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Protesters mark
anniversary
of AIDS vigil
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A
march through downtown Monday
marked the first anniversary of a
vigil that began when AIDS patients
and supporters chained themselves
to the door of the Old Federal Build
ing in a demand for more federal
money to fight the lethal disease.
The march ended at the bedrag
gled tent city where, for the past
year, the protesters have endured
rain and winter cold, physical attacks
and verbal insults, a lack of toilets
and showers and the vagaries of
public opinion. One of them, 38-
year-old Jay Young, died of acquired
immune deficiency syndrome in
February.
“It’s been tough, but we’ve man
aged,” said Bonnie McDonald, a
grandmother who has lived at the
tent city with her husband since
May.
“We’ve evolved into, I think,
something pretty good,” she said.
“We’ve continued to do what we can
do, which is to reach out to people.”
About 30 people are volunteers at
the vigil site on a strip of grass in a
plaza beside the federal building.
About 15 people, including about a
dozen who have AIDS or AIDS-re
lated complex, live in the four tents
all or part of the time.
One of them is AIDS victim Jan
Beck, who joined the vigil on its
third day. The former stage and film
actor acts as political coordinator
and has lobbied in Sacramento even
though confined to a wheelchair.
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“I’ve done about the only thing a
retired actor can do and that’s go
into politics,” he joked.
Beck, 40, had been diagnosed as
having AIDS-related complex when
he joined the vigil. Last December,
he went into convulsions in one of
the tents, suffering a stroke that
crippled his legs. While he was in the
hospital, he was diagnosed as having
AIDS, and his doctors gave him 60
days to live.
“Every day past 60 days is a vic
tory,” he said. “I consider myself an
AIDS victor, not an AIDS victim. . . .
You can’t have it both ways. You
can’t be busy living and busy dying at
the same time.”
referring to Democratic candidate
Edward Garvey, said Nader’s com
ments “show Mr. Garvey is sinking
to a new low.” A Garvey spokesman
said the candidate hadn’t known
what Nader was going to say. Kasten
has said of his Dec. 12 arrest in
Washington, “I made a mistake and
it’s not going to happen again.”
• In Illinois, a spokesman for
Democratic challenger AcHai Steven
son accused GOP Gov. James
Thompson of being “close with un
savory elements in labor” because he
had accepted a $10,000 contribution
from the Hotel and Restaurant Em
ployees Union, which the President’s
Commission on Organized Crimes
has linked to racketeering.
• In California, Democratic Sen.
Alan Cranston said the moderate
image of his opponent, Republican
Rep. Ed Zschau, is based on "politi
cal expediency, flip-flops and a lack
of conviction."
For his part, Zschau used tele
vision commercials to accuse
Cranston of voting against anti-ter
rorism legislation — with film of in
ternational terrorists in the back
ground. And he accused Cranston
of voting against or failing to vote on
anti-drug legislation, parodying
anti-drug pubfic service commercials
to warn of the dangers of “crack, co
caine and Cranston.”
• In Louisiana’s 8th Congressio
nal District, Republican candidate
Clyde Holloway said he had not
spread stories about the past life of
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cars to the recent all-terrain vehicle
craze, the emphasis of the public’s
demand has been in the direction of
fast machines.
Pazzaglia said that while a fad
usually passes on its own, the high
price of the cafe-racers and the vir
tual stranglehold the insurance in
dustry has put on this category of
motorcycle will end its popularity.
Fisher agrees. He said that motor
cycle manufacturers have been ab
sorbing the high costs of rapid tech
nological change and, in doing so,
have created a problem for the in
surance companies to deal with after
a cyclist has an accident.
He said insurance costs will con
tinue to rise because of the exorbi
tant cost of repair.
Adami illustrated this fact. He
said the Fiberglas fairing on his
$4,500 motorcycle was recently sto
len. The cost to replace this rela
tively insignificant piece of equip
ment was $>1,600.
Abbott, however, isn’t concerned
about the equipment.
He said the motorcycle industry
must be convinced that the models
they are making are “death machi
nes” and will, in the long run, cause
more harm to the industry than the
immediate profits are worth.
Fisher sees the possible harm to
the industry as real and is concerned
that harm to the motorcycle industry
as a whole will have an adverse effect
on his business.
Both Suzuki and Honda of Amer
ica refused to comment on their
stances concerning either the safety
of their super-sport cycles or the role
of the manufacturer in consumer
awareness of the cycles’ danger.
Fisher emphasizes that some re-
sponsiblility for the safety of the cy
clist lies with the dealer. He says the
dealer should sell people a motorcy
cle they can handle and strongly en
courages drivers to learn how to op
erate their high-powered machines.
He pointed out that the College Sta
tion Community Education Associa
tion offers a rider safety course.
However, he said his customers,
for the most part, ignore his mes
sage.
Fisher estimates that 75 percent of
the people to whom he has sold mo
torcycles over the last 18 years never
even read their owners’ manual.
Abbott’s concern is in a somewhat
different direction and is illustrated
by a few statistics.
The Yamaha V-Max has more
horsepower — 145 — than does a
Volkswagen or many other small au
tomobiles.
At 70 mph an ordinary motorcy
cle keeps about one-quarter inch of
back tire on the road. For a cafe-
racer in the hands of an unexpe
rienced cyclist, this Figure — which
becomes rapidly smaller at high
speeds — causes many problems,
Abbott said.
At a rapid rate of speed a flat
tened beer can or a leaf becomes a
hazard; a hazard only a mature, ex
perienced cyclist would look for or
be able to handle, he said.
However, if statistics are taken at
face value, the cafe-racer seems to be
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That figure is now placed at up
wards of 50 percent; including half
of all fatalities, Abbott said.
These statistics all point toward
driver inexperience, he said.
Finding the solution is not quite as
clear as defining the problem.
Pazzaglia’s solution is federal leg
islation that would ensure that cy
clists are well-educated and experi
enced before they’re able to
purchase certain sizes of cycles, a sys
tem he said West Germany uses.
Abbott’s solution is to have the
motorcycle industry stop building
cycles “too fast for anyone to handle
or enjoy.”
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