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I know that I would keep my children from taking such tests. I would lie to neighbors, friends, and medical personnel in order to protect my children from quarantine. There is no way that they would take But what if things were different? What if Congress possession of my kids without a fight. I'm sure that and the president of the United States called for all Of course, that would have meant that the number of kids getting polio each summer would have shot up. The government wasn't that stupid then. But some in government want to do it now with the AIDS epidemic.

AIDS is certainly not as contagious as polio. Polio could be caught as easily as a cold. AIDS is transmitted only through blood or certain bodily fluids. We need more public education on this issue. We need testing of The Elmer Gantrys and bigots in the White House and Congress are yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded room, and There is not one reputable medical expert who there is nobody there with the courage to shut them up.

advocates forced testing and quarantine in order to halt the Both of my children were born before the invention of spread of AIDS. Yet the highest elected politicians from the polio vaccine by Dr. Salk. Every summer when they both parties are advocating forced (i.e., "routine") testing and even quarantine of those discovered to have the virus We would take them to the beach or a children's wading pool only to find a sign of warning that it was This rhetoric is for the purpose of spreading gasoline closed due to an outbreak of polio. This would be on a fire. It is designed to appeal to the fundamentalist followed by a warning to observe your children for at ya-hoos who claim Biblical grounds for their prejudice least 10 days to see whether they had a fever or headaches against gay people and who do not want to be confused For 10 days, both I and my husband would check their We cannot depend on the politicians in the two temperatures several times a day. If they came down with capitalist parties to protect our (and it is all of our)

human rights. They don't want to limit or cure AIDS, The threat of polio was frightful. There was no cure or children with symptoms of polio to be removed from vaccine, and the only hope was that if they did contact their homes and indefinitely locked away in some We must depend on the massive action of millions of polio, it would be a mild case. The dread disease left people who want to cure AIDS and end that disease once thousands of children handicapped for life or dead. What if they demanded testing for all children who had and for all. Mass united action in defense of the rights of We would keep our children home, call the doctor, and been to a beach or wading pool? If the test showed polio those carrying the AIDS virus-and everyone else, for also tell the parents of our children's friends if either of anti-bodies, what if they ordered the children permanently that matter—is our only hope of stopping the political them had a temperature-just in case. And they warned removed to quarantine camps? What would you do! tweedledums and tweedledees before they get us.

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By SYLVIA WEINSTEIN The biggest danger facing the American people is not from AIDS but from the big-mouthed politicians. The right-wing Democrats and Republicans yell for testing and quarantine of AIDS victims, and the gutless liberal politicians stand silently by. were small there was one panic after another.

(symptoms of polio).

a cold, we would rush off to the doctor.

quarantine camp? us when the situation was reversed. warning our neighbors.

What would you do? ' SPEECHMRITERS every parent would feel the same way. drugs-not people.

in their bodies.

by the facts.

they want to make political gains from it. with." With this conclusion, you leave out the question of why there was a leak to begin with.

Nor do you ask some other very important questions: What are the forces behind the leak and why? Is there a struggle in the ruling class and, if so, what is the alliance of forces?

My view is that the right wing and the liberals in the ruling class have formed a coalition to expose the Reagan doctrine as the weak doctrine it is, given the fact that it could not deliver on its promises of returning the U.S. to its role as the world controller or retake the Soviet Union and all the worker and nationalist states.

The attempt to discredit the Reagan doctrine is becoming more and more apparent in the bourgeois media and in the recent testimony of General Secord.

Who has Secord opened the barn door on? Why, the vice presiAcTion Closing date: June 20, 1987 Editor: ALAN BENJAMIN Asst. Editor: MICHAEL SCHREIBER Weinstein.

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checks should be in U.S. dollars.) Education is needed dent, the CIA, and the president himself. Secord states that he was told the vice president was appraised of the contra supply operation.

Now answer me honestly, does this seem like the actions taken to end an investigation? I think not, and I believe that there is a lot more to come out of this.

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