Doctors join GE boycott.

Discusses the boycott proposed by INFACT, a Boston-based organization, which seeks an end to General Electric's nuclear weapons business. The success of a boycott is difficult to measure if it only involves individual consumers refusing to buy items that cost no more than a few dollars. But if it blocks the sale of$ 500,000 machines, even a corporate giant might sit up and take notice. INFACT is a veteran of the successful boycott of Nestle products, which it organized to protest the company's sales of infant formula in Third World countries, where lack of clean water can make bottle feeding dangerous. GE's logo can be found on the MX missile, the B-1 and B-2 bombers, the Trident submarine and its missiles, neutron generators, the Star Wars SP-100 nuclear-reactor-powered satellite motor, and other weapons systems. Recent sales that went to GE competitors because of the boycott include a$ 700,000 purchase by the Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and a$ 2.7 million diagnostic-equipment purchase by Huguley Memorial Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.