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...years in the Middle East, China, Europe and the Soviet Union, David has no illusions about the effectiveness of the group's efforts. "I don't know if we made a difference. All I know is that it was vital that Terry's colleagues not be silent about his plight and the plight of the other hostages...
...hard it may be." Father Jenco, by contrast, argues, "Anger is a very good emotion. Even Jesus got angry." While there is little evidence of the Stockholm syndrome, wherein captives begin to identify with their tormentors, several of the former detainees seem to have some empathy for the plight of the underpaid men who held them. Weir recalls that one of his guards lamented that he was as much a prisoner as Weir. "We've got to spend our time here looking after you, and we're not free," he told Weir...
...harder to ignore AIDS. When Magic Johnson stepped forward to announce that he had tested HIV positive, his plight suddenly seemed like everybody's nightmare. Johnson's claim that he picked up the AIDS virus heterosexually, rather than through intravenous-drug use or homosexual contact, dramatically raised some of the most crucial health questions of the 1990s: How easy is it to get AIDS from straight sex? How fast can it spread? Could an AIDS epidemic like the ones sweeping through Third World nations take root in the general U.S. population as well...
Like most other Americans, pro athletes were generally shocked and saddened by Johnson's plight. His fellow players of the National Basketball Association, however, had special reason for concern about Johnson's flagrant promiscuity. It has been common practice for some pro players to share the favors of groupies who beguiled them. Had the woman who infected Johnson passed the virus to other players? Magic's pregnant wife Cookie tested negative for HIV, but had he given the virus to other women who were still out there sleeping with the stars? Says Charles Barkley, star forward of the Philadelphia 76ers...
...disaster with his infectious hopefulness. He was, after all, not unusual in contracting the virus, but he seemed to recognize that he was in an unusual position to campaign for protection against it. Vowing to become a spokesman to educate people about AIDS, Johnson said he would use his plight to tell others that "safe sex is the way to go." Just by his announcement, he began the process: calls to AIDS hot lines and testing centers more than doubled in most places the next...