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...YORK CITY, the freeze threatened bus service for 116,000 schoolchildren-8% of them handicapped-by preventing the city from paying bus companies an increase agreed upon in their transportation contracts. The companies said that they would carry the kids for the first few days of school at last year's rate-but pleaded possible bankruptcy unless the Cost of Living Council reverses its ruling...
INMINES, ORE., the freeze has forced an end to the hot-lunch program for schoolchildren. To make up for higher food costs, Hines School District Principal Jim Red planned to raise lunch prices from 25? to 40?. Now that he cannot, the 298 kids in the district have to bring sandwiches from home, or else go hungry...
...Wallace-the man Nixon hoped to undercut-was quick to take full advantage of it. Wallace pounced last week, sending Nixon a telegram designed to aggravate the already tricky situation in which the President had put himself. Wired Wallace: "The conflicts between your recent statements opposing the busing of schoolchildren and the action of federal departments directly under your control have left our people in a dilemma." Nixon took the bait: he put out word through Press Secretary Ron Ziegler that federal officials who supported busing programs too strenuously would find themselves in new jobs in -or even outside...
...pressing too hard on integration. Finch's replacement, Elliot Richardson, has now been left stranded. Last week, moving abruptly to "disavow" HEW's busing plan for schools in Austin, Texas, Nixon emphatically restated his position: "I have consistently opposed the busing of our nation's schoolchildren to achieve a racial balance, and I am opposed to the busing of children simply for the sake of busing. Further, while the Executive Branch will continue to enforce the orders of the court, including court-ordered busing, I have instructed the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health, Education...
...enforce racial segregation. The remedy may be administratively awkward, inconvenient and even bizarre and may impose burdens on some; but all awkwardness and inconvenience cannot be avoided in the interim period when remedial adjustments are being made to eliminate the dual school systems." Noting that about 39% of U.S. schoolchildren have routinely been riding buses, Burger indicated that only when a busing plan required such long rides as "to risk either the health of the children or significantly impinge on the educational process" would the high court find it objectionable...