The federal bureaucracy is a huge, slumbering monster which, through apathy, nullifies the hopes for racial justice created by the landmark civil rights legislation of the '60s. That was the gist of a report issued seven months ago by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Last week the commission announced the results of a Government-wide progress check. Said the commission chairman, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame: While much remains to be done, "the dinosaur has finally opened one eye."
Ironically, the commission found itself praising last year's bogeymen. Inertia-encrusted bureaucratic domains such as the Securities and Exchange Commission,...
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