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Freedom of Choice. The amendment languished in committee for months. Then a court order requiring massive busing in Richmond (see box) and other cities reopened resistance. A recent Gallup poll showed that 77% of Americans-black and white-disapproved of busing as a means of racially balancing school enrollment...
There is already some of that. In Richmond, resistance to the desegregation order is in its seventh week. A white boycott of Augusta, Ga., schools last week left classrooms virtually empty, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter endorsed a one-day, statewide boycott to be held next week in sympathy. The Florida legislature drafted an antibusing proposition to be voted on in the March 14 primary. Governor Reubin Askew countered by adding to the ballot a question asking Floridians, however they feel about busing, to assert their commitment to equal opportunity for all races. Thus a presidential primary will incorporate...
Immense flocks of fast-breeding starlings, a bird originally native to Europe, are plaguing other communities. "We've gotten calls from at least eight other localities that want to break up roosts," says Don Gnegy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In Richmond, Va., there are about 275,-000 starlings concentrated in wooded areas on the west side of the city...
While the percentage of whites attending Richmond schools dropped from 57% in 1954 to 31% in 1971, the number of white students in the two neighboring suburban counties jumped from 23,000 to nearly...
After receiving encouragement from Judge Merhige himself, the Richmond school board last year finally joined the original eleven plaintiffs and sought a merger with Henrico and Chesterfield counties (see map). In ruling for that merger, the judge declared that the state has an "affirmative duty" to eliminate all vestiges of segregation; it cannot shrug off this duty by pleading for local control of schools or by insisting on traditional boundary lines...