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...State officials, for their part, express frustration that despite retraining, too many of the staff continue to over-rely on force. Most observers admit that the conflict is at least in part a cultural clash between minority kids, mostly from tough New York City neighborhoods, and a largely white, nonurban staff thrown together in a combustible setting...
...which blacks total only 0.3% of the population. Even here, though, Bryant's benign image may trump his color. "Kobe the superstar is in some ways raceless," says Kenneth Shropshire, author of In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. "He could be like Michael Jordan, someone nonurban white folks think of as a superstar, and not primarily a black...
...meant to "imply that nuclear war was anything less than a terrible disaster." He left it to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle to defend the Administration's seven-year, $4.2 billion civil defense plan, which calls for evacuating people from 380 high-risk centers to presumably safer nonurban "host areas." But the Armed Services Committee agreed, on a voice vote last week, to cut the proposed 80% increase in civil defense funds to a 5% increase...
Only a small number of systems were initially involved, most in nonurban areas. The real test will come this week and next, when major cities will undertake a degree of desegregation, some through large-scale busing of students. The end result could be the classification of 94% of the South's school systems as "desegregated," though many students will still be attending all-black schools...
...proud of Arkansas I could bust! Spending a week there prior to the election, I talked with some of my home state's nonurban residents about voting for Rockefeller. Knowing the mountain people's lukewarm attitude toward "furriners," and rich 'uns to boot, I was anything but confident of his chances. I could only hope that my wonderful Arkansawyers would realize what a dedicated and resourceful man they had going for them...
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