European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page to columns the stars and stripes wednesday october ?1.1987 William Buckley not All aids victims deserve Public s sympathy i have a Friend age 8j. Whose insulin cos arc instructive became she combines a Large heart with a Stern sense of realism. In a recent visit we worked Side by Side in an office for 15 year she old me. In her Little apartment in san Francisco that she has no Pill Tor men and women who die or aids contracted by Needle i they knew what they were  whal about sex i asked. Same thing. If they knew what Olliej were  my Friend is certainly right in insisting that the question of blame where aids is concerned is very nearly forgotten. We should no deny ourselves an an St tar to these questions. If 1,000 americans contract aids in the month of october of this year and if 900 of these Are a Nnami Natii by sen 600 am Needles .100. We must assume thai the overwhelming majority knew by the first Day of october that there was great danger in handling a Needle lackadaisical by great danger in Malc-Lo-matcsi1 unless it is established that both men arc Tret of the virus. How does that knowledge reasonably affect the Public s attitude twid them ? one reaches out for analogies. The Drunken Driver i Onu quickly to mind. It in t Widdy or Jirld that the Man who drives while drunk is Fomo Petely unaware Hinl he might came an Accident. If he i Oes cause an Accident and hurls Only himself the Altitude of Many if his friends and Assoc files is serves him right Csiti though shul in t what you Sny when you go visit Linn Al Hie Hospital. Speaking of which such persons Jim faint of gel visited in thy Hospital because it is the Coli cd thing to do. To visit those who Are sick even if they made themselves sick. Now if the Drunken Motorist succeed in hurting or killing someone visits Are Likely to be in jails and Here there is a growing consensus. There arc militant hands of men and women whose sons and daughters have been killed by Drunken Drivers and they wish to see the Iron Side of Ifie Law Cio ahead and cure he Drunken Driver if he also got Hurt in the Accident but Send him from the Hospital to the jail. Somewhere tangentially in the area we have the cigarette smoker. By tradition we have treated Cigar Reite smoking As a casual vice and indeed there Are those who smoke and live and die with lungs intact. But we have All noticed it when an Edward  slips away from us to die from lung cancer there is the Leavening of resentful grief that goes with one s sense of obligation to realism if you decide to smoke Day after Day year after year you Lempel conclusive punishment. My Friend in san Francisco a no doubt picked up a social impulse in formation. It May be thai the majority of Texas High school students Don t know where Mexico is but one can safely bet that the majority of Texas High school students know that aids is a deadly disease and know How it is contracted. We Are living in an age in which it is virtually impossible not Lopnow about ads. When at the turn of the Century or Paul Ehrlich was asked what complaint he was devoting his Lime Loat tempting to cure his answer caused All the ladies to leave the table one did not mention the word syphilis in polite company. Things arc very different now. One does not fail to mention the term aids. You can find it in the Reader s digest. And you can find con Doms in vending machines in More and More colleges. "200.000 March in capital to seek Cay rights and Money for  the coalescing spirit of Many americans toward such demonstrations is not exactly As predicted. The problem of course is Hal it 900 contracted aids by wantonly exposing themselves to the disease so to speak by Drunken driving Hal leaves 00 who contracted n innocently. Children of diseased parents recipients of diseased blood the Inci dental Man or woman who came into Contact with diseased blood in the operating room or the dentist s chair. Their moral claim Lor he compassionate Atten Tion of the Community is undeniable. And of course any benefits Hal inure to them should be made available 10 All others who suffer never mind the circumstances of heir  the Drunken Driver receives inc same blood plasma is the child he hit hut there is the difference Between one s Alti tude toward the one victim and toward the other. My Friend in san Francisco May despair that so much Lime Lac no. Money and concern ure shown toward those who before oct. 1. Had it perfectly in their Power to prevent themselves from becoming ill yet Iacre is Hal concern. But it i Itol absolutely Safe to count on its perpetuity. Univ aim Pir i syn Okiw Reagan policy in Nicaragua gives . Black Eye had president Skacan Clib i Fau 1 set of to Crank a foreign policy disaster he could scarcely have in Prii cd on his course in Nicaragua. The first mistake from which All ski Ili Iwer to a the concept lha winning a War is less important than having one. No objective person believes the contras can topple the Sand Inma . No Mailer How much Aid we plow in. All they can do using our life support Synn is continue a Low level struggle thai seas Quilo enough for William Cas architect of the Reagan Doc Trine and for Elliott Abrams. Who car ried his pick at the stale department. Thev subscribed to an anti soviet mull that disdains any Quarter and takes no prisoners. If a War is unt Vin Nablo prolong it anyway to bleed the enemy. Us not just Sandinia blood. How Eer. No country in latin America wants this War. We bullied Honduras and Al Salvador into helping us continue it. Hut with enormous reluctance. Leaders of the Region have sought a diplomatic settlement for years Starl ing with Contador. We have torpedoed each Effort while piously pro claiming support. It has been a disgraceful exercise designed to Hood Wink not just latins Bill the american people. As frequently happens la double dealers. Reagan & co now arc hoist on i hair own petard. The Arias plan plus a democratic Congress mounted a settlement momentum Reagan finds politically impossible to oppose. He is reduced to playing for Lime. The Nobel Prirca to Anas is merely frosting but it illustrates How isolated we arc. There is no government on Earth Hal sup ports our position. The result May be the worst of both worlds. We could Sec a sandinista Triumph coupled with a Black Eye for . In world opinion. Nor arc democrats without blame in All this a sensible policy would Cal for supporting inc contras while sincerely negotiating for a peace in which the nicaraguan government