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While delegates to the conference of nonaligned countries were winding up their meeting in Lima last week, host Peru did a little realigning of its own. In a swift, bloodless coup, Strongman Juan Velasco Alvarado was ousted, and left the palace freely for his home in the suburb of Chaclacayo. His No. 2 man, Francisco Morales Bermudez, took his place. The change, the new government said rather vaguely, would not only end "personality cults" but would also ensure a "free fatherland...
...City-suburb school busing for the Louisville area was ordered by a district court of appeals in July; a few days later another court ordered the immediate merger of the 73 Louisville public schools with the 107 schools in surrounding Jefferson County to facilitate the busing. (The newly merged school district has a total enrollment of 130,000 students, including 26,000 blacks.) Milburn T. Maupin, a black former acting superintendent of Louisville schools, then organized and directed a human-relations campaign designed to minimize racial tensions. He set up a speakers' bureau of school officials, principals and teachers...
...council of 200 delegates from all across Italy had been called to chart new political directions in the wake of disastrous setbacks for the Christian Democrats in the recent regional elections (TIME, June 30). As the delegates arrived at party headquarters in EUR, a suburb of Rome, many of them had obviously already picked a primary target for the "renewal." They blamed Christian Democratic losses and sizable Communist Party gains directly on Fanfani, who is the unquestioned leader of the factionalized party's right wing...
...Despite parallels to the Rosenberg atom-spy case, the novel has an anguished life all its own. Many of its scenes were set in the Bronx neighborhood where Doctorow grew up. Part of Ragtime also has resonances from the Doctorow past, principally from the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, where the author now lives with his wife and three children...
...Barred, 5 to 4, a suit attacking zoning in a suburb of Rochester, N.Y., for allegedly discriminating against the poor. The court ruled that none of the plaintiffs, including residents of the suburb and slum dwellers who claimed they had been excluded, had been sufficiently harmed to have standing to bring suit...