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Gay Peoples Chronicle

NATIONAL NEWS...

October 1986

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INITIATIVE

Agreeing that the LaRouche Initiative in California is the most important issue in the November 4 elections, gay and lesbian leaders have combined to help fund an intense campaign against it(page 13).

The measure, if passed, could mean mandatory testing for the HTLV-3 virus and the quarantine of every person who tests positive.

According to the Bay Area Reporter, the four public health schools in California have issued statements condemning the Initiative. Perhaps worried about the costs of quarentine, even Governor Deukmejian publicly opposes it. The array of entertainment figures joining the fight against the Initiative includes such unexpected names as Bob Hope.

ON THE CHURCH FRONT

The Vatican has stripped Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of authority in five areas, including ministry to homosexuals, liturgy, moral issues in church medical facilities, annulments, and the training of new priests and the role of those who leave the ministry. Archbishop Hunthausen was ordered to turn over authority in the five_areas to Auxiliary Bishop Donald Wuerl.

Complaints by conservative members of the archdiocese

about the Archbishop's stand on homosexuality, nuclear war, and church practices led to an official investigation by Washington Archbishop James A. Rickey at the request of the Vatican.

Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee has challenged the Vatican's moves to to discipline church leaders in the United States

whom it regards as dissenters. In the archdiocesan newspaper, Archbishop Weakland warned of the need "to avoid the fanaticism and small-mindedness that has characterized so many periods of the church in its history--tendencies that lead to much cruelty, suppression of theological creativity and lack of growth."

Often credited with aiding the passage of Wisconsin's gay rights laws, Archbishop Weakland is the first leading American bishop to criticize the Vatican's current moves.

In an October 7 interview with the New York Times the Archbishop, formerly head of the Benedectine Order, spoke out even more strongly. He warned that current Vatican policies are likely to alienate many lay Catholics and pointed to the Church in the Netherlands as an example of the possible consequences.

ARMY PURGES WOMEN

The U.S. Army has diseight military charged policewomen stationed at West Point because of homosexual activities. Some of the women claimed they had been intimidated during the Army's investigation and

forced to incriminate each other. Some denied they were lesbians.

The women were discharged under regulations dealing with homosexual activity, given general discharges under honorable conditions.

7000 TO RECEIVE AZT

The antiviral drug azidothymidine, which in tests temporarily helped certain types of AIDS patients, will be made available to all PWAS who have recovered from Pneumococystis carinii pneumonia are not taking other experimental drugs; and have adequate blood cell counts and liver and kidney functions. Children under 12 will also be excluded, along with pregnant or nursing women. The new guidelines expand those eligible to receive the drug to 7,000.

When a research study in-

AIDS CASES EXPLAINED

Reviewing the 1,133 cases of AIDS that could not be assigned to an "identifiable risk" category, Centers for Disease Control researchers are placing these in such categories. Of 501 cases, 431 have been reclassified mostly as gay or bisexual men or persons who had sexual contact with AIDS victims. The remainder belonged to other risk groups or did not actully have AIDS.

dicated that patients receiving AZT lived longer and had fewer disease problems, the study was cut short and preparations made to make the drug available.

Researchers warned, however, that AZT is in no sense a cure for AIDS; and that its side effects are not well known. Dr. Mathilde Krim noted another danger. Suggesting that the new drug's availability might stimulate the reporting of cases of AIDS that have been kept secret, she feared that demand might outrun the supply.

NEVADA SODOMY

National Gay Rights Advocates presented oral arguments to the Nevada Supreme Cout September 10 challenging the validity of the state sodomy statute. This is the first case to be argued in a state court since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Georgia sodomy law. NGRA contends that the Nevada law, which applies only to sexual acts between persons of the same gender, does in fact violate the Nevada State Constitution.