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AIDS: The Scare - And Sell In the Nert 10 Years The AIDS Plague Will Hit Your Neighbor hood" was printed in bold, red let tars on the outside of the envelope. Inside, was the moot brilliant sales pitch, Tvs ever read. I say brilliant advisedly. Devious may be a bet ter word. For $24.75 a quarter or $95 a ysar for his financial newsletter, the author promises a "special re port that will help you protect your personal and financial fu ture." Tactic: scare and sell, in that order. Information has come to him by a second party in a secret tape Cl hope he doesn’t get himself firebombed.") that "information is being actively suppressed by the government - state, local, and Federal." "If the public gets wind of it, there could be a panic," he warns. And "if the story doesn't get out, there will be panic any way," he adds. The "evidence looks ironclad . we face a crisis of unimaginable proportions." Now the scare phase heats up. At least three million people are now carriers (of AIDS). 80 - 90% will be carriers the rest of their lives," the man writes. "That means by 1993 some where in the range of 2,000,000 people will be dead or dying. r~ — There are only 284,000 hospital beds in America. It doesn't long to see that thoy will be full with just AIDS patients in the early 90's," the scare phase continues. The AIDS"lentivirue" survives for a week at room temperature, is carried by a sneeze or cough, a dentist is leaving his profession ("I can’t protect my patients. I can't protect myself. This job isn't worth dying over."), "we are fac ing the greatest public health dan ger since the flu of 1918, when half a million Americans died," etc. The newsletter man says he can't put many of the details into print, but the "hot" interview with the unnamed man is available (hell send it to you in a "plain brown envelope"). Now comas the sal*. Thera an things you can do to minimis* your medical risks, he advises. "But Fm not going to write about them. Fm not looking for a civil rights lawsuit" 1 wonder who he has in mind? "Civil rights" sounds a little Black to me. AIDS is now being de scribed as a Black disease. There fore, why not package two fears for the price of one: AIDS and Blacks. The "self-defense techniques’ he promises on his tape will come with a subscription to his newslet ter. None of his statements are lies. They just re-arrange the facts. You could buy his newsletter and increase your fear, but you will not increase your knowledge of AIDS or what to do about the disease. Next week, Til introduce you to the man (including his address and phone number) with the most startling set of facts on AIDS you've ever heard and what you can do about them. And, maybe, the cure. TONY BROWN'S JOURNAL TV series can be seen on public tel evision Sunday on Channel 42 at 5 p.m. It can also be seen on Channel 58, Saturday, 1:30 p.m. COURT L. — J WBTy"gb Sad About Coming Home? Why am X so sad about going home this time? • Hometown. There ia something special about coming back home. About being in the same place where you became who you are. Do you remember what it was like when you first came home af ter going away on your own—to college, or to get a job, or to serve in the armed forces, or to get mar ried? Remember coming back? Back to parents, friends, and fa miliar places. What could be better than going home again? Back to your own bedroom. Back to your mom's special way of cooking and serving meals. Back to books and pictures and furni ture and smells that somehow be long to you. Home was always there, ready for us when we needed it. A place to come and get our bearings when everything else I flae Pn One seemed so topsy turvey. Why am I so sad about going home this time? What connects us so strongly to our hometowns? Our parents, of course. But it is more than that. It is our friends—the ones we grew up with, and it is the places that were the center of our lives—the school, the church, the drug store, the playing field, the vacant lots, and the homes of our firiends. Slowly but surely the people change. Our friends and their brothers and sisters have moved to some other place. Even so, as long as we all keep coming back home we have our hometown which gives- us some link with our friends. We can come back to visit or stay a while—because our parents are there holding our place for us. Even if we seldom see our friends, our parentf keep us in touch. Why am I so sad about coming home this time? Knowing that when a home town friend's parents are gone, the links are broken. Their house is sold. There is no place to come. No one to keep us in touch. No place for them at Thanksgiving or Christmas at home. No reason for them to come home again. No home for them to come home to. And, without them, coming home can't be the same again. F c,-Lit For Democracy In North Carolina XU* Kepublicrat monopoly over tha federal election proceea and iU stranglehold on democratic rights has had soma alarming ramifications in ths stats of North Carolina. What startsd out as a petitioning drive to put the independent third party, tha Naw Alliance Party, on tha North Carolina ballot for tha 1988 Presidential election turned into a battle with ths politi cal and business establishment over ths use of public thorough fares to accomplish that In over a dosen shopping malls, volunteers and members of ths Black-led, multi-racial party have been told to leave by mall owners and supermarket managers claim ing that they are trespassing on privets property. According to tha ■tats courts, tha owners are legally within their rights, even though the effect is to make the already arduous Job of getting on tha ballot excruciatingly difficult. Is this a violation of Firat Amendment guarantees to freedom of speech? Isay Yes. < These volunteers, in ths tradi tion of tha freedom riders of tha Civil Rights movement, have trav eled to North Carolina from five states to collect thousands of Peti tion signatures to pines an inde pendent Black candidate on the 4 * ' l ballot. This is no easy task. North Carolina has some of ths most rig orous election lews in ths country, requiring . that independent and third party candidates, which of ten have few resources at their dis posal, collect nearly 40,000 valid signatures to qualify for ths feder al ballot. This, combined with a five cant filing fas for each signa ture, is a staggering requirement. And it's meant to ba that way, be cause ths Republicans and Demo crats who control ths state legisla ture and the election laws want to maintain their stranglehold on the ballot. This is how the state's good of boy political machine violates the spirit and letter of fits UJB. Con stitution, which guarantees free *«k? be dons? Ths volun teers have taken their case to the public - ths "court of laat rosorf in our American democracy. Televi sion stations have carried film clips of the harassmente and Naw Alliance Party Attorney Gary Sinswaid has been calling commu nity leaders throughout the state, asking them to lend their name to a letter protesting the exclusionary practices of Durham's big business community. And the community has responded. Among those agreeing to join In the protest ware Mundy Carter of the War Roeis ,By Lanora Fulanl BLACK EMPOUJEAMENT ten League, which is holding a na tional convention in Raleigh this weekend; John Marshall Kiliman jaro, publisher of the Carolina Peacemaker; Nat White, President of the Ralaigh-baaed Hayti Devel opment Corporation; and Faydene Hatch, President of Today’s Wom an, an organisation representing Black women in the ana. People who have signed the pe titions are now being contacted, in formed of the harassment and urged to oontaet supermarket and mall owners to express their eon esrn at the infringement of the rights of an independent party to do the necessary work to appear on the ballot We must fight back with the de mand for democracy from the grassroots. Letters To The Post Rainbow Coalition Question On Target Dear Editor: A note of congratulations to your guest writer, Mr. Fess Brad ley, whose article appeared in the August 27 edition of the Post. Mr. Bradley is on target. The beauty of his editorial is that the questions asked have been sim mering around in the minds of the grass root communities of Char lotte and Mecklenburg County for a very long time. Mr. Bradley elo quently posed the questions and answered them at the same time. Sincerely yours, James F. Foxx Post Editorial Surprised, Pleased Graves n_n j;. You really caught me speech less! I could not believe that you had identified me - insignificant me - as a community leader in your August 20th editorial. I must agree with your insight ful comment. I do not view myself as a community leader, but one who believes in doing what is right, and in my case, doing what is right in the best interest of chil dren. More broadly speaking, 1 strongly believe it is our Christian duty to use our God given talents to improve the world and com mu nities in which we live. Even a week later, I have diffi culty expressing how I feel. Please accept my humble and sincere thanks for the compliment! Sincerely, Ellanor Graves teon s Writing Impresses Proud Parents T*\aam I?j_ We enjoyed reading "Thoughts for the Mind in Thursday, July 30'a Charlotte Post. The article is by our son, Carl Blue. We are proud to see his writ ings in a paper. Thanks for allow ing it to be printed. Sincerely, Nelson and Georgie Blue Readers Convey Anniversary Wishes, Future Success fTl 1 1 n < . _ aw uciuiu, duu, ana tne stall oi the Charlotte Post: Congratulations on your 13th anniversary and a job well done. May God bless your continued ef forts. Willie L7 Johnson Jr. and Thomasina Johnson WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? - SrSKSKSKr* Name and address must accompany your comments. M-: »■' _ Conyers Urges Meese Removal STATEMENT OF MEM BERS QF CONGRESS PAT ,T|. ING FOR RESIGNATION U.S. ATTORNEY nfliSfflRrtT, EDWIN MEF.SE m Friday, August 7, 1987 Following the testimony of the attorney general before the select committees on the Iran-contra af fair, the growing allegations of im proper conduct in the Wedtech scandal, and the GAO report is sued this week concluding failure to follow federal ethics regula tions, it has now become clear that under the present leadership, the Department of Justice has lost the appearance of professional com petence, high ethical standards and independence that it needs to function as the chief law enforce ment agency of the United States. Accordingly we think it appropri ate that, and we call upon Edwin Meese, III to resign from his post as attorney general. Among the failures of the attor ney general evidenced in the select committee hearings on Iran contra indicating poor administra tion of the department during the Iran-contra affair and the subse quent Department of Justice in vestigation into it include: —the failure, despite clear evi dence of criminality, to initiate a criminal investigation until after the inquiry was completed on No vember 25, 1986 and substantially after the memorandum indicating diversion of funds to the contras was discovered on November 22, thereby allowing essential docu ments to be destroyed; —the honoring of requests to ad ministration officials already un der criminal probes to delay crimi nal investigations into illegal con tra support activities because prin cipals of those investigations were involved in the sale of arms to Iran; and -the failure to take steps to see that the statutory obligation to notify Congress of the Iran arms sales was fufilled, following the attorney general's approval of a Janunry 1986 finding on those sales which specifically postponed notification to Congress with the now stated understanding that such a notification delay would last no longer than approximately three months. -the series of misleading and in correct statements made in the at torney general's November 25, 1986 press conference when accu rate facts were either in his posses sion or readily accessible, as de tailed in the Washington Post on July 30,1987. There are also well documented claims that the attorney general has ignored credible allegations of illicit contra support activities, public and private, for over one year prior to November 1986. In addition, and notwithstand ing whether an independent coun sel may find criminal wrongdoing in the alleged use of personal in fluence to gain White House sup port for the military contractor Wedtech, the continued failure to comply with Ethics in Govern ment Act requirements regarding financial disclosure by executive personnel, and other ethical mr t ters being investigated by the inde pendent counsel, have compound ed questions raised about the attor ney general's independence, stan dards and commitment to impar tiality in the conduct of office. Taken together, these matters have created the impression of professional competence and ethi cal standards inconsistent with public office, especially that re quired of the nation's chief law en forcement officer. Because this im Rep. John Conyers pression win continue to compn • mise the day-to-day functioning of the Department, we therefore call upon the attorney genera to re sign. JOHN CONYERS, JR. Chairman, House Judicarv Sub committee on Criminal Justice BARNEY FRANK Chairman, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law GERRY S1KORSKI Chairman, Houge Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Human Resources PATRICIA SCHROEDER Chairwoman, House Post Oflice & Civii Service Subcommittee on Civil Service DAN GLICKMAN Committee on the Judiciary EDWARD F. FEIGHAN Committee on the Judiciary HOWARD BERMAN Committee on the Judiciary HARLEY 0. STAGGERS Committee on the Judiciary JOHN BRYANT Committee on the Judiciary I IH IV ZMMA1I\ JUNIOR SAVS IT'S THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS.,, j 5 LiU ,, "jL. *M*kS- ■ ^ 'f. , 1
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