European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1981 i can lick Amy majority in this James Kilpatrick sanity seems lacking in desegregation tries question for today Back in when the supreme court put an end to state sanctioned racial could anyone have foreseen the Luna cies that would emerge a Quarter of a Century later it would have taken a most remarkable Prophet to have imagined recent events in Ohio and Down in the 5th circuit court of appeals is considering whether the state can require of its High school Grad As a condition for receiving a Diplo that they be Able to write and do elementary if that sentence puzzles read it the situation is precisely As four years ago the Florida legislature passed a Law decreeing beginning in High school students would have to take a the test would measure compe Tency in certain Basic like Reading an application for a Drivers License or making change from a students would have four chances to pass the if they failed at every they could return to High school for a fifth year of or they could Settle for a certificate of completion instead of a if reason had not fled its the Florida requirement would be regarded As a Model of but in this Field of racial reason has yielded to Tutti attorneys for Black students have challenged the on the grounds that some of the Black seniors attended Segre gated second Grade classrooms 10 years is unfair and discriminatory to ask them today to subtract from so cruel a requirement May affect their hearts and minds in a Way unlikely Ever to be everyone the situation in the High schools of Cleveland is loonies it appears that George Mair the Little House on Noname Alley is the name Phil and and in not sure if that Story in the Saga of no Truluck Ann Truluck describes their name two years Phil and Ann bought the Carriage House in the Back of a Home facing a main Street of the Carriage House faced an Alley that had no their trouble began Between stints of they tried to get mail Deli no said the postal you live on an Alley with no no name Means no and no address Means no mail what galled Phil most about this Cavalier attitude was that the neighbourhood mail in making his appointed walked Down the Alley right past the tru Lucks they went to City Hall and filed a Peti Tion to name their Alley phils months that was rejected said the name had to have historical significance to the so Phil and Ann had to hire a profession Al archivist to search the colonial records of the City in the National they finally came up with a historical filed another petition and waited and waited and the City Council of the District of Columbia approved their but wait the stores not Over before it becomes the new Alley name had to pass both houses of the United states Congress As a private this entire pro Cess has taken the better part of a year and has Cost hundreds of several weeks the Truluck were dining with friends and told the Story i just told a few Days it appeared in the Washington within 72 the City the mayor and the postmaster general of the United states personally called the tru two Days regular mail delivery began to their even though it still had no the Point of this tale is to explain Why americans Are fed up with their govern the government is not responsive to the needs of the government functions for its own convenience and not to serve the Public electing c los Angeles times total enrolment is 35 percent 65 per cent but alas horrors the Basket Ball teams were found to be entirely last year Only among the cites 14 High had even one White and he spent most of his time on the this ghastly imbalance naturally could not be allowed to Donald court appointed desegregation and made the Only decision that liberalism and lunacy could con he ordered each of the High schools to place at least two White players on their 12 member As the Indianapolis Star the players dont have to be they just have o be if Cleveland is Good for a after a Louisville provokes a several years ago the City of Louisville embarked upon an exciting Experiment in to Quality Public the City created traditional where students would be intellectually challenged and discipline would be firmly Here scholarship would come these traditional schools were of course open to students of both it was a court ordered requirement that at least 12 percent of their enrolment must be racially identifiable schools might and these would be constitutionally the schools have been so successful that a waiting list of applicants has piled the City willingly would create additional traditional schools to meet the demand but Only 1 percent of the applicants Are thus the White children must be denied the newspapers bring other dispatches from the loony in the University of Virginia is threatened with a Cut off of All Federal despite Stren desperate efforts to recruit More Black High school the University cannot meet the governments in the feds Are upset that Down in the the Public schools Are almost entirely Black their idea is to impose massive busing Back and Forth across the Ashly and Cooper the bet Ter to achieve an illusory and temporary racial balance at the expense of High monstrous inconvenience and Plain common perhaps under Reagan some Mea sure of sanity May it cant come too c Universal press