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HOUSTON — A federal judge
failed Monday to fulfill a promise and
rule whether the Justice Depart
ment can force 22 mostly white
school districts surrounding the
Houston Independent School Dis
trict to join in one massive desegre
gation plan.
A clerk in the court of U.S. Dis
trict Judge Robert O’Conor Jr. work
ed on the decision and gave no word
when he would offer the written
opinion he had said would be forth
coming Monday.
O’Conor was to make his ruling
less than a month after the federal
government intervened in a lawsuit
filed originally against the H1SD in
1956 to say that desegregation was a
failure in the 177,218-student city
district.
The HISD is 46 percent black and
28 percent Hispanic. Justice Depart
ment lawyers said the district, the
sixth largest in the United States,
was the clearest case of continued
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segregation of races because whites
moved to outlying school districts.
The May 15 lawsuit was filed three
days after the Supreme Court re
jected a metropolitan-wide busing
plan for Atlanta.
The May 15 government suit
sought to add as defendants 22 school
districts, the Texas Education Agen
cy, the city of Houston and the Har
ris County Department of Educa
tion.
The Justice Department charged
that the city’s refusal to approve low-
income public or subsidized housing
outside minority neighborhoods
contributed to segregation.
Mayor Jim McConn traveled to
'ashington, D.C., last week to
with Attorney General Benja
min Civiletti personally and argue
against the city’s inclusion in the
lawsuit.
The Texas Education Agency was
included because the Justice De
partment said it encourages private
racial discrimination in the housing
market and refuses to allow the
Houston district to expand.
An HISD lawyer argued in briefs
before O’Conor that although there
has been no involuntary busing since
1974, there are “substantial numbers
of students” who are transported
voluntarily for desegregation pur
poses.
“I really don’t see that there’s any
need for such a lawsuit,” lawyer Kel
ly Frels said.
In 1975, a federal judge accepted
the HISD’s magnet school plan,
which drew students from through
out the district to several specialized
schools and increased integration.
Justice Department figures show
that HISD enrolls 36.6 percent of
the metropolitan area’s students but
teaches 71.3 percent of the area’s
blacks and59.6percentofHispanics.
The lawsuit said Houston schools
still are largely segregated because of
“the intentional, racially discrimina
tory acts and omissions” of both the
Houston district and the surround
ing districts.
U. S. best place to live
United Preii Internatiooai
SAN FRANCISCO—Take heart, Americans! The
United States is still the best place in the world to
A study of "quality of life” in 50 nations found that,
despite our environmental, economic and social
problems, the United States ranks first in overall
fulfillment for its people. „
The researchers used every standard of quality
they could identify and measure in their study. They
acknowledged spiritual factors are involved in quali
ty of life,” but excluded these because they could not
figure out a way to measure and compare them.
The study was prepared by Claude F. Anderson of
the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto,
Calif., and Ben-chieh Liu, of the Midwest Research
Institute, Kansas City, Mo.
In their elaborate “model” for computing quality
of life they used five main categories of human satis-
faction — social, economic, health and education,
environmental, and national vitality and security.
There were a dozen subcategories, and each of those
was broken down into a number of factors.^ ^
Every measure was given a relative weight
based on an international public opinion survey on
what people considered their most important con
cerns.
For example, in the category of social quality,
which accounted for 24 percent of the overall mea
sure, the subcategories were “satisfaction of basic
human needs, standard of living;” “informed
citizenry with modem conveniences, ” and “welfare
and independence.
Both positive and negative factors were weighed
A nation received a positive score for the number of
acres of land per capita, but lost points if the popula
tion was concentrated in large cities. The number of
motor vehicles in use per mile of road was a negative
item.
In the 50-nation overall results, Canada ranked
second, Australia third, Sweden fourth and the
U.S.S.R. fifth. Next were Norway, New Zealand
Switzerland, Denmark, East Germany, Czechoslo^
vakia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Nether
lands.
Countries at the bottom of the scale in quality of
life were Saudi Arabia, Chile, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon
Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica and Libya. At the median
were Ireland and Taiwan.
The study showed that a country’s average national
income per capita is not the best measure of quality of
life. For example, Kuwait ranked first in gross na
tional product per capita but was 38th in the overall
ranking.
Israel ranked first in National Vitality and Secur
ity, which measured such things as military strength,
international trade and capital resources. The
U.S.S.R. was second, Taiwan third, Romania fourth
and the United States fifth.
In environment, Australia and Argentina were
ahead of the United States.
Of the five major categories, the U.S. was first only
in Health and Education, which measured such
things as medical care and literacy, and in the econo
mic category, which included such factors as the cost
of living index in relation to gross national income.
Endorses Reagan in ‘nationalinterest’
Kissinger hits Carter policy
United Press Intern*tional
DENVER — Former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger Monday criti
cized the Carter administration’s
foreign policy, particularly in the
Persian Gulf, and said Ronald
Reagan could better solve world
problems.
“I think there is a need for a more
coherent foreign policy than we have
now,” Kissinger told the annual con
vention of the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists.
“Every man who becomes presi
dent is aware of the importance of
striving for peace and I believe Mr.
Reagan would conduct a firmer,
more coherent policy.”
Kissinger, who supports Reagan
“in terms of national interest” rather
than as a personal choice, said under
Carter there had been an erosion of
confidence in American foreign
policy.
“As long as there is a huge gap
between American commitment and
American capability, a sense of un
certainty will continue,” he said.
“No one has accepted the Carter
doctrine and they (allies) don t be
lieve it can be carried out.
“Anybody who knows anything
about the Persian Gulf would tell you
that.”
Kissinger said the Soviet Union
had increased its military capacity 5
percent per year for the past 18 years
while American armed forces re
mained constant. He said Russia re
mained the world’s biggest threat to
peace.
He said the Soviets encouraged
terrorist activities.
“The Soviets’ capacity to project
its forces into areas adjacent to it and
far away has become one of the most
demoralizing aspects of the interna
tional scene,” Kissinger said.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court ruled unanimously Monday
that private citizens may pass out
pamphlets or distribute petitions in
shopping centers without infringing
on the owners’ rights.
Ruling in a California case, the
court said states may go beyond the
guarantees of the federal Constitu
tion and allow such free-speech acti
vities on private property without in
fringing on property rights.
Tne case was brought to the high
court by Pruneyard Shopping Cen
ter in Santa Clara, Calif.
It appealed a California Supreme |
Court ruling that state law protected
the activites of students soliciting
signatures opposing a U.N. resolu
tion on Zionism.
The state supreme court held the!
California Constitution protects i
“speech and petitioning, reasonably j
exercised, in shopping centers even,
when the centers are privately ]
owned.”
In its Supreme Court appeal, the
center’s owners said this violated
their federal constitutional private
property rights.
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