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Show Lerner Urges Weapons Pact American sociologist and syndicated columnist Max Lerner opened the new year for the BYU Center" for Continuing Education's Educa-tion's Forum lecture series with a speech Thursday night in the Assembly Hall. He prefaced his ideas by expressing the hope that the audience and others like it would "act as men of thought and think as men of action." Referring to the anti-Lerner literature distributed to the audience by the Citizens Information Committee, he decried the repressive attitude of "these little groups with enormous psychic intensity. I was never a soldier in anybody's political or intellectual intel-lectual army," he insisted. Dr. Lerner started his lecture by characterizing America as born in an "authentic" revolution revolu-tion and now experiencing a number of silent, unplanned revolutions." Of these, he stated, the weapons weap-ons technology revolution is perhaps the most important. While nuclear weapons are now in the hands of responsible leaders, lead-ers, the current proliferation rate will soon see the irrational supplied, sup-plied, he said. A "concert of powers," including includ-ing all members of the "atomic club," is necessary to stop this "diffusion" of weapons. Dr. Lerner Ler-ner prescribed eventually a supranational su-pranational weapons authority, though not a world government. |