European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1981 think of it As a Compromise he really Wam Tep James Reston Haigs simple answer More military arms like an experienced Alexan Der Haig approached his confirmation Bat the in the Senate with his defences in Good and he prevailed by attacking the democrats and the two easy tar it was a masterful he faced the members of the foreign relations com Mittee with Mounds of books and torrents of he had his a Catholic and his Joe at his Side the sacred and the profane and he had a simple answer to All problems More Mili tary arms this argument carried him be cause it is in keeping with the mood of the Congress at the there is agreement Here that the Republic faces a present danger but no at least in about what that danger one View is that the greatest danger lies in the disarray of the american Economy that the decline of stability within the free nations is even More of a threat to peace than the alarming buildup of soviet Mili tary the other of is the opposite that the present danger to America lies not within ourselves or our but with the military and political aggression of the soviet this was Haigs and there Are few members of the Congress today who Are willing to Challenge in the history of relations since the last world there have been if occasions comparable to the situation that now exists Between washing ton and but there May be in the Winter of after the democrats had controlled the White House for 20 Eisenhower was elected presi Dent and Josef Stalin was in the last Days of Jesse Jackson busing Nof sole tool in integration in a column a few weeks ago i put Forth the premise that its not the its us Black despite the fact that 55 percent of americas Public school children Are bused to school everyday and even More Are bused to private schools Only percent Are bused for racial even As a last continues to dominate the desegregation so much attention has been put on busing that Many have lost sight of the while there arc alternatives to there is no alternative to de segregating our nations desegregation is the Law of the land and has been since the 1954 Brown there is a moral and a Legal Man Date to provide equal educational Opp Ortu nites to whatever the Quality of education the 1954 decision said we con clude that in the Field of Public the doctrine of separate but equal has no separate educational facilities Are inherently inherently unequal Philosoph if educational facilities and opportunities were truly equal there would be no need for them to be separate a logical con and if they Are separate we Are assured through historical experience that they will not be equal a practical Contra apart from the technical methods for achieving which we shall Dis cuss other human factors Are Nec Essary to successfully achieve a unified school system and Equality of Community participation is essential if those affected in desegregation Are to be and feel a part of the Community resistance or support will foe increased decreased in proportion to How involved and informed a Community leadership is also where the to religious and educational leadership has exerted Strong moral and creative leadership desegregation has tended to proceed in a healthy and orderly where it has demagogues have tended to fill the leadership polarized the Community and made the desegregation process difficult and painful for All beyond these human factors Are the Var ious techniques for achieving desegregation Boundary in most communities the simple procedure of redrawing school boundaries since they most often have been drawn to perpetuate segregation both enhances desegregation and Maxi mizes allowing people to stay in their Gener Al feeder the attendance areas particularly for students going from Grade school to High school can be arranged so As to feed students into schools with desegregation in mind rather than the Continua Tion of feeder patterns that perpetuate Seg two schools close to each other of varied racial groups Are paired according to Grade level grades kindergarten through four at one school and grades five through eight at the changes in Grade the Range of Grade spans k through 9 through 12 Are rather the broader the Range of Grade Span within a school the easier it is to fill that school with children from the immediate neighbourhood because of Segre gated housing thus perpetuating narrowing the Grade Span at particular schools third and fourth grades Only necessitates drawing from a larger geographical thus allowing de segregation to be More easily Magnet schools and career while special schools Are a Way of attracting students of All they tend to attract the above average the average student probably has More to gain from an integrated and thus should not be denied equal Opportunity by limiting the desegregation process to the status of a fringe Benefit within the Public school new Sites for new schools can be chosen to maximize the goal of de segregation rather than to perpetuate Segre columns and comments metropolitan it is no longer a question of segregated schools that must be but entire segregated school Only metropol Ita wide sometimes called Cross Dis desegregation addresses itself to this while even As a last continues to receive the Lions share of Atten these other effective Means of comply ing with the Law Are available and most often and while busing must remain a along with the other for de segregating the we should not lose sight of the fact that the most Funda mental Factor in de segregating the nations schools is whether the nation is convinced of the moral and is committed to creating the political will to insist upon equal education opportunities for All of our c Universal press his Savage domination of soviet poli there Are at least some similarities now the control of the executive Branch of the government is about to pass to another re publican and the control of the soviet government is in Leonid like Stalin at the turn of the year in is seriously there will be a communist party Congress in Moscow next when it is expected that new leaders will be if not maybe these changes of personalities in the White House and the Kremlin make no but maybe they Khrushchev was not stains defender but his pros ecu and when he was was inclined to take a he was not tormented then by too much knowledge of history being sustained by common didst quite believe that old quarrels Between no matter How had to go on his simple notion was since there were new governments in Washington and maybe there could be a new begin that was ikes but his Secretary of John Foster thought this was a bum and supported by Chip Bohlen although opposed by George Kennan the two principal soviet experts in Washington at that time Reagan seems a Little like Eisenhower amiable and forgiving also like a great believer in relying on his Cabinet and White House great attention is being paid to the views of Rea Gans nominee for Secretary of and Haig left the foreign relations committee in no doubt about what his views with one important beyond his insistent emphasis on a Mili tary Haig had very Little to say about the he made a persuasive Case for his service to the nation Over the last 37 including his years in the White which he invited the senators to study in any Way they but he gave no indications about what should be done about the hostages in or the soviet army in or the political tangles in the persian Asia or latin other than to increase the defense now approaching billion a nor did Haig indicate what effect he thought this vast military budget would have on the economic Security of the maybe this is the new role we must expect from the Secretary of state under Rea Gan to concentrate on the arts of War rather than on the arts of he had no other suggestions about How to encourage coexistence Between the two major nuclear Powers which is probably the Only alter native to no he conceded that an atomic War would be a but thought the consequences of failing to face up to soviet military and political aggression might be even worse and invite precisely the nuclear War everybody was trying to the logic of his of is that we should have a military draft in the United which he didst he was an impressive and in my be confirmed before Reagan takes office on even observers were left with some serious he looked in his civilian clothes like a Secretary of state respectful of the Congress but at the same time he sounded a Little like George it was hard to believe that he was being considered As Secretary of rather than As Secretary of defense or chairman of the joint chiefs of but he has put the soviets on they will have to Deal with a Secretary of state right or regards diplomacy in military c new York times the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be 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