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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 the World Anti-Communist League, headed by somewhat retired General John Singlaub, who worked with Lt. Col. North and CIA agent Theodore Shackley in pursuit of alleged drug deals in Laos and Colombia to finance “dirty” wars and “assassinations” against far leftists. Due to the lapse of the Fairness Doctrine, these views will not be heard on the free market airwaves, unfortunately or otherwise.
The Reagan plan promises that the U.S. will stop intervening in Nicaragua, not that we are, provided the Sandinistas stop making negative remarks about our being imperialists. The document also offers a novel proposal: direct negotiations between the U.S. and the Sandinistas, which has never been proposed before, except by the Sandinistas.
The Federal Communications Commission has repealed the Fairness Doctrine, saying it inhibits the free speech of those who can afford it. If left in place, said the com-missioners, it would eventually have led to rebuttals to commercials.
Environmental studies show a growing hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. Indications are that such a development could hurt profits in the long term and endanger human civilization or even the system of free enterprise itself. The World Bank is therefore instituting a crash program of tree planting in deforested areas of the world. It seems that deforestation and demineralization of the Earth have raised the carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere, causing a warming trend in the lower latitudes and a cooling trend closer to the poles, which could move up the date of the next ice age, causing a falloff in wine cooler sales.
Oliver North is being investigated for taking the law into his own hands in arming and funding the Contras against the will of Congress. North has filed suit against special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, calling him a “vigilante.”
UNTELLIGENCE: Government officials say that the dissemination of incorrect information to both Iran and Iraq by U.S. intelligence was not aimed at prolonging that war but merely at preventing either side from winning. Sources indicate we are neutral in the war, having supported Iraq, Iran, dissident Iranian groups, and anti-dissident Iranian intelligence agencies. Asked how it all fit together, one official said, “You had to have been there.”
The administration has denied it moved against Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega because he refused to cooperate in a planned invasion of Nicaragua. Said an official, “We have no plans to invade Nicaragua, and the plans are justified.”
In the unfolding story of Contractgate or the Procuremo Affair, Vice President Bush has told reporters the solution to the Pentagon contractors scandal is deregulation. In other drug news, a cocaine ring reaching from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California to the White House has been broken up. Three White House guards and a National Security Council employee have been found to use cocaine recreationally. President Reagan said he would try to convince them to take a cure, and sources said the President was considering retaliation against Colombia.
Eight Nicaraguan agitators have been expelled from the United States in response to the Sandinite expulsion of eight U.S. diplomats from Nicaragua. U.S. Ambassa-dor Richard Melton has protested that just because he consorted with the Nicaraguan Opposition did not mean he had formed a consortium with them, but conceded that his open, vibrant style of association with them might have encouraged the Sandinite action against his embassy, which he said signaled an end to the peace process in Nicaragua, which he said he was very, very, very upset about, as was his previous boss, Elliot Abrams.
Vice President Bush said the Nicaraguan action shocked him, but did not surprise him. President Reagan said that Nicara-gua’s self-styled ambassador Carlos Tunner-man has been involved in espionage, the details of which have not yet been made up.
A consortium of American Indian groups has sent a letter to President Reagan, saying “Perhaps we made a mistake. Maybe we shouldn’t have humored the European settlers in allowing them stay in that kind of primitive lifestyle.”
The crybabies who used to make steel in Pennsylvania can’t seem to pick themselves up and get computer programming jobs in New York. They don’t seem to understand that Economic Transformation is what made this country whatever it is going to become. The mill towns of the Northeast were abandoned, the Southern cotton plantations were abandoned, Western mining towns were abandoned—should Pennsylvania be an exception? Inner cities are abandoned for the suburbs, and if you hear inner citizens complaining, it’s only because they don’t have enough education to keep them quiet.
Each generation must put itself second to make and keep America First. Some would ask, who or what then is this America? Well, as the saying now goes, if you have to ask, you’ll never understand.