European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday october 9, 1985 columns Mary Mcgrory Public discovers aids is no longer the Gay plague it s no  the a  As the Rev Jerry it kill once called it. The number of victims has Dun bled Eer year those who once agreed with the Leader of the moral majority Hal aids was Iod s punishment of homosexuals for their perverted lifestyle have seen the children who Are victims ill nut even lie most in ctr emits mnralim1 can claim Hal the close their Fate americans have turned in their complacency fur something like panic the ear of aids has leaped from the a a bathhouses a the Hijji altars of the i Pis Copal Church and the Macho precincts of a Ward in Queens. Fri Eopal Cert men. Meeting to California Ai uni cd Over the continuation of the common communion cup for fear of infection. Parents of 12.000 Public school pupils in Queens kept their children at Home to protest the admission of an aids victim to the second Pride of a District 27 school. Medical science Lias nut caught up with the Pallop ing increase in the spread of the deadly virus there have been 13,000 confirmed cases since p 79. Homosexuals complain bitterly that the delay in funding and research is a Side effect of the fear and loathing of their kind that is prevalent in our society. The revelation that Rock Hudson had aids was to them a breakthrough that would change the climate sur rounding the killer virus americans have a great tenderness for their celebrities and a compassion for their afflictions. It is True that his plight made it suddenly permissible for the staging of an aids fund Raiser but it has intensified the outrage in some quarters Over what they Call a Cha virally induced  but the children cannot be suspected of the kind of activity through which aids is most commonly transmitted anal sex and the use of dirty Needles by drug abusers. The children Are mostly Haemophiliacs who have contracted aids from contaminated blood products. No one imagines that they have brought the Wrath of god on themselves. Tiff discussion now is focused on what society owes them. Do they have the right to mingle with their Peers the right not to be identified As victims and potential carriers of aids regularly on television we see the Bright face of 12-year-old Ryan White who wishes to study com Puter science and who has been banned from the schools of Kokomo and. He has to Lake his lessons by Telephone and he says of this manner of instruction it  in Massachusetts in the Small town of Swansea. School superintendent John e. Mccarthy with the approval of the Community has allowed a 12-year-old it Init associate i Pony or visor hospitals. 7d restau rants boy with Haemophilia and aids to attend All classes at the Joseph Case Junior High school. The super intended s statement "1 gel kind of lost when people say it takes courage to do the right  should probably be Graven on the Halls of Congress. It has. However done nothing to alleviate the terror spreading among parents elsewhere who feel that the health of their children takes precedence Over the com passion due one doomed child. Politicians who love to go on talk shows hate to be asked Point Blank As two were on this week with David Brinkley if they would Send their children to school with known aids victims. Sen. Orrin Hatch. A Utah. Mumbled Aboul it being a matter for local school boards. Rep. Henry Waxman. A Calif. Said that if the aids child were Ryan White it would be All i Glt. Hatch said emphatically that the victim should be identified so that the other children could take defensive measures. But if the child is identified he is almost certain to be shunned and the main purpose of sending him to school association with other children is can celeb. At a recent Public health Parley one doctor noted Hal parents who Are insisting on knowing the id Lily of schoolchildren with aids have Noi made inc same demand of i hair teachers. The reassurance by the Center for disease control issued in August has nol slopped the spread of fear. The medical experts said Hal Curry no evidence shows Hal casual person to person Contact As would occur among schoolchildren appears to pose no  what parents Are demanding said one official Al the department of health and human services who did nol wish to be named is absolute certainly which we cannot provide. Aids is Noi transmitted to Normal healthy people in Normal Over Day activity. Ninety five percent of the people who arc exposed to aids do nol contract  7 he Issue of the children s rights is in court. Their plight suggests that maybe Iod s design was nol retribution for Gays bul something infinitely More humane to Imd a cure for aids. Joseph Sobran Freedom fighter terrorist differences explained the question is often raised. What is the difference Between a terrorist and a Freedom fighter often the ques Tion is rhetorical a rather cynical flippancy implying that the distinction is a be Manlic quibble. The people fighting on your Side arc Freedom fighters and those on the of her Side arc terrorists. I heard this Point made for the umpteenth Lime the other Day and of course it s the  time that often sets you thinking. The speaker was implying i gathered that the Nica Guan rebels. The so called contras arc no Bill or than the sort of people who try to Assassin Alc Popes and things. Well we can begin by acknowledging that the terms terrorist and Freedom fighter arc not logically exclusive. One term refers to a Means the of her loan end. You can use terror tactics on behalf of say. A War for National Independence As has often been done. We hate to Sec evil Means used for ends we Admire bul in this world that son of thing happens. I Haven l been to Nicaragua and i Don t know to whal extent if any the anti communist rebels employ error against non combat ans to secure their acquiescence which is what terrorism boils Down to. Central american wars generally lend nol to adhere too closely to the code of chivalry bul the incr inc contras arc egregious in this respect is to say. Several Points have to be consid ered inc frequency of error ladies the nature of the target whether such tactics Are mailers of policy by inc Central com Mand or who Lucr icy occur because Iacre is in fact no  Central com Mand to speak of. But none of this Aff cols inc question of whether the cause of inc rebels is essentially right. We think inc cause of Ameri can Independence from Britain was right and few of us would change our minds though we might be chastened if we Learned Hal George Washington s troops made a practice of massacring civilians As a lesson to tory die hards. To put it another Way we must beware of defining terrorism ideologically. Whether one is a terrorist has Little to do with whal Side one is fighting on. Only with inc methods used. In fact it s perfectly possible to be a terrorist and a free Dom fighter at the same Lime for the simple reason Hal in is possible to use bad methods for Good purposes. Of course we wish it weren t so. We feel Hal a Good cause is disgraced by evil la clips and in is unbecoming to a Side Hal is striving for human Freedom to be killing and terrifying the innocent. The nature of the cause should both win adherents and do scr ils votaries from need less inhumanity. By inc same Token we feel no Incon Gruity Aboul a communist error isl. Communism itself is state terrorism. The Sovi cd Union nol Only uses fear to control ils own populace bul is conducting a War in Afghanistan that employs such devices As Booby a rapped toys that can blow the hands off a curious child. The strange thing is that we hear so lilt a about communist terrorism especially from the folks who arc eagerly inputting terrorism to Ami communist forces. One suspects that their real target is not terrorism bul anti communism. It is one thing in Point Oul Hal Freedom fighters sometimes sink to inc use of Alro civics for the purpose of demoralizing an enemy population it is another to fail to Point Oul at the same Lime that communism docs this habitually. A brother in Law of mine came Back from Vietnam telling he Story of a clean ing woman Al his army base. She went Home one Day and found her baby in his crib his head Cut off. This was to discourage others from working for the Ameri cans. No doubt it Nur cd. There is Noth ing in communist ideology to discourage Hal sort of thing As Long Asil works. We can concede to the left the Point Hal some people on our Side May do things Hal shame us. We nol Only can we should. Al the same Lime we should insist that in is the left that such la clips arc most typical of. True there Are limes when we can l be too choosy Aboul our allies. We fought on the Side jul Stalin to Slop Hitler. That should prevent us from being self righteous. But it should never prevent us from being righteous. I Unive Ridl Preiti Ivna Cate