European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday september 11, 1985 columns & comments Mary Mcgrory a fist waving rambo is going to Geneva Summit the Way he is acting you d think that Ronald Reagan was fighting charges that he is soft on  his red bailing in recent weeks has reached a Point where it is reasonable to ask How he can Bear to go to Geneva swim Carland. And shake hands with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Within a matter of hours in one Day he announced anti satellite tests and accused the soviets of conducting a kind of chem ical warfare against americans in mos cow. For years the soviets have been spraying americans steering wheels and doorknobs with a tracking substance that was originally described As Mutagen but has tapered off into something less lethal. A team of doctors has been Melo dramatically dispatched to Moscow to Check the victims. It is also reasonable to ask if Reagan is trying to goad Gorbachev into calling off the Summit. If he in the is serving Jolt ing notice that Gorbachev who has been coming on As matinee idol in the euro Pean press will get no Quarter in Geneva. If Gorbachev thinks he will face a defensive and ailing old Man he is wrong. He s going up against rambo. Reagan will be a furious Warrior prepared to smite the red with charges about cheat ing on arms treaties and powdering inno cent americans with spy dust. And there will be no Retreat on Star  the anti satellite testing a first step Speaks volumes to the contrary. Sen. John f. Kerry. D-mass., who pro posed a ban on asat testing finds the administration s announcement unbelievable and revealing. It is his notion of How to approach the talks his notion of bargaining. He is try ing to set up the Summit in his terms so that when it does t produce anything it can be blamed on the soviets who won t Carl Rowan talk because they Are ahead of  Kerry contends that Reagan s claim that he has met the conditions on asat testing that were passed recently by con Gress is contradicted by Reagan s own accompanying statement which says we arc studying the limits on anti satellite weapons Congress required Good Faith  Reagan baldly claims that the us. Must develop its own asat capability in order to deter soviet threats to . And Allied space  the facts Are says Kerry that the soviets have a very rudimentary system. They be had it for 15 years they declared a moratorium on testing two years ago. And we re going to test ours two months before the Summit. Congress said he could Only if he is negotiating on Masats. 1 Ney Aren t on the table in Geneva. But he certifies while Congress is in recess. It All shows where he s coming from on arms  the announcement of the anti satellite testing follows closely the Reagan rejection of a soviet offer made on the eve of the anniversary of Hiroshima of a comprehensive test ban. It was dismissed As a crass propaganda ploy and Cut tingly countered with an invitation to the Sovi ets to come watch our tests in Nevada. The message Don t get smart with me. Gorbachev. Recently out of the Blue National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane made a crushing speech in Santa Barbara calif., warning the soviets that they could expect nothing from us unless they change their ways. It was an Echo of an Early first term utterance by Richard pipes the anti soviet zealot who told the russians they must change or expect War. He caused a juror Mcfarlane s gratuitous attack was explained As a preemptive strike in the anticipated or Summit soviet propaganda  the clenched fist is apparently to be the Symbol of the second Reagan term. A recent Domestic War Council in the West produces threats of confrontations and vetoes for Congress the moral crisis in South Africa is stubbornly viewed As a Battle in the cold War press disclosures that a member of the National Security Council is running the Contra operation in Nicaragua is countered with a White House demand that the commandant s name be withheld. Gorbachev is not to think for a minute that Reagan is a lame Duck lie can show his contempt for Congress As in the High handed certification notice he can turn his Back on Public opinion and he can get away with it All. Gorbachev can read if congressional record and the polls and see that he is dealing with a Strong Man and a Tough Guy. Gorbachev has to be pummelled so that he goes into the Summit wary and off his game. The president will be brandishing nukes and blasting away on sinister spy dust sprayed on innocent americans in the capital of the evil Empire. Reagan has lowered expectations to a level that if the Summit s outcome is an Exchange of Ballet dancers and a chess player or two everyone will be relieved enough to Call it a Triumph. Maybe it would be better if in his pre sent Frame of mind he did t go at All. C Universal presi Syndicate it s time to set the record straight about aids aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a totally new disease As far As we know. Every Day there Are new developments new learning i was told by or. Walter Dowdle of the centers for disease control of the . Public health service in Atlanta. Therein lies the reason for the near hysteria driven by people s fears that they or i heir children will gee this dread ailment that probably will cause death within two years. I asked or. Dowdle and other health experts to Tell me what scientists and Doc tors feel pretty sure they know and what they think they know but allow for some doubt. This is what they told me casual Contact More than four years of observations of families in which a Parent or child was infected with aids have shown that contracting the disease through Contact in a household situation is extremely unlikely but that is not u say that in time there May not develop a few cases that cannot with certainty be attributed to anything else. No doctor or nurse has Ever gotten aids As a result of taking care of even the sickest aids patient. So no to Crew is in peril because an aids victim is in the studio and no Pupil is in danger because a child with the disease is in the same classroom. Kissing and saliva evidence u overwhelming that if i gave a dinner party and gave a Welcome kiss to All 20 female guests All of whom had aids i would not get the disease. Scientists Are not so sure of the dangers when there is intense and repeated open Mouth kissing such As when television and movie Iove scenes Are shot and re shot. The Exchange of saliva is not expected to play a major role in the spread of aids said or. Dowdle but we Are not prepared to say that no one can Ever get the disease this  teardrops the aids virus recently was discovered in the teardrops of an aids patient by researchers at the National institutes of health. But there is no Case on record of anyone contracting aids through Contact with the tears of a victim of this disease. Scientists think it May be possible though if a tear comes into Contact with a skin break on the hands of an Eye doctor or nurse. Medical personnel Are being urged to Wear gloves and to take special precautions to sterilize equipment when doing Eye examinations. Bisexuals and heterosexuals it is now Clear that aids is More than a Gay curse or the wages of sinning by homosexuals. Bisexual men clearly can infect a straight wife and there is evidence that a female can trans Mit the disease to men. Enough cases have broken out in Zaire and other parts of Central Africa to suggest that the Dis ease can pop up where no homosexual is involved. Artificial insemination doctors in Sydney Australia recently said it was highly Likely that four women there had been exposed to the aids virus through insemination that used semen from the same donor. Research is ongoing in Sydney Boston and san Francisco to determine whether this is Likely or possible. Meanwhile no woman ought to submit to artificial insemination without proper tests on the semen donor. Prostitutes or. Dowdle says it is known that they can transmit aids. A recent study in Africa shows that highly promiscuous streetwalker were much More Likely to be infected with aids than the More selective Call girls but the evidence was Clear that anyone Deal ing with a prostitute runs a High risk of contracting aids. The Bottom line As of now seems to be that men who do not engage in polygamous homosexual activities and heterosexuals who stay faithful to a non Dis eased partner Are not in peril of getting aids. Assuming of course that they Are not intravenous drug abusers and that they ensure that proper precautions Are taken regarding transfusions and medical procedures including Organ donations. A lot of worrisome questions May soon be answered now that it has become obvious that More than homosexuals Are threatened. Federal expenditures for aids research has risen from a paltry $5.5 million in fiscal 1982 to almost $100 million this year with More than si25 million allocated for fiscal 1986. Nothing we know about aids justifies a cruel and Panicky persecution or forced Iso lation of those unfortunate enough to have this fatal disease. C Newt America Svrko lilt