The Administration: Against the Malingerers

On two fronts the Nixon Administration last week continued its vigorous drive against the remaining bastions of Southern school segregation. —

> The Internal Revenue Service announced that it would revoke the tax-exempt status of of private schools admitting students on the basis of race. The move will cripple many of the private academies that have blossomed as desegregation has proceeded.

> The Justice Department filed suit against 52 Southern districts to force them to abandon dual school systems by September. That would reduce the holdout districts in all of the South to only...

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