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Wednesday, February 16, 1977
University Dally Kansar
News Digest
From our wire services
Vance assures U.S. support
JERUSALEM—Secretary of State Cyrus Vance assured Israel yesterday of an enduring American commitment to that nation's security and survival as he began a six-nation Middle East tour to survey prospects for new Arab-Israel peace talks. Welcome Vance at Ben Gurion International Airport, where Vigny will be given a high time the political momentum should be renewed. Israel wasn't in favor of stagnation, he said. "On the contrary we are for movement toward peace."
movement toward peace.
The stop in Israel is the first of a week-long tour that will take Vance to Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria. This is his first visit to those countries since taking office.
Open minds urged by Dole
HUTCHINSON-Kansas Republican Sen. Robert Dole, urged Kansas farmers to keep an open mind about the Federal Grain Inspection Act and said several amendments were planned to eliminate unpopular aspects of the measure
"We want to be positive about the act because it think in many areas it can help the Kansas producer," Dole told an audience of 80 persons during a special Agriculture Committee hearing here yesterday.
"It's a result of scandals at the ports and the farmers were really hurt because foreign buyers began to doubt our credibility." Dole said.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Only metropolitan school delegation which reaches into the white suburbs can save urban black children from continued racial separation in schools, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said yesterday.
School desegregation must reach into suburbs, commission says
"We have concluded that metropolitan school dissemination is a must if today's children are to be given equal education and opportunities," mission chairman, told a news conference.
"School segregation is most acute in our cities where the majority of black and Hispanic American children and attend public schools," the commission said.
"In the wake of two migrations—the movement of black people from the rural South to big cities throughout the country and back, the racial composition of suburbs—the racial composition of these school systems has changed dramatically from predominantly white to predominantly black."
In Chicago and Detroit, for example, the
--public school enrollment in 1974 was more than 70 per cent black and other minorities, the report said. Minority enrollment was more than 60 per cent in New York and Philadelphia and more than 50 per cent in Los Angeles.
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--public school enrollment in 1974 was more than 70 per cent black and other minorities, the report said. Minority enrollment was more than 60 per cent in New York and Philadelphia and more than 50 per cent in Los Angeles.
That means, the commission said, that effective school integration cannot be accomplished within the boundaries of most big cities.
School officials must reach into the white suburbs, and they should do so voluntarily without waiting for court orders, Flemming said.
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