European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday. November 27. 1965 William Buckley Are sufferers of aids deserving of compassion mow should Onk Kikkl toward those who suf Fer from aids the question is Only uncomplicated . You should feel sorry for All of them if one accepts inc moral injunction thai All sinners should be forgiven. This injunction christians believe As a matter of Dogma bul there is an operative qualifier to wit contrition. If Adolf Hitler were truly contrite. God s Law would forgive him. Lie is otherwise damned. The sufferer from aids is in some ways analogous the word carefully defined As a resemblance in some particulars Between things otherwise  a rough but useful differential Ion among aids sufferers might proceed As follows the Man. Woman or child innocently infected by heterosexual or biological transmission. The Man woman or child innocently infected by the use of a contaminated Needle for other than narcotic purposes such As a by xxx transfusion. The homosexual who contracted the virus before he was aware that there was any such thing As aids. If medical reporting is reliable that number in the United states has pot to be very Small for so Stark a reason As that the life Span of the aids victim is two years. Since we have known about aids since i9h1. Anyone who has contracted it since that time by homosexual Contact presumably knew that he was run Ning a risk. Now i is everywhere recorded that men with proclivities of the kind that can result in contamination by aids arc very rapidly changing their lifestyles. Either they practice abstinence or else they reduce the fre Quency and variety of their contacts reducing in pro portion their Chance of exposure or else when engaged in dangerous activity they Lake precautions specified by doctors. We know that everywhere the patronage of so called bathhouses is Down. But we know also that patronage of them has t ended. Two stories in a recent edition of the new York times highlighted the question before the House. The headline of the first Story was City closes bar frequented by homosexuals. Citing sexual activity linked to  the Story spoke of the closing Down of a bar called the mine Shaft after City inspectors had entered it and observed what went on there the exact quotation from the times the inspectors wrote of seeing several men in Var ious stages of undress fondling each other engaging in Oral and anal Intercourse and doing so in the open. They said that although signs warned of aids and offered to provide condoms condoms were not being used James Reston aim sets new 6uild tilings on screen kissing the Story included on account of protests against the closing of the bar lodged by the new York civil liberties Union and by a spokesman for the Gay men s health crisis the former taking the position Hal closing Down such bars was an imposition on the rights of private behaviour the latter that closing the bars would t diminish the disease the Assumption being that customers would simply move elsewhere. The second Story spoke of a memorial consecrated the same Day by the episcopal Bishop of new York. Paul Moore jr., in the Cathedral of St. John the divine. The Bishop explained it will be witness to the City and Community that we hold close in our love and care those persons who have aids or have died from aids. U will dignify this tragedy As much As  the Bishop explained further it will be a Way of praying for the repose of their souls. Their names being in a holy place will give the people who love them a sense that they re being cared for. In that Book in a sense. They arc before the altar of god. It could be a Beautiful  now the Bishop is talking about Beautiful things if he is talking about the capacity of god to forgive exclusively out of the alchemical operation god s mercy brings the penitent thief into his kingdom. God s mercy is capable of anything up to and including balancing the budget. But is Bishop Moore also plan Ning i memorial for those who die of syphilis another for those who of on Coke what is clearly missing from the Bishop and from fellow travellers of his Brand of groundless compassion is any consideration of this some aids sufferers would rather contaminate other people causing them to die a miserable death than to control their own perverse appetites. And prayers to them arc better directed that their minds should be cleansed hair that they should move uninterruptedly from the mine Shaft onto the heavenly kingdom on inc shoulders of Angels. C Universal Preiti Syndicate Don f hold your breath until letter leak is found nothing intrigues the performers in the Washington political circus More than a purloined letter from a Cabinet officer to the president especially if there s a whiff of treachery in the wind. The Hunt is on for the villain who assisted in the publication of Secretary of defense Weinberger s Don t give away the Storc warning to president Reagan just before the Summit meeting in Geneva. But Don t hold your breath until the culprit is found. Consider instead the antics of the plumbers who Are looking for the leaders. The defense investigation serv  of the Pentagon has ordered a thorough professional investigation to ferret out any suspicious charac Ter on the premises who might have slipped the letter to the new York times and the Washington Post. As proof of his integrity assistant Secretary of de sense Richard n. Perle whose enthusiasm for an arms control agreement with he russians is not excessive has come Forward with an offer to take a lie Detector lest to prove his innocence. This will give you an idea of what has happened to the old notion that a Man s word is his Bond. You can bet dollars to rubles which is fairly Long Odds that the villain will not be found in the Pentagon by the in House cops. So the search will have to reach out to the while House the state department the Central intelligence Agency and the arms control and disarmament Agency which were also favored with official copies of Weinberger s letter. Here two definitions Are relevant. It is generally agreed in the Washington newspaper corps that an exclusive Story is a scoop when you gel it and a leak when the opposition gets it. There also used to be a theory that a government was the Only vessel that leaked from the top. That theory no longer holds. It was destroyed by the photocopying machine. This infernal invention now humming and winking in every closet in every department of government did More to threaten the Security of the Republic than All the communist guerrillas in Central America. Just let a few copies of Cappy s final advice to the president Cross the Potomac in sealed pouches and be fore you can say Caspar Willard Weinberger dozens of Anonymous bureaucrats will be producing hundreds of copies dreaming about writing books in retirement and babbling secrets to their sweethearts in the night. So the mole who came put of the Hole is not Likely to be found. One can imagine with what Zeal attorney general Meese will investigate his old California Bud Dies at the state and defense departments and what help hell get from Bill Casey at the Cia. There is however maybe something More important and interesting than this plumbers game not who leaked the letter but Why the Secretary of defense sent it to the president just before the Summit talks. We have it on the word of the Secretary of state that there was nothing new in the letter that Weinberger had said the same thing to the president a dozen times. Is it conceivable then that after months of preparation for the first meeting Between the leaders of the two nuclear giants in six years that the president had still not made up his mind on the Salt ii and anti ballistic missile questions or could it be that Weinberger could t be sure what the president would say or do in the distracting tumult of Geneva and just could t resist reinforcing his warn Ings before the president took off this is. And for a Long time has been the critical question about the conduct or casual misconduct of Reagan s foreign policy. His Best friends wondered what he would say or do while strolling along the Lake or walking through the Woods with Mikhail Gorbachev. Weinberger on the other hand doubts everybody s judgment but his own. He is a True believer a Patriot of his country a Brilliant advocate who thinks he knows How to defend the nation from the moral monsters of the soviet Union. But at least seen from this Corner he s not a deceitful Man who would try to sabotage the Geneva talks with sly leaks to the press. It s just that with relentless conviction bordering on intellectual arrogance he has made enemies some of whom by Accident or design in yet a his Lull or to arrays him which ii called the Al Haig treatment. Anyway this is the sort of personal and policy in Trigue that fascinates Washington and drive Ceorge Shultz up the slate department Wall. Behind the letter lies the deeper question of How policy is made or not made and this worries even the president s friends and allies More than they care to say in Public. I new York rim let Mil riot melt  Lex new