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The Battalion
Thursday, Septembers
AIDS guide suggests schools
adopt policy of confidentiality
for diseased teachers,students
WASHINGTON (AP) — Students and teachers in
fected with the AIDS virus should be free to attend class
without fear that their disease will be made public, a
new guide for the nation’s schools said Wednesday.
“Someone At School Has AIDS,” released by the Na
tional Association of State Boards of Education, said the
deadly virus “is not transmitted by casual, everyday con
tact” so confidentiality should be school policy.
Parents shouldn’t have to reveal their child’s infec
tion if the decision is sanctioned by a physician, who
finds the child does not have secondary infections, such
as tuberculosis, said the guidelines.
The report suggests that school superintendents be
notified, but even those “decisions should be approved
by the infected person and a student’s parents or
guardians.”
The report, developed by a panel of 20 organizations
representing law, medicine, public health and educa
tion groups, is an update of guidelines issued by the
Centers of Disease Control in 1985.
“Until now, many people have been fearful that
(AIDS) could be transmitted at school,” said the book
let. “We have enough information to stop worrying
about this. What we do need to worry about — and the
place to put our energy and concern — is into educa
tion.”
AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a
fatal disease that destroys the body’s ability to fight in
fection. The disease is spread through the exchange of
body fluids infected with the human immunodeficiency
virus, popularly called HIV.
The guide said about 1.5 million people in tilt [
United States are infected with the HIV virus. Mott
than 102,000 cases of AIDS have been diagnosed in this
country since 1981, and more than 59,000 of those vie
tims have died.
Lloyd Kolbe, director of CDC’s division of adolescem
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We have enough information to stop
worrying about this. What we do need to
worry about — and the place to put our
energy and concern — is into education."
— “Someone at School Has AIDS,
Educational guidebook
and school health, said about 1,276 children frombirtl
up to 19-years-old have been diagnosed with AIDS.
In recent years, children infected by the AIDS vim
have been banned from classrooms and in a few cases
the entire family forced to leave town. Infected school i
staff have reportedly been harassed or fired.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Offi
cials described the guide as “clear, concise and straight
forward information.” The Council of Chief Slate
School Officers predicted the booklet “will be of inesti
mable value” because, “it is both scientifically accurate
and sensitive to the mission of schools.”
Japanese minister ends
6 positive’ Mexican visit
promising more help
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Japanese
Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu
capped a visit of “support and sym
pathy” to Mexico on Wednesday
with a resounding send-off by the
capital’s Mexican-Japanese high
school.
Members of the Japanese commu
nity and the student body of about
600, which includes children of
many prominent Mexican politicians
and government officials, cheered
when Kaifu paid a 45-minute visit to
the school.
Kaifu then left for Ottawa, the Ca
nadian capital, on the last leg of a
tour of North America. Earlier, he
met with President Bush in Wash
ington.
Mexican Foreign Minister Fer
nando Solana described as “positive”
the two days of talks between Kaifu
and President Carlos Salinas de Gor-
the Axis, Mexico has had warm dip
lomatic relations with Japan for the
past 101 years.
At a news conference Tuesday
Kaifu called his visit here “one of
support and sympathy.”
Kaifu’s trip, his first abroad since
he became prime minister a month
ago, came at a time when Mexico is
striving to overcome burdensome
economic problems.
Salinas has been seeking new ex
port markets and better relations
with the Far East.
Salinas launched his “Pacific Basin
initiative” soon after he was sworn in
as president for a 6-year term Dec. 1,
saying it was a top priority for Mex
ico.
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Japanese sources, who insisted on
anonymity for reasons of protocol,
called Kaifu’s visit “very opportune”
and “one which lays the bases for
even better relations between our
two countries.”
Except for World War II, when
Mexico sided with the Allies against
At the news conference, Kaifu
said Mexico and Japan are “good
partners” and praised Salinas as “a
futurist, a man who is going to be a
pioneer in reforming today’s world.”
“Both countries have to expand
not only economic, but social and
cultural ties,” Kaifu said.
He said they included Japanese
help in controlling Mexico City’s air
pollution, among the world’s worst.
“We are studying 15 projects the
Mexican government presented to
us. I don’t know, concretely, in what
form we’re going to collaborate,” he
said.
Officials force
Mexican cabbies
to install meters
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico
(AP) — Haggling with Mexican
cab drivers over fares may be on
inuahua
its way out now that Chi
state officials are requiring driv
ers to install meters in their vehi
cles before 1990.
The government believes too
many Ciudad Juarez cab drivers
routinely overcharge tourists.
“We find this measure nec
essary to enforce government set
rates and to prevent anarchy and
abuse of the passengers’ inter
ests,” Ruben Luna Caldera, direc
tor of public transportation in
Juarez, said.
Luna Caldera said he is dis
turbed by accounts of people be
ing charged up to $20 for a taxi
ride for short rides.
“The maximum rate right now
for most of Juarez is about $8. A
taxi ride from one of the interna
tional bridges to the Juarez Air
port should be no more than
$12,” Luna Caldera told the El
Paso Herald-Post Tuesday.
Government officials are pro
viding a phone number to pas
sengers to call if they believe they
have been cheated by a Juarez can
driver recently.
Juarez has 85 taxicab compa
nies, which operate an estimated
700 cabs.
Juarez tourism delegate Lupita
de la Vega praised the plan as a
way to protect tourists.
Teens, police pessimistic that Bush
can win drug war ‘block by block’
ASSOCIATED PRESS
pledge
drugs “block by block, child by child”
was a popular sound bite on news
casts Wednesday, but when young
people on one block were asked if
the war on drugs could be won, most
were pessimistic.
“It’s going to take a lot, because
it’s not just the students, it’s like ev
erybody, you know, policemen, peo
ple like that, the big people,” said
Yolanda Brown, 17, among students
interviewed Wednesday outside
T.C. Williams High School in Alex
andria, Va., about Bush’s speech the
night before.
The students’ skepticism was
echoed by many of the rank-and-file
soldiers in the daily battle against
drugs — narcotics officers, drug
counselors and others who said
Bush’s $7.9 billion drug program
was simply not enough.
Shane Berry, 17, another Wil
liams student, was asked if he agreed
with Bush that people who look the
other way when drugs are being
used are also responsible for the
problem.
“You couldn’t really say that, be
cause you can’t go telling on your
friends, especially if it’s just some
thing like pot or something,” he said.
“But crack, and cocaine, or heroin, I
would tell on my friend, because I
know that could kill you the first
time.”
In Philadelphia, Allen Dobson,
21, an admitted former drug dealer,
watched the Bush speech with his
parents, Vera and William, both re
covering drug addicts.
“I know a lot of people don’t want
to hear this, but it’s too late for a
whole generation of us,” he said.
“The bottom line is that we have
wasted lives, people from 17 to 25.
Get the babies and start talking to
them now.”
His mother disagreed, noting that
she was 35 when she got help and
has remained drug-free for 22 years.
Dobson said he quit selling drugs
three years ago and sometimes re
grets the money and power he lost.
“It’s hard for me to face the fact that
I’m broke.”
“I was surprised to hear that
did get $50 million allocated to puJ
lie housing,” Lane said. “. . . W
about $30 million here in Chicago
can clean up every troubled highris;
in the city. So the money will bever
much appreciated.”
The chairman of the Chicago
Housing Authority, Vince Lane, said
on “CBS This Morning” that the
president had taken an important
step by throwing down the gauntlet.
Capt. Mike Smith, head of th
narcotics division in the Harr
County Sheriffs Department, sai
of the president’s speech,“Bf
whole court system is alreari
swamped. It would take mor
money than he’s talking about.”
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end of each day, she said, the ma
chines will be plugged into a termi-
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nal to add
base.
Around 100,000 tickets are proc
essed each year, she said, so the ma
chines will save a great amount of
time and prevent errors. She said
she doesn’t expect the number of
tickets written to increase.
The department can trace stolen
hang-tag permits more easily with
the machines, too, she said. Ma
chines will show immediately if a
number entered is the number of a
stolen permit, and the vehicle will
automatically be towed. The owner
will be fined $100, referred to Stu
dent Services and may have campus
parking priveleges revoked.
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more money with the systef
though, because people will ben#
responsible about paying their fine
said a representative at Cardin ;
Tracking Technics Inc., the Lev"'
ville company that makes the ticket-
writers.
Cardinal’s computerized tickf
writers have been in use for severe
years at universities around the &
tion and in Canada, and many 1
them reported that fine collection
went way up when the machine
were in use, the representative said
All parking control officers will
begin using the new machines in
mid-September, Horner said. Total
cost for the 15 machines, software
and installation was $39,000.
Southern Methodist UniverL
was the first to use Cardinal’s system
she said, and several other univern
ties now have the system. Cardina-
list of customers includes Bayi
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