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DALLAS — Michael Hinojosawas about to enter the ninth gradein Dallas when a federal judge or-dered the city’s public schools tointegrate.

It was 1971, and Mr. Hinojosa,the Mexican-American son of apreacher, was suddenly re-assigned to a new school, whosefootball coach told him that it wastoo late to join the squad — its ros-ter had been set months earlier.

“I had a traumatic experience”with desegregation, Mr. Hinojosasaid.

So, too, did Dallas. Like manycities, it replaced one form of seg-regation with another, as whiteand middle-class families moved

to the suburbs or put their chil-dren in private schools.

Now Mr. Hinojosa is the super-intendent, and the Dallas schoolsystem, one of the country’s mostsegregated urban districts, hasbecome a national leader in tryingto figure out how to encouragestudents of all backgrounds towillingly go to school together.

Two years ago, under Mr. Hino-josa’s predecessor, the Dallas

schools set a goal of starting morethan 35 new schools by 2020.Through this effort, Mr. Hinojosahopes to reverse enrollment de-clines and increase studentachievement, while wooingcollege-educated and white fam-ilies that may have never beforeconsidered public education inDallas.

Some of the schools, in fact,make no secret of whom they aretrying to draw: Half of their seatsare reserved for students frommiddle- or higher-income fam-ilies, and some are set aside forstudents living outside the dis-trict.

“Every major city in Americahas to find some way to deal with

In Dallas, Opening Up Long-Divided SchoolsBy DANA GOLDSTEIN

First graders at Solar Preparatory School for Girls in Dallas, which emphasizes science and art.ALLISON V. SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Luring Students of AllBackgrounds toLearn Together

The seven sailors who diedwhen the destroyer Fitzgeraldcollided with a container ship lastweekend were a snapshot of thenation they served: an immigrantfrom the Philippines whose fatherserved in the Navy before him; apoor teenager whose Guatemalan

family came north eager for op-portunity; a native of Vietnamhoping to help his family; a fire-fighter’s son from a rural cross-roads in the rolling green fields ofVirginia.

The roll call of the dead also il-lustrated the degree to which themilitary relies on recruits fromimmigrant communities aroundthe country.

The Navy is still investigatingwhat caused the near sinking ofthe 505-foot destroyer, which col-lided with a container ship earlySaturday morning in the watersoff Japan, flooding two berths fullof bunks, as well as other rooms.

The destroyer’s windowless liv-ing quarters, where bunks arestacked three high, representedunlimited possibility for Sonar

Technician Third Class Ngoc T.Truong Huynh. It was only afterthe sailor joined the Navy, hissister said, that he started smilingmore often.

“He was going out on so manyadventures with his fellow sailors,and we at home missed him,” saidthe sister, Lan Huynh. But, sheadded, her family was “so happythat he was finally happy.”

“He found his purpose and heloved every minute of it,” she said.

Seaman Huynh, who went byTan, was born in Da Nang, Viet-nam, in 1992, and immigrated withhis mother to the United States in1994, looking for a better life, saidMs. Huynh. But his mother strug-gled to find her economic footinghere, and his childhood was diffi-cult and unsettled, with the family

moving often. As the oldest of foursiblings, he felt the tug of respon-sibility.

By 2014, Seaman Huynh, whohis sister said became a citizen in2009, was yearning to find adven-ture and a way to provide for hisfamily, she said. So he enlisted inthe Navy and was soon assignedto the destroyer that traveled to

7 Sailors Killed in Collision Emerged From Diverse Backgrounds in Pursuit of a Common CauseBy DAVE PHILIPPS

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Sailors of the destroyer Fitzgerald, from left, Noe Hernandez, 26; Xavier Martin, 24; Shingo Douglass, 25; Carlos Sibayan, 23; Dakota Rigsby, 19; Ngoc T. Truong Huynh, 25; and Gary Rehm Jr., 37.

tower, including many Muslims.“Good riddance,” one far-right for-um commented.

But early Monday, a whiteBritish man rammed a rental vaninto a congregation of Muslimsleaving prayers during Ramadan,the holiest month on the Muslimcalendar. One person was killedand at least 10 were injured.

“It feels like you’re undersiege,” said Mr. Abdullah, 23, a lawstudent standing outside Fins-bury Park Mosque in North Lon-don on Monday morning hours af-ter the attack. “I wonder,” he said,“is anyone going to write about a

LONDON — Like many of Lon-don’s Muslims, Mohammed Ab-dullah grew tired of defendinghimself, and his religion, after Is-lamist terrorists carried out twoattacks in the city and another inManchester during the past threemonths. Hostile glances followedhim on the street, and rising furygreeted him on social media.

Then came last week’s devas-tating fire at Grenfell Tower, acitywide tragedy that killed atleast 79 people inside the 24-story

‘white Christian terrorist’ thistime round?”

London may be the most di-verse and tolerant city in theworld and is home to more thanone million Muslims from dozensof countries. The city’s mayor,Sadiq Khan, is Muslim, and he en-

joys broad support outside theMuslim community, too. WhenBritain voted to leave the Euro-pean Union, London voted to stay.

But this proudly cosmopolitancity is now confronted with thetensions and ugliness that havebeen simmering on the fringes foryears and are boiling to the sur-face.

As Hamdan Omar, another stu-dent who grew up in the area, putit, “There are people on both sideswho want the clash ofcivilizations.”

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader, on Monday at Finsbury Park Mosque in London, where a van plowed into worshipers.STEFAN ROUSSEAU/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

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An Attack on Muslims Shakes a Proudly Cosmopolitan LondonBy KATRIN BENNHOLD Worries That the City’s

Culture of Tolerance May Be Fraying

WASHINGTON — Long-run-ning tensions between the UnitedStates and Russia erupted pub-licly on Monday as Moscow con-demned the American military’sdowning of a Syrian warplane andthreatened to target aircraft flownby the United States and its allieswest of the Euphrates.

The Russians also said they hadsuspended their use of a hotlinethat the American and Russianmilitaries used to avoid collisionsof their aircraft in Syrian airspace.

The episode was the first timethe United States downed aSyrian plane since the civil warbegan there in 2011 and came afterthe SU-22 jet dropped bombs onSunday near American-backedfighters combating the IslamicState. It followed another majorAmerican military action againstthe Syrian government: a cruisemissile strike to punish a nervegas attack that killed civilians inApril.

The latest escalation comes ascompeting forces converge on un-governed swaths of Syria amidthe country’s six-year civil war.Syrian forces and Iranian-backedmilitias that support them are ex-tending their reach east closer toAmerican-backed fighters, includ-ing forces that the Pentagonhopes will pursue the militantsinto the Euphrates River valley af-ter they take the Islamic State’sself-declared capital of Raqqa.The collision of the disparateforces has, in effect, created a warwithin a war.

“The escalation of hostilities

U.S. Is WarnedAfter It DownsSyrian Fighter

Russia Issues Threaton Allied Aircraft

By MICHAEL R. GORDONand IVAN NECHEPURENKO

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Incinerated vehicles, blackened treesand melted road signs mark a land-scape ravaged by a wildfire that killedat least 64, many as they tried to fleethe flames in their cars. PAGE A6

INTERNATIONAL A4-11

Inside Portugal’s Burn Zone

The Afghan government has quietlysupported a breakaway group calledthe Renouncers in their fight againstthe mainstream Taliban. PAGE A11

Kabul Aids Taliban Faction

Students seized an auditorium at Mexi-co’s largest university in 2000, and theoccupiers say they’ll stay. PAGE A4

A 17-Year Campus OccupationThe Supreme Court said the govern-ment may not refuse to register poten-tially offensive trademarks. PAGE A14

Protection of Offensive Speech

Otto F. Warmbier, a University of Virgin-ia student, was released in a coma from aNorth Korean prison last week. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A12-20

Former Captive Is Dead

Big repairs have commuters planningnew routes, and employers are weigh-ing flexible arrangements. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A21-25

Penn Station Detours

Jeff Charles coached for 21 years, until a16-year-old player died. PAGE B7

SPORTSTUESDAY B7-11

Estranged From Football

Ether, a virtual currency whose valuehas risen 4,500 percent since the begin-ning of the year, may soon threaten thedominance of Bitcoin. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

A Rising Challenger to Bitcoin

Silicon Valley leaders met with thepresident to discuss ways to upgradegovernment technology. PAGE B5

White House Tech Summit

A device designed by military doctors isbeing introduced for civilian use as away to treat internal bleeding. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-6

Born on the Battlefield

The jazz artist Diana Krall says thestandards on her latest album, “TurnUp the Quiet,” set her free. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

After Grief, Finding Joy

“Ghost Light” turns a theater into ahaunted house of stage superstitionsand rituals. A review. PAGE C1

Specters of the Stage

David Leonhardt PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

WASHINGTON — The Su-preme Court announced on Mon-day that it would considerwhether partisan gerrymander-ing violates the Constitution, po-tentially setting the stage for a rul-ing that could for the first time im-pose limits on a practice that hashelped define American politicssince the early days of the Repub-lic.

The term gerrymander wascoined after Elbridge Gerry, Mas-sachusetts’s governor, signed an1812 law that included a voting dis-trict shaped like a salamander tohelp the electoral prospects of hisparty. Over the centuries, law-makers have become ever moresophisticated in redrawing legis-lative maps after each decennialcensus, carving out oddly shapeddistricts for state legislatures andthe House of Representatives thatfavor their parties’ candidates.

While the Supreme Court hasstruck down voting districts as ra-cial gerrymanders, it has neverdisallowed a legislative map be-cause of partisan gerrymander-ing.

The new case is an appeal of adecision striking down the legisla-tive map for the Wisconsin StateAssembly drawn after Republi-cans gained control of the state’sgovernment in 2010. The decisionwas the first from a federal court

JUSTICES TAKE UPGERRYMANDERING

BASED ON PARTY

ARGUMENTS IN THE FALL

A Wisconsin Case Could Upend a Disputed

Election Tactic

By ADAM LIPTAK

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