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...announcement from Oslo was a personal triumph for Bernard Lown of Boston and Yevgeni Chazov of Moscow, the cardiologists who have presided over the antiwar organization from its beginning. The two met in 1960 and got to know each other at international professional conferences over the next two decades. They launched IPPNW in hopes of slowing the arms race. With headquarters in Boston and a branch in London, it now claims the support of 135,000 physicians and health-care professionals in 41 nations (60,000 doctors in the Soviet Union alone, according to Chazov). The Nobel judges lauded...
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...endless white corridors and advanced diagnostic equipment last year, shortly after the new medical complex opened, when the Soviet Union played host to more than 5,000 physicians from around the globe, who were attending the Ninth World Congress of Cardiology. Says one impressed visitor, Harvard Heart Specialist Bernard Lown: "It is a cardiology city." With pardonable pride, the center's director, Yevgeni Chazov, declares, "I don't think there's another institute in the world that has as many functions...
...with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer." It follows, does it not, that we must all want the same things? According to Harvard Cardiologist Bernard Lown, president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, that's not just Shakespeare, it's a scientific fact: "Our aim is to promote the simple medical insight," he writes, "that Russian and American hearts are indistinguishable, that both ache for peace and survival...
...organizers also will host an evening program in the Kresge building featuring speeches by Bethe and Bernard Lown president of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War Gutleve said...