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...Return of the Klan. Decentralization, moreover, did nothing for blacks. Because of a larger white turnout in the election, hard-core conservatives gained six out of 13 positions on the new central board, while blacks won only three. Previously, blacks had held two out of seven seats on the board. They have a majority of only two of the eight newly created regional boards, though they constitute a majority of the population in six of the eight districts. Also the regional boards have proved weak and ineffective...
...Conditions in the schools have deteriorated so alarmingly that a new integration plan will not be easy to put into effect. While black militants terrorize the remaining whites in the Detroit schools, the Ku Klux Klan has been gathering recruits in the suburbs. Last spring a suburban high school principal was tarred and feathered by hooded Klansmen after he organized a two-day human relations program for blacks and whites. Yet any integration plan, if it is to succeed, must include the suburbs, as both the N.A.A.C.P. and the Citizens' Committee have emphasized. If full-scale integration is ordered...
...Senate in 1927 on a platform of populism. As a loyal New Dealer, he was Franklin Roosevelt's first appointment after the F.D.R. court-packing plan had failed. Black's entry to the court was stormy, as newspaper stories revealed he had once been a Ku Klux Klan member. He conceded the affiliation but said it was in the past...
...Tupamaros looked like Ku Klux Klan men in their masks," recalled British Ambassador to Uruguay Sir Geoffrey Jackson, just released after spending eight months as a captive of the urban guerrillas. "They would have killed me, certainly, at any moment if there had been an attempt at rescue." Yet Sir Geoffrey insisted that he "never for a minute" felt that he had been abandoned by "dear old H.M.G." (Her Majesty's Government). His room was uncomfortable: "I slept on polyfoam padding, which was damp and after a while stank. I had a 2-ft. by 6-ft. space...
Fire-Bombed Buses. The most notable trouble spot was in Pontiac, Mich., where ten school buses were fire-bombed on the eve of the academic year. Last week the FBI arrested six people, including Robert Miles, grand dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, and charged them with conspiracy to obstruct federal-court orders. In all, 48 people have been arrested in Pontiac in connection with antibusing protests, and a boycott organized by white parents is still effective. During the week, the absentee rate in the city's schools held steady...