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...National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 23,000 strong, split over the Mobilization. It never endorsed the demonstration although Dr. Benjamin Spock, SANE co-chairman, was a Mobilization leader and many SANE members marched. It is understood that SANE withheld official endorsement because some members found the Spring Mobilization too one-sided in laying blame for the war--almost all on Washington...
...Committee, described the planning meetings for the demonstration as "dogfights." When Dave Dellinger, chief organizer of the New York march and editor of Liberation magazine, introduced the spokesmen of the Mobilization to the press the Friday before the march, his caution was almost humorous. The spokesmen ranged from Dr. Spock to Floyd McKissick. Dellinger emphasized several times that the statements would represent personal viewpoints, and "not an official Mobilization line, because there is none...
...programs, that no one ever thinks to question one of the more shocking horror stories of the Viet Nam war: that thou sands of Vietnamese children have been savagely burned by U.S. napalm. Only last week a CBS-TV program on the war showed a supposed victim. Dr. Benjamin Spock has not only made the accusation in print; he has also helped form a "Committee of Responsibility to Save Vietnamese Children." The trou ble with the story, says New York Times Medical Columnist Dr. Howard Rusk, is that it is not true. Reporting from Saigon last week after a painstaking...
...million Vietnamese children had been killed or wounded in the war, it produced a mere juggling of highly dubious statistics and a collection of very touching pictures, some of which could have been taken in any distressed country. To drive the point home, the magazine recruited Dr. Benjamin Spock to write an emotional preface to the article. The doctor did not go to Viet Nam. In writing the preface, all that he knew he had read in Ramparts...
Paperbacks, too, are blitzing the populace. They are spinning off the presses at the rate of a million a day, from Spock (18,000,000 total sales) to Erie Stanley Gardner (over...