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Although the proposal would bar anyone diagnosed as having AIDS, it would not routinely screen all prospective immigrants with the antibody blood test, which in itself does not prove that an individual has the disease. The ruling, which could take effect this summer if approved, would probably be generally acceptable to the gay community. Said Ron Najman, media director for the Gay and Lesbian Task Force in New York City: "It is hard to argue against denying entry to someone with an obvious case of AIDS." POLITICS The Chairman For President...
...year line of decisions upholding the media's First Amendment protections against libel suits. In recent years the court has sometimes seemed more sympathetic to those bringing libel suits, but this time the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that in cases involving "matters of public concern," private individuals must prove that damaging press statements about them are false. The action struck down rules in Pennsylvania and eight other states that had put the burden of proof on media defendants to show the statements were true. The case arose when Maurice Hepps, principal owner of a beverage- and snack-retailing chain...
...never all that stubborn. At five previous summits, Reagan's charm was an important unifying influence, even when his free-market stands led to ideological splits among the allies. But now that the U.S. has assumed a new, pragmatic role in economic summitry, the Great Communicator may prove to be even more beguiling in Tokyo. --By George Russell. Reported by Jay Branegan and Christopher Redman/Washington
...better example could be found to prove that most people see and believe what they want to see and believe. Stan Laughridge Sitka, Alaska Embassy Work Force...
...interrogation, during which he was threatened with 30 years' imprisonment, Hasenfus, his captors said, was ready to tell the "truth" about whom he was working for. Gloated Alejandro Bendaņa, a Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry official: "This is obviously a CIA operation with CIA operatives." Whether or not the accusations prove true, the Administration, which is already facing charges that it disseminated "disinformation" about Libyan terrorist activities, found itself confronted by another challenge to the credibility of its foreign policy...