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a 60-year-old African-American, was a young teacher at the beginning
of the busing crisis. Later, he worked as a union organizer.He was
among several others, including Cassie Quinlan and Kevin Davis, who participated
in the story circle with Powell.Lynn said a white police officer once
put a gun to his head and accused him of stealing a
white child's bicycle after officers stopped him in a mostly white neighborhood.
But when police found out he was a teacher, he said, they
apologized and returned his bicycle.He views the busing conflict as a struggle
between people of different classes, not just races, and said he had
the protection of whites as he lobbied for unions in South Boston
in the same era.Quinlan, who is white, drove one of the buses
that took black students from the city's Roxbury section to high school
in Charlestown. When she pulled up to the curb with a police
escort, at least 100 white protesters would be lined up. Police would
have to make a wall at the bus door so students could
get into school."The black kids, they were nervous ...," said Quinlan, now
69. "I used to wish that somebody would smile and wave good
morning. No, there was none of that."Quinlan recalled returning to Charlestown
in the early 1980s for a field trip. Then, she saw students
of all races mixing together."I cried when I drove away, when I
saw this, how much change had happened," she said.Quinlan said her experiences
opened her own eyes to black c
KINGSTON, Jamaica Two Canadians and two Americans attempting a trans-Atlantic
expedition have been rescued after a rogue wave apparently capsized their
boat after 73 days at sea.The U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday that
the four rowers were rescued from waters some 400 miles (645 kilometers)
north of Puerto Rico.The group includes Adam Kreek, a Canadian Olympic rowing
gold medalist. They were attempting to row between Senegal and Miami.The
men took to a life raft Saturday after their ocean rowboat "James
Robert Hanssen" overturned and could not be righted. They donned life jackets
and set off a personal locator beacon.Guard crews located the men some
five hours after getting a distress signal and a cargo ship later
picked up the rowers. They are being transported to Puerto Rico.
