European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday september 4, 1985 Carl Rowan aids fear spreads throughout world a horrifying killer disease is on the Loose in America and much of the rest of the world spreading fear hysteria even panic. The so far incurable disease is popularly known As aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Aids was first diagnosed in 1981, but it already bids to become a rival of leprosy in the Middle Ages in terms of the fears medically based or utterly groundless that it engenders. History books Tell us that in biblical times right on through the Middle Ages lepers were required to Wear torn clothing and let their hair grow wild As a sign of their disease. Those who Felt it necessary to venture into the Public had to cover their lips and cry unclean unclean their belongings and Homes were destroyed at first notice of their illness and they were driven out of towns and settlements to fend for themselves usually in some wretched Colony of lepers. Some americans already would like to banish aids victims to isolated colonies. In 1981, we were told that aids was just a disease of homosexuals intravenous drug abusers and haitians. Now we know that a child May get aids in the womb of an afflicted Mother Haemophiliacs May get aids in the blood transfusions that they need. Now come reports that heterosexuals arc showing up with aids raising fears that this dread disease May become the gonorrhoea and syphilis of this generation. Hysteria arises because More than half the aids victims identified since the first Case was diagnosed four years ago Are dead. Most victims die within two years of diagnosis As aids attacks their bodies immune systems leaving them open to infections and diseases. Medical experts predict  that there will be a Quarter million Case of aids in the United slates with. Five Yean. The hysteria produced by these finding and predictions is illustrated in the fact that the 00-plus children who have been infected by their mothers Are pariahs some denied admittance to classrooms. An extremely Well educated woman told me that she could never Send her child into a Clim room with an aids victim because Chil Dren s noses run. They lick the same Lollipop Well known scientists Are telephoning the Public health service which is now getting More than 1,000 Calls a asking if it is Safe for their child to Puj with a child who is a Haemophilia a but who has not the slightest sign of aids. Actors and actresses in Hollywood and on Broadway Are threatening directors and producers with lawsuits if they get aids Tea result of some intimate scene with an actor or actress who is a homosexual. These few reached panic proportions when Rock Hod son let the Public know that he has aids. All sorts of speculation swept the land re Garding the exposure to aids of Lylda Evans when she engaged in torrid lusting scenes with Hudson on the television hit  there have been numerous incident of television Crews refusing to photograph or work on interviews with known aids Vic Tims. Most recently we have been told that the aids virus a Tiv Iii or Lav Dot igniting both the american and preach discoveries of 1983has been found in us tears of aids victims. This has generated fears that ophthalmologists and other Eye doctors their nurses and others including their patients can accidentally get a Dis ease that will cause them to shed a lot of tears. We All want almost desperately to know what is risk and peril and what is foolish fear. I have been talking to the medical and scientific experts All of whom admit that they do not ban enough. But they abhor the hysteria that they see sweeping America. C Newt America Send Catt William Buckley say if one More time Siow a please in English Here s one for the books. So this French speaking Canadian is driving wheel through Manitoba and the fuzz zeroes in stops him and gives him a Nice Juicy speeding ticket Well this Feller is no born yesterday and so he puts on his spectacles and says a est cd que c est que Ca and the cop says Don t Wiseguy me buddy that s a speeding ticket. And so does the speeder then go to traffic court and Pony up his 15 Bucks no. He goes to the Canadian equivalent of the supreme court and in due course the court hands Down a ruling. The prov Ince of Manitoba is in contempt of the articles of confederation by which it agreed to protect its French minority Wincn in 1870, it joined the common wealth. Having agreed that All Laws would be issued in both languages Manitoba beginning in 1890 simply disregarded its contract and began publishing its Laws and issuing its speeding tickets in English Only. So now the Canadian High court orders All 4,500 Laws passed during the last 95 years written into French which has the corollary Benefit of putting every unemployed Manitoban fret in teacher to work. The Canadian experience with bilingualism is interesting and relevant to our own dawning problem with Spanish. A re cent biography of Brian Mulroney the Bilin Gual prime minister of Canada puts it nicely. If in 1976 when the tories held their leadership conference the Issue for the tories was expressed As can we elect a bilingual que Becer As Leader in 1983 Mulroney was Able to Force the party to rephrase it As How can we not " what had happened in Canada is the great separatist scare the night Mare of the 70s. Namely that Quebec would secede from the Commonwealth. Today residents of Quebec list Only As their sixth concern the matter of Independence from the rest of Canada. And the Issue has gone to sleep largely because of cultural and political concessions. In 1981, 15 percent of canadians reported that they could carry on a conversation in French and English up from 12 per cent in 1961 and one Hopes rising. But the meaning right now of the figures is that 85 percent of canadians Are disqualified from exercising significant Federal political Power because to do this would require them to learn another language. Canada inherited its problem. Indeed at the time of our revolutionary War there were As Many canadians who spoke French As English. But what in happening Here is that we Are inviting a Canadian Type situation. It is at least conceivable probably predictable that by the turn of the Century no one will be Able to run for Public office in the southwestern strip unless he is fluent in two languages. It is desirable and commendable to study Spanish. But it ought not to be a require ment. The availability of Spanish alternatives to English Laws instructions communications and other forms of Public assistance should be in the nature of transitional courtesies not an invitation Tobin dualism. This is the Point embodied in the con suit Vional amendment first proposed by sen. Is. Hayakawa of Calico Ratnow rom or m  of sen. Stevens yams of Idaho. The amendment is wonderfully simple. Section 1 read the pcs and Section reads the Congress shall have the Power to enforce this article by appropriate  there Are five states that stipulate that English is the official inv. Guage in that state. And Florida is life year waging a fight to the end of to Init those five states. If a half million Tigmo Tures Are collected the proposal will i put on the ballot in november. All of this needs to be done very quickly if it is going to be done at All. In feet u May already be Loo late. If Congress wit to approve the proposed amendment to Morrow it could be that there would w enough states with a militant Spanish speaking minority to frustrate the 36 state plurality necessary to Amend the Constitution. The Effort should be made to Canada the French have a tradition pm can t reasonably ask that they forsake. U America English has always been in Lingua Franca. As we cherish our Lurah tic traditions we need also to focus on that vertebral column on which we hav relied in order to address one another. The declare Aon of Independence and lie Gettysburg address did not go out in second language. And we do Well to strew this officially before we face the probe eff that almost Tore Canada in half. To in Luerul Pren