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...nine Justices began their summer recess, lawyers and officials were left to ponder the meaning of the delicately balanced Bakke decision, which decreed that race may be an element in university admissions but not on a basis of numerical quotas-unless a previous history of discrimination is involved. Most university officials regarded that as an endorsement of the affirmative-action programs they already use, but in other fields, there was considerable confusion...
...from bankruptcy. The margin last Tuesday was 3 to 1, an increase over the 2 to 1 April vote against the levy, which would have increased the average homeowner's tax by $86.63. As a result, there may be no money to reopen Cleveland's schools after the summer recess. The vote also reflected opposition to court-ordered busing, scheduled to go into effect next fall to correct racial imbalances, and the high-handed manner in which Federal Judge Frank J. Battisti has, in effect, taken over management of the school system. Paul Briggs, Cleveland's respected veteran school superintendent...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas H. Danehy, who was included in the charges, said with a smile during a recess last night, "My wife is preparing to do without me for a year when they send me to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Fuckin ridiculous! One of the charges against me concerns a donation by my 81-year-old mother. Another concerns a 73-year-old cousin. It's hard to take all this very seriosly," he added
...decision, Asar Stepak is waiting too. And his is just one of a growing number of reverse-discrimination cases that have been slowed or stalled in the lower courts as judges and contending parties await the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling, now expected before the summer recess...
...four days, the workers stayed off the job, forcing B&G to operate at minimum levels, providing little more than emergency and necessity services. But as the College emptied out for the spring recess, the B&G workers quietly agreed to return to their jobs. Late in the afternoon of March 24, B&G operations were returning to normal...