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Trouble Spots. Adding to the confusion of an already muddled issue, Chief Justice Warren Burger chose the moment to declare that the Supreme Court's Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg decision of last spring did not really mean what some courts seemed to think it meant-that the law required enough busing to achieve an equal racial balance in every school within a school district. Not so, said Burger, in an obiter dictum to a decision that substantiated a Winston-Salem, N.C., busing order. If federal and school officials would only read the opinion carefully, he pointed out, they would...
...class of '40 at Harvard Law School, returned to his home state to set up a busy general-litigation practice, and in 1968 became one of Lyndon Johnson's last judicial appointees. Within a year, his duties forced him to confront the desegregating of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school district. After studying the facts, Judge McMillan decided he had taken the state's black-white situation for granted all his life "without thinking through this problem...
Though Catholics dominate in most anti-abortion groups, the campaign has gone well beyond sectarian boundaries. The California Mobilization for the Unnamed is headed by an agnostic Jew. The chief of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life is a Methodist, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg. The Rev. Charles Carroll, an Episcopal priest who is chaplain to the University of California Medical School at San Francisco, says his involvement is a natural outgrowth of his other liberal beliefs. "Men who have been with me in Selma and who opposed war with me and have known me to speak out against capital punishment could...
...issue before the Supreme Court last week were two plans-from Clarke County, Ga., and from the district made up of Charlotte. N.C., and surrounding Mecklenburg County-that represent the most exhaustive efforts so far to overcome the South's traditional patterns. Under the plans, which are being challenged by whites, busing and redistricting have entirely eliminated all-black schools. The plans impose roughly the same ratio of each district's racial makeup on each school's enrollment. Both districts had long used busing to enforce segregation. By using it to enforce desegregation, the districts have added...
...home in Rochester, Minn., pondering cases to come before the court this term. Rarely have the Justices faced a bigger backlog of tough issues. Taking an icy plunge next week, they will hear at least eight hours of arguments in six desegregation cases, four of which involve the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. A major issue, is to what extent a federal court may require busing or other methods to eliminate all-black schools. Not only may the court's decision affect cities in the North as well as the South, it could also rebut President Nixon...