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Despite the protests, the young activist won the job by a 15-to-12 vote of the Labor Party national executive committee. Backing him were three mainstays of the party's radical wing: Tony Benn, Eric Heffer, and Labor M.P. Frank Allaun, a pacifist often suspected of pro-Moscow views. Bevan thus became chief Marxist proselytizer among the nation's youth. Says he: "I'm trying to convince young people to fight for real socialist policies where it counts. We have to transform the Labor Party...
...dispel the notion of some people that anyone will survive a nuclear war? How can we as doctors influence people to prevent any further buildup of nuclear arms?" These are not the questions of an American pacifist but of Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and an official physician to President Leonid Brezhnev. Moreover, Chazov's view is at variance with some statements by Soviet officials implying that since fewer Soviet citizens are likely to die in an atomic holocaust than Americans, the U.S.S.R. would therefore...
...pacifist armchair radical extraordinaire, Walzer was militant enough to take to the streets in protest of the Vietnam war. His own paradoxical intellectual history parallels both the triumph and despair of the Left in this country over the past two decades. Those liberals whose idealism withstood the disillusioning '70s can only be passive in their concern for social justice--"working within the system" has replaced the passionate efforts to effect fundamental changes in society. A more just and egalitarian vision of the future seems like a faded dream, but the memory of the hope still remains...
...Lord Carrington and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe (for their successful endeavor to end the war in Rhodesia), Swedish Disarmament Activist Alva Myrdal and Pope John Paul II. Pérez Esquivel, said 1976 Peace Laureate Betty Williams of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, is "the greatest living radical pacifist leader." Noted the Nobel committee: "He is among those Argentines who have shone a light in the darkness. He champions a solution that dispenses with the use of violence. The views he represents carry a vital message to many other countries, not least in Latin America...
DIED. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 85, India's Brahman-born fourth President (1969-74), a fierce trade unionist and pacifist dubbed the "genial militant" by the Western press and friend of such revolutionaries as Eamon de Valera and Mohandas Gandhi; of a heart attack; in Madras...