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Peter C. Goldmark '62, chairman of Tocsin, said yesterday that a Student Peace Union demonstration in New York City protesting the planned resumption of atmospheric testing by the United States had been "a terrible mistake...
...Tocsin chairman cited three reasons for his opposition to the demonstration--the "futility" of it, the lack of agreement within the peace movement on testing, and his own view that testing is not the central problem...
While emphasizing that Tocain had taken no stand on either the SPU protest or American testing. Goldmark said that "I myself feel that resumption is justified if all negotiations fail." But he added that there is a difference of opinion within Tocsin as to whether the U.S. should resume testing if no progress is made at Geneva...
Goldmark had some praise for the Student Peace Union, though. He said it had progressed from a position favoring unilateral disarmament to a view that what Tocsin calls "unilateral initiatives" are the way to fruitful negotiations with the Russians...
Groups such as Tocsin, whose spokesmen he met in his State Department office last month, have understandable anxieties and concerns, Chayes said. But, he declared, "they are asking for simple, easy solutions" that may be analogous to the remedies proffered by the radical right...