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When earlier this year, faced with a federal civil defense evacuation plan which called for Cambridge's residents to travel more than 100 miles away to the village of Greenfield, Mass., in the event of a nuclear attack, the city council decided to take a stand. The body refused to distribute the federal plans, and instead assembled its own blueprint for avoiding nuclear disaster: a mass-produced pamphlet detailing the case for disarmament...
Insiders at the paper said the apologia was written "under duress" by Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield, meaning that she got a lot of heat from Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Publisher Donald Graham. Post reporters, still smarting from the Janet Cooke Pulitzer Prize hoax earlier this year, were distressed to see their paper leaping into another ethical mud puddle. So were other journalists...
...council decided to print the disarmament booklet last spring, after local and state civil defense authorities proposed distributing the federal government's civil defense guidelines. That plan required Cambridge citizens to travel more than 100 miles to Greenfield, Mass., in the event of a nuclear attack...
...idea of driving away from nuclear fallout and to Greenfield, was "partially misleading," Wylie said, because "if Cambridge is the target of a nuclear attack, then we've all had it." Wylie added, "We were determined not to mislead the public, but to give them the unadorned facts...
...public became informed of the full effects of a nuclear conflict and of the population's chances for survival, it would be more likely to favor disarmament. The federal government's civil defense guidelines gave the impression that most Cambridge residents would find a safe refuge in Greenfield, council members said...