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...Editors: One fact about American society struck us during President Reagan's recent hospitalization [NATION, July 22]. Unlike citizens of some countries, we know exactly what illness our President suffers from. It was not kept from the public, nor was it disguised as a "bad cold." Charlotte and Jeff Blair Fort Valley...
...sexual companions. A study at the University of California, San Francisco, showed, for example, that the average number of partners per month dropped from 5.9 in October 1982 to 2.5 during the same period in 1984. "It's just not cool to be promiscuous," says Los Angeles Art Director Jeff Kerns. Karl Clark, an activist member of Fort Lauderdale's homosexual community, maintains that most people are "no longer willing to play Russian roulette. Safer sex and monogamous relationships have taken root. Unfortunately, it took a long time...
...become a more effective force in their communities and in the nation. Men who were previously aloof are now becoming involved in the gay movement. "AIDS has been a dramatic political education for a lot of gay men who never understood why we were bothering with activism," says Jeff Levi, political director of the National Gay Task Force. "We will emerge from this strengthened, even if weakened in numbers." --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Jon D. Hull/San Francisco and Arturo Yáñez/New York
...Devil in Red Lake " [April 4] said, "Jeff Weise lost his parents but had close friends. So why did he shoot and kill his granddad and eight others?" He did it because he had access to guns. Without the guns, his difficulties might have ended in a playground fight. Weise's admiration for Hitler might have faded, or, in the best of scenarios, it might have been addressed by counseling. Too many fights--between husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings--wind up with someone dead rather than with just dishes thrown and doors slammed. So long as weapons...
...disliked the title of your piece on the school shooting in Red Lake, "The Devil in Red Lake." The ultimate responsibility obviously lies with the young man who fired the guns, Jeff Weise. But because he was a boy growing up poor and from a shattered family, with a confused and bitter outlook on his racial heritage and no one to counter the myths of Nazism and racial hate groups, we have to admit that in some way society failed him, and nine other people paid the price. Because TIME brought up the devil, as if a supernatural being were...