Peaceniks

The only authorized antiwar movement in Moscow is the Kremlin-run Soviet Peace Committee, which claims to have 80 million members. Last week eleven young scientists and engineers announced the creation of an independent movement. They read an appeal, already mailed to President Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet newspapers, calling upon the governments of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to stop denouncing each other. They asked for an uncensored flow of information between Western and Soviet peace groups. The Kremlin is unlikely to welcome an unfettered peace group, however small and softspoken. But in view...

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