Word: saneness
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...efforts to improve itself, SANE's remedies still seem less than realistic. SANE would throw the whole Berlin problem into the hands of the United Nations, gradually demilitarizing all of Germany and policing it with...
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...
...Approach." This relatively mild approach has caused SANE to lose ground on U.S. college campuses. Says Jay Greenberg, editor of the University of Chicago's Maroon: "SANE is on a decline. The peace groups that have emerged are more activist. Students seem to desire a new approach." The largest campus group is the Student Peace Union, which has about 70 chapters, mostly in the East and Midwest, is big on peace marches and demonstrations against civil defense. Norman Uphoff, head of S.P.U.'s University of Minnesota's chapter, criticizes SANE for its official stand against "civil disobedience...
...troops. SANE opposes all fallout shelter programs, contends that President Kennedy plans to resume tests not for military but for "political-psychological reasons." It urges Kennedy to hold off on testing until he is absolutely certain that the Soviet Union will not sign a test-ban treaty-as if the U.S.S.R.'s refusal were not already perfectly plain. SANE's general outlook is reflected by kindly Dr. Benjamin Spock...