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...most recent was a three-day-long police and firemen's walkout last August), and were ready to cope. Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge was tied up for extended rush hours but never hopelessly snarled. Some 500,000 regular users of city transportation (including thousands of schoolchildren) had to find another way to get to their destinations. Most hiked or biked uncomplainingly up the city's hills. But more than a third of the student body was absent because some school-bus service had been curtailed. When boilers broke down, many schools went without heat. Some city...
Minimum Tokenism. The city's plan is a modest one, involving about 10% of Detroit's 248,000 schoolchildren, and was apparently tailored by Federal Judge Robert E. De Mascio to keep resentment at a minimum, especially among the white minority. (Blacks make up 58% of the population, 76% of the public school enrollment.) Under his order, the few remaining mostly white schools in the outlying areas have exchanged students with the predominantly black schools closer to the downtown area; the aim is to increase white enrollment in those schools to at least 30%. But no whites...
...Kluger's reading may seem falsely optimistic. Many now feel that too much was expected of the schools when they were in effect made instruments of social change. He himself is the first to point out that ten years after the Brown decision, only 1.17% of black schoolchildren were attending classes with white children in the states that once constituted the Confederacy. Nor does he neglect to mention that after 20 years 259 Chicago schools were 90% (or more) black, while 109 were 90% (or more) white. Yet obstinately, unfashionably-for surely this is not the civil rights...
...refugees will take away jobs in Portugal, which is already suffering 10% unemployment, and have been playing up the subsidy of 5,000 escudos ($200) that the refugees receive from the government when they arrive. As a result, there have been ugly street clashes between newcomers and locals, and schoolchildren from Angola are taunted by their classmates...
Hailed as an anti-racist politician of the "New South," Carter supports busing of schoolchildren when ordered by courts, although he prefers voluntary systems such as that in the Atlanta area...