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...from seeking court-ordered busing in school desegregation cases. "I am heart and soul in favor of the things that have been done in the name of civil rights and desegregation," said Reagan. "I happen to believe, however, that busing has been a failure." The measure, proposed as a rider to an appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, was a significant action by the lameduck Congress. Supported by such conservative Republicans as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who will become Judiciary Committee chairman in January, and Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the bill passed...
...that it's the first in a potentially long series of acts by Congress that will backtrack seriously on the gains made in civil rights." If implemented, the measure would not affect past desegregation orders, and it might not affect the 75 cases now pending. Furthermore, the rider would not stop busing suits; it would simply stop those filed by the Justice Department and hence shift the whole burden of initiating such actions to private groups. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Justice Department has brought 200 busing suits, including some in large cities such...
...years past the fight against the antibusing rider would have been led in the Senate by liberal Democrats, but this time most stood aside and let a Republican moderate, Connecticut's Lowell Weicker, direct the losing effort. Complained Weicker: "This has been coming on slowly for a number of years. The civil rights groups packed up and went home ten years ago, and the Democrats are running away from their traditional constituencies." Weicker had a point: 20 Democrats voted for the rider, 26 opposed it. Weicker gloomily concluded: "If it is so hard to stop this kind of measure...
...Orleans, the Ochsner Foundation Hospital has counted 41 injuries from barroom broncos since Aug. 1. Most victims come in with bruises, sprains and lacerations; one ex-rodeo rider broke his thumb. Faced with an epidemic, the Ochsner staff is compiling data to alert other doctors to "urban cowboy syndrome...
...childishness, of unseriousness. They still await the mass discovery that they are in fact splendidly functional. They will never replace cars, but they can provide quick, superior transportation for great numbers of people daily over short distances, at tremendous savings in fossil fuels and breathable air. The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation. Why else would cyclists risk it? Then, too, subconsciously, the bicyclist may be engaged in a long-term Darwinian wager: In 100 years, which mechanism will still be at work - the bicycle...