Antinuclear Groups to Call for Nestle Boycott

A call for a boycott of candy made by Nestle is expected today from several Southern California antinuclear organizations to protest a Nestle Nuclear Chocolate bar associated with the Walt Disney Co. film “Armageddon.� Jerry Rubin of the Los Angeles chapter of Alliance for Survival is spearheading the effort, after failing to secure a meeting with Nestle officials. Rubin says the product “desensitizes people to the real nuclear danger.� Sheldon Plotkin of the Southern California Federation of Scientists is expected to join Rubin. Glendale-based Nestle Food Co., a unit of the Swiss company, maintains it “is in no way attempting to offend or desensitize the [nuclear] issue.�