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...forces prepared to greet this week's school opening with massive demonstrations. The protests were aimed at a court-ordered plan to transfer 45,000 children to schools in other parts of the city in an effort to achieve racial integration. Elsewhere, there were scattered disruptions. In rural Plaistow, N.H., teachers seeking higher salaries and greater control over curriculums continued a seven-month strike-longest in the nation's history-by picketing opening-day classes at the local Timberlane High School. In Racine, Wis., School Superintendent C. Richard Nelson closed the city's 47 public schools...
...spreading the word that "Romney's right." On the stump, Romney does nothing to belie his slogan's perfervid moralizing by stressing the need to discipline children and hold families together. "There didn't used to be the cynicism there is today," sighed Romney at a Plaistow kaffeeklatsch...
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