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...cardiology facilitated the IPPNW's goal of organizing doctors with similar nuclear fears in the two countries. Dr. Eugene I. Chazov, director general of the National Cardiological Research Center and Leonid Brezhnev's personal physician--a "critically important physician in the Soviet regime"--possessed enough influence in the USSR's political and medical realms to draw in to the project key Soviet doctors, Lown says...
Lown believes that the general public does not understand the full implications of the government's policy shift. "As long as there was deterrence, there was time to respond," he says. It now takes 30 minutes for a missile set off by the U.S. or the USSR to hit the other, but if the two countries have pre-emptive policies. "Any suspicion of an attack leaves little time to think through the nature of an attack...
...United States-USSR archaeological symposium, scheduled to open at Harvard on May 24, has been postponed six months because of Soviet delays in selecting their delegates...
Early in his senior year. Countryman accepted an invitation to Mission Viejo Calif., for a special training camp designed to expose the top five distance swimmers from the USSR to their opposition here in the USA. Aside from Countryman the top names in that field included Vladimir Salnikov Brian Goodell. Kyle Ditzler and Hackett...
Harvard professors have received a record number of federal summer grants this year to sponsor seminars on topics ranging from "The Unity of Learning in the Late Middle Ages" to "Moslem-Ethnic Minorities in the Middle East and USSR...