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...hardest-hit areas were the southern tier of New York, Pennsylvania and the Virginia coast. Dikes broke in Richmond, flooding 200 blocks of the central city. Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, was virtually cut off by the floodwaters from the Susquehanna, where the river flow was put at 550 billion gallons a day-the highest in nearly two centuries of record keeping. Governor Milton Shapp's $2.4 million executive mansion was flooded to its first-floor ceiling. Electric power failed; hospitals resorted to emergency generators. With roads, railways and the air port under water, President Nixon chose the only...
REGINALD McQUAID Richmond. Prince Edward Island...
...Detroit braced for Roth's decision, Richmond won at least a temporary reprieve from a similar court directive that its schools (69% black) be consolidated with those of two surrounding suburban counties (91% white). The order by Federal Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. would have required that 78,000 of the 101,000 students in the Richmond metropolitan area be bused next fall to integrated schools to achieve a racial mix of no more than 40% black...
...Appeals last week struck down the Merhige decision. It ruled that he had gone beyond the judicial authority of the courts and could not "compel one of the states of the union to restructure its internal government for the purpose of achieving racial balance." The appeals judges found Richmond's urban racial pattern to be similar to that of other U.S. cities but said: "Whatever the basic causes, it has not been school assignments, and school assignments cannot reverse the trend. That there has been housing discrimination ... is deplorable, but a school case, like a vehicle, can carry only...
PHYLLIS A. RICHMOND...