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...legislatures this year proposed criminal sanctions for conscious transmission of the disease. Florida and Idaho have made it a crime knowingly to expose another person to the virus. The possible penalties include prison terms of 60 days in Florida, six months in Idaho. A similar criminalization measure awaits Governor Edwin Edwards' signature in Louisiana: penalties could range as high as a $5,000 fine and ten years in prison. A new Nevada law requires that anyone arrested for prostitution must take an AIDS- virus test; those who test positive can be charged with a felony if picked up for prostitution...
Alternately subdued, passionate, angry and sarcastic, the onetime National Security Council aide testified that he had expected to "be dropped like a hot rock when it all came down." He had, indeed, been fired by President Reagan last Nov. 25, after Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that the profits from U.S. weapons sold secretly to Iran had been used to send military supplies to the contras fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. But North declared, "I never in my wildest dreams or nightmares envisioned that we would end up with criminal charges." Now faced with that dire possibility through...
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...order craze that Reagan stood for, and which Attorney General Edwin Meese embodies, rests on a simplified view of society. It is much easier to trample the civil liberties of the accused when those being affected are deemed "evil." Meese said as much by arguing that the only people who need fear constitutionally questionable drug tests are drug users...