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...Antibusing sign in Pontiac, Mich...
...nation's voters are opposed to busing; the striking fact is that the percentage figures are down five points from a year ago. Even in Pontiac, the student council of Northern High School has tried to send a letter home to parents explaining, as 16-year-old Swanola James puts it, that "we all aren't worked up." (The principal, she says, quashed the letter for fear of offending N.A.G. parents.) Parent volunteers have been working in the Pontiac schools and trying to counteract the N.A.G. with a slogan that has cropped up this year on bumper stickers in both...
...local actions that have fostered illegal segregation. But is mandatory busing legal outside the South in areas where formal school-segregation policies have not existed? By way of answer to that question, the court declined without comment to interfere with a lower court ruling that requires busing in Pontiac, Mich. In 1970, Federal District Judge Damon J. Keith found that the Pontiac school board had "intentionally utilized the power at its disposal to locate new schools and arrange new boundaries in such a way as to perpetuate the pattern of segregation." Judge Keith's decision prompted violence and continuing...
...four-day plan has yielded unusual payoffs in other areas. For the past two months, the Pontiac, Mich., 150-man police department has been on a four-day week of ten-hour days. Response time on emergency calls is down, arrests have increased by 9%, and absenteeism has been cut by 16%. The ten-hour days allow for overlapping shifts, thus concentrating police coverage during high-crime hours...
Fire-Bombed Buses. The most notable trouble spot was in Pontiac, Mich., where ten school buses were fire-bombed on the eve of the academic year. Last week the FBI arrested six people, including Robert Miles, grand dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, and charged them with conspiracy to obstruct federal-court orders. In all, 48 people have been arrested in Pontiac in connection with antibusing protests, and a boycott organized by white parents is still effective. During the week, the absentee rate in the city's schools held steady...