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...resumption of dis- armament negotiations in Geneva last week, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mixed some tough talk on the nuclear arms race with conciliatory noises about the need for East-West detente. During a meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...
...similar approach by the Soviets backfired the last time they used it, during the 1983 controversy over the deployment in Western Europe of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles. But Moscow apparently thinks it worth another try. Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party opposes the Star Wars plan, offered Gorbachev some comfort by suggesting that the Geneva talks would go nowhere until the superpowers agree that space weapons and nuclear-missiles issues are "interrelated." Craxi, for his part, cautioned the Soviet leader against taking hard positions and proposed that the three subjects under discussion in Geneva -- space weapons, strategic nuclear arms...
...election-night television show last week, both of the main parties went on the attack. Kohl and Social Democratic Party Leader Willy Brandt, a former Chancellor, broke into a shouting match, with Kohl accusing Brandt of "primitive anti-Americanism" and Brandt calling Kohl "a liar." In the days that followed, the Bundestag crackled with heckling and mudslinging. "This," said Social Democratic Secretary-General Peter Glotz, "is the beginning of the central campaign...
...Brandt also points to the outrageous treatment of Blacks in medical studies of social diseases. In the 1930's the Public Health Service began a study on the impact of untreated syphilis in Tuskegee, Alabama. For over forty years 400 Black sharecroppers were denied treatment without objection from the medical community until the study ended in 1972. According to Brandt, "the doctors who designed the study believed that all southern Blacks were infected ... and would never be treated anyway. The study only further demonstrates the racist links between VD and poor morals...
...only does Brandt give us a comprehensive and entertaining history of venereal disease in America but he draws valuable comparisons between the hygiene gospel" and current fears of AIDS and herpes. He says, "Contraction of a venereal disease represented a failure of self-control, a central tenet of progressive ideology." This is the same message being offered by the popular media today. Time magazine calls herpes the new scarlet letter and herpes sufferers "unusually dishonest and unusually promiscuous. Professor Brandt shows that even today, we are still getting the same mixed messages about sexuality be a libertine but take...