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When the Nobel Committee awarded its 1985 peace prize to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the choice hardly seemed controversial. In a gesture of East-West amity, Soviet Cochairman Dr. Yevgeni Chazov and his U.S. counterpart, Dr. Bernard Lown, were named as recipients. A delighted Soviet government decided to allow its ambassador in Oslo to attend the Dec. 10 ceremonies. Moscow had boycotted Nobel proceedings since 1975, when Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov was awarded the coveted prize...
...LOWN'S MOST PERVASIVE, and persuasive, claim to credibility is exactly this kind of disingenous, "above politics for the betterment of all" attitude. If he and his like did not cultivate it assiduously, and apparently successfully, they would simply be dismissed as quacks or drowned in controversy like Jesse Jackson after his forays to Cuba and Syria on behalf of American prisoners...
Curiously enough, Lown claims that physicians have a larger role in American society than just medical care. In his last press conference before leaving for Stockholm he brought up the issue of child illness and mortality, noting that 3.5 million children are crippled or killed by disease in the U.S. every year. But he followed that up by saying that physicians have a "greater responsibility" to do something about nukes...
...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...
...Lown keeps expanding his responsibilities maybe he'll end up intimately involved with his government, like Dr. Chazov. But heaven forbid he ever be forced to admit he's wallowing in the muck of politics...