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Dotson to make TV movie
KEENE, N.H. Gary Dotson, who spent six years in prison on a rape
charge later recanted by his accuser, spent the weekend in New Hamp
shire seeking the woman's OK for a television movie.
Dotson, of Chicago; his wife, Camille; and David Levy, who wants to
produce a television movie about the case, met several times with Cath
leen Crowell Webb of Jaffrey, the Keene Sentinel reported Monday.
"We are not sure if we were successful in achieving our goal here," Levy
said.
Kienast quintuplets learn to drive
NEW YORK Tuesday was the 17th birthday of the Kienast quintu
plets and their mother is laughlingly warning everyone to look out
because all five will be learning to drive.
"We have braced for the drivers' license era," Peggy Jo Kienast of
Bernards Township, NJ., said on CBS-TVs "The Morning Program."
Abby, Amy, Gordon, Sara and Ted, juniors at Ridge High school, had a
private birthday party Sunday.
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WASHINGTON President Reagan suggested Tuesday
that "it's possible to forget" whether he authorized a 1985
shipment by Israel of U.S. arms to Iran.
At a meeting with business executives, Reagan was
asked if he was upset about a report he had been unable to
say for sure whether he gave approval for the shipment
the first in a series of clandestine sales of U.S. arms to
Tehran, with some proceeds reportedly later diverted to the
Nicaraguan Contras.
"I'd like to ask one question of everybody," Reagan said
to reporters and to the business group. "Everybody that can
remember what they were doing on August 8, 1985, raise
your hands."
Surveying the table and finding no arms outstretched,
Reagan said quietly, "I think it's possible to forget.
Nobody's raised any hands," and chuckled.
The president waved off further questions, saying he
would not comment further until after the Tower Commis
sion releases its findings Thursday on the Iran-Contra arms-
tion of arms shipments
and-money scheme.
In other developments on Tuesday:
O Lt. Col. Oliver North, a key figure in the affair, asked a
federal court to block the investigation by a special inde
pendent counsel.
O The lawsuit said special counsel Lawrence E. Walsh
has been granted prosecutorial powers in violation of the
Constitution, and that he and his staff are interfering
unlawfully with the conduct of foreign policy in their
investigation.
O Lawmakers said special congressional panels inves
tigating the affair may vote as early as Thursday to grant
immunity from prosecution to several individuals believed
able to shed light on what happened.
O Fawn Hall, North's former secretary, who has been
reported as telling Walsh's investigators that she destroyed
documents, showed up for a brief photo session for news
photographers at her lawyer's office, smilingly posing but
refusing to comment on the case.
AIDS
Authorities oppose mandatory testing
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ATLANTA Some medical authori
ties joined gay rights advocates Tues
day in opposing mandatory testing for
the AIDS virus, with one expert denoun
cing tests for all hospital patients as "a
dimly disguised maneuver" aimed at
eventual forced testing of the entire
U.S. population.
Mandatory AIDS tests are "social
placebos designed to reassure anxious
and frightened people," said Dr. Ron
Bayer of New York's Hastings Center.
"This is not the time for placebos."
Only widespread changes in sexual
behavior and drug use can truly curtail
the spread of AIDS, said Bayer, an asso
ciate for policy studies at the nonparti
san, nonprofit research organization.
Acquired immune deficiency syn
drome, which cripples the body's
immune system, is transmitted most
frequently by sex or intraveneous drug
use.
Bayer commented Tuesday on the
first day of a two-day conference on
AIDS testing sponsored by the national
Centers for Disease Control. The meet
ing, originally planned as a discussion
for a few dozen experts, attracted
hundreds of health officials, medical
researchers and activists.
The idea of mandatory AIDS testing
for hospital patients, pregnant women
and engaged couples was criticized as
bad medical policy and legally object
ionable by gay rights groups, civil liber
tarians and medical professionals.
CDC officials stressed Tuesday that
the CDC is an advisory agency and can
not itself dictate health practices to
state agencies. "We're here to discuss
the merit or lack of merit of
additional AIDS testing," said CDC
Director James D. Mason.
The disease has occurred most often
to homosexual men and drug abusers,
but heterosexual cases now number 4
percent of the reported 30,000 U.S.
cases. More than 17,000 AIDS patients
in this country have died.
Blood tests to detect AIDS virus have
been in use since 1985, most often to
screen donated blood. Expanded test
ing has been advocated as a way of
coping with the increasing number of
cases spread through heterosexual
contact.
"Mandatory testing will chase peo
ple away," said Jeff Levi, executive
director of the New York-based National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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Lets be real. Compare the equipment she's using to yours. If you
were both trying to tunnel through a mountain, she'd have a bulldozer
and you'd have a shrimp fork.
. Don't despair. Your problem is already half-solved. For a limited
time, you can buy an Apple Macintosh'" Plus or a Macintosh 512K
Enhanced computer with Microsoft Works for less money.
Which is wonderful.
You get a Macintosh, with its speed, ease of use, and graphics
capability. Plus, you get a software program that lets you use all this
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Microsoft Works is not just one program, it's four integrated pro
grams: word processing, data-base management, spreadsheet with
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Meaning you can put charts in your history essays. Spreadsheets in
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So if you're taking more than one subject this semester, you should
check out Macintosh and Microsoft Works.
But don't wait till the eleventh hour. This offer will end soon.
And your paper might stay out all night.
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