systems. In perhaps its most far-reaching decision on race, the Burger Court ruled unanimously this spring that businesses cannot use educational requirements to screen out minority job seekers arbitrarily...