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Calm had returned by the time Pope John Paul II appeared. In the first major papal statement on AIDS, the Pontiff called on governments "to develop and carry out a worldwide plan to combat AIDS and drug addiction." He urged patients not to despair and condemned "every form of discrimination" against them. But he warned against "morally illicit" methods of preventing AIDS -- a clear allusion to condoms -- and spoke of "abuse of sexuality," referring to homosexuality, as a cause of the spreading of AIDS. He said the crisis results from "immunodeficiency" in values...
...generate hysteria" over a "highly improbable U.S. war in the region." For the record, The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. pilots were flying night-time bombing missions over San Salvador. In addition, the 55 United States military advisors in EI Salvador are presently engaging in combat, and U.S. warships have moved to EI Salvador's coast...
Bush's threat was undermined a day later by his own Defense Department. Pentagon Comptroller Sean O'Keefe told the Senate Armed Services Committee that an $8.1 billion cut in defense would result in a 10% loss in U.S. combat readiness, an unacceptable political risk...
...racism are also used to dehumanize, and thus to scapegoat the enemy. Misogyny, with its unmitigated assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of servicewomen within the forces, and the exclusion of women from combat positions that give access to higher rank and higher pay. Classism is blatant in the rank system and in the economic backgrounds of people who fill those ranks. Homophobia is only one example of oppressive forces that are at work in the military. Even if the exclusionary policy were changed tomorrow...
...panel of four conservationists mediated by Richard D. Estes, associate in mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, discussed the plight of the African elephant and debated how best to combat its decline...