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■ The reason the press hasn’t pulled out every last stop in its anti-Administration campaign, says Christian Science Monitor columnist Joseph Harsch, is that Reagan has made “substantial progress” on his two major campaign goals: bringing down inflation and cutting the scope of government. . . . But in many quarters the hue and cry is on. Watch for major demonstrations all over the country on June 12, opening of UN Special Session on Disarmament. At New York’s Riverside Church Disarmament rally, Norma Becker (of Disarmament Committee) called on audience “to organize like we have never done before.” Ramsey Clark did her one better. He called on U.S. to “become the first nation to unilaterally disarm.” (Clark was fresh from trip to Nicaragua where he failed to spot a single Salvadoran rebel being armed or trained.) The two hundred organizations involved in June 12 shindig plan to import several thousand protestors from Europe and Japan. . . . Dr. Benjamin Spock is back in the fight with new mass mailing: “We must stop him. And we can stop him”—Ronald Reagan, that is, for making it “more likely than ever that you and I will die in a nuclear attack.” RR’s major sin: building the neutron bomb. … If you start spotting purple ribbons in lapels you will be spotting activists of the “Get the U.S. out of Salvador” bunch. . . . Incidentally, a poll of two hundred students at U. of Nevada on EI Salvador found that 39 thought it was in Africa (only 37 knew it was in Central America), but a good 177 knew what the fighting is all about: El Salvador, they told the pollsters, is at war with another country.

■ California, meet Gore Vidal. He wants to be your new senator and will campaign for drastic cuts in the defense budget, legalization of prostitution, gambling, and drug use, and for taxing the churches. . . . Tom Hayden is reported raising three-quarters of a million for his primary campaign for a seat in the California Assembly. Hayden’s Campaign for Economic Democracy, financed in part by Jane Fonda’s workout exercise salons, is effective on a local level: fifty of its endorsed candidates have been elected. Hayden, incidentally, has come out for sanctions against Poland and the Soviet Union. “The Soviet Union and its Polish puppet [should be held] completely responsible for every drop of blood that stains Polish soil.” … In Texas, Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen will pitch his re- election campaign to moderates, says political consultant George Christian. Only 14 per cent of Texans call themselves liberals. . . . And in Massachusetts, Republican hopeful Ray Shamie keeps hammering away at Edward Kennedy in the David-Goliath race of the year.

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■ The reason the press hasn’t pulled out every last stop in its anti-Administration campaign, says Christian Science Monitor columnist Joseph Harsch, is that Reagan has made “substantial progress” on his two major campaign goals: bringing down inflation and cutting the scope of government. . . . But in many quarters the hue and cry is on. Watch for major demonstrations all over the country on June 12, opening of UN Special Session on Disarmament. At New York’s Riverside Church Disarmament rally, Norma Becker (of Disarmament Committee) called on audience “to organize like we have never done before.” Ramsey Clark did her one better. He called on U.S. to “become the first nation to unilaterally disarm.” (Clark was fresh from trip to Nicaragua where he failed to spot a single Salvadoran rebel being armed or trained.) The two hundred organizations involved in June 12 shindig plan to import several thousand protestors from Europe and Japan. . . . Dr. Benjamin Spock is back in the fight with new mass mailing: “We must stop him. And we can stop him”—Ronald Reagan, that is, for making it “more likely than ever that you and I will die in a nuclear attack.” RR’s major sin: building the neutron bomb. … If you start spotting purple ribbons in lapels you will be spotting activists of the “Get the U.S. out of Salvador” bunch. . . . Incidentally, a poll of two hundred students at U. of Nevada on EI Salvador found that 39 thought it was in Africa (only 37 knew it was in Central America), but a good 177 knew what the fighting is all about: El Salvador, they told the pollsters, is at war with another country.

■ California, meet Gore Vidal. He wants to be your new senator and will campaign for drastic cuts in the defense budget, legalization of prostitution, gambling, and drug use, and for taxing the churches. . . . Tom Hayden is reported raising three-quarters of a million for his primary campaign for a seat in the California Assembly. Hayden’s Campaign for Economic Democracy, financed in part by Jane Fonda’s workout exercise salons, is effective on a local level: fifty of its endorsed candidates have been elected. Hayden, incidentally, has come out for sanctions against Poland and the Soviet Union. “The Soviet Union and its Polish puppet [should be held] completely responsible for every drop of blood that stains Polish soil.” … In Texas, Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen will pitch his re- election campaign to moderates, says political consultant George Christian. Only 14 per cent of Texans call themselves liberals. . . . And in Massachusetts, Republican hopeful Ray Shamie keeps hammering away at Edward Kennedy in the David-Goliath race of the year.