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STATE LEADERS SURVEYED DETROIT FREE PRESS i-A Sunday. October 3. '71 Busing Issue Has Politicians Jittery -V S. I Yife2k4 I I troit communities and Pon-tiac, is pushing "vigorously" for congressional passage of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to forbid busing because of "race, color, or creed." McDonald said he doesn't think busing in Pontiac "is solving any problems at all.

I think it's hindering the education process and dividing the races." Detroit's two black congressmen, John Conyers and Charles Diggs, both Democrats, voiced strong support for busing. Both said they favor intra-system busing, as in Pontiac, as well as busing across municipal lines in the Detroit area. Conyers said he found- it' ironic that few people complained when, for years in the South, blacks were bused long distances past white schools to insure those schools would remain white. "Now," Conyers said, "when we propose busing to redress" racial imbalances, "the emotionalism deafens one's ears." Conyers said that black parents were no more anxious than white parents to send their children long distances in buses. But busing, he said, was a means to combat the "racist practices education" and in American society.

Diggs said: "Until such time as there is an alternative developed to the neighborhood school concept, which by its very nature because of housing patterns and so on is making racist institutions out of our schools. I support busing. Michigan Democratic Party Chairman James M. McNeely said: "My position is that inequity of education based on housing or other discrimination has to be eliminated. It (busing) is the only way you can do something now to change the racial mixture of schools." Michigan Republican Party date in the Senate race next year, declared: "I'm unalterably opposed to it (busing).

I think the Civil Rights Act of 19M is very specific on this subject. It spelled out that the act was not to be used to create racial balance." Huber predicted that busing "will be the Nov. 1 issue in 1972 in this state, along with taxes." He pledged that the Conservative Party will make busing, high taxes, and safety key parts of its campaign platform. Rep. Gerald Ford of Grand Rapids, Republican leader in the U.S.

House, is opposed to "busing for the purpose of achieving racial balance." Rep. William S. Broomfield, a Republican from Royal Oak in suburban Detroit, said he supported a constitutional amendment to forbid busing because of "race, color or creed." Broomfield said, "I think our emphasis should be on ways to improve the quality of education in all our schools. Forced busing solves none of the basic social problems that confront us." Rep. Martha Griffiths, a Detroit Democrat, has been mentioned as a possible appointee to the U.S.

Supreme Court, and she feels she cannot comment on busing. Mrs. Griffiths, however, said that she had "decided opinions" on busing and has had them for a long time. Congressman John Dingell, a Democrat whose 16th District includes Dearborn, Ecorse, Wyandotte and South-gate, said he opposed busing. He said he has "always opposed sending a child to a particular school because he happens to be a member of a particular racial group" and that he will continue to do so.

Three members of the Detroit-area congressional delegation declined an opportunity to make known their views on busing. They were William D. D-15th District; Lucien N. Nedzi, D-14th District, and James G. O'Hara, D-12th "second-guess" Judge Roth "on the practicality" of busing across municipal lines in the Detroit area, "but I would add that it (busing) is one of a number of elements to achieve the objectives of desegregated school system.

It certainly is not and should not be an end in itself. Attorney General Frank J. Kelley, who is widely regarded as the front-running potential Democratic opponent to Griffin next year, said at a Thursday press conference: "It (busing) certainly has to be considered, but it has to be considered in each case with a balanced view and be applied to the local facts, and I'm afraid that we've had more heat than light on this issue up to this point." Former Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, an unannounced Democratic candi-. date for the Senate next year, said busing "is the stated law and public law of this country and has been for some time." Asked specifically about his opinion of busing students across municipal lines in the Detroit area, Cavanagh said: "That's one in front of the courts.

I don't know they will decide that, but if they do, I'll follow the court." Secretary of State Richard H. Austin, a black official who is also considered a potential Democratic candidate for the Senate, commented: "I don't see how a responsible leader can encourage open defiance of the lawv If the courts have decided busing is the only way we can now vide a satisfactory education for the young people, then that is the law as they interpret it." Sander M. Levin, a Detroit lawyer who was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1970 and is another potential 1972 Democratic Senate candidate, said that busing has the disadvantages of consuming student time without educational merit, but that widespread school segregation is another "serious educational disadvantage" in Michigan. "My obvious first preference is to end housing segregation and provide adequate money for quality education," Levin said. "When this happens the busing issue will end.

Until this solution is implemented, the courts are likely to use the other, less preferable alternative, busing I believe the court order issued in Pontiac was justified." FORMER state Sen. Robert Huber, chairman of the new Conservative Party of Michi State Dems Bach BY REMER TYSON AND WILLIAM SERRIN Fret Pr Staff Wrlttri Michigan's leading public officials have all sorts of conflicting opinions about busing as a tool to achieve racial integration of the state's public schools, but most of them are agreed on one thing that busing will be a super-emotional campaign issue in 1972. And that is a prospect that makes many of them tremble, at least in private. Sen. Philip A.

Hart, a Democrat who won't be running next year, said he believes busing will be one of the hottest political issues of 1972 "regrettably, because no is-ue is in greater need of cool logic, and logic tends to suffer horribly in political campaigns." FREE PRESS interviews last week indicated Democratic public figures are gen-erally more inclined than Republicans to support busing. Conservative-minded politicians of both parties strongly oppose busing as a means of achieving integration while liberals tend to support it. The Free Press survey was JaKei three weeks after a federal-court order required Pon-'tiac'to begin busing 9,000 of its students the same week U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Roth ruled that official governmental actions and inactions had caused segregation in Detroit school and Raised the possibility of busing Students across municipal ines; in the Detroit area to ft'jjrriect it.

NrUSept. 24, Sen. Robert P. griffin brought the issue into iHie open political arena in iiMfphigan by issuing a three-Vage statement expressing his 'concern that "forced busing ilejy for the purpose of Skchieying racial balance i counter-productive." Griffin, the No. 2 Senate Republican leader who will seek i're-eiection next year, said ha iad asked the U.S.

Justice Department to seek a new Su--pjifne Court ruling on busing ito'clarify" federal law. Republican Rep. Jack H. fMcDonald, whose 19th District includes several suburban De 3Jf troitifte caress fllstf ry wMf mnrntM p.hmiv me'Kina it Dt'i. Mich.

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Mexico City. 4L The Peer The Emerald 8 The Marquise The Solitaire JOTS Continued from Page 1A vanagh released a statement endorsing the busing resolution. The Democrats have now taken a busing position vastly different from that of Republican Sen. Robert P. Griffin probably meaning that the busing issue will be one of the hottest during the 1972 campaign when Griffin seeks reelection.

He may be facing either Kelley, Levin, Austin or Cavanagh. Griffin issued a statement on Sept. 24 opposing forced SEN. Griffin: "I don't like forced busing. And that is the position of the overwhelming majority of the people, black and white.

gration "where the court finds no better alternatives, such as school boundary adjustments, are available." That was the case in Pontiac, Hart said, and he supports that court decision. The Democratic senator said "it is conceivable" -that he would also support court-ordered busing across municipal lines in the Detroit area "if the courts found that racial "balance was impossible within the city limits and the bus rides were short." Gov. Milliken, a Republican, said he "fully agrees with Sen. Griffin that in order to achieve true quality and equality of educational opportunity we must attack the basic patterns of job opportunities, housing patterns, and we must reform the financing of education so that the quality of education available to children of the poor is raised to the level available to the children of the wealthy." Milliken said he refused to Busing The statement acknowledged that variances in school financing and the existence of segregated housing have adversely affected some schools. "There art? no tomorrows in the education of a child," the statement continued.

"A 6-year-old cannot wait to enter school until that distant day when there is an end to segregated housing." Also among the 11 Democrats who presented the resolution to the committee were House Speaker William A. Ryan, Democratic State Chairman James McNeely, Democratic National Committee-woman Mildred Jeffrey, Associate Democratic National committeeman Neil Staebler, and Hylton and Libby Mayn-ard, vice-chairmen of the Michigan Democratic Party. pi The Dule The Executive The Esquire The Preiident Master Charge TERMS BankAmericard Ml FAMOUS-NAME SPANISH DESIGN ROOM-SIZE AND AREA RUGS TO GLORIFY YOUR ROOMS SEN. Hart: "It is conceivable," he says, that he would support court-ordered busing across municipal lines. Chairman William McLaughlin had no comment on busing at this time.

THE POSITIONS of Michigan's two U.S. senators were decidedly different. Sen. Griffin said in his three-page statement: "Most parents, black and white, want quality and equality in educational opportunity for their children." That can be achieved eventually, Griffin said, by equal job and housing opportunities and reform of the system of financing education. Griffin added: "Unfortunately, forced busing is greatly accelerating the flight to the suburbs and beyond I don't like forced busing.

And that is the position of the overwhelming majority of the people, black and white. (Several Democrats who support busing acknowledged privately that their position, for the time being, goes against majority public opinion in Michigan.) Sen. Hart said he supports busing to achieve school inte- busing to create racial balance in schools. Kenneth Hylton, a black lawyer from Detroit, and vice-chairman of the party, told the committeemen: "If you haven't been maintaining racially segregated schools, you don't have anything to worry about. If you have you may have some trouble." The Democratic policy statement continued "It is clear to us that busing is not a final solution.

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