European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday october 6,1983 Bush biding his time on 88 decision aboard air Forre two a being vice president has its ups and Downs says George Rush who insists he s trying in make the most of a Job everybody else thinks he s trying to gel out or. It is no secret that he would like to move up in the organization but wit the presidential election two years away the preppy Texas millionaire says he just wants to be a helpful no. 2. I m not going o talk about the future until the future Bush said last week relaxing in his airborne office. He made a Quick hop to new Jersey to attend a fund miser for Republican rep. Dean Gallo one of some 100 Campaign sorties the vice president has made this year. Tic loosened and in shirtsleeves after the steamy three hour Stop inner Jersey. Bush said he s sweating out the upcoming congressional race Sand prefers to Cool it As far As presidential polities. What i d like to do is have a political hiatus after the elections of 86," Bush said draping a leg up on his desk. My View is to take my Lime in becoming a formal candidate. Americans get tired of elections blending into one another i trying to talk about 86." the vice president is working hard for top candidates especially on the Whitehouse s top political priority preserving the Republican majority in the sen ate. Just hours after returning from new Jersey Bush hopped by helicopter to Maryland for gop Senate contender Linda Chavez. During the preceding week he stumped in Louisiana califor Nia. Nevada Colorado Oklahoma and Texas. Generally 1 feel we can keep control of the Senate he said though officially campaigning for other Bush admits he s also looking out for Bush. Before appearing on behalf of Gallo Ata s2so-a-plate filet mignon lunch the vice president met behind closed doors vice president George Bush talks with Sudan prime minister sadly Al Mahdi last week in Washington. Ap0uo with new Jersey s gop county chair Man. I say hey i m interested but i m trying to keep so out of it. I m trying to avoid it assiduously he said. In preaching the Reagan revolution Bush says he s Niqi trying to become a clone of the president indeed that he would be spectacularly unsuccessful if he tried to Trade personally on Reagan enormous popularity. And even when Bush becomes a for Mal candidate he does t expect overt help from the Boss. I Ion l think thai the president will endorse anybody Ever in the primary,1 Bush said. For the time the vice president say she s Content to be Reagan s confidant acting the kind of modern vice presi Dent role Bush says was largely created by the warm relationship Between Jimmy Caner and Walter Mondale. There s a certain up Side to being vice president said Bush citing the same kind of Trust Between him and Rea Gan. Bush says he and Reagan talk frequently and in private. The vice presidency has worked because i never Dis cuss what i discuss with the president he said. Thai would t work. There s a Down Side. It makes me less than interesting copy Bush admits. Bush said he s mindful of the history of the vice presidency As a fifth wheel Job recalling a discussion with former vice president Nelson Rockefeller about his Brief service under Gerald  said Rockefeller told him that he always resented the Way the while House sixty tin the legs out from under  i Don t have that frustration about allow this Bush said. Red Cross launching singles blood drive Nashville term. Up there Cross is launching a Wood drive with a flair it is aimed at single peo ple and will feature Valet parking romantic music and fancy hours d oeuvres. With the singles situation being the Way it is with people afraid of disease what better Way to meet sin Gle healthy people said Lenore Gabel assistant director of Public re lations for the red Cross. But there arc no Iron Clad health guarantees for the thursday nigh event we Don t want to say to people that you Don t have to worry about aids if you meet some Guy at the Bloodmobile. We Don t do the aids testing until after the blood s collected. But what we re saying in Gen eral is our blood donors Are generally healthy Gabel said. I just feel the kind of people who Are donors Are generally people whore generous altruistic and in reason ably Good  the Nashville organizers believe ii will a the first singles blood drive and National Headquarters in Washington does not dispute the claim. Fit succeeds it could become a monthly event. All the staff and volunteers working his drive will All be single too. We thought it would be More fun if every one was single Gabel said. It s an unusual Way to recruit blood  Gabol said she and other single staff members agreed with Judy Damn who originated the concept. They see it As a new Market. In addition to Valet parking a disc jockey food and other entertainment. Damn and Gabut persuaded a local radio station geared toward a Youn professional Market o sponsor the event. We will also have some staff help ing people meet people and mingling in the crowd. Most of the social part will be in the lobby outside the blood donor area said Gabel. What we re hoping is that if thesis a successful venture this is some thing that we can do on a monthly basis. They can Only donate every other month but we can have groups alternating and coming Back on alter Nate months Gabel said. We have approached singles groups like Church singles groups tract As drive sponsors donors must be single Between 17and 65 and in Good health. Attorneys say aids jokes Ore no laughing matter los Angeles up jokes about aids Are usually considered Gallows humor an Effort to assuage tear by laughing at a basically grim situation but some authorities suspect Thev could bean illegal form of discrimination and harassment. Attorneys representing the cities of los Angeles and West Hollywood which both have Laws to protect aids victim Sand homosexuals from discrimination told the los Angeles daily news there Are circumstances in which telling aids jokes would be illegal while it May be hard to imagine any thing funny about acquired immune deficiency syndrome which has claimed about 25,000 lives in the last six Yean primarily among Gay men aids jokes Are appearing in Ever greater numbers it s like Gallows humor said Ala Dundes a professor of anthropology and folklore at us Berkeley. The More Hor Rible the tragedy the More you need  Dundes has collected 30 aids jokes including 12 about actor Rock Hudson who died last year from the disease. While the passage of time has mad jokes about the challenger explosion and the chernobyl nuclear disaster passe aids jokes Are becoming More elaborate and sophisticated he said. You Tell jokes often to distance your self from something thai disturbs you Dundes said. In telling them you Are saying i m not like the people described in the joke but the very fact you led jokes about the topic indicates you far being touched by the disease As the disease spreads into the Detent sexual population jokes Are Likely to be come even More common Dundes said. There have been More and Man of these he said. The aids jokes ire More Long lasting because the  t diminished. It s a Modem Day plague. The jokes will continue until we get a  Jenkins City attorney Tat West Hollywood said an isolated joke probably would not be a legitimate came Flegal action unless it is intended to at has the effect of causing  West Hollywood Law is Brand enough to allow us to find discrimination under certain circumstances involving people telling jokes about aids be  i. Schulman a Deputy City it whey responsible for enforcement of the los Angeles aids ordinance said nil office also would Lake seriously attentions of discrimination involving aids  would certainly accept a complaint and investigate be  whole purpose is to protect people from being treated wrongly baled  of a whole