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Show William Safire The Salt Lake Tribune ed blacks right at the convention, adopting our platform, maybe offering us the second spot on the ticket, we could turn out the black vote In the nation the way we did for them are saying, Harold Washington In Chicago. Remember Shirley Thats assuming, of course, we stay in the Chisholm in 1972. I party after the convention. If we dont get remember, all right: the respect and the specific pledges, then Shirley ran in the wed take a walk and Id run as an indepenNorth Carolina Demdent That would kill the partys chances, but ocratic primary, theyd have nobody to blame but themselves. pulled the black vote Thats why I have to badmouth the naaway from Terry tional black favorite son idea, and talk only Sanford, the liberal, about going all the way. I do not see how and George Wallace anyone can run for the White House by prewon. So the conven- Mr. Safire Good line. tional wisdom is that a black candidate for paring to sleep in the outhouse. Theres a trickier criticism: that by makpresident only hurts the black community by helping the candidate we like least. Well, I ing the Democratic Party look like its in the wonder. pocket of special interests, we deliver the First, would a serious black candidacy be election to the Republicans. But thats a bunch of newspaper-columnis- t talk; real good for the country? Yes. The of slaves putting up a candidate to people dont think like that. lead the whole country says a lot of good Would it be good for blacks? If I went all about this country. Would show the whole out in the primaries, especially that second world, too, that despite all the handicaps week in the South, Td Just about destroy blacks still have to carry, the brothers and Mondale and never let Cranston or Hart get the sisters believe in the system enough to off the ground, delivering the nomination to plunge into politics behind one of their own Glenn. But is he the right stuff for us? Cant all the way. see him handing out the benefits our people are entitled to the way a real liberal would. Would it be good for the Democratic ParIf we ty? Right now, with six guys out in the field Its the old Chisholm trail again going nowhere and Ted Kennedy waiting for bust up our coalition, we get the worst candia draft, the partys going down the drain. If I date. got in there, the country would know there But the conservatives under Goldwater was a Democratic campaign. Id flay In 1964 showed that if people with a commitlike nobody else and the ruckus ment to a point of view take a stand and take would help all the candidates. their beating, they can come back again and Whats more, I wouldnt be taking any win it all. The black establishment would say other Democrats slice of the pie, Id be makwed need a less threatening type, the way Vernon ing the pie bigger. With a black Democrat in Goldwaterlsm needed a Reagan there, the party would be able to register Jordan, or Frank Thomas, or even Andy blacks by the millions. And if the party treat Young. After.I break the ice, a more reassur - Rea-ganis- m ing black face wouldn't be a shock to white voters. (Those guys can raise the big bucks. If they want me and mine with them then, theyd better get with 25, 1983 All Drawn and Quartered Jesse Jackson Ponders Realities New York Times Service WASHINGTON The Rev. Jesse Jack-so- n for President oh, it has all the brothers in a tizzy. Most of June Saturday, us now.) local My problem Is in the nitty-gritt- y politics. Chuck Robb in Virginia, whos been good for blacks, wants to be a favorite son. Do the black politicians In Richmond want to back me in the convention, or do they want more patronage back home from somebody they know can deliver? Ill have trouble with that In New Orleans next month, when the NAACP and the Urban League have their meetings. But they cant come out against the idea of a black candidate, and the only other way to stop me is to come out for somebody else, which theyre not about to do. The NAACP cant get its own head on straight, much less tell the rest of the black family who to follow. Would it be good for me? Id sure be the most famous black man in the country in a hurry. But If I were seen as a spoiler In 1984, Id lose that leadership in a hurry. Look at John Anderson, the darling of the media four now theyre treating him as a years ago Harold Stassen. The smart thing for me to do now is to this tease em a little. Just by shadow-boxin- g summer, I can focus attention: on my issues and on my leadership. Come the fall, if most of the community decides to stick with a Mondale or gO'with local white liberals, and if the campaign money never shows up, I can surprise everybody with my responsibility and make big news out of not running this time. On the other hand, I hear a candidacy sometimes takes on a life of Its own. Look at all those cameras. See the way those pundits try to read my mind. (Copyright) r i' l Patrick J. Buchanan Blocking N.Y. Convention Would Protect Gays ' PJB Enterprises , If the politicians and inpublic health officials of New York WASHINGTON and scattering of the gay communities America within several years. With no known cure, the sole deterrent is i.e., reduction of the number of cluding Governor prevention, Mario Cuomo and Mayor Ed Koch refuse to cancel the Gay Pride March set for Sunday, (June 26) or to shut down and board up those incubators of disease, the gay bathhouses, they should be held personally and publicly accountable for the spread of the AIDS plague across these United States. ' Two hundred thousand homosexuals are expected In New York. By the thousands they will be trooping Into the gay bars and bathhouses, the raison detre for which Is casual, promiscuous and anonymous sex. Conceivably, hundreds will return home carrying this transmissible and deadly disease within their systems. Yet, not a single major state official, or national official, has demanded cancellation of this homosexual convention. Years ago, it was common for public health officials to come around and post upon the door of a household the proclamation that scarlet fever or chicken pox was present in this house. Families were quarantined for days, weeks. This was not done because public health officials sought to discriminate against children; but because they cared about children. Their job was to isolate the Infected, to control the disease. All those lachrymose commentators and like Mario Cuomo who have politicians trashed this writer as uncaring, uncompasbow much can sionate and insensitive they truly care about the homosexuals to whom they pander if they lack the guts to shut down these hothouses for a disease that Is killing their constituents? Politicians not only in New York but in Washington are placing their reputations for progressiveness above the publics right to maximum protection from an Incurable, infectious and killing disease. In New York City, morticians have refused to embalm the bodies of deceased AIDS victims. Instead, they have sealed the bodies in plastic bags and put them In closed caskets, which is consistent both with common sense and medical practice. Yet, Mayor Koch is threatening a withdrawal of licenses if they continue to balk. Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, is of a similar mind. There is no evidence, she told this writer, that the general population is threatened by Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The only known means of transmitting the disease are direct sexual contact with an AIDS victim, dirty needles or contaminated blood. But that position is challenged by Dr. Anthony M. Fauci of the National Institute of Health. In the May 6 issue of the American Medical Association Journal, JAMA, he wrote: The finding of AIDS In Infants and children who are household contacts of patients with AIDS or persons with risks for AIDS has enormous Implications with regard to the ultimate transmiBsiblllty of this syndrome. First it is possible that AIDS can be vertically transmitted. Perhaps even more Important Is the possibility tnat routine close contact, as within a family household, can spread the disease ... Given the fact that the incubation period for adults Is believed to be longer than one year, the full Impact of the syndrome among sexual contacts and recipients of potentially infective transfusions Is uncertain at present. If we add to this the possibility that transmission Is possible, the scope of the syndrome may be enormous. To date, 1,500 cases have been reported, 40 percent fatal, with an 80 percent death rate over two years, and none cured. If the current Incidence of the disease continues five. or six new cases a day, with the rate of we discovery doubling every six months are talking about the wholesale destruction non-sexu- I a of casual sex contacts through which the ease is known to be passed. dis- If 35 years ago, there had been an epidemic of polio among New York children, a would we have hailed as progressive mayor who refused to close the municipal swimming pool, or a governor who declared that the rights of children dictated that the Boy Scout Jamboree In Central Park go forward on schedule? The lifestyle of homosexuals Is not at issue here, said James Weschler in a column critical of this writer. Excuse me, Jimmy, but it is precisely lifestyle that is at issue. It is not the proclivities of male homosexuals that are infecting them; it is their practice. What they do. In the way they define themselves, they are killing themselves. Homosexuals did not Invent AIDS; but they are the primary carriers, and spreaders of the disease. And it is not an act of compassion to deny this; it is an expression of ideological blindness, a manifestation of moral paralysis. Over to you, Governor. (Copyright) The Public Forum Tribune Readers Opinions Clean-u- p Labor We have experienced a flood that in any other place I have been in America would have been a disaster. If these great rivers had not been contained they would have flooded every cellar in downtown Salt Lake that he needed to finish the race? Was this a run for fun or a test to see if his mind could take him beyond his physical capabilities? Was this man a victim of the running craze or did he underestimate his training runs to prepare for the Memorial Day Race? What information do these runners have City. about running a 10 kilometer race? How The exhausting labor by the city, county, much water should they drink before, durand state employees is beyond the call of ing, and after the race? What demands are y duty. To the four or five thousand volunteers sysplaced on the bodys that turned out in force whenever needed in tem when running a race in 80 degree weaththe middle of the night if necessary gives er, high altitude, and at a steep uphill grade? hope for human civilization. Doctors, minisWhat type of clothing and shoes should be ters, clerks, bishops, every citizen class has worn during the race? been represented in this battle. The answers to these questions are essenNow we face a cleanup of monstrous protial to the runners health and their enjoyportions. Perhaps 100,000 sand bags to be ment while running. We cannot assume that hauled away. Mud and dirt to be cleaned and because most people have learned1 a basic a fantastic expense to meet. Is it too much to running pattern at childhood, they also have ask that in this endeavor the inmates of .knowledge about their bodies while running Point of the Mountain might just possibly distances. All runners need to be educated. Their bodies endure much stress during this Forum Rules activity. It is those runners who can monitor this stress by drinking fluids, slowing their Public Forum letters must be submitted pace, or walking that will be successful. The bear and to writers Tribune exclusively PATRICK J. GERATY full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. In reference to Tom McCartheys travel Preference will be given to short, typewritten (doubled-spaced- ) letters permitting use essay on South Africa in The Tribune on June 19: I think I understand Mr. McCartheys of writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to Public Forum, The journalistic and perhaps personal reluctance Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake to view complex social problems in a simplistic, black and white fashion. We have City, Utah 84110. tried in recent years to attain a level of sophistication in our attitudes toward the ineqHouse In to were Sugar brought help? They Park for a picnic. Couldnt they help clean it uities and Injustices which plague our troubled world. In all fairness, we weigh and up? measure and analyze the forces which percitito these a costs It 880,000 year keep petrate these Improper balances In other zens (for now they vote) at Point of the countries and In our own. to their enhance Mountain lifestyles. But even in all fairness, Mr. McCarthey, Couldnt they conceivably include a little dont you believe you went a bit lightly on work. the racist guagmire of South Africa? Scenic STEVEN VORIS beauty cannot purify the corrosive Institutions of this outlaw nation. South Africa is scorned by the International community not, like Israel by the hatred of its enemies, but by the sanctions of social conscience. The As a Memorial Day Classic runner was government of South Africa denies basic huon his knees gasping for air, appropriate first aid was the first thought that came to man rights to over 80 percent of its populamind. Instead, two people grabbed each of tion based on the color of their skin. I doubt even the blonde-haire- d women of Capetown this elderly mans arms and emphatically have enough allure to blind the worlds eyes to finish the The him "race." encouraged man fell to the ground for the second time against such an outrage. I would Imagine that Berlin bustled, the and appeared to be in extreme pain. There were no medical personnel nearby, so I Rhine river sparkled and Dresden shown jumped the barricade to give him water with unvanquished beauty all through the 1930s In Nazi Germany. Could you, In good from my backpack and to administer obviconscience have written a similar travel aid. first needed ously to the Instruction first piece on that country? Could you, had you supMy people been In a position to know, have Ignored the porting the mans arms was to allow him to suffering and terror of thousands to extol the lie down ou his back. This position would of a few night clubs and national prohibit the runner from falling for the third pleasures time and avoid other potential injuries. Not parks? If not, then could you tell me in what substantive way South Africa differs? There only did these people supporting the man are similar laws against miscegenation. ignore me, but the runner spoke with a slurred speech saying, I want to finish, help There are Internment camps, ghettos, political prisoners, repressive state security pome, Just let me finish the race. lice and virtual slave labor practices. At this point, I decided that I would not Perhaps Im wrong. Perhaps it Is differrace I the not finish because him did help want to contribute in such a death defying ent. But, only If youre white. MAUREEN FITZGERALD act. What was so important to this runner thermo-regulator- X6T look at you. Don't you kids en know ww Tj a, iM our of thl Pain f " Only If Youre White Running Education A The Way It Was Here are briefs from The Salt Lake Tribune of 100, 50 and 25 years ago. June 25, 1883 The Tribune pays for all the Associated Press dispatches, but the agent In California seems to be always napping when anything Important happens. On Wednesday morning there was a fire In San Francisco, causing a loss of over half a million: on the day previous the big English dam on Yuba River, eighty miles above Maryville, burst, and the rush of water Inflicted Immense damage. June 25, 1933 and Colorado are the pivMontana Utah, otal states In the repeal Issue, Postmaster General James A. Farley observed today in reviewing prospects of abolishing the eighteenth amendment He expressed the conviction that the repeal amendment will be ratified by 36 states before the end of this year or early next year. It will be all over, he said, "If repeal c in Montana, Utah and Colorado and in two of the three states Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas voting the middle of carries July. June 25, 1958 confusion about beer law enforcement in Salt Lake City appeared less confused on one front Tuesday, but the other was as muddy as ever. Acting to clarify enforcement of the city ban on sale of beer in the presence of minors was the Salt Lake City Commission. It directed its legal staff to work with the police deaprtment on a realistic revision of the law. e Mayor Adiel F. Stewart said the ordinance was written before grocery store sale of beer was popular. As the ordinance stands, minors are barred from entering or working in grocery and drug stores or restaurants which sell beer. 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