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...trimming his sails, Bork left his liberal critics scurrying to revise their tactics. Said Nan Aron, director of the Alliance for Justice: "He's not coming across as a cool, intellectual thinker but as someone who changes his mind according to which way the wind is blowing." The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights produced a seven-page analysis called Bork v. Bork that declared, "What the New Judge Bork now says differs significantly from the Old Judge Bork on free speech, discrimination on the basis of sex, privacy and contraception...
...This battle won't involve smoking guns or skeletons," says Nan Aron of Alliance for Justice, a public-interest law group. "It's going to come down to philosophy." A no-holds-barred tone was quickly set for the Senate debate in a scathing speech by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim...
...testing results. (For this reason, most voluntary AIDS tests offered today are done anonymously.) Once identified as a carrier of the AIDS virus, an individual runs the risk of losing friends, employment, housing and insurance. In New York City, 314 AIDS discrimination complaints were filed in 1986 alone. Says Nan Hunter, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The antibody test is not like other medical blood tests. People don't lose their jobs because they have B-positive blood...
...Tufts has rail-roaded Ian. It is a travesty what the administration is doing with this thing," said Nan M. Glickman, a member of the Tufts Political Action Coalition (TPAC). Calling Kremer a liar, she said, "is a diversionary tactic. The administration, by making him seem like a liar, is trying to discredit him and the left on campus...
...have contacted, traced and counseled the 150 gay men in Denver in 1981 who tested positive, we wouldn't have 20,000 infected in 1986." Yet critics counter that such actions may send AIDS victims underground, thus undercutting the effectiveness of programs that still rely on voluntary cooperation. Says Nan Hunter, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney: "You can't torture people for names...