Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Homer Jack, executive director of SANE, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Longfellow Hall. Dues may be paid at the door. Sherry at 5:45 p.m. in Leverett House Junior Common Room...
...hands in the little Brazilian cacao port of Ilhéus complain that the place has become overcivilized, and with reason. Take the matter of government. In the past, a sane, orderly rule was established and maintained in Ilhéus by the most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...
...SANE has tried, at great expense, to publicize the magnitude of possible disaster, and to exploit the consequent fear. This was not successful, because the very nature of thermonuclear catastrophe, in which whole cities and nations burst into flame, makes the horror impersonal. It becomes abstract, like the galloping leukemia rate...hardly relevant to any given individual...
Another member of the 150-man U.S. delegation, Homer Jack, 46, director of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, was booed and hissed when he denounced U.S. and Soviet atomic tests with equal bitterness, but when he contrasted the freedom of SANE to criticize the U.S. Government with the regime-controlled propaganda of his peace congress hosts, there was only shocked silence. Later, when a group of British, U.S. and Scandinavian youths started a ban-the-bomb march near the meeting hall, police snatched their banners and threatened to deport them as "provocateurs...
...however, is not the only kind of radioactive fallout that can get into milk; iodine 131 can become a problem too. But its threat does not justify the scare advertisement (showing a bottle of milk with a death's-head label) that the National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy ran last week in the New York Times...