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...Civil rights leaders were quick to stress that the ruling in the case of Oklahoma City Board of Education v. Dowell was no broad-brush renunciation of busing. Rather, it was a declaration that the existence of single-race schools did not necessarily amount to incontestable evidence of continued racial discrimination. The Justices emphasized that before a federal busing order could be lifted, schools must first convince courts that they have met the test of good-faith compliance and have erased all traces of past discrimination owing to segregated schooling. "This is a fairly high standard," said Janell Byrd...
Members of the Delti Chi fraternity at Oklahoma State University in Still-water ferried war information Wednesday night to two members who were outside continuing the fraternity's three-month treehouse sit-in in support of U.S. troops...
...know all the Boston guys pretty well," said Hughes, wearing the rattlesnake cowboy boots he picked up in Oklahoma City, Okla., during the 1989 National Sports Festival. Terriers Shawn McEachern and Amonte also played in Oklahoma...
Rallying Republicans in Oklahoma City, Bush blamed the Democrat-controlled Congress for dragging the economy to the edge of recession. He snarled that Congress had "turned its back on our police officers." Later he boasted that Republicans had "held the line against reckless cuts of our armed forces" sought by Democrats, adding that "we owe that much to our men and women in the Persian Gulf...
...woman than as an Indian," says Mankiller, 44, whose unusual last name was inherited from an 18th century warrior ancestor. She has likened her job to "running a small country, a medium-size corporation, and being a social worker." With an annual budget of $52 million, the Oklahoma-based tribe operates industries, health clinics and cultural programs employing about 1,700 people. In July, while recovering from a kidney transplant, Mankiller signed an unprecedented agreement with the U.S. government that gives the tribe direct control of $6.1 million in federal funding. Mankiller, who attended college in California before returning...