European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Aids Issue enters presidential Campaign by Christopher Connell associated press he candidates running Lor the while House Are hearing Iho same question Over and Over again from worried citizens what will you a about aids their responses Range Iron the democrats near unanimous criticism of president Reagan s handling of the aids crisis to cafes for wider aids testing by several republicans. So far the threat of aids which has already killed More than 24,400 americans and is expected to claim 155,000 More lives in she next four years has not erupted into the Colalite Campaign Issue that some political observers predicted. But the deadly disease has cast a Shadow on the Campaign Trail and the thorny dilemmas it poses How to halt its spread How to Avert Public hysteria May yet become a Teal of the presidential candidates Melfe. Rep. Jack Kemp r-n.y., favors making blood tests for exposure to the aids virus routine for Hospital patients marriage License applicants health workers immigrants and those arrested for drugs or prostitution the main Point of routine testing is to prevent the tragedy of spreading a deadly disease to others including helpless infants Kemp said in a speech on aids. The threat to the Public health is Lar More prevalent than commonly believed said Kemp who charged the Battle had bogged Down because of disagreements among Public health official s that go beyond he scope of both vice president George Bush and former Arizona gov. Bruce Babbitt a Democrat have endorsed blood tests for aids antibodies before marriage. Bui Babbitt has also ridiculed Reagan s response to the aids epidemic we have a president who is Tough enough. To Send battleships to the persian Gulf but who can l say the word condom in Public said Babbitt. Bush was met with scattered Boos at an aids conference in june when he outlined the administration s plans to require aids tests Tor immigrants and Federal prisoners. Bush also Sard lest results should be kept confidential. The nation needs an All out War against the disease. Not against the victims of aids a said. The democrats were asked Al a sept. 11 debate in Chapel Hill n.c., How they would have handled the incident in Arcadia fla., where the Home of three boys who Tarry aids antibodies was burned Down after protests Over their attending Public school. 8n, alb Trogon. It in. Said this unfortunate incident was caused partly by a Complete Lack of leadership Over the fast several years at the National level. Not since Herbert Hoover has a president done less when he should have known Gore said he would launch a nationwide education and prevention Campaign " he said that television evangelist Pat Robertson pulp Toto Matt Chusett nov. Mac Taitl Dion kit in photo since the disease is not spread by casual Contact children infected with the virus should be allowed to attend school and not be segregated As if they had Babbitt said he would have dispatched the Secretary of health and human services to Arcadia to try to quiet parents tears. Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said this May be the most threatening health epidemic our country has Ever known. We must not even try to put a limit on aids education Aid research to Stop that killer Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis said he had helped defuse an ads school controversy in his state. We be had an administration that s almost been embarrassed by he problem it can t seem to get a hold of it he said. Dukakis in response to an associated press Survey in May said he would resist Calls for widespread mandatory testing but would not Rule it out. In strictly limited he added the worst thing we could do would be to let the Scourge of aids Divide the andean people pitting us one against the other in fear or mistrust. We can Deleal this deadly pal Robertson the television evangelist and a Republican contender has suggested that slates eventually will be forced to apply some sort of quarantine of aids victims Robertson said the Only Safe sex is sexual continence and Fidelity. The current advertising program that is designed to promote sate sex through use of condoms is at Best illusory and at worst an absolute former Delaware gov. Pete Dupont another Republican contender said there a Only one sure Way to control the spread of aids to have an intimate relationship wish Only one Dupont who also matted Lor stepped up research for a cure was booed Al a gop gathering in Florida last Winter Whan he said aids wan a medical problem not a moral fellow Republican Alexander m. Haig or. The former Secretary of state said More funds were needed for research. Education should Deal not Only with the medical aspects of he disease but also on known Means of prevention including monogamy and abstinence Haig said. Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said mandatory testing is something that will require Long and hard study.1 but Dole emphasized aids will be one of the lop issues in 19b8. Not because of politics but because of the lethal three it poses to the very Well being of this natron. I am committed to allocating whatever resources necessary to get the Job on the democrats Side. Rep. Richard a. Gephardt of Missouri promised to devote whatever funds Are necessary to Lind both a cure. And a he added it is imperative that we identify High risk behaviour and urge everyone to modify reduce and avoid such behaviour. For those who currently have aids the key is compassion More called for the equivalent of a Manhattan project to Lind both a vaccine to prevent the spread of aids and a cure for Hose already he said voluntary testing should be available for everyone but said testing marriage applicants would Only locus resources on groups with the lowest sen. Paul Simon d-lll., said mandatory testing Al this Point would be but he said physicians should routinely lest Lor aids when they conduct physicals. And Babbitt said i m Lor Early and factual education on sex and birth control in High school combined with sexual restraint morality and the word no " infection was strongly associated with a history or Laboratory evidence of sexually transmitted diseases including herpes Hyphas and genital warts. Quinn reported. He said that ulcers appear to be especially important in developing countries and May be part of the reason that he Hetero Senuah spread o aids is More common in Africa than in the untied slates and Europe Tutaro is no known cure for aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome a virus trial attacks blood celts and and Breaks Down Ine victim s immunity to i sections it enters the body through the transmission of blood or semen. Kwh risk groups include homosexuals and Haemophiliacs the latter because they need regular blood transfusions. The incubation period ranges from about sin months to five years and possibly longer children with aids generally do not survive As Long As adult victims Cameron said that Norcum Cistin men Are doubly at its because the1 arc More Likely to get ulcer producing sexually transmitted diseases and also because a mucous membrane Mesido Trie Foreskin m
