European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes sunday june 7,1987 William Buckley aids gets Page a Day coverage in papers Many newspapers have what amounts loan aids Page every Day. The disease is moving in on All fronts and there is proposed legislation to discuss on monday new experiments in treatment on tuesday a discussion of wha i really was that someone died from on wednesday and on and on. From time to time it pays to collect these data and Chart where we arc going with Ihm. Here is the current scene. In the matter of testing it is increasingly Clear that we Are moving in the direction of Universal testing Universal Here read with the obvious qualifications. U is nowhere envisioned that Willard Scott will joyfully announce on the today show that mrs. Jones of elks Villa iii., is 100 years old today and was tested for aids. Exactly what Universal Means will be an empirical question in part but an empirical question whose edges Are deeply informed by diplomacy and the desire for privacy. Bui consider the rapidity of the change in Public sentiment. Less than one month ago a Bill in the sen ate to require testing for immigrants and for those who seek wedding licenses lost by a 2-1 margin. A couple of Days ago the Senate passed a Bill requiring testing for immigrants unanimously. President Reagan in his speech last week As cd for testing in four categories the first Immi Grants the second Federal prisoners the third patients . Rosenthal being treated for drug abuse and sexually transmitted diseases the fourth applicants for state marriage licenses. We know that the test is compulsory in the armed forces and we know that Public health agencies came out a year ago in favor of testing of High risk groups together with a program to inform sex partners of those who Register positive that they May be carriers of the virus. Meanwhile in ribs and drabs we Are reminded of the dimensions of the problem. Professor Stephen j. Gould of Harvard has written about the possibility of the depopulation of the go new by 25 percent. Las week there was news of three nurses who acquired the virus by exposure to diseased blood. And to Volunteer a scarcely believable prediction but one Given me by a non volatile student of the problem it May prove difficult five years from now to engage medical attention for those who suffer from aids. Her Point she is on the Board of a Hospital is that mysteries of  arc increasing rather than decreasing and that the social indices therefore Point in the direction of quarantine. Meanwhile we gel some specific data. The Cost of testing is about $50. If a test registers positive a Sec Ond is administered. There is a very Remote possibility that the second test will go negative the first was a false alarm. But if the second test is positive a third generally administered. And the indications Are that there is Zero Chance that the third lest will be negative if the first two arc positive. Using rough figures the Cost of Lesting 250million people would be $ 2,s billion. But we Are no where near developing the facilities for testing on so wide a scale. In san Francisco and los Angeles there is a three month wait for a test. If everyone were Tomor Row to resolve that tests should be administered to everyone Between the Ages of 12 and 60, it would take months and months before it were possible to proceed. But he question is less and less should we test than it is what do we do having tested for in stance if we proceed to demand of potential Immi Grants not Only that they test for five venereal diseases infectious leprosy and Active tuberculosis the present . Requirements but also for aids what do we do with Pierre Lafite in Marseilles who registers positive Well we Tell him we re sorry but he can t come live in the United states. But do we then Tell mrs. Ladle what we have discovered about her husband do we Tel the French government the Quick answer is no we be taken care of our own interest and the privacy priority should now assert itself. But is this the Way to treat the French to disguise from the French Community the knowledge that we have identified a Carrier who maybe transmitting the disease to other frenchmen it is As rough a problem As a democracy has eve faced. Slay tuned and read the aids Page every Day. C univ if 111  syndic. . Should unlock its files on War crimes there is important and Good news in the making at the United nations. It now looks like y that the dogged determination of one Small country and its envoy and a decision taken in a Washington office May put an end to a shame of the United nations and its members the Locking of the files on War crimes. The Small country is Israel and its . Delegate i Benjamin Netanyahu. He has fought consistently and insistently to get he Hies opened. And in Washington Secretary of state George Shultz has finally . Policy which for almost 40 years has backed the closing of the files. When the Allied War crimes commission went out of business in i 948, it shipped its records including the files of 25,000 people it Felt should be prosecuted to the United nations for safekeeping the United nations not Only Kepi them Safe it Kep them locked and hidden decade after decade which the original commission never intended. There is plenty of blame to spread around the , bureaucrats who ducked their town responsibilities and said they were obeying the new wishes of the 11 nations that had belonged to the commission the countries that knew there might be embarrassment for them in the files the countries that just did t care and the secretaries general who never exerted their Legal right to open the files. There was of course one Secretary general who must have been terrified every Day of his 10 years in office that somebody would get to the files. Eventually somebody did and Kurt Waldheim s record which qualified him for prosecution under the standards of the War crimes commission was made known to a shocked world. A depressing varied group of countries were part of the decision to keep the files locked even after the Waldheim Case showed the importance of having scholars historians and journalists examine them. There was a Clear Public interest in opening them  unjust Ven and a Clear debt to the murdered millions of Europe but the Western allies kept saying no. So did Poland and Czechoslovakia the soviet Union was not a commission member and to did Yugoslavia where Kurt Wai Dhim had been stationed in the German army tracking Down partisans. The belief now among Many . Diplomats is that marshal Tilo knew about Waldheim Alt along but found it More useful to keep his secret there is no proof of the theory that the marshal was keeping the Secretary genera4 on the string. But when the world jewish Congress made the Waldheim file Public the yugoslavs did not seem at All surprised an came through with their own War crimes commission material denouncing Waldheim suddenly discovered after All those years. Sitting in his office on the 18th floor of . All those years Waldheim must have though about marshal Tilo quite a bit. Netanyahu began a Campaign for opening the filet Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar Tike his predecessors dial inc to open the files unless the former member states agreed. At first Only Good old Australia said open the right up. The israeli made a pest of himself. Yugoslavia Tito Long gone finally went along with opening. Then the Netherlands. The United slates did not agree. Nobody seemed to care much in the government. But somebody got Shultz himself involved and the result was that the United states has changed its Posi Tion at last. On instructions from Washington the . Delegate Veroon Walters has told the Secretary general that . Is now in favor of opening the files to people accredited by their government for the purpose. There will be debate about How that will work Outwith Good will it can. The Secretary general now will go Back to the other members of the commission. Some of them have been curious to see How the . Would go. At the ., diplomats expect at least two More coun Ril a. Perhaps Denmark and Norway to agree to opening. The Secretary general will then decide be Bai a consensus and Call for a formal meeting to work out the precise conditions Aslo exactly who can get at the files when and How. Sen Daniel p. Moynihan of new York and others who have spoken out for opening the files will undoubtedly gel suggestions from constituents and journalists to please make sure open Means open Al this count As the first. There is some sense of appropriateness that the word about unlocking the War crime files Cornea while Klaus Barbie is on trial in Lyons