European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes columns William f. Buckley or. Rio treaty offers some Usuff Caff on for Honduras just what was an american military unit doing in Honduras the answer to Hal question is strangely absent from most accounts and therein lies talc. Mean while we should revisit the Rio treaty which was executed in 1947. To is described in he following language in the volume. The american political dictionary. Seventh edition by Jack c piano and Milton Greenberg the inter american treaty of reciprocal assist Ance of 1947, by which 21 american republics agreed in armed attack by any Riata against an american Siatt shall be considered As an attack against All he american by alas the Rio treaty was the first Mutual Security pact entered into by the United stain and it became a Model fur All subsequent Otic. The treaty establishes a hemispheric Security zone stretch ing from the North pole to the South pole. If an attack occurs within the zone members agree o consult about collective Macii surfs to be undertaken while re Taining Freedom to act individually obviously the United states acted individually when the president sent four battalions of american troops to Honduras. Whether while doing so he solicited Active cooperation from neighbouring latin Ameri can Stales we do not know. We do know that the argument of hot Pur suit on which the sandinista have primarily relied is phony. Hot Pursuit envisions a lighter plane de Clining to Stop at the Border when engaged in giving Chase to the adversary. Or if one wishes a slow motion analogy imagine chasing a columbian vessel hailed in Caribbean Waters suspected of carrying dope. The ves Sel turns Tail and hot foots it for the Protection of Home territory. The coast guard zooms across the Frontier and overcomes1 the boat say is Miles away from colombian land. Such is the drama of hot Pursuit. Gut informal Ion Ching made available by the depart Mem of Slat confirm that there was no Clement of his in the sandinista offensive. The attack on Contra bases was planned weeks brio. The planners took carefully into account terrain logistics and Likely opposition. There arc Aerial photographs made by . Aircraft that confirm the premeditated character of the so Rick. treaty clause 2. Stipulates on the request of the state or states directly attacked and until the decision of the Organ of consultation of the 1 liter american system each one of the contracting panics May determine the immediate measures which it May individually to pc in fulfilment of the obligation to help against the aggressor now it is nowhere specified who is to Call he Organ of consultation. Would it. In this Case be Honduras or the United Stales in any event neither country Ellen Goodman has done so and one can guess Why. The Organ of consultation once convener is Likely to be influenced heavily by the Conta Dota group. And the Contador countries Are and Law pcs have been opposed to the contras. No because they Tor the contras hut be cause they fear the sandinista. A Long while Back the Contador countries mex Ico Venezuela Colombia and Panama look a look at the civil War in Nicaragua and reasoned quite understandably that the sandinista would prevail. Not because they were popular or because they represented any of the values he Contador countries publicly Cit com but because the ambiguity flowing in from the United slates oui in eventually paralyse the contras. As it has now done with the refusal of Congress to vote even exit Nous Aid even in humanitarian specie. Another question arises not without inter till does the right to hot Pursuit limit the defending nation to Wail for an attack before he can return it in kind reaching into the enemy s territory if cos Sabyl the israelis in 19b1. Con ducted a preemptive raid against a nuclear Power Plant in Iraq which the israelis claimed was being developed in such a Way As to easily be converted into a nuclear bomb Plant the israelis made it Plain that they wot not going to Eil around until nuclear bombs rained Down on them to indulge the niceties about when the Laws of hot Pursuit apply. So icy reached in and bombed the nuclear station. Such reasoning is available to the sandinista should they wish to use it which no doubt they will need to do. The Legal Case in the matter of Israel went against her. Will it of against the sandinista h Uman deduction sympathizes with the israelis so while pleading the rid treaty we Are not entirely covered by its language. We Are completely covered by our Resolution to try to do something to arrest the commune Zavion of Central America if con Gress will permit us to do so. Fol of of Tell Pink scrod eau Public developing immunity to aids warnings Are Vou a member of a High risk group Tor exposure in mixed or misinformation have you had Contact with a self proclaimed aids expert casual intimate repeated if so by now you May be exhibiting All the symptoms of Ains irs formation Vrtis Psaw. High in icily. Confusion. Cynicism. A desire to put a bag Over your head until it All goes away. The fear of the aids epidemic has spread so much faster than our knowledge of the disease that it is spawning whole Cali age industries of experts with yarn Rig credentials and agendas Alt advising the Public on their sexual behaviour. Some have been manufacturing alarms and others have been peddling reassurance. The results Are bewilderment and a building consumer Orcsi Blanc to any information. In the pan month we had or. Robert Gould a psychiatrist telling that Cosmo girl in her favorite Magazine hat there was virtually nothing in worry about from Normal heterosexual relationships beyond a Truken heart. There was t evidence that the fatal disease was breaking out now we have the physiologists of the sexual revolution. Or. William masters and Virginia Johnson along with or. Robert Kolodny insisting in a Book called crisis that aids is now running rampant in the master Johnson and Kolodny studied 800 heterosexuals Between 21 and 40 from four cities. Half of them were monogamous and half of them had More than lie Schual partners in the past year. Of those with multiple partners 7 percent of inc women and 5 percent of the men tested positive for aids a number far higher than any other study. Armed with these numbers masters Johnson and Kolodny accuse the scientific Community of benevolent the National centers for Dis ease control estimate that 1.5 million americans Are infected with the aids virus. This Trio doubles Hal Esti mate adding that 200,000 non drug using heterosexuals Are probably infected a number seven times higher than the one Given by the cd. Arc you developing an immunity to aids slain stick the Public has had an excess of Assurance followed by an excess of alarm from so called experts on Bot sides says or. Harvey Fineberg Dean of Harvard s school of Public health and one of those trying to maintain some sort of balance. We get tossed Between such scientific extremes in part because we Don t have satisfying data but we do have a lot of fear. Anybody can play with probabilities until they match their own anxieties. It has been estimated for example Hal the risk of trans mitting the virus through one act of unprotected inter course is one in a thousand. Is thai a lot or a Little Over an evening a year or a lifetime the Irio who wrote crisis estimates that the risk for a woman is one in 400 sexual encounters. Does this signify a disease running rampant when used Why he called in that Mai in said "1 simply believe it this in the son of thing that drivel he cautious health Community to distraction. They have to Light a match under could one Day and put out the masters and Johnson fire the next. Crisis even raises the flame on casual Contact saying that it s theoretically possible to gel infected in a touch football game or from a toilet scat. As Mincberg Jyi. It s theoretically possible that a meteorite could hit the world Trade if epidemiologists were forced to choose Between the alarmists and soothing Sayers they would flu Sianily choose alarms. But my fear says Fineberg is thai the Public Tju say nobody knows anything it feeds into the anti expert mood. They won t want to hear there Are Many reasons for the dueling experts. Thuv Range from honest scientific differences of Hustles. But the. Public is interested in one thing How scared should i be 1 How careful should i be and there is a certain con slam underlying All but the most irresponsibly Rosy own Arr. About How 10 behave sexually in this epidemic. Crisis offers the chilling notion that Only 10 per cent of their Sample with numerous sex partners thought they were Ai risk none of them were regular condom users. In the face of All this the Prue Riplon is the same one we heard last month last year the year before. Abstinence or a monogamous relationship with in Unm cited person is the Best Protection. The use of i condom and spermicide every time is second Best and while you re la it be wary of Unpi Tecie relationships with untested expert misinformation ii highly in Catious
