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...actually a god himself, Prabhupada introduced the god Krishna to America. In 1965, at age 69, Prabhupada left India to spread his spiritual message in the West. He arrived in America with about $8 in his pocket, one devotee says, but with complete faith that he would succeed in his mission. Twelve years later, Prabhupada had 10,000 western disciples. Today, there are 1000-2000 Hare Krishnas--or Vaishnavas, as they call themselves--in the Boston area...
...potential spread of AIDS can be grasped by observing the ways in which other sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia and genital herpes, move through the country. "There are a minimum of 6 million S.T.D.s recorded annually," says Dr. German Maisonet, medical director of the Los Angeles Minority AIDS Project. "Which means that about every five seconds an American is involved in a high-risk sexual practice minus a condom...
Coping with the specter of AIDS is particularly difficult for the heirs of the American sexual revolution, probably smaller in numbers than advertised but nonetheless vehement in the assertion of a freer, more open set of mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there may finally sound a general alert, resulting in an increase in monogamy, in abstinence, in widespread acceptance of tough new rules of the game. But unless and until that point comes, the casualties may needlessly mount...
...chilling phone call, still rarely made but likely to become more common as the disease spreads and more and more public-health authorities begin tracing the sexual intimates of AIDS victims. Calls of this kind, known in public-health jargon as contact notification, have long been accepted as part of the effort to curb the spread of sexually communicable diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea. But when used to battle AIDS, the practice has aroused a storm of criticism and has raised some thorny ethical issues...
Though such numbers may seem small, proponents claim that contact tracing will help contain the spread of the disease, primarily among heterosexuals and in communities where it is not already prevalent. Those with AIDS, they say, have a moral duty to warn those they have put at risk. Critics of mandatory tracing charge that it may feed panic and hysteria. They stress that, unlike syphilis or gonorrhea, AIDS is so far incurable. Indeed, says Dr. Kevin Cahill, a member of New York City's board of health, some people who were told that they had been exposed to the virus...