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...deal with the epidemic, Reagan appointed a presidential commission of 13 people, many with dubious qualifications. After three months, the chairman, a doctor, resigned in frustration and was replaced by an admiral. The commission's final recommendations are supposed to appear next summer. Beyond that, the Administration busied itself in imposing compulsory AIDS tests on certain defenseless groups (federal prisoners and would-be immigrants, for instance), a move that compromised civil rights without accomplishing much of anything. Gay rights groups excoriated the Administration for inactivity, and the New York Times concluded that Reagan's lack of a coherent policy...
When the White House invited Dole to appear with the President, the Bush campaign reacted immediately. "We had Dole finished," an aide complained to staffers in the office of Reagan's chief of staff, Howard Baker, "and now you're letting him up." Despite the grousing, the White House refused to rescind the invitation. Said an Administration official of the Bush campaign: "They're behaving like children...
According to church teaching, heterosexual use of condoms is wrong because it is unnatural to interfere with the act that transmits life. Though this is not the issue with homosexuals, the church does not want to appear to be condoning homosexual acts. Proponents of the new AIDS policy argue that providing information about condoms may be justified and even in keeping with moral theology in order to prevent the greater evil of spreading the lethal AIDS virus. Critics argue that it will encourage many, particularly teenagers, to believe the bishops are advising "If you can't be good, be careful...
Telephone logs showed that former Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole received a call from Deaver to discuss attempts by his client TWA to avoid a hostile takeover. Dole was never called to appear as a witness, but Deaver was found guilty of lying about the matter to a grand jury...
...VCRs can repeat sequences in slow motion or fast-forward without the distortion that mars conventional machines. Standard broadcast images can also be improved, up to a point. One video recorder made by NEC reduces interference by using microprocessors to compare successive image frames. By subtracting random elements that appear on one frame but not the other, the circuitry removes snow before it shows up on the screen...