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...facto segregation or racial imbalance exists in Boston's schools. They have refused to conduct serious discussions with leaders of civil rights groups. Martin Luther King's march today will reiterate the unheeded demands of two massive school boycotts. The School Committee has taken no steps to redraw school district lines or to locate new schools so as to reduce the number of children attending predominantsy Negro schools. The programs they have instituted to allow transfers from school to school, and to provide compensatory education in racially imbalanced schools, have been perfunctory and largely ineffective...
Sold-Out Country? At week's end the conferees were reported in full accord on 1) a new fisheries treaty that will redraw the old Rhee line, 2) a trade agreement under which Japan will postpone repayment of South Korea's $45 million trade debt and increase imports of Korean raw materials, 3) a redefinition of the rights of the half-million Koreans living in Japan, and 4) reparations, which will probably come to $300 million in grants and $200 million in long-term credits...
...Coop was forced to redraw plans for the new building last spring when a request for a zoning variance, permitting off-street loading of trucks, was refused. Morrill estimated last night that the resulting design changes have cost the Coop a "substantial" amount of money and six months' time...
Gubernatorial Nominee Percy wanted to rid his party of its West Side Blocmen. He saw his chance in an astonishing political situation. Owing to self-defeating political maneuvers, Illinois did not redraw its house districts as required by the state constitution. Thus candidates for all 177 house seats this year must run in a statewide, at-large election. Both Democrats and Republicans have nominated only 118 candidates for those seats, so that neither party will be able to elect more than a two-thirds majority...
What a mess! Required by constitutional amendment to redraw Illinois' political districts, the state legislature fussed and fought, finally had the only redistricting bill that it did pass vetoed by Democratic Governor Otto Kerner. Result: this year candidates for all 177 seats in the Illinois assembly must run in a statewide, at-large election. Moreover, a Republican-Democratic agreement since regularized by law prohibits either party from nominating more than 118 candidates-amounting precisely to a two-thirds assembly majority...