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Health educator advocates testing,
prevention of AIDS to students
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this time, they are giving it to ev
ery person they have sex with."
Health officials estimate by the
end of 1992, 365,000 Americans
will have AIDS. In Brazos
County this year, 35 cases of
AIDS were reported. Thirty peo
ple have died from the disease.
Anderson said those deaths
are just the cases that have been
documented.
"You don't think of AIDS hap
pening in small towns like Bryan
and College Station," Anderson
said.
A person can contract AIDS by
having sex with someone who is
infected with the AIDS virus, or
by sharing drug needles and sy
ringes with an infected person.
Anderson said there are three
main groups of people who
come to the health department
to get tested for AIDS.
The first is IV drug users. She
said most of them have come off
a bad trip, and they are worried
because they shared a needle
with someone they did not
know.
"You would be very surprised
how many IV drug users there
are in this area," Anderson said.
The second group are young
adult men who are scared they
have AIDS because they have
had sexual contact with a homo
sexual.
"Homosexual experiences run
paraUel with AIDS," Anderson
said.
The third group is young adult
women who discover their boyf
riends are IV drug users, bisex
ual or have had multiple sex
partners.
"A lot of people have the atti
tude of 'Why should I get tested?
There is no way I have AIDS,
and if I do, I don't want to know
because I am just going to die
anyway,'" Anderson said.
The Texas health department
offers free testing for STDs and
distributes free condoms. The
testing is confidential at the
health department as well as at
the campus health center.
The A.P. Beutel Health Center
offers presentations in residence
halls on forms of contraception
and STD prevention.
Women who want to start a
birth control program through
the health center must attend the
presentation.
The presentation informs stu
dents about what STDs are,
what the symptoms are, how
STDs can be prevented and what
Z
"Get to know your sexual part
ners," she added. "The idea is
that STDs grow globally. If you
prevent one, you are preventing
all of them. The way to prevent
is very simple — know who you
will happen if the diseases go are sleeping with.
Senate study reports rural crime 'plague'
WASHINGTON (AP) —Small
town America is suffering a "pla
gue of violent crime, drug traf
ficking and drug abuse," accord
ing to a Senate chairman whose
staff documented major in
creases in murders, rapes, rob
beries and assaults in some rural
states.
The study released Tuesday
showed rural criminal violence
"growing at an astonishing pa
ce," Senate Judiciary Chairman
Joseph R. Biden Jr, D-Del., said.
Montana suffered the biggest
percentage increase, 23.4 per
cent, among rural states in the
number of violent crimes re-
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years since, the ships might ac
tually lie under dry land.
However, he added, the re
searchers are almost certain that
the ships are underwater be
cause measurements indicate
that no more than 300 feet has
been added to the beach since
the failed voyage.
Columbus Caravels Project re
searchers returned to St. Ann's
Bay earlier in June to continue
their work.
A location A&M scientists are
now investigating lies underwa
ter about 270 feet from where the
proposed shoreline was.
Snip timbers recovered from
that site and charcoal and fish
bones from a nearby underwater
refuse pile have been traced back
to the early 1500s through the
use of carbon dating. Archaeolo
gists also say the shape of the
wreckage suggest it could be two
ships side-by-side.
The INA group hopes to locate
the vessels before the 500th anni-
verary of Columbus's first voy
age to the New World.
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"Some universities include
only the subject of condom use
in their birth control presenta
tions," the former director of the
health center Erika Gonzalez-
Lima said. "A&M has gone a
little bit beyond that."
The presentation stresses the
fact that everyone is susceptible
to STDs. Gonzalez-Lima said if
students know how to prevent
STDs, incidences of contracting
diseases will decrease.
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cases do go untreated is 80 per
cent of women with STDs have
no symptoms.
"Some people do have symp
toms, but they are too scared to
find out if they do in fact have a
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ported to police last year, accord
ing to the report based on figures
provided by 15 of the country's
19 rural states.
Court upholds
$5 M award
to former lover
of Rock Hudson
Rural states, for the purposes
of the report, are those with pop
ulation densities of 50 or fewer
people per square mile.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An ap
peals court upheld a $5 million
award to the onetime lover of ac
tor Rock Hudson, ruling the sum
isn't too large to compensate for
"the ultimate in personal hor
ror," the fear of developing
AIDS.
The California 2nd District
Court of Appeal rejected argu
ments by the actor's estate that
Marc Christian failed to show a
likelihood he contracted the
AIDS virus during sexual rela
tions with Hudson.
A jury ruled in February 1989
that Hudson was guilty of "ou
trageous conduct" for concealing
his AIDS diagnosis from Chris
tian, his lover for two years.
Christian said he didn't learn of
the actor's illness until a few
months before Hudson, 58, died
Oct. 2,1985.
Although Christian didn't
contract AIDS and tested neg
ative for the presence of the vi
rus, the Superior Court jury and
a judge found he deserved dam
ages. Hudson's estate appealed.
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"In the case at bench, we deal
with the ultimate in personal
horror," the appeals court said.
Its decision was filed Thursday
but released Monday.
Attorney Marvin Mitchelson,
who represented Christian in the
appeal, said the ruling sends a
cautionary message to couples
everywhere that "this is a ratal
disease and you should be hon
est with your partner."
"I think it sends a very strong
message that should be heeded
by everyone before they engage
in sex," Mitchelson said. "People
need to be honest and disclose to
their partners where they
stand."
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The Louisiana legislature voted
Tuesday to override Gov. Buddy
Roemer's veto of a tough abor
tion bill that would jail doctors
who perform the procedure.
Opponents of the legislation
said they would immediately
move in court to stop enforce
ment. Supporters of the bill said
they hoped the court challenges
would lead to reversal of the
1973 Supreme Court decision
that established abortion rights.
The House voted 76-25 to
override the veto after suspend
ing rules that would not have al
lowed debate to begin until
Wednesday.
The Senate's 29-9 vote earlier
in the day came as a surprise
since the upper chamber sus
tained Roemer's veto of similar
legislation in 1990 despite the
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for consumers with questions
about their policy and also has a
"plain English" requirement.
McDonald said this require
ment might mean more to con
sumers than any other part of
the bill because policies must be
approved by the OPIC based on
their clarity and readability.
Keck compared the consumer
hotlines to the advertised toll-
free numbers for anonymous
callers to report ways state tax
dollars could be saved or are be
ing wasted.
"The hotline is advertised, but
no successes are heard of," he
said. "It (the OPIC) may be simi
lar to that, but it remains to be
seen."
Keck said the market is the
best enforcer of change.
"People will gravitate to the
insurance company with the best
deal," he said. "Price is not the
only factor, but it leads the
way."
John Opperman, chairman of
the Texas Senate's Finance Com
mittee, said the reforms will
"tighten up" the insurance in
dustry.
Opperman, also former chair
man of the joint committee on
insurance reform, said an
exemption to the Texas antitrust
laws had allowed insurance
companies to work together.
ave given
way to price-fixing in the indus
try, he said. Insurance comp
nies are no longer exempt und;
the bill.
Opperman said the insurar
industry, which was representt
in the reform negotiations, &■
cided it "wasn't worth the figlt
to try to keep the antitnf
exemption.
The bill goes a step furtheri'
addressing insurance fraud ar
solvency problems, but the it;
forms might not be complelt
Opperman said.
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periment," he said. "We mayl
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>ack next session to do some fir;
tuning."
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time limit in which insurant
companies must pay claims i
face an 18 percent interest pa'
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that an insurance company car
not cancel a policy without prif
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