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...recommendations for education and prevention may encounter resistance. In the view of the Roman Catholic Church, for example, a Government campaign to urge use of condoms would be encouraging people to commit mortal sin. The church regards condoms as artificial contraceptive devices whose use, even to avoid lethal disease, is forbidden. In the view of the NAS panel and Surgeon General Koop, however, action must no longer be delayed. AIDS researchers have faced an exquisite dilemma: they initially felt obliged to calm public hysteria stirred by the false idea that AIDS can be spread by casual contact...
...true that Black males commit a disproportionately large number of petty thefts in downtown and inner-city neighborhoods, especially against the often seedy jewelry stores that dot these areas. But what is more important and seldom cited is that the overwhelming majority of Blacks are neither thieves nor robbers nor members of economic groups which depend upon crime...
Shipler is also angered by the relatively light sentences often handed out to Israeli extremists who commit violence--and rightly so. But his sense of outrage is rarely tempered with a recognition that Palestinains who commit violence are heroes and celebrities on the West Bank. Jews who support terorism must be as surreptitious as Arabs who oppose...
...week, the trial of Eugene Hasenfus began. Escorted by six guards, the jeans-clad ex-Marine glumly made his way to a seat before the People's Tribunal. For the next 80 minutes, Tribunal President Reynaldo Monterrey read the list of charges: terrorism, violation of public security, conspiracy to commit illicit acts. As Monterrey droned on, it became clear that more was at stake than the fate of Hasenfus, who was captured ferrying weapons to U.S.-backed contra rebels after Sandinista troops shot down an American ! Fairchild C-123K cargo plane over Nicaragua three weeks ago. The prosecution would attempt...
Despite this valiant attempt, the respondents are not able to escape the normative issues at hand. While Blacks commit more crime than whites, the difference between men and women, and between the young and the old, is much more significant. Why do we not hear of high-crime white neighborhoods where jewelers refuse to admit men or young people...