Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them decide how to distribute available school funds within their area. Philadelphia Superintendent Mark Shedd, an advocate of decentralization, sees dangers in local autonomy but argues that "the alternative risk of increased community alienation toward the schools is greater." To complaints that local districts tend to freeze racial boundaries, Shedd points out that "de facto segregated schools for many youngsters are going to be the order of the day for many years...
...Viet Cong are a powerful political force in some parts of the country. South Viet Nam stands a good chance of voting a non-Communist majority because of its sociological complexity-a characteristic that, ironically, has discouraged and dismayed many Americans. The people are fragmented into a multiplicity of racial, regional, religious and political groups and sects. It is quite possible that in most election districts, the candidate of the dominant group-Buddhist or Catholic, Cao Dai or Hoa Hao, Southern native or Northern refugee-would beat the Communist...
Anguilla may have a racial problem, Fisher says, but if so it is completely different from anything American. The island's 6,000 people are overwhelmingly black, but in the heat of a political debate it was possible for one Anguillian to refer cryptically to "a certain social group" and turn out to mean just that--a group of men, white and black, who saw each other socially...
...Racial Issue...
...next step was to decide on a provisional council, and it was here that the racial issue came up or, more exactly, failed to come up. "I said, 'How about the white-black problem? I've noticed here you have four whites out of seven on the council.' They said, 'Four what?' I said, 'Well...er...excuse me, but there's a problem here...let's lay our cards on the table. Let's be sure we can live with this group and so forth,' and they said, 'No problem, no problem.' I found it hard to believe...