Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painful years, the symbolic measure of racial progress in the U.S. has been the rate at which Southern school officials have stopped requiring black children to attend separate public schools. That gauge is too narrow, and may be unfair to the South, since the entire nation has failed the test. Now, finally, after more prodding from the Supreme Court, the last of the holdout school districts are under direct orders to desegregate. No one is certain just how they will react as Dixie's school bells signal the start of the new academic year, which in some cases will...
...unfair to put all the blame on the patrol for its poor performance in racial situations, for the state's present leaders would have it no other way. To them, the force is an admirably efficient defender of Mississippi's traditional way of life. Under different leadership the patrol could doubtless become both fairer and more professional. Alabama troopers, for example, achieved an equally noxious reputation under Governor George Wallace, but they have performed far differently since he left the statehouse. The members of the Mississippi patrol are much like policemen everywhere, says Charles Morgan, Southeastern director...
...want kids panhandling, they have to offer some other way for kids to make enough money to stay alive. This could mean a job training program, or a placement service, or simply making more jobs available to street freaks. Who should have to pay for such programs? It seems unfair to place the burden on Cambridge taxpayers or the City Council. They did not lure young people to Cambridge and try to convince them of what a groovy place it is. Two sectors did that, directly or indirectly. They are the University, (which should have enough money to fund projects...
...sitting down or going limp is often treated as the separate offense of resisting arrest. Third parties may be charged with interference for as little as standing in the way. Since an arrested witness is almost no use at all, lawyers suggest that observers who think police are unfair should keep quiet and note facts like the officer's badge number. Demonstrators may be searched-before arrest as well as after-if the police have good reason to suspect that they are carrying concealed weapons. Legal protests must remain peaceful, but in legally questionable situations the N.Y.C.L.U. pragmatically advises...
Worst Light. The White House took the unusual step of replying to the charges. The vehicle was a telegram from Presidential Consultant Leonard Garment, Nixon's chief liaison with civil rights groups. Garment termed Spottswood's attack "unfair and disheartening," and said that it "misrepresents" the Administration's record. "It is one thing to criticize, to give voice to deeply felt concerns," the telegram said. "But it is an entirely different thing to search out ways to portray the actions of this Administration in the worst possible light, to rally every fear and reinforce every anxiety. This...