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Although a recent poll indicates the general public seems to favor compulsory testing, especially of those in high-risk groups, experts question its wisdom. "For both sound public-health reasons and civil rights reasons, we are very much opposed to any type of mandatory testing," says Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner. Experience with other diseases, he says, shows that without an effective cure for AIDS, such a policy would be useless. "Until treatment was available, mandatory testing and ((sexual)) contact tracing did nothing to stem the spread of syphilis...
...clinics to the 25% of its employees who indulge. USG Corp., also based in Chicago, has said that it would dismiss any employee of its acoustical-plants who smoked on the job or even at home, a move that critics contend treads on shaky legal ground. According to a poll of its members taken last fall by the Administrative Management Society, 42% of the firms now have some kind of smoking policy, up from...
Despite the concern of some, the quiet majority of heterosexuals in America apparently do not feel threatened. A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that AIDS has no effect on the way 92% of the population conducts their lives. This is especially true on the nation's college campuses, where sex tends to be impulsive. "You look for signs, blisters, physical manifestations," says Abby, 19, who has dated college men. "But if somebody doesn't look as if they have a disease, you don't use condoms." One of her friends, Lenna, a Berkeley freshman, complains about phone calls from...
...National Urban League. Unemployment among black youths has increased from nearly 25% in 1960 to nearly 40% in 1985. At the same time, according to a 1985 survey, less than 1% of the senior executives at the major companies in the FORTUNE 500 were blacks. In one poll of black business-school graduates, 98% reported subtle forms of racism in their companies. Overall, a record 72,000 complaints of discrimination were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year...
...West Germany's national election campaign drew to a close this week, the ) Chancellor's reception was ardent everywhere his helicopter touched down. Political analysts predicted that Kohl, 56, would ride his newfound popularity to a second four-year term when voters cast their ballots this Sunday. The Allensbach poll forecast that Kohl's conservative coalition of the Christian Democratic Union, the Christian Social Union and the Free Democratic Party would win 53% of the vote, compared with 36.7% for the Social Democrats and 9.5% for the environmentalist Greens...