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V-J Day + 40: Neither New York Times nor Washington Post, which had splashed anniversary of Hiroshima bombing over front, and every other, page for previous week, carried news story on V-J Day anniversary, August 14: They contented themselves with editorial on subject. . . . Post’s deputy managing editor, Richard Hargood (who survived four Marine landings in Pacific in WW II), made the point on Op-Ed page: “A child or a visitor from another planet would assume from what has been printed and shown to us by television that World War II consisted of a single event: the dropping, for no earthly reason, of two nuclear weapons on the innocent people of Japan.” … A bumper sticker spotted in New Jersey made the point another way: no more hiroshimas? EASY. NO MORE PEARL HARBORS. . . . On more current military matters, two very contradictory polls on support for Star Wars in America: Washington Post/ABC News poll says 53 per cent of Americans are against SDI in light of the criticism against it; and support would drop if it meant abrogation of ABM treaty. Meanwhile, Sindlinger poll, published in Heritage Foundation’s Policy Review, Summer issue, found 85 per cent in favor of missile defense (SDI) even if it cannot protect everyone; 69 per cent in favor even if it means withdrawing from arms-control talks.

The Right in Motion: Bob Tyrrell’s sprightly, barbed-tongued The American Spectator made the move from Bloomington, Ind., to Arlington, Va., earlier this month (1101 North Highland, P.O. Box 10448). Quipped Tyrrell: “After five years President Reagan has sufficiently pacified the Washington region for me to move there.” . . . Richard Viguerie has sold his ten year-old Conservative Digest to William Kennedy, who will bring in Scott Stanley as editor. Stanley was longtime editor of John Birch Society’s Review of the News, which has folded, as has the JBS’s American Opinion. JBS, in what looks like major shakeup, will have new publication, The New American, with brand-new set of editors. . . . Cal Thomas, chief spokesman for Moral Majority, has quit, is going back to newspapering, will write column for Los Angeles Times Syndicate. . . . Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, in move that should, and might even, ingratiate him with Washington conservatives, has picked Donald Devine—former chief of Office of Personnel Management; board member of ACU and Heritage fellow—to head his political-action committee, Campaign America. . . . Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts—who is not often pleased by Administration personnel choices—likes appointment of James Miller III to succeed David Stock-man. “He will be inclined to serve the President rather than pursue some independent agenda,” says Roberts.

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V-J Day + 40: Neither New York Times nor Washington Post, which had splashed anniversary of Hiroshima bombing over front, and every other, page for previous week, carried news story on V-J Day anniversary, August 14: They contented themselves with editorial on subject. . . . Post’s deputy managing editor, Richard Hargood (who survived four Marine landings in Pacific in WW II), made the point on Op-Ed page: “A child or a visitor from another planet would assume from what has been printed and shown to us by television that World War II consisted of a single event: the dropping, for no earthly reason, of two nuclear weapons on the innocent people of Japan.” … A bumper sticker spotted in New Jersey made the point another way: no more hiroshimas? EASY. NO MORE PEARL HARBORS. . . . On more current military matters, two very contradictory polls on support for Star Wars in America: Washington Post/ABC News poll says 53 per cent of Americans are against SDI in light of the criticism against it; and support would drop if it meant abrogation of ABM treaty. Meanwhile, Sindlinger poll, published in Heritage Foundation’s Policy Review, Summer issue, found 85 per cent in favor of missile defense (SDI) even if it cannot protect everyone; 69 per cent in favor even if it means withdrawing from arms-control talks.

The Right in Motion: Bob Tyrrell’s sprightly, barbed-tongued The American Spectator made the move from Bloomington, Ind., to Arlington, Va., earlier this month (1101 North Highland, P.O. Box 10448). Quipped Tyrrell: “After five years President Reagan has sufficiently pacified the Washington region for me to move there.” . . . Richard Viguerie has sold his ten year-old Conservative Digest to William Kennedy, who will bring in Scott Stanley as editor. Stanley was longtime editor of John Birch Society’s Review of the News, which has folded, as has the JBS’s American Opinion. JBS, in what looks like major shakeup, will have new publication, The New American, with brand-new set of editors. . . . Cal Thomas, chief spokesman for Moral Majority, has quit, is going back to newspapering, will write column for Los Angeles Times Syndicate. . . . Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, in move that should, and might even, ingratiate him with Washington conservatives, has picked Donald Devine—former chief of Office of Personnel Management; board member of ACU and Heritage fellow—to head his political-action committee, Campaign America. . . . Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts—who is not often pleased by Administration personnel choices—likes appointment of James Miller III to succeed David Stock-man. “He will be inclined to serve the President rather than pursue some independent agenda,” says Roberts.