LEWIN, Leonard C(ase)

(1916-)

   US writer whose spoof paper, Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (1967), presents the conclusions of a US Government commission formed to consider the economic and political threat of world peace. In a tone of cunningly egregious Realpolitik, the commission urges that the world be kept on a continual WAR-footing. Triage (1972) is a NEAR FUTURE novel about growing political oppression in theUSA; the government secretly applies the wartime medical practice of triage to social "problems" with the aim of eliminating them - literally (OVERPOPULATION).

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