February 6, 1976
BOSTON--The antibusing movement here, spearheaded by the violent city-wide action of racist high school students, has dealt court-ordered desegregation--and the very safety of Boston's Black students--the biggest blows since mob attacks met the start of busing in the fall of 1974.

Schools remain tense in the wake of a week of disruptions in which white students and some white parents waged a virtual war on Black students at Hyde Park High School.

Bat- and pipe-wielding thugs roamed school corridors and grounds in search of Black students after two days of provocations that led to the explosion.

On January 19, under the guise of "retaliation" for the burning of an American flag by a Black student, the school's racist youth put out the word that "the niggers are going to get it."

On January 20, gangs of white students jumped individual Black students, sometimes as many as ten whites cornered and beating one Black youth.

Fighting spilled outside the building at the dismissal of school, as a tiny police force was unable--and unwilling--to stop the racists from going after Black students with hockey sticks. A mob of nearly 100 whites tried unsuccessfully to board a bus carrying Black students, after they had shattered windows and rocked the vehicle.  
 
February 5, 1951
Unless Nehru's government agrees to obey the orders of the U.S. State Department in the UN, the Indian people will be left to starve to death by the scores of millions--that was the ultimatum which Capitol Hill served last week on New Delhi when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pigeon-holed India's "request to send two million tons of American grain to that famine threatened country."

No action will be taken on this "request" until the sub-committee "looks into the whole question of U.S. relations with India," announced Sen. Connally, Chairman of this powerful Senate body.

The American imperialists and all their apologists have always found it "reasonable" to use the plight of hungry peoples in order to bludgeon their governments into submission. Relief measures--from loans to promises of food shipments--have long been used by these philanthropists as blackmail to extort economic and political concessions. India is just one case--the most flagrant one next to that of Yugoslavia--of the brutal pressure the American imperialists are bringing to bear upon every reluctant member in the U.N.

The Nehru government has been cajoled with one promise after another of food. Washington has of course, made a public show of its "humanitarianism"!  
 
 
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