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...accord calls for the two countries to re-establish links in the form of roads and communications. They will also set up a liaison office to help reunite some 10 million families separated by the peninsula's hostilities from 1950 to 1953 and the long standoff that followed. These human bonds have long been sought by South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and opposed by the xenophobic regime of North Korea's Kim Il Sung. Pyongyang's about-face seems to reflect its concern over growing diplomatic isolation and sharp setbacks to its own economy...
...WOULD LIKE TO take this opportunity to respond to the article appearing in Peninsula's October/November 1991 issue entitled "AIDS is not a gay disease." I applaud the author's intent to dispel any "lies" or "half-truths" and to inform the Harvard community of the "truth" surrounding HIV-infection and AIDS. But unfortunately, he presented information and statistics, often out-dated, which do not represent the entire present specter of the AIDS threat to both homosexual and heterosexual communities...
Funding is an urgent matter, as researchers are racing against the clock to save those who are infected. And as Murray noted in his Peninsula article, "mere behavior modification" could make all the difference in the rates of HIV-infection. This, however, requires a great deal of education simply not available in every American community. We are fortunate to live in a highly educated and informed community, but it cannot be taken for granted that every American is exposed to the same level of information regarding AIDS as we are in Cambridge...
President Rudenstine reacted strongly to the harassment incident that accompanied the publishing of the anti-gay Peninsula issue, and has said on many occasions, that he supports Harvard's nondiscrimination policy. The Faculty Council, after months of debate, affirmed these liberty values when it voted, as the representative body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in which the power to make curricular decisions is vested, to define Harvard's continued relationship with ROTC contingent on the group's eliminating its discrimination against gay people...
...makes it sound like Peninsula thinks homosexuals are inhuman," Brady said. "Peninsula argues that homosexual acts can hurt people and that homosexuality is bad. The impression you get from [Clark's letter] is that he thinks we said homosexuals...