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...Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. A major issue, is to what extent a federal court may require busing or other methods to eliminate all-black schools. Not only may the court's decision affect cities in the North as well as the South, it could also rebut President Nixon, who defends neighborhood schools and opposes busing as a means of desegregation...
...week brought another development that may radically change presidential broadcast habits. The Federal Communications Commission handed down an order that networks must give responsible critics of Mr. Nixon's Viet Nam policies a free prime-time forum to rebut his views. The FCC memorandum invoked the fairness doctrine and said that President Nixon's series of five speeches on Viet Nam during a seven-month period tipped the fairness balance by giving undue exposure to "the leading spokesman of one side...
...bringing order back to the courtroom. In a request to State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy for a writ of habeas corpus, they contend that Murtagh's action has the effect of holding the defendants in contempt without the safeguard of specified charges or an opportunity to rebut them in a formal procedure. Murtagh's demand for a written promise to behave, they added, violated their rights by asking them to admit prior criminal behavior...
...alone. Last month two scientists at the AEC's Livermore Radiation Laboratory reported that current radiation standards may be responsible for as many as 16,000 additional cases of cancer a year in the U.S. and urged that exposures be cut tenfold. Though AEC officials rebut that finding, other federal radiation experts feel that standards should be reexamined...
...there are so few available broadcast channels and they are therefore public property and must be used in the public interest. Stations are licensed and bound by written rules covering everything from transmission wattage to obscenity. Political candidates are guaranteed equal time with rival candidates, and a citizen may rebut a "personal attack" from anyone appearing on a TV station...