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Supreme Court says law helps |
those with contagious diseases
I
s one step closer to obtaining a fcfl
ral remedy for discrimination.” I
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su-
E reme Court, in a ruling likely to
elp AIDS victims fight discrimina
tion, said Tuesday people with con
tagious diseases are protected by a
federal law helping the hand
icapped.
The court, by a 7-2 vote, said busi
nesses and government entities re
ceiving federal aid are barred from
discriminating — in employment or
otherwise — against people with
contagious diseases.
Rejecting Reagan administration
arguments, the court said employers
may be violating a 1973 federal law
if they fire employees based solely
on a fear that those employees may
spread a disease.
The decision did not directly in
volve Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome, a deadly viral disease.
And the court pointed out it was not
deciding whether some carriers of
AIDS, those who do not suffer from
symptoms of the disease, are cov
ered by the 1973 law.
But gay-rights groups and other
organizations nevertheless hailed
the ruling as a huge victory for ef
forts to protect AIDS victims from
discrimination in employment,
housing, insurance and health care.
The ruling kept alive a job-dis
crimination lawsuit against the Nas
sau County School Board in Florida
by Gene Arline, fired as an elemen
tary school teacher in 1979 because
she had tuberculosis, an infectious
respiratory disease.
Led by Justice William J. Bren
nan, the court said allowing bias
based on a disease’s contagious ef
fects conflicts with the basic purpose
of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 —
to ensure that handicapped people
“are not denied jobs or other bene
fits because of the prejudiced atti
tudes or the ignorance of others.”
Brennan said, “It would be unfair
to allow an employer to seize upon
the distinction between the effects of
a disease on others and (its) effects
... on a patient and use that distinc
tion to justify discriminatory treat
ment.”
Jean O’Leary, executive director
of the National Gay Rights Advo
cates, said the decision “certainly
bodes well for us.”
“It shores up our position and
goes against what the Justice Depart
ment has said,” she added. “It moves
U.S., Soviets continue talks
on medium-range missiles
GENEVA (AP) — U.S. and Soviet
teams continued talks on medium-
range nuclear missiles and President
Reagan said the Americans would
present new proposals today, when
this round of talks originally had
been scheduled to end.
Maynard Glitman and Lem Mas-
terkov led the U.S. and Soviet nego
tiators in Tuesday’s meeting. Soviet
spokesman Alexander Monakhov
said they talked for about 90 min
utes at the Soviet Mission, but he
gave no details.
Max Kampelman and Yuli Vo
rontsov, chiefs of the two dele
gations, had a luncheon meeting
Tuesday to discuss procedure.
During an appearance in the
White House briefing room in
Washington, Reagan said: “I wel
come the statement by Soviet Secre
tary-General Gorbachev on Satur
day that the Soviet Union will no
longer insist on linking agreement
on reduction in INF (Intermediate
Nuclear Force) to agreements in
other negotiations.”
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet
leader, proposed that the superpow
ers reach an agreement apart from
other arms negotiations on eliminat
ing medium-range missiles from Eu
rope in five years.
Reagan said he would bring U.S.
negotiators home for consultations
at the end of this week and, “follow
ing these dicussions in Washington,
I will send a team back to Geneva to
take up once again the detailed ne
gotiations for an INF reduction
agreement.”
He said he had told the American
team to begin presenting the U.S.
proposals today and added: “I hope
that the Soviet Union will then pro
ceed with us to serious discussion of
details which are essential to trans
late areas of agreement in principle
to a concrete agreement.”
Among issues to be resolved, he
said, “none is more important than
verification.”
“We will continue to insist that any
agreement will be effectively verifia
ble,” he said.
U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms negotia
tions in Geneva are in three areas:
medium-range missies; long-range,
or strategic weapons; and the fields
of defense and space.
Gorbachev’s offer reversed the
Soviet position, taken after his Ice
land summit with Reagan last Octo
ber, that agreement on medium-
range nuclear forces must be tied to
the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative,
commonly called “Star Wars.”
Officials defend Nancy Reagan
as supportive to the president
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy
Reagan, victorious in her campaign
to drive Donald Regan from the
White House, suddenly is being pic
tured as everything from “a dragon”
to a “power-hungry first lady” who
has made her husband appear
wimpish and helpless.
But Mrs. Reagan’s supporters say
it’s nonsense to assert — as one pub
lished report did this week — that
the first lady has become so power
ful she plans to use the remainder of
President Reagan’s term to press for
an arms-control agreement with the
Soviet Union.
“That’s silly,” Mrs. Reagan’s press
secretary, Elaine Crispen, said Tues
day. “Sure, she’s interested in arms
control, she’s interested in peace.
But she’s interested in arms control
only to the point that it affects his
(Reagan’s) planning and his policy
and what he’s doing with it.”
Mrs. Reagan’s former press secre
tary, Sheila Tate, agreed.
“She gets involved with people,
yes. Policy, no,” said Tate, a long
time aide now working in public re
lations.
Few people question that Mrs.
Reagan has great influence over her
husband or that she acts out of an in
tense concern about his health and
his image.
She often has commented that “all
my little antennas go up” when she 1
believes someone is attempting to
take advantage of her husband and
that she tries to stop it “by telling
him or telling someone else.”
And she has not been reticent in
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eral remedy
Ben Schatz, director of NORM
AIDS Civil Rights Project, said J
decision could influence job-lJ
c ases now pending in lower courts.1
“My guess is that . . . lawyers*
both management’s side and cl
plaintiff’s side are going to havetl
understanding that AIDS-basedil
crimination is illegal,” Schatz said I
think that will be the very clear resil
of this decision.”
In a highly publicized memon;l
dum last year, the Justice Deparl
merit’s Of fice of Legal Counsel saJ
employers do not violate the 19il
law by firing employees out ofafei.1
even an unfounded one, that tfcJ
may spread a disease.
recent weeks while the president,
out of sight recuperating from pros
tate surgery, has been battered by
the Iran-Contra controversy.
Many who know the couple might
argue over how pervasive Mrs. Rea
gan’s influence is. But rare is the
White House official or adviser who
is willing to have any comments
about her attached to his or her
name.
Commenting only on condition
they not be named, sources had said
for weeks she was leading a
movement to dump Regan.
“She’s making it happen,’’said one
Republican source prior to the chief
of staffs departure last week. A se
nior White House official said, “It
looks pretty obvious, she’s going to
get rid of him, one way or another.”
Indicators
for economy
post decline
WASHINGTON (AP)—Tht
government’s main forecasting
gauge of economic activity fell i
percent in January, the biggest
nosedive in 30 months, the Com
merce Department said Tuesday.
The steep drop in the Index of
Leading Indicators was seen b\
some economists as an ominous
sign that the economy could be
teetering on the verge of a reces
sion. But other analysts said tha;
the big January setback should be
viewed as a correction after a
large December advance.
The 2.3 percent rise in Decern-
lier and the 1 percent drop in
January represented the biggesi
two-month swing in the index in
more than 36 years.
Analysts attributed the volatil
ity to a temporary surge in spend
ing at the end of 1986 as consum
ers and businesses rushed to buv
new autos and capital equipment
to qualify for expiring tax breaks
Jerry Jasinowski, chief econo
mist for the National Association
of Manufacturers, said the Jan
uary leading index report "con
clusively demonstrates that eco
nomic activity is falling sharply in
the first quarter of 1987.”
He said business investmem
spending is being held back by
the loss of tax benefits while con
sumer spending is weakening be
cause of high debt burdens.
The leading index, made upof
a dozen forward-pointing eco
nomic barometers, is designed to
forecast economic activity six to
nine months in the future. Three
consecutive monthly declines in
the index can be the signal of an
impending recession.
Irwin Kellner, chief economist
at Manufacturers Hanover Trust
in New York, cautioned against
reading too much in the one-
month decline, which he said was
primarily a reflection of buying
patterns influenced by the chang
ing tax law.
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