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...anger, in fact, that Lee Valenti, a former anti-busing parent now working within the desegregation program, believes has begun to nettle other disgruntled parents into abandoning ROAR, the secret meetings, the subversive threats, and turn, however begrudgingly, toward parent input councils established under the court order--the Racial-Ethnic Parents Advisory Council (CPAC...
...Anger's the main reason," Valenti, an East Boston resident and member of CPAC, says. "The parents have wised up. They feel Pixie has betrayed them: they elected her to stop busing and she couldn't do it. They're angry over the lousy education their kids are getting. They feel cheated out of their tax dollars (Phase 2B will give rise to at least a $59 tax hike this year alone...
...races to flee Detroit, which has no desegregation, like a city gutted by steady bombing. James Coleman, the University of Chicago sociologist, attributed this "white flight" in other cities under desegregation to busing, but he neglected to ask the suburban refugees to itemize the reasons why they fled. Lee Valenti and others in Boston's neighborhoods spell out many more than one reason, and assert they have "wised up" to realize that they cannot even depend on the well-intending folks who have escaped--that those of them who cannot move out must take business into their owns hands...
...letter, he compared President Kennedy to Launcelot, and in 1965 he wrote President Johnson, "You have placed your name among the great ones in history. And I take great pride in the fact that you are my President." Concerning the war in Vietnam, he told Johnson aide Jack Valenti in April 1965, "I wish the bombing wasn't necessary, but I suspect that our people on the ground know more about that than I do." Less than a year later, however, he went so far as to say, "There is no way to make the Vietnamese war decent. There...
...motion picture industry's Jack Valenti moved to the tennis courts. He perfected something he called "a top-spin backhand," and not even Jaws gave him the thrill he got from beating Presidential Contenders Birch Bayh and Lloyd Bentsen. It may be an indication of political things to come. One of the world's famous lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams, called the unusual calm "a return to abnormality." His view is that the bizarre has become the norm and such letdowns as we are now experiencing will continue to be the unusual...