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The Gazette wants to be the friend of every man, the promulgator of all mat's right, a welcome gueit in the home. We want to build up, not uar down; to help, not to hinder; and to assist every worthy person in the oommuntty without reference to race, religion or polltios. Our oause will be the broadening and bettering of the county's Interests. Indian Gasexte 1890 The Indiana Gazette Wednesday, December 1 2, 1 990 Page 2 Did China ship Saudis warheads? Asian countries and U.S. bases in the detected that the CSS-Zs have been in a state of high readiness since Aug.

3. Prince Bandar negotiated the original purchase of the CSS-2s on a trip to Beijing in 1985. The Saudis were so cagey that U.S. intelligence did not find out about the sale until January 1988. Saudi King Fahd then wrote to President Reagan saying maintain that If there are nuclear warheads in Saudi Arabia, the Chinese have insisted on controlling them.

One top-secret DIA report says there may be as many as 1,000 Chinese military advisers in Saudi Arabia more than 100 of them recent arrivals. The same DIA report says there are about 50 CSS-2S at fixed and 1 Washington Editorial Indiana Library merits support Every good community must include as a part of its educational and cultural fife a progressive, well-stocked, and professionally managed free library. The Indiana-White community Indeed does possess such a comprehensive and productive facility. Nearing the end of a successful $500,000 capital improvement fund drive, the trustees of the local library are now looking for the proper and on-going operational support of activities. The capital fund drive will enable the trustees to upgrade and expand present facilities to allow the institution to provide our area with the best and latest in library operations.

Once in place, these new services will require constant and growing day-to-day care and concern to provide for the ever-growing book reading needs of people of all ages. Readership and general use of the library has been growing at an unusual rate of about 7 percent, to an expected total of 128,000 items circulated in 1990. To meet and service the demand, the operations budget has been expended. Indiana Borough and White Township are each being asked to provide about $4 per capita to help fund this budget A quick study of library records shows township residents account for about 39 percent of library activity, while Indiana Borough residents represent about 35 percent-Indiana has already agreed to meet the library request in cash and in in-kind contributions near the per capita level. The township has approved support at approximately the 12 57 per capita rate.

We appreciate the fact that the township supervisors are facing the same financial crunch as all other political subdivisions, but so is Indiana Borough. With a facility as important as a library is to the meaningful educational and cultural fabric of the community, we hope and expect the township to assume its full share of financial responsibility. We strongly urge the supervisors to re-consider their level of per capita support and vote to provide the money necessary to enable the library, along with its small paid staff and large number of volunteers, to offer its full line of essential services to all citizens. By JACK ANDERSON DALE VAN ATT A Sillily WASHINGTON The People's Republic of China may have shipped nuclear warheads to Saudi Arabia since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, according to highly sensitive Intelligence reports given to President Bush.

The warheads would be placed on CSS-2 intermediate-range ballistic missiles that the Saudis bought from China, equipped with conventional warheads, in 1985. When the United States found out about that missile sale three years later, both China and Saudi Arabia promised that the missiles would never be fitted with nuclear warheads. But U.S. intelligence officials now fear that promise may have been broken. Intelligence reports note that the evidence is not conclusive, but it was serious enough to be included in the President's Daily Briefing.

Only several dozen top administration officials see that document, which is used to brief the president on the most urgent intelli- gence matters. The material In the riefing is classified higher than "Top Secret." One source told us he saw the information about tbe nuclear warheads in the Nov. 22 briefing. The reports on the alleged transfer say that highly reliable sources used by the Central Intelligence Agency Implicate the Saudi ambassador to the United States in the deal. The sources say that Prince Bandar bin Sultan asked the Chinese on Aug.

3, the day after the invasion, to give Saudi Arabia chemical and nuclear warheads for the CSS-2 missiles. U.S. electronic intelligence has Merry-Go-Houna Public health greater than civil rights mobile sites in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis originally made a dozen or more of the missiles mobile so they could be hidden from U.S. and Israeli intelligence.

The CSS-2 has a maximum range of 1,678 miles. It is not considered highly accurate and would normally be used against large targets such as cities instead of hardened military targets where the strike would have to be precise. Tbe Chinese built the CSS-2 for use against the Soviet Union, other positive patients; and if I were to have the misfortune to seroconvert, 1 would no longer be permitted to practice surgery." And 5,815 U.S. health care workers contracted the AIDS virus by Sept 30, 1990, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Some 94 percent had "nonoccupational risks for infection." But at least 69 people got the disease itself, probably from work.

Three cases have been confirmed. At present, a physician or a hospital in New York or California can not test a patient for AIDS unless the person consents to it. Yet in public hospitals in New York and New Jersey, one in four males aged 25-44 who are not known to be infected, in GRAFFITI IH UoJIrt FMIur. k)C. mrinniniii rfiniiirimiiwmii mcfflr MM there were no nuclear warheads on the CSS-2s and that Saudi Arabia was not looking for any.

The recent top-secret reports on the CSS-2S, relying heavily on information developed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, say there has been an influx of Chinese nuclear missile technicians into Saudi Arabia since early August. To mask the buildup, the Chinese reportedly take secret flights to Pakistan and then to Saudi Arabia. The U.S. intelligence reports patients, and perhaps two others as well. Yet current guidelines of the Federal Centers for Disease Control do not mandate that a physician warn his patients if heshe is HIV-positive That is irresponsible.

It would obviously hurt the doctor's career. But is that more important than protecting the lives of his patients? A person dying of AIDS has unmistakable symptoms in the final months. Why didn't Johns Hopkins order that he be tested? There is an excessive concern for the privacy or civil rights of those with AIDS. In a letter to Dr. James Curran, Assistant Secretary for Health, the president of the New York City Bar Association, Conrad Harper, argued that like disabled people in any workplace.

AIDS patients should be protected from discrimination. However, Timothy Townsend, senior director of Medical Affairs at Johns Hopkins makes one valid point that patients and health care workers should be treated equally in balancing such rights and obligations. As he told the New York Times, "You must consider the entire piece. Either neither has the right to know or both have the right to know." Indeed, there is a much greater danger that patients will infect doctors and nurses than the other way around. The Journal of the American Medical Association published a letter from Dr.

Kenneth Shewell, a young surgeon-in-training, which said: "It is clear that as a surgeon-in training, I am in an unenviable position. Penetrating injuries are common; I may not refuse to operate on HIV- western Pacific Ocean. But they aren't above selling it, too. China is a major supplier of arms to the Third World, and the Saudis are good customers. In the last eight years, Saudi Arabia has been the largest Third-World arms buyer, followed by Iraq.

MORE CUTS AHEAD Congressional economists plan to serve the incoming Congress with bad news. The only way to stop an economic catastrophe is to cut federal spending, and that means cutting entitlement programs that have always been sacrosanct The economists will tell Congress that Social Security, Medicare and welfare programs will bankrupt the nation in the late 1990s unless they are cut now. The economists will suggest a "means test," to restrict payments to only those who really need them. MINI-EDITORIAL U.S. military strategists are happy to say that one of Saddam Hussein's weaknesses is that he surrounds himself with people who tell him what he wants to hear.

Saddam isn't the only one who doesn't want to be confused by the facts. The recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on the Persian Gulf crisis produced a parade of former secretaries of Defense and State who warned that President Bush should go slowly and let sanctions work against Iraq. But when it came time for the current inner circle to speak, they sang a different tune, the tune Bush wants to hear. United Feature Syndicate, Inc. fact, test positive for AIDS.

The dangers are so great that by 1989. there were 1,462 unfilled jobs as medical internists at hospitals according to "Medical Tribune." What can be done? First, every patient and health worker should be tested for AIDS, with the results made known to those who would be at risk via treatment. Second, every person with confirmed cases of AIDS 154,917 to date of which 62,000 are living, should be interviewed and asked for the names of as many sexual partners who should be required to take the AIDS test. Finally, Dr. O'Connor believes "the only solution is quarantine," an opinion shared by 31 percent of physicians, according to MD magazine.

"IV drug users, for example, have already violated the law. They will not stop. Society has a right to lock them up, and the same for prostitutes." I Letter Supervisors thanked for allowing input Dear Editor The Tyson Farm Homeowner's Association and tenants express their deep appreciation to the While Township Board of Supervisors who so graciously granted us the time and opportunity to express our concerns and dissatisfaction over the closing of Hammersmith Drive. They acted promptly and professionally in determining and resolving this problem. Rarely do public officials hear a thank you for all the problems they do resolve.

People are generally quick to criticize but very slow to express praise and gratitude. So, publicly we extend to them our thanks and appreciation. Sincerely yours, Guy Robison President Tyson Farm Homeowner's Association Indiana, Pa. TMI INDIANA ftlNTINO 4 rUIUSHINC COMPANT P.O. ti 10 indhmim.

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"The vision thing" was Bush's offhand response during the 1988 presidential campaign to charges that he did not have a well-formulated domestic policy. During his first two years in the Oval Office the president has concentrated almost entirely on foreign affairs. The charges that he still does not have any comprehensive domestic agenda surfaced again in the aftermath of the protracted budget debate because of the White House's refusal to set domestic budget priorities. The criticism over lack of a domestic program has become so pervasive that top White House advisers now consider it critically important for the State of the Union address in January to contain a detailed plan. This, in turn, has led to an all-out battle between presidential advisers to capture Bush's heart and mind for plans they back.

It now appears that the president will embrace a plan being put forward by conservatives, a plan that some very high-level administration officials to say nothing of Democrats scoff at as impractical and unworkable. The new program has been given the mind bending title "The New Paradigm" by one of its chief architects. White House domestic policy adviser James P. Pinkerton. That phrase in turn is taken from a book.

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by historian Thomas Kuhn. one of the "in" books around the White House these days. The new domestic program envisions a new war on poverty built around the idea of "upiy-their-bootstraps" individual achievement to be brought about by maximizing individual choice and the empowerment of the poor. It sees the only role of government as removing any institutional impediments to individual achievement. The White House refuses to say what specific programs will be advocated, but sources indicate that the "New Paradigm" will feature: An educational voucher system that will allow parents to choose what school they want to send their children to at state expense.

Private ownership of public housing units. Required job training and work for able-bodied welfare recipients. The "enterprise zone" concept massive tax breaks to lure companies into providing jobs in the inner cities and in depressed areas. The leading public advocate of the new program is Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp. It is also being embraced by new GOP national chairman William Bennett, leading Capitol Hill conservative Rep.

Newt Gingrich, and Vice President Dan Quayle. One very formidable opponent is Budget Director Richard Darman. In a recent speech he dismissed the oroeram as nothing but the reDackasrinir By MIKE McMANUS WASHINGTON It Is time for a clear change in public health policy to regard the protection of the public's health to be more important than tbe civil rights of those infected with AIDS. The need for change became even more evident last week when Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore revealed that a surgeon on its staff. Dr.

Rudolph Alamarez, 41, died of AIDS, without telling any of the 2.000 Salients he had operated upon, that had contracted the disease. The hospital notified his former patients and urged them to be tested for AIDS. Four emergency phones were needed to answer hundreds of calls. As Susan Ritmiller, a nurse at Greater Baltimore Medical Center and one of the doctor's former patients, put it: "Here I was fighting breast cancer and it's not breast cancer I've got to worry about now, it's AIDS." After a few days, of those tested, no former patients were found to have the AIDS virus. Experts speak of a low "infectivity rate" but ANY infection of AIDS is likely to have a 100 percent mortality rate.

Therefore, even if an infected patient contracted the disease elsewhere, Johns Hopkins can expect law suits for damages, for the health of patients in its care was put at needless risk. The danger of a patient contracting AIDS from a surgeon is much higher than that of any other type of physician. "He knows if he nicks his finger while sewing an artery inside the patient, he is placing his body fluids inside another person's body. It can leak out through rubber gloves," says Dr. William O'Connor, author of "AIDS: The Alarming Reality." Indeed, it has been proven that a dentist with AIDS gave the disease to Kimberly Bcrgalts, one of his WHYTHERE AStt0XC7B lire VWJNGJ MS NO EARTHQUAKE of a collection of old conservative ideas that have already been proven unworkable, and which have absolutely no support in Congress or chance to be enacted into law.

He called the plan "neo neoism" and "the new Newtism." That resulted in an explosive response from conservatives led by Gingrich, who all but demanded' Darman 's resignation. Gingrich called Darman a "technocrat in Dukakis mold" in what is seen as an attempt to link Republican opponents of the new plan to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Actually the debate runs deeper than the specifics of the proposed new program. Darman represents a faction of more establishment Republicans, including many in leadership positions on Capitol Hill, who have as their goal the more efficient running of government. Thus, they advocate spending cuts and revenue enhancements to bring about a balanced budget.

Conservatives like Gingrich argue that the social experiment that started in the liberal New Deal has failed utterly, and it is time to radically restructure government. They believe that many of the proposals of the early supply side years of the Reagan administration were right but that both Reagan and Congress lacked the will to uupicMjcm uicni iiiu give uiem ume 10 worK. It now appears that the conservatives are winning over President Bush, at least in part. Recently in a Rose Garden bill-signing ceremony, with a smiling Kemp looking on, the president seemed to embrace the New Paradigm concept. "The status quo of the centralized bureaucracy is not working for the people," said Bush, "especially theories who need affordable housing, the ones who want to choose the best schools for their children the ones who want to pull themselves out of dependency and into a life of self-sufficiency." But White House insiders say a major battle is still raging over the State of the Union address.

If Bush proposes radical changes like education vouchers, he will be in for a major fight in Congress and other aides besides Darman are counseling it is a fight he can't win and shouldn't make at this Ume. Newspaper Enterprise Assn. JW1H144E).