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Watkins homed in on another Administration bugaboo: guaranteed confidentiality. Since the AIDS crisis began, programs to determine the focus and spread of the disease have been stymied because people at high risk have feared being stigmatized by showing up for tests. "An effective guarantee of confidentiality is the major bulwark against that fear," the report asserts. However, it also establishes clear exceptions to the rule: namely, when there is a need to protect those "who may unknowingly be in immediate danger of being exposed" to the AIDS virus. Among them are victims of sexual assaults, health-care workers...
...conduct of the demonstrations will be a factor in politics. If order is maintained and no violence occurs, the demonstrations may redound to the support of "democratic" reforms, however they may be defined. If on the other hand violence does occur, a life is lost and that Chinese bugaboo "chaos" is threatened, then the demonstrators may not have helped their cause. Obviously there is a great opportunity for dirty work...
...Jewish bugaboo which Cruse railed against is still haunting the Black intellectual community--only...
While intrigued by American freedoms, political plurality and cultural diversity, the Soviet leadership is unable to comprehend fully the mechanism of the U.S. political system. There is little grasp of the relationship of American Congressmen to their constituencies, the real role of public opinion and that worst bugaboo, freedom of information, which they see as a threat to security. The idealism of the American Revolution, carried over into both domestic and foreign policy more than 200 years later, the Soviets perceive as crippling naivete. Its manifestations sometimes make them doubt American seriousness. Because such institutions are nonexistent in their...
...vastly expanded the rights of the criminally accused and thereby provoked a torrent of criticism accusing the court of hamstringing local police. The Burger Court has chipped away at some safeguards, and may be building to a major reversal. The most likely target is a favorite law-and-order bugaboo, the exclusionary rule, which requires judges to throw out evidence in a criminal trial that police obtained in violation of the suspect's constitutional rights. The rule is designed to deter police from strong-arm tactics. But its occasional effect is to exclude evidence vital to the prosecution...