Word: goldwyn
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There is evidence that the U.S. is using herbicides and other chemicals in the Vietnam war. Dr. Robert M. Goldwyn. instructor in Surgery, said yesterday. Re added concern over greater usage of such weapons...
...article appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine. Goldwyn and Dr. Victor W. Sidel. associate in preventive Medicine, said that the humanitarian arguments for use of non-chemical weapons do not take into account their unpredictable after effects...
These weapons are likely to he used against non-combatant populations and there is no telling what the unfavorable ecologic, social, and medical after effects might be, Goldwyn added...
...Goldwyn said that he felt it was the particular duty of physicians to make the public aware of the dangers involved in germ warfare and to provoke debate on the desirability of U.S. stockpiling of chemical weapons. Goldwin and Sidel members of Physicians for Social Responsibility cited a plant in Indiana that had employed 300 workers until 1964 solely for the production of nerve gas as indicative of the U.S. ability to wage gas warfare...
There has not been enough discussion on the question within the medical profession, Goldwyn said. Physicians have a special responsibility in this area because a nation cannot develop biological weapons without the aid of doctrs, he commented...