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Senator Abraham H. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) will ask the 90th Congress, when it convenes next January, to enact Daniel P. Moynihan's proposal for an "Office of Legislative Evaluation...
Ribicoff said yesterday that Moynihan's plan was one of "the most significant ideas" to come before his Senate sub-committee on government operations, which is investigating urban affairs and he instructed his staff to incorporate it into legislation...
None of this should be taken too easily for granted in a world where Flemings still battle Walloons in Belgium, French Canadians are still at odds with British Canadians, and Indians of different faiths still slaughter one another by the thousands. Says Professor Daniel Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies: "We are the only nation in the world that has seriously undertaken to establish a biracial democracy. We have shown a fantastic capacity to absorb an incredible range of ethnic groups. If this looked easy, the world is beginning to learn it is damn...
...They went in with the conventional expectations," Moynihan said, "thinking they'd find that Negroes and whites go to schools that are unequal, and so come out with unequal educations...
...Coleman, who was working under a two-year deadline set by Congress, had to spend most of his time collating and intepreting the multiple choice questionnaires on which the report was based. He was not able to give all the time he wanted to conclusions, Moynihan said...