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Speaking to a gathering of approximately 100 students last night at the Medical School, the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) emphasized the importance of social involvement in medical education...
Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...
...this last sentiment which really epitomizes ISD. It was made in response to the Kohl objection, consigned by several other European conservative party leaders, to IPPNW's selection for the Prize. These politicians objected because Dr. Chazov signed a statement in the '70s denouncing Andrei Sakharov for "anti-Soviet" activities. Dr. Lown has steadfastly refused to answer questions directly about his counterpart's role in this matter and other political activities; instead he has given several variations on the theme of "that's beside the point...
...IPPNW statements which attempt to portray the group as an apolitical information body only do more to reveal its nature as a purely Western pressure group with little or no influence on Soviet policy. Witness a statement by Dr. John O. Pastore, the group's secretary: "We intend to use the receipt of the Nobel Prize to do more and actually affect both sides." This sounds great; but how to get the Soviets to listen? Lown himself experiences odd swings between proclaiming an apolitical stance ("above politics from the inception...") and admitting his desire to affect national policies...
...many other areas of "greater responsibility" must Lown and his crowd collect before they shed their mask and own up to their blatantly political orientation? The clear intent of IPPNW--to discredit and change Western nuclear weapons policy--deserves a thorough exposition and labelling, if not by IPPNW itself, then by concerned observers throughout the West. Responsible discussion of what the West should do to prevent nuclear holocaust is not served by dissembling pseudo-experts like Dr. Bernard Lown...