European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday october 21. 1985 coir this William f. Buckley identifying aids victims is common sense step if int. 141/1 � f i v l Nim. .1. I pc  \ re of a Al till the. Lbs my i mks people did an extraordinary service by presenting .1 portrait of an ads afflicted family in which homosexuality a is nut involved. The Young nun was a Haemophilia a and throughout his lifetime had received blood transfusions. At one Point one of these transfusions brought him aids blood from a homosexual who presumably did nut know to the time he appeared As a donor thai he W.I-. A Carrier. The Man marries and his wife conceives. In due course there appears a Little boy. Visibly disfigured he is suffering from aids Iran smiled by  Mother. She has contracted from conjugal Union with her husband the ads re Latch com plex / Fri i ily among skydivers but what is greatly eased by gently re moving the problem of aids from the problem of homosexual promiscuity is the problem of addressing general questions of Hygiene health and Protection without appearing to be invidious. For a while the Only signs of Battle against aids were pictures of empty pay bathhouses in san Francisco. But Gay bathhouses in san Anthony Lewis Iso . 1985  Francisco Are of no concern to a rising number of straight men and women who Are being exposed to aids and of children who inherit the disease. A number of suggestions have been made. The most profligate it would seem is one that Calls for a National blood test. If such a lest were to identify the 2 million that is the estimate americans who have been infected what then would we do it would not be possible to police their activity. The lest would have Only the Benefit and it is a significant Benefit of alerting individual Ameri cans that they Are carriers whether they would then restrict their own activity to avoid any risk of contamination of others would seem to be entirely up to them. But Short of the microcosmic approach other stratagems now begin to  sense. Surely if Over the generations we have got used to a Wasserman test before a marriage License is issued we can gel used to an aids test also if the Young Man pictured in "60 min utes had known he was a Carrier he would either not have married or else having married he would have arranged not to Bear children and if such a thing is possible to guard during Intercourse against contamination of his spouse either that or celibacy. We have a word from an insurance Carrier in the Middle West that it is instructing its agents quid to inv Sijak the lifestyles of applicants for health insurance. Of. But Why not permit the insurance companies to be More direct and to insist on a blood test aimed at establishing whether applicants have aids objections will of course be heard from aids sufferers and from the bleeding heart Community. But the practical Point surely is hat an insurance company is entitled to such information As it reasonably needs in order to set realistic rates. Aids sufferers should be Given medical care but it in t the responsibility of private carriers to undertake inordinate burdens when there Are reasonable Means of avoid ing them. If carriers can set premiums for Drivers with some reference As to whether they drink alcoholic leverages carriers have the right to give coverage with some reference As to whether the applicant has contracted a mortal disease. So aids is a full blown problem. And to suggest ways of identifying its victims is not an ii idiots venture in Gay baiting. It s common sense. Plo actions make peace More Remote than Ever How is it possible to talk peace with the palestini ans when they have a political leadership of such Folly and  Bui without the palestinians there can be no peace and the Middle Hast needs that peace More urgently than Ever. Those Are the thoughts that linger in inc aftermath of the Achille  affair. After justified exultation Al the capture of murderous terrorists the realities remain. They arc somber ones for the United states and its Best friends in the Middle Hast Israel Egypt and Jordan. The immediate political result of the a Hill Lauro was to reduce to a new Low the International credibility of inc Palestine liberation organisation and its chairman. Yasser Arafat. A month ago Arafat the statesman was offering to Trade peace for  then that image was gone and we saw him weaving and deceiving about murder. There followed the political disaster of the aborted meeting with the British foreign Secretary. Sir Geoffrey Howe. Two Plo executive committee members were scheduled to join jordanian representatives in the meet ing. Prime minister Thatcher had personally arranged it on the basis of undertakings that the Plo delegates would explicitly recognize Israel s right to . At the last moment the Plo representatives refused to make the agreed statement. They acted reportedly at the instructions of Plo Headquarters. That decision repudiated not Only the undertaking to Thatcher but Arafat s commit men to King Hussein when they slatted their joint peace move last february. After those events the inevitable reaction was to write off inc Plo and Arafat As participants in inc Middle Hast peace process. The israeli government did so with undisguised pleasure saying the Achille  showed Arafat to be nothing but a terrorist. King Hussein s government in an icy statement made Clear that the Plo bore  for the diplomatic failure Ini on Dun. The reaction is understandable it May even last. Per haps Arafat has finally run through his nine political lives. Perhaps inc Plo will be treated As he saying goes As having taken itself Oul of the peace process there is one trouble with All that. No peace process is Worth inc name unless in can commit the people on the ground to acceptance of i negotiated result. And the palestinians who Are on the ground in the narrowest sense living in the occupied West Bank and a a show no signs of accepting a negotiation unless it includes Plo participant. Some think thai Hussein can stand in for inc palestinians but he does not he lost that territory in the first place and he cannot safely cede an Inch of it Only the palestinians can in Exchange for political rights Only they can give legitimacy to any negotiation that the King enters As he Well knows. Prime minister Peres of Israel has his own idea of How to get around the problem of palestinian representation in peace talks. It is to include palestinians from the West Bank and Cia a who Are not Plo members. I Hose palestinians arc mythical. No one of any stat ure on the West Hank would go to peace talks und a conditions thai amount to one Side in a negotiation selecting the representatives of the Oiler Side with All its Julis. Inc Plo still is for most people on inc West Bank the authentic voice of their suffering. Ii those Are the realities As 1 believe we arc Al a  moment in inc Middle Fasi the Cycle of violence is accelerating murder of three israelis in Cyprus bombing of i o Headquarters in Tunis Hijack Ingol the Achille Lauro what is happening threatens the three leaders in the area who Are most Friendly to the United so alas and most committed to living in peace Peres. Hussein and i resident Mubarak of .  is under pressure Ironi a orcs in his own country that reject Compromise unless there is peace the pressure toward extremism could become irresistible. More plainly than Ever now. The struggle is Pei Cen israelis and palestinians others in the Region Nave become spectators subject to injury. The unit i i Itcan More ens a c Illy ultimately More Taimy than Ever Hope requires an act of statesmanship of both israelis and palestinians the recognition of authenticity on the other Side. In is a slim Hope. Cd Nev York Tift is