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AIDS: The President broke months of silence on the AIDS epidemic with a major 3-1/2-minute speech on the problem, vowing to combat the disease with optimism. Mr. Reagan says he will approve an educational campaign against AIDS but only if it is directed at safe sex practices within marriage. He suggested that if those outside of marriage do not get the information and proceed to spread the disease throughout society, that`s their problem.
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South Korean students rioted on 56 campuses this week. “Bring down the fascist dictatorship!” a speaker told a crowd undemocratically, and the students paralyzed traffic totalitarianationistically. They also burned the American flag, showing that they cannot tell the U.S. government from their own. Meanwhile the police cracked down and heads, according to law, and George Shultz weighed in. “We would like to see the dialogue resume,” he commented militantly, adding that the United States should not act as though it had “all the answers to Seoul’s problems.” He indicated that South Korea is not Nicaragua, and could not be, because North Korea is.
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Ben Wattenberg, author of The Population Bomb, now says there will soon be too few people, that is to say, too few white people. Falling birth rates in Western Europe and the U.S. may soon yield a situation in which “the U.S. will no longer be the most important country in the world.” Calling for major investments in baby futures, he said,
“Money is no object. Remember, we’re saving Western Civilization.” He went on to quote Mahatma Gandhi who, asked what he thought about Western Civilization, responded, “That would be nice.”
The House has passed a catastrophic health care bill, but the Senate may improve upon it.
Slaveadoran “death” squads have become active in the Los Angeles area. The INS says Slaveadorans in the sanctuary movement set up the threats, harassment and rapes in order to gain sympathy for their cause.
The controversy continues over the downing of the Iran Air Flight 655 Airbus in the Persian Gulf. President Reagan, who wants to reimburse the families of the passengers for their trouble, told reporters, “The plane was coming at our ship, heading down, that is to say, up. Its transponder was off, I mean, ambiguous, that is, in the sense that, well, there may have been, you see, and I mentioned earlier that, and I’ve said this, two planes. Or in the sense that there could have been. And it, that is, they, was off its path, or mostly off of it. Yes, you could have told it was not an F-14 with a pair of binoculars, but well, F-14’s don’t use binoculars. And yes, our radar is not perfect, but then, you wouldn’t go out to dinner with the Ayatollah and put your binoculars on the table.”
President Reagan has proposed a new plan to secure a piece of Nicaragua. Under the plan, all foreign military forces would be withdrawn from the region. Far-left critics of the plan say the wording should include so-called death squads allegedly trained in Taiwan by