Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect of endless future ones. As the tests multiply, so will the damage to children-here and around the world." The ad, which cost $4,800 in the Times and is being reprinted in some 60 other papers, was sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). Claiming 25,000 members in 125 chapters, SANE is the biggest of a number of organizations that have been trying to stir public opinion against this week's resumption of U.S. nuclear tests in the atmosphere. Among these groups. SANE is also one of the most respectable...
...always been that way. After its 1957 founding (cochairmen: Saturday Review Editor Norman Cousins and Quaker Leader Clarence Pick-ett), SANE became a haven for crackpots and leftists of all stripes. In its policies, it always seemed to condemn the U.S. while rarely criticizing the Soviet Union. Publicly denounced by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, SANE's board was badly split over how to deal with the organization's fellow travelers...
Finally, 37 far-leftists were forced out of SANE, the New York chapter was dissolved and reorganized with a screened membership, and the organization adopted a policy of criticizing the U.S.S.R. as well as the U.S. When Russia's Khrushchev-insisted on a troika to supervise a test ban last year, SANE took ads to say: "We believe that such a three-man council, operating with a veto, cancels out the very purpose of control." When Khrushchev later boasted about firing a 50-megaton bomb, SANE accused him of "an act of nuclear madness" that "contemptuously defied all decency...
...SANE has long argued for a "workable" step-by-step disarmament and a "realistic" test-ban agreement-both controlled by an on-site inspection system. It has applauded President Kennedy's disarmament proposals (Cousins called last week's U.S. plan "imaginative, reasonable and responsible"). Says Executive Director Homer Jack: "We are not pacifist, and we are not for unilateral disarmament. We're not fellow travelers and we're not softheaded...
...copies of the statement are available from the SANE headquarters in New York...