The Region - News from Feb. 10, 1985

Soviet and American physicians attending a meeting in Los Angeles jointly called for a moratorium on nuclear testing pending a comprehensive test ban treaty. Physicians for Social Responsibility, an international organization, called the three days of meetings to plan a media campaign aimed at halting the arms race by getting both countries to agree to a testing moratorium. Among those calling for the moratorium were the organization’s president, Sidney Alexander, and Dr. Yevgueny Chazov, a top Soviet cardiologist and co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Inc., with Dr. Bernard Lown of Harvard University.