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Your article shows how AIDS is giving the enemies of lesbians and gay men seemingly justifiable reason to perpetuate the discrimination that has been practiced against these groups. The unwarranted hysteria now taking place over AIDS makes it imperative that state and federal governments enact laws immediately to safeguard the rights of lesbians and gay men in employment, housing, medical care and social services...
...allowing the Department of Education to carry out the policy until the justices can rule on its constitutionality later this year. The ruling gave the Department of Education only three days to implement a policy due to go into effect July 1. The Department decided to plough ahead and enact the legislation as planned, granting first one-, then two-month extensions on the July deadline...
Alarmed by the recent passage of a state unisex insurance law in Montana and moves to enact similar legislation in twelve other states, as well as at the federal level, the industry has begun an effort to influence legislators. Last week, in a full-page advertisement in major newspapers, the Health Insurance Association of America and the American Council...
...students added that the foundation's advisory board should include student representatives in order to enact effectively the program it does undertake...
...Pepper could wave "a legislative wand," he says he would "enact a Medicare bill under which the entire cost would be borne by the Government instead of just the 45% now." He would provide home health care, claiming that it would often save the Government the higher cost of putting people who need not be there in hospitals. And he would provide more preventive health coverage, in hopes of checking illness and prolonging life. Overall, Pepper is optimistic, even without his wand, because he feels that pressure is growing on the Administration to stop cutting social programs. "The Reagan...