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...magnet affair goes beyond dollars and yuan. U.S. intelligence learned last year that a Chinese company had sold devices to Pakistan that are used to produce enriched uranium for nuclear warheads. The amount of money involved was small--less than $100,000--but the implications for the proliferation of nuclear weapons were very great. Although U.S. law called for sanctions against China, Secretary of State Warren Christopher ruled against them after receiving private pledges from his counterpart, Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Qian told Christopher the top leaders had not known about the transaction and would make sure...
Edward Newsome, an African-American lawyer in the real estate business who himself attended a segregated school in Texas, is a leader of the anti-magnet plan coalition that has dominated the Kansas City school board since 1994. He feels the underlying assumptions of desegregation are patronizing to blacks--as does Justice Thomas. "It never ceases to amaze me," wrote Thomas in his Missouri v. Jenkins concurrence, "that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior...
Says Newsome: "I welcomed the Supreme Court decision. I saw it as an opportunity for the first time in years to focus on removing the vestiges of segregation. For 10 years we've concentrated on bringing in white kids. There's been no Afrocentric-themed magnet school because it doesn't appeal to white folks...
...black. "With a Eurocentric curriculum, it appears one race is superior over the others," says Bullard. "The African-centered curriculum makes them feel, 'I'm a part of this. I'm not on the outside looking in.'" Something must be working: Chick's students outscore some of the magnet schools' pupils on standardized tests...
...strike against the Vietnam War. A TIME contributor since last October, Kunen spent many hours visiting classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, and Norfolk, Virginia, observing students and teachers wrestling with the problems posed by separate but unequal education. But whomever he talked to, from black nationalists to advocates of magnet schools to staunch integrationists, he discovered a common goal that transcended race. "I found," he says, "that all parents, black and white, wanted the same thing for their children: the best education possible...