The Michigan Daily-Friday, December 4, 1981-Page 5 Nuclear war course seen at Harvard Med. School CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)- Amid growing concern over the possibility of "the final epidemic," some students at Harvard Medical School may soon be taking a new course: "The Health Aspects of Nuclear War." The proposed elective course is part of a growing movement within the Har- vard medical community to protest the escalating nuclear arms race. The school's curriculum committee will vote on the proposal Monday, and if it approves, the course would begin next semester. "THIS IS A sign of the growing awareness that we are facing the final epidemic-nuclear war," said James Muller, an assistant professor of medicine and one of four faculty mem- bers who proposed the course. "One of the problems is that it's too horrible to imagine," he said. "One can imagine one burned child, or perhaps a school of burned children, but who can .imagine more than 100,000 burned children? The four are members of Physicians for Social Responsibility. The 7,000 member group, based in Watertown, is opposed to the continuing threat of nuclear war. DR. HERBERT Abrams, a professor of radiology, said the 15-lecture course would focus on what medical problems surviving physicians would face following a nuclear war. They include the effects of radiation on the body's immune system and the expected epidemics of typhoid and other diseases that would follow the destruction of health and sanitation facilities. Professors will also discuss the long- term effects of radiation, including in- creased cases of leukemia and other cancers. AT THE END of the course, the in- structors would discuss methods Pof preventing a nuclear holocaust. Studen- ts would be required to take a final examination or write an essay. Abrams believes this is the first such course to be proposed for a medical school. "Doctors don't know that much about the effects of nuclear war," he said. "They know this can kill, but not many have been exposed to information about things like blast and burn injuries." Doctors, he said, "look on war as a matter of national policy. But this is the first time they have had been faced with such a life- and health-threatening possibility." Muller, a cardiologist, says the cour- se represents only a small part of the growing activism at Harvard and other campuses. Daily Photo by JACKIE BELL Patience, patience As 1:30 p.m. comes and goes, resigned CRISP line-sitters await their turn to climb up those stairs and face an unsym- pathetic computer. cancersm s ,! A , -x' ", .'. <,! *"Europeans to join peace force in Sinai 'A N, Subscribe to the Michigan Daily ww K SLOW ooLo e (Continued from Page 1) political conditions" to their par- ticipation. The clarifications by Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands appeared to be a retreat from their earlier position linking the force to progress on the Palestinian issue. THE FOUR countries alarmed Israel when they announcedthey would send troops, but at the same time under- scored Europe's Mideast policy calling for inclusion of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel's archenemy, in the peace process. The joint statement was aimed at severing the link between the force and Europe's. policy. It said the United States "understands and appreciates" Israel's concern at the linkage, and "recognizes that some of Europe's positions are at variance with its own positions." LIA pi 12. 8:00p-" A spokesman said Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir forwarded the statement to the four countries, and it was now up to them to explicitly accept the declaration. "It is not enough that they say nothing," said another official. PRIME Minister Menachem Begin's Cabinet, at a half-hour meeting, endor- sed the 2 -page document after Washington agreed to minor textual changes. The statement listed the tasks of the force as written in the treaty and the protocol, including operation of check- points, verifying arms limitations and ensuring free shipping through the Tiran Strait. Israel radio said the Europeans would be asked to send letters of accep- tance to Israel, and indicated they were confident of European agreement. a Not FM. New from ECM: Not AM. ECM. A different wavelength. *U.S. Mideast policy, ineffectual, says lobby (Contlnued from Page) "I don't believe the Palestinian Kessler, whose lobby receives no funds problem is the core of the Arab-Israeli from Israel, said he hoped the Middle conflict." He said that the Arab states East peace initiative would continue have to simply recognize, as Egypt has, under the Camp David agreements. that peace is better than war. 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