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...While Caldicott volunteered no explanation for this discrepancy. Dr.Bernard Lown, a Harvard professor and the president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War said that self interest has traditionally motivated campus activism. Referring to the 1960s peace protests, Lown said. "The moment the draft stopped, the anti-warmovement began to abate...
...following night, caldicott will speak at the Institute
...Physicians for Social Responsibility was a moribund organization devoted to detailing the medical consequences of nuclear war when Helen Caldicott, 43, then a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, took over as president in 1979. A zealous opponent of all things nuclear, Caldicott took her message all over the country, and her hellfire oratory soon attracted a following. Since then, membership in P.S.R. has grown from ten doctors to 11,000, and the Boston-based organization now boasts a 22-member staff, 85 chapters in 45 states and a $600,000 annual budget...
P.S.R. backs a bilateral nuclear freeze, but Caldicott sees that proposal as only a first step. "No one has the absolute answer," she admits, "but the issue of nuclear war will reach a critical mass, and from that will emerge a solution. We must continue stirring the pot, for the issue is survival...
Proceeds from the benefit showing of the film will go to the Cambridge Peace Education Project and the Cambridge chapter of Caldicott's Women's Party for Survival, the two organizations sponsoring the screening...