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present opposite views on nuclear policy

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whereby it soon became obvi-
ous that the two men were
really not starting from the
same premises. The mind,, af-
ter all, is a tool of the per-
sonality, and there was a gulf
between the two personalities.

True, they both wore
clothes, sat in chairs, moved
their hands to emphasize what
they were saying, and spoke
the English language. But for
Pauling, the ending of human
life by war is a supreme hor-
ror;.for Teller, it is a way
of preserving one’s own way
of life.

Listen to Pauling’s emphasis
on the need for finding a
way to peace:

“We have to work for peace.

thus express ourselves — the
freedom which is not possible
in Russia.” The freedom, he
went on, shared by the peo-
ples of the “NATO powers.”

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Teller estimated the increase,
in defective children . might
amount to 1,500, but said he
didn’t know, and that the fig-
ure of 1,500 “is only an index
to our ignorance.” He said
“we don’t known that we have
killed anybody,” and that the
“alleged damage” from radio-
activity has not been proved
by any kind of statistics. “It
is even possible that there is
no damage. There is even the
possibility that small amounts
of radioactivity are bene-

Czechs

ROM time immemprial man
has tried to find a secret

process of old people, and
geriatrics, which has been giy-
en the task of treating old

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elixir which would keep him
eternally young. Science has
long since shown that the
search is useless, but the de-
sire to live longer remains,
and so new _ branches of
science have been created:
gerontology, to study the life

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people.

The aim of these sciences is
not to realise the dream of
perpetual youth, but scienti-
fically to anticipate old age
and free people from many
of the handicaps and illnesses
of this period of life,

A Gerontological Commis-
sion has just been established
in Czechoslovaka, headed by
Professor Bahumil Prusik and
attached to the internal medi-
cine section of the J. RE. Purk-
yne Medical Association,

The field is not an entirely
new one for Czechoslovakia.
Before the Second World War
the gerontology clinic of Pro-
fessor Rudolf Eiselt was one
of the best-known in Europe,
but war interrupted its work.

A debate about
life and death

By JOHN PITTMAN

We need to work for it. We
need to put an amount of
work into the search for an
agreement that is comparable
to the $40 billion placed in
armament , . .

“I think all these develop-
ments for the peaceful use
of atomic energy can be car-
ried on with an international
agreement to stop nuclear
weapons tests... :

“The time has come for na-
tions to obey the command-
ment, ‘Thou shalt not kill’!”

“IT do not interpret Khrush-
chev’s statement (“We shall
bury you”) as meaning he

Problems of old age have
come to the fore in many
countries because the graph
of human life is being con-
stantly prolonged as a result
of the fact that many infecti-
ous diseases and epidemics
have been conquered.

In the socialist countries
people no longer suffer from
undernourishment and hunger.
The present average life ex-
pectancy in Czechoslovakia is
68 years, an increase of 14
years since the war, and 13
percent of the population is
over 60.

This comforting phenomen-
on has many medical, social
and economic consequences.
The Czechoslovak ministry of
health therefore intends to
investigate and try to solve
the problems of old age in
cooperation with other minis-
tries and institutions, as a

intends to murder us all. I
think he ‘was saying that
socialism will bury capitalism,
by peaceful means, rather than
by war.” -

And now compare the
things uppermost in Teller’s
mind: ’

' “We must limit damage to
what one has to damage. This
is what I mean when I talk
about ‘clean’ weapons... We
are making great strides to-
ward non - radioactive explo-
Slons:. 2

“The moment we stop nu-
clear tests, they will feel so
strong that they will be able
to take over the world. If we
Stay strong we can have peace
—based on force.”

There were other issues in-
volved. Pauling accused Teller
of falsifying his statements in
an article Teller wrote for
Life magazine. And when Tel-
ler talked . about the pos-
sibility of Saving some lives
through the development of
‘clean” weapons, Pauling shot
back the accusation that Teller
would like to see nuclear wars
fought in such a way as to
limit casualties.

*

Who won? That depends on
the audience, on the premises
the individuals in the audience’
start from, And that, in turn,
relates to whether you hate
inflicting pain or death on
another human being, or
whether you see it aS_a pos-
sible necessity te maintain
your way of life,

The way the situation lines
up today—no poll had to be
taken on the outcome of the
debate. That petition signed
by 9,235 scientists from 44
countries, including 35 Nobel
laureates; the mounting world
clamor for a summit meeting
to end the arms race—these
suggest that the portion of
mankind in Dr. Teller’s corner
is small—and getting smaller.

diseases

basic national problem.

Likewise the faculty of gen-
eral medicine of the Charles
University Medica] School in
Prague will devote a day to
gerontology and geriatrics at
its conference scheduled for
the end of April.

One-fourth of all patients in
Czechoslovak hospitals are
over 60, most of them suffer-
ing from diseases resulting
from the deterioration of the
human organism, of which the
four most frequent are arterio-
sclerosis, diabetes, diseases of
blood pressure, and tumours.

Thirty years ago only 7 or
8 percent of all deaths were
caused by arteriosclerosis,
while today the figure is 25
percent. The fight against
these diseases, their study,
prevention, and cure, will be
a primary concern of medi-

cine in this field,