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...national group, Physicians for Social Responsibility in the early '60s, explains that his concern in the past few years with the intensification of the arms race led him and three other doctors, Dr. Herbert L. Abrams, chairman of the Radiology Department and the Medical School. Dr. James E. Muller, assistant professor of Medicine, and Dr. Eric Chivian '64, an MIT staff pyschiatrist, to found an organization which would united doctors from around the world to prevent "the end of civilization...
Viet Nam veterans feel betrayed by a Reagan Administration that would abolish the counseling centers. They are especially angered that David Stockman, head of the Office of Management and Budget, spent the Viet Nam War years in divinity school. Says Robert Muller, executive director of the Council of Viet Nam Veterans: "Stockman has treated us with arrogance and with contempt." As Muller sees it, the Government and the Veterans Administration have not lobbied hard on behalf of the Viet vets because they are more committed to those who served in World War II and Korea. Those veterans are more interested...
Democrat Gary Hart of Colorado has introduced an amendment to the budget proposal in the Senate Finance Committee to reduce VA cuts by $25 million -and save the centers. The veterans' affairs committees in both houses appear inclined to restore funds for them. Meanwhile, Muller is proposing a $250 million package for Congress to help Viet Nam veterans even more. His goals: hiring additional personnel for the counseling program; assisting the vets in finding jobs; requiring the VA to determine if the vets will get help for problems related to the herbicide Agent Orange; and extending the time that...
...that end, a group of U.S. physicians, headed by Harvard Cardiologists Bernard Lown and James Muller, has organized International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Inc. They have recruited several eminent Americans, including Jonas Salk and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith. They also got a strong endorsement from Chazov, who wrote: "The medical profession should more actively protest against the senseless policy of increasing arsenals of thermonuclear arms...
Revitalizing America is less than a revelation. Muller's solutions ultimately fail, because they do not present a new intellectual vision to the economics of poverty and prosperity. Instead, he rehashes and mixes mostly traditional ideas into a political soup so that they might have some effect. Perhaps the task ahead is too difficult for the economists. None were needed for the Western world's first industrialization. Considering the social and political problems of development both here and abroad, it is hard to imagine what solutions they provide...