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...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology and a member of the task force's steering committee, said yesterday, "I'm involved with the task force because I'm active in the area of conservation as an opponent of the present system of nuclear power...
...Wald said that his role in the task force will be to collect, interpret and publicize the alternatives which the task force's energy experts develop...
...shoot the President from network evening news programs, let alone countless radio reports and front-page newspaper stories, than will read about it this week in TIME and Newsweek. Yet what loomed largest in many minds was the face on the cover. Says NBC News President Richard C. Wald: "The cover hangs around on newsstands all over the country for a week, and that permanence is bound to have an influence all by itself...
...little to do with inciting potential assassins to pull the trigger. "They have much more personal, much more fantasy-like motivations than to call attention to themselves," he says. "News coverage does not mobilize a person's fantasies. The press merely reports reality." Adds NBC'S Wald: "There is no indication that Mrs. Moore was influenced by the coverage of Squeaky Fromme. Political cabalists commit assassinations for their reasons, and kooks have their reasons. The press has a responsibility to report both." Asks Minneapolis Tribune Editor Charles Bailey: "Are we in the business of behavior modification or reporting...
...comments that "the Boston area is one of the most fertile grounds for Amnesty in the whole country, with so many liberal-minded students and others." An Amnesty-sponsored rally in Lowell Lecture Hall last spring drew a fair crowd for exam period, and featured a speech by George Wald, the Biology professor-cum-political activist. White would like to see Amnesty "grow by leaps and bounds" on the east coast as it has done in Western Europe. She would also like to see Amnesty establish outposts in Communist countries, but the quashing of a Soviet chapter two weeks after...