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...former Japanese military policeman gave U.S. occupation authorities 23 sets of dog tags that had been taken from U.S. prisoners of war who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. In the confusion of postwar Japan, their deaths were never publicly acknowledged. Most were captured airmen, and most doubtless died in the first shock wave. But Eyewitness Tamura clearly recalls seeing the bodies of two American P.O.W.s who had been beaten to death, apparently with rifle butts, by their military captors...
...TIME'S Essay "Down with Media" is a cute example of the deviousness of rationalization in defense of confusing but doubtless profitable communications overkill! There is (are?) a liberal communications medium (media?) with the sticky, cohesive, emotion-affecting, mind-warping pervasiveness of a Los Angeles temperature inversion...
That archetype will doubtless persist for a while elsewhere, but alas, he will soon be replaced by a transient imitation in one of his strongholds, New York City. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York-the first in the U.S. formally to do so-announced this month that pastors will henceforth serve for fixed terms of six years, and that none can serve more than two terms in the same parish. Progressives hailed the change, noting that it would allow younger priests to move up more quickly to pastoral positions and give older pastors an honorable excuse for moving...
...Jews who have survived pogroms and genocide will doubtless weather this vulgar affront as well. Still, individual Jews who find themselves stuck in Leon Uris' paper detention camp must surely regard QB Vll as a rather gratuitous endurance test...
...that the principles embraced by the court be imbued with as much intelligence and wisdom as possible. Every successive failure by the court to think a problem through to a durable solution will be less and less acceptable. That the present Justices are struggling to meet the need is doubtless true. It is also fair to say that they are doing less well than they might...