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                   WHY THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION
                           HAS TOLERATED
               THE CDC COVER-UP OF THE AIDS PANDEMIC
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                        by Lyndon LaRouche


      During the recent two months,  I have been asked,  fre-
quently: "What do you think is the Administration's motive for
covering-up the truth about AIDS?"   Usually,  those question-
ers have also asked me: "How soon do you think the popular
political revolt over the AIDS issue will erupt?"   I restate
here what I have said repeatedly in private discussions.

      There are three leading motives for the present "cover up"
of the AIDS danger by agencies of the U.S. government.

1.    Both homosexuals and drug-users are powerful and very well
      organized political lobbies.   The "Gay" lobby represents
      about 4-5% of the U.S. population,  and U.S. cocaine
      users,  alone,  are estimated at approximately a level of
      20 millions users.   The drug-traffic takes out of the
      U.S. economy nearly $400 billions annually,  much of this
      laundered back into U.S. financial institutions; the drug
      lobby is a very wealthy and very powerful ele- ment of the
      Liberal Eastern Establishment's grip on both major
      political parties.

2.    If the Reagan administration admits the fact,  that AIDS
      is roaring out of control among non-homosexual and non-
      drug-user victims along the states of the Atlantic and
      Caribbean coasts,  the administration would be forced to
      admit that AIDS is being spread by deteriorating eco-
      nomic conditions among a large and growing portion of the
      U.S. population.   This means between $1 and $2 billions
      annually for AIDS research funded by the Federal govern-
      ment,  and also means that the administration must make
      drastic changes in its current monetary and economic pol-
      icies overall.

3.    So far,  the Reagan Administration is covering up the
      fact,  that U.S. government policy on AIDS is dictated by
      the Soviet government,  through Soviet control over the
      infectious-diseases bureaucracy of the World Health Org-
      anization (WHO).   Just as the U.S. government honors the
      "arms-control" agreements established by former National
      Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger,  the U.S. also honors
      a "biological research" agreement with the Soviet
      government,  negotiated during the 1969-1972 Kissinger
      period.   These "biological" agreements are implemented
      chiefly through the Soviet-controlled channels of WHO.

      The official government line on AIDS,  is supplied from
Soviet officials in WHO,  and conduited through the Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control (CDC),  the U.S. agency which is
interlinked directly with the Soviet-controlled infectious-
diseases section of WHO.   The WHO line is,  that AIDS is
transmitted only by sexual intercourse or direct transfer of
infected blood.

      If we believed the WHO-CDC propaganda-line,   except for
the innocent victims among haemophiliacs,  and those accident-
ally scratched,  the victims of AIDS are spread by such
"high-risk" categories of persons as:

      (a)  Homosexuals (including "bi-sexuals")
      (b)  Drug-users
      (c)  Persons who have sexual intercourse with a
           homosexual,  bisexual,  lewd woman,  or drug-user.

As one medical expert has put the point,  suppose we tell an
audience of conservatives: "A fatal disease which infects only
homosexuals and drug-users is spreading rapidly among such
people."   You couldn't raise a nickel for AIDS research in that
audience.



                      Economic Causes of AIDS
                      -----------------------


      The safe estimate is that not less than 1 millions Am-
ericans are presently carrying the AIDS virus.  This includes
more than 50% of homosexuals and a comparable,  or higher per-
centile of heavy drug-users.   By about 1990,  over 95% of all
homosexuals will be infected with a disease which is presently
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centile of heavy drug-users.   By about 1990,  over 95% of all
homosexuals will be infected with a disease which is presently
100% fatal;  the spread among drug-users will be comparable.
However,  AIDS is now spreading rapidly outside the ranks of
homosexuals and drug-users,  and sexual intercourse with AIDS
carriers does not account for this spread of AIDS into the gen-
eral population.

      The evidence is piling up:  AIDS can be spread by bit- ing
insects,  such as mosquitoes.   There is no doubt that
mosquitoes can spread AIDS,  simply by carrying blood taken from
an infected person,  to a non-infected person.   This
"mechanical" transmission of infected blood by mosquitoes,  and
possibly other biting insects,  probably depends upon typical
"tropical disease" conditions,  such as the slums along the
Caribbean coast,  from Florida to Texas,  where 150 to 250 bites
a day per person is not uncommon.   If the mosquitoes travel
only a short distance between infected and non-infect- ed
victims of their bites,  a significant mechanical transmis- sion
of infected blood-samples to non-infected victims is prob- able.
  It's mainly a question of how long the glycoprotein coat of
the virus can withstand the saliva of the biting in- sect.

      AIDS can be spread in many ways,  and every person in-
fected with the virus is a carrier,  whether or not they show
any outward signs of AIDS or AIDS-related illness.   So far,
the experts aren't sure exactly how many cases of infection are
being spread either by insect-bites,  or touching infected
door-knobs or tableware in restaurants,  and so forth.  How-
ever,  the proof in the scientific literature is conclusive,
that AIDS can be spread in various ways besides sexual inter-
course and needles.   Those official agencies which insist on
the "sex or needles" propaganda-line,  are simply lying
outrightly.

      We also know that AIDS is being spread rapidly among
people who are not (a) haemophiliacs,  (b) homosexuals,  (c)
drug-users,  people who have not had sexual relations with an
infected person.   So far,  this appears to be concentrated
among localities in which the population is badly nourished and
lives under the kinds of unsanitary conditions which are re-
sponsible for rapid spread of most forms of epidemic infect-
ion.   The fact that these localities seem to be concentrated,
so far,  among the states on the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts,
points to a very high probability of transmission by mosquitoes
or other biting insects,  and also possibly co-transmission with
some other infection characteristic of these regions.

      Also,  experts are beginning to warn,  it is probably a
mistake to think of AIDS and related diseases solely in terms of
a single virus,  HLTV-III.   Not only is HLTV-III mutating
rapidly;  the evidence is pointing to the probability that there
is a "reservoir" of retroviruses similar to HLTV-III buried in
the tissues of sections of the population.   Dr. Robert Gallo,
who discovered that HTLV-III was an active agent in AIDS,  has
warned of this danger.

      The evidence is piling-up,  that AIDS,  like every major
pandemic in history,  is spread by a deterioration in the phys-
ical economy:  in nutrition and in sanitary conditions.   I have
long suspected,  that new viral epidemics are created in- side
human cell-tissue itself.   For example:  Might it not be the
case,  that a piece of damaged DNA,  split off from the main DNA
stem,  might become the building-block for a self- subsisting
new virus,  capable of infecting other cells?    During a recent
private scientific seminar on AIDS,  to which I convened a
selection of experts from Europe and the Americas,  specialists
in optical biophysics showed that there are known mechanisms in
cells which might lead to such a result.

      For example:  HLTV-III is closely related to the virus of
"simian AIDS,"  SLTV-III.   Many of the people of living in the
portions of Africa in which the green monkeys dwell,  carry the
SLTV-III virus as a harmless infection buried in their cell-
tissue.   If the pro-virus for SLTV-III is carried in human
tissue,  is it not possible,  under certain conditions,  that an
altered form of SLTV-III,  HTLV-III,  might be generat- ed?
Experts in the West and Moscow,  have argued that the evidence
so far points to a "species-jump,"  a transformation of STLV-III
into HLTV-III,  as origin of human AIDS.   Moscow has insisted
that human AIDS can be synthesized from "simian AIDS" -- and
Soviet specialists such as Boris Lapin have been working on this
for about ten years,  at the least.    Most experts doubt that
AIDS could be manufactured in a test-tube,  but the experts
shudder at the thought that perhaps it could be manufactured by
inducing the "species-jump" in living human subjects.

      The experts indicate that Dr. Gallo's hypothesis,  that
perhaps HLTV-III is "only the tip of the iceberg,"  that a
hidden reservoir of AIDS-like retroviruses is exploding as a
spread of new kinds of infections,  is a sound line of invest-
igation.   If Dr. Gallo's suspicion is correct,  then the
eruption of human AIDS is chiefly the result of pathological
conditions created by the harsh austerity imposed upon central
Africa -- as my associates,  back in 1974,  projected such an
eruption of both old and new varieties of diseases to reach
pandemic proportions during the 1980s.   Whether or not the
Soviet laboratories did create human AIDS,  as the Soviet
government claims is scientifically feasible,  it the "en-
vironmental conditions" created by worsening economic depriv-
ation which are responsible for the spread of the pandemic
outside the ranks of homosexuals and drug-users.


                Political Motives For The Cover-Up
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      The "new radical constituenciess" have controlled the
national Democratic Party,  increasingly,  since 1972.   In
addition to the powerful homosexual lobbies of "gays" and
lesbians,  the majority of the "new constituencies" spawned out
of the 1960s "New Left" either overlap the homosexual and drug
lobbies,  or are allied with them in political power-blocs.
The liberal wing of the Republican Party has adapted to the same
"new constituencies" increasingly.    For this reason,  although
the "new radicals" are a minority of the electorate as a whole,
those radicals have managed to gain a stranglehold over the
Congress,  growing sections of the judiciary,  and departments
of the Executive Branch.

      There is a next election coming up.   There is always a
next election coming up.   This time,  it is the 1986 congres-
sional elections.   The "new constituencies" control the lead-
ing agencies of the Democratic Party,  and have potent leverage
on the Republican Party.   The Republican public relations
specialists would prefer to bury the AIDS issue under "educat-
ion on safe sex and clean needles" until after the November 1986
elections.

      The gay-lesbian-druggie voting blocs are a significant
factor in shaping congressional and administration policy on the
AIDS issue,  but this is not the decisive issue for the White
House itself.   The Reagan Administration itself toler- ates the
cover-up because the administration is terrified of the
economic-policy issues involved.

      $300 millions of Federal allotment for AIDS research is a
farce.   First,  much of this was not "new money;"  there was a
cosmetic rearrangement of funds for several research programs,
designed to produce a figure for research which would appease
the frightened gay voters.   $1 billion a year of "new money"
would be a very modest investment,  if we are really serious
about finding effective treatments,  and,  ultimately,  a cure,
for AIDS.

      Even if AIDS were limited to homosexuals and drug-users,
we ought to be spending at least $1 billions for research.   One
needed instrument alone,  mass flow cytometers equipped with Circular
Intensity Diffraction Scattering (CIDS) capability,  at $160,000
each,  and trained specialists in their use,  for each relevant
medical center across the nation,  would eat up the entirety of
the present Federal allotment for research.   No screening for
AIDS is effective within safe limits,  except the techniques of
mass spectroscopy built into these machines.   The cost of
treating a single AIDS patient runs to over $100,000,  and we
have at least 1 millions Americans already infected with this
fatal virus,  the number of reported cases of the disease
doubling about every six months.   Every per- son infected will
come down with either an AIDS-related in- fection (in several
years),  pulmonary AIDS (within perhaps five years),  or death
from degeneration of the central ner- vous system (within
perhaps 10-12 years).    With only pres- ently infected persons,
 the U.S.A. is looking at an AIDS-care cost of about $100
billions over the next ten years.

      During his Nov. ** news conference,  President Reagan was
asked if he thought the present allotment was a serious response
to the threat of AIDS.   The President brushed off the question
with the observation,  that the presently scheduled allotment
was a major Federal contribution,  under conditions of the
present budget crisis.

      However,  the costs of AIDS research and medical care are
the smallest part of the economic-policy issues involved at the
present time.    The big cost-factor is costs of public-health
measures.   This is the factor which frightens the Reagan
Administration out of its wits.

      The big problem is not treating the people who are pres-
ently infected.   The big problem is stopping the spread of the
infection.   The pandemic can not be stopped from spreading
without the following measures,  similar to those used for
containment of the tuberculosis epidemic:

1.    100% screening of the population and visitors to the
      U.S.A. for the presence of AIDS or a related virus.
      Presently,  this can be done only by mass flow cytomet-
      ers.   The present AIDS test is not adequate;  it fails to
      detect a relatively large population which is infect- ed
      with the virus,  but which appears to pass the screen- ing
      test.   Only large-scale spectroscopic screening for the
      presence of the virus itself,  can do the job.

2.    Isolation of carriers until they no longer communicate the
      virus.   This requires facilities modelled upon the
      tuberculosis sanatoria of the past.

3.    Measures of public sanitation,  included pest-eradica-
      tion in urban and suburban areas.

4.    Measures to provide sanitary,  uncrowded housing for the
      legions of the super-poor,  who are already the main new
      target of AIDS.   (Once AIDS infects the poor massively,
      the infection spreads to the population as a whole.).

5.    Measures to improve substantially the level of nutrition
      for the population as a whole,  including a sharp increase
      in per-capita consumption of animal protein,  the key
      dietary factor in immunological potential.

      To bring the basic economic infrastructure of the U.S.A.
back up to average levels of 1970,  would cost today not less
than $3 trillions spent for fresh-water management,  generation
and distribution of electrical power,  transportation,  sanit-
ary conditions and services in localities,  and adequate medical
and educational services.   However,  the big cost-item is not
combined expenditures by federal,  state,  and local government.
  The big cost-item is increasing the income of households up to
levels to provide adequate nutrition and hous- ing,  and to
carry the tax-bills which building of infrastruct- ure requires.

      Once the Administration faces the simple medical fact,
that AIDS is a general pandemic,  not limited to "dirty sex and
needles,"  the Administration has to face up to the fact that
there never was a "1983-1984 Reagan economic recovery."   The
public-health measures needed to stop the spread of AIDS are
possible,  if the U.S. economy is put through a recovery-pro-
gram like that President Roosevelt accomplished during the
1940-1943 period.   That means,  that every economic policy of
the Reagan Administration over the period since Summer 1982 has
been a howling failure;  it means that these policies must be
scrapped and replaced.   The information comes to the Reagan
Administration like a hard political punch in the nose.

      The Administration does not need to be told even all of
the facts I have listed above.   Once the Administration is
confronted with the facts of the spread of AIDS and the fact
that this is a public health problem,  not just a problem of
dirty sex and needles,  the kinds of measures required are
pretty obvious to any senior government official.

      About that point in the conversation,  the Administration
official interrupts.   "Thank you for your information,  but
this Administration is in complete support of the CDC's recom-
mendations."   That's how the cover-up works.


                   The General Public's Response
                   -----------------------------


      At the beginning of the Fall term,  parents' groups in New
York City and elsewhere,  erupted in a protest against
permitting students or teachers infected with AIDS into the
classroom and schoolyard.   Alert politicians had a knee-jerk
reaction to this parents' protest movement.   Then,  the cover-
up line came down from the Administration.   "Public education
on safe sex and clean needles,  is all we should do until we
discover a miracle cure for AIDS,"  was the general line from
the Administration.   The "Gay CLU" lobby moved in,  denounc-
ing the protest as a threat to the "civil rights" of AIDS car-
riers.

      The parents' and students' protest movement,  against AIDS
in schools,  was given a harsh slap in the face,  with the full
power of government bureaucracy behind the blow.   The movement
was stunned.   Parents and students,  stepped back from the
blow.   The movement was slowed down,  temporarily.  Slowed
down,  but not stopped:  the AIDS cases multiply,  and the
terror of AIDS spreads in the population.   The movement has
stepped back a bit,  for a moment,  to gather its strength and
attack again.   Next time,  the numbers in the movement will be
much,  much larger.   Next tine,  the experts peddling the CDC
"sex and needles" propaganda-line,  will be booed and jeered,
and denounced as "liars" by one angry parent and
student after the other.   "Next time" is coming,  during the
months ahead.

      A few of the shrewder minds around Washington see the
"AIDS revolt" as inevitable,  and as, perhaps,  a major
political phenomenon of 1986.   Most of Washington does not see
this,  and does not wish to see this.   Most of Washington is
self-blinded in three ways:  the "clout" of the gay-drug
lobbies,  the economic implications,  and a third factor,  to
which we turn our attention now.

      Over the past thirty-five years,  most clearly the past
twenty years,  the nature of politics in the United States has
been changed.   Formerly,  the American way of thinking center-
ed around pride in the American Revolution.   We thought that
the United States' existence had a moral purpose in the world.
We tied this up with the principle that problems of material
need could be overcome by investment in scientific and tech-
nological progress.   We believed that personal interest cen-
tered about "doing something useful with one's life"  -- some-
thing useful for society generally,  and producing children nd
grandchildren to enjoy a better life than we have achieved.
Beginning the "Dr. Spock revolution" in suburbia,  during the
1950s and early 1960s,  the fundamental values of Americans
began to change for the worse.    The pampered children of the
1960s suburbs became the "new radicals" of the 1960s;  over the
past twenty years,  everything has been turned upside-down.

      Liberal ideas of suburbanite child-raising,  during the
1950s,  created among the youth of the post-war baby-boom a
large middle-class stratum of lower moral values than their
parents:  the "me generation."   "My irrational hedonistic
pleasure,  whatever I imagine might please me in the here and
now,"  was the result.   The architects of the "New Left"
concentrated shrewdly on this factor in the "middle class
youth."   These youth were easily convinced that industry and
the industrial trade-unionist were the arch-enemy of pleasure.
These new radicals were easily maneuvered into seeking common
cause with the irrational existentialism native to a meaningless
slum-existence.   The center-themes of Hugh Hef- ner's "Playboy
Philosophy,"  "sexual freedom" and "recreat- ional drugs,"  were
easily inserted into the new radicals' "sub-culture."   By the
end of the 1960s,  the New Left had marched into a variety of
fascism like that the of Nazi Ju- gendbewegung during the 1920s
and early 1930s.   They had embraced Friedrich Nietzsche's and
Aleister Crowley's call,  to
replace the age of Pisces (Christ) with the worship of Dionysos-
Lucifer,  the Age of Aquarius.

      The seemingly normal youth the suburbanite parents had
sent to university,  returned,  appearing on the family door-
step like a six-legged creature,  of undetermined sex,  from
Venus.   The attempts of the parents to reconcile themselves to
these insane children,  created the "new radicalism" which took
over the Democratic Party in 1972,  and which infested increas-
ingly,  the Republican liberals as well.

      The New Left had been developed by linking it to the issue
of McGeorge Bundy's protracted policy of "no-win war" in
Vietnam.   This,  followed by the "Watergate" operation,  made
it possible for the New Left to be deployed as a battering-ram
against not only traditional American institutions,  but also
against the traditional American moral values associated with
those institutions.

      The wind-down of the war in Vietnam,  overlapped a de-
liberate wrecking of the U.S. economy.   During 1966-1967,
under the mask of "Great Society,"  the U.S. government adoped
the policy of steering the world into a "post-industrial soc-
iety,"  beginning with a large-scale take-down of aerospace
research and development.   Between November 1967 and March
1968,  the international monetary system was steered through the
first round of collapse.   In 1970-1972,  there was an- other
round of collapse.   In 1973-1975,  yet another round of
collapse.   In October 1979,  Carter and Volcker set off a new
round of collapse,  creating the present debt-crisis building up
under Carter's successor.

      The social and moral fabric of entire regions of the
U.S.A. was torn apart by successive rounds of collapse of basic
industry and agriculture.   The real level of average income of
households has dropped consistently and deeply since 1968-1972.

      The reaction of the electorate to this pattern of devel-
opments?   "There's nothing you or I can do to change it;  we
better learn to live with it.   Hold onto your job,  if you can,
 and get a new job if you can't.   We'll get by somehow;  you'll
see."   So,  the population generally turned away from reality,
into increasing dependency upon a low-cost fantasy- life
centered on the family television-set.   Emotion packed into
rooting for favorite teams and players of commercial spectator
sports,  became a substitute for real issues in the
real world.   The characters of the TV "soap operas" enveloped
the viewers with a synthetic fantasy-life controlling most
conscious moments of their waking hours.   TV news reporting
shifted to accomodate to this,  with less and less news of the
real world,  and more and more emphasis on the soap-opera-like
"human interest angles behind the news of the day."

      In this circumstance,  reality was replaced by "percep-
tion."   With some inspiring but rare exceptions,  neither our
federal government  nor our political parties respond to real-
ity.   They respond to a "perception of a perception,"  as this
is measured by public-relations surveys and affirmed by the
evening TV news,  the New York Times,  and the Washington Post.
 The politician and bureaucrat do not act to change reality for
the better;  they act to influence the perception of themselves
and their factions in the major liberal news- media.   In
clinical psychology,  one would say that Washington politics is
controlled by marked schizophrenic tendencies among the
government and its hangers-on as a whole.   There is an ugly
resemblance to the already doomed Rome under Tiberius and Nero,
where,  also,  the "perception" game as the essence of palace
politics,  blocked out the government's perception of the
ominous reality building up around it.

      To this,  the general population responds by retreating
deeper into a private fox-hole of fantasy-life.   Instead of
responding with practical action to developments which threaten
the nation and their local environment,  every new disaster
seems merely to drive them deeper into the fox-hole,  adding
another hour a week to their television habit.   As long as this
foxhole-behavior of the electorate continues,  and until the
Soviet barbarians come in to take over the decaying mess,
Washington is ever more convinced that the "perception game" is
the only true reality,  the only practical reality.

      What if someone begins tossing the moral equivalent of
hand-grenades into those fantasy-life foxholes?   At that point,
 a fellow just naturally gets out of that foxhole,  and thinks
about finding the culprit who interrupted his favorite TV
program of that hour so rudely.   AIDS is that hand grenade.

      For weeks,  the TV screen was covered with images of poor
Rock Hudson in various stages of terminal illness.   That al-
ready shook up the lady of the house:  "(He-man) Rock Hudson was
one of those ... ?   Isn't anything sacred any more?"  Then,
came the short-circuit of the fantasy-life:  AIDS was
not something which existed only in a soap-opera script;  AIDS
could come slipping in the front door of the house "while we' re
watching TV.   It could be one of our children,  bringing it
back from school ... "   That puts the hand grenade in the fox-
hole.

      The woman of the house goes to the beauty parlor.  "That
nice hairdresser;  couldn't he be one of those?    50% have it;
does he have it?   He's going to be touching me!"  Another
hand-grenade right in the foxhole.   "That waiter ... do you
realize he's touching the silverware we put in our mouths!"
Bang!   "One of the teachers at school is supposed to be sick
with AIDS.  Do you suppose ... ?"   Bang!

      It's 100% fatal!  Terror!  Panic!   Lots of grenades in
the fox-hole.   "Yes,  I know what they said about 'safe sex and
needles,'  but there was another case reported yesterday."  The
grenades continue dropping in.

      There is a movement against AIDS in school;  it's a
movement out of the foxholes.    Washington fails to com-
prehend this;  Washington asks Washington,  which asks the New
York Times and the Washington Post:  How shall we perceive this
movement?


                    Coming Out of the Foxholes
                    --------------------------


      Did you ever have a fantasy,  perhaps while watching a TV
program or your favorite team or player in action?   Were you
ever interrupted,  in the middle of that fantasy?   Were you
ever forced to leave the fantasy because something on the stove
caught fire,  or some other intervening action in the real
world?

      How did you feel about that interruption?   Was it like
being pulled from a warm farmhouse,  to trek out in the storm
and rescue some animal in trouble?   Were you angered,
irritable?   Did you tend to "take this out on someone" at the
first pretext?

      Imagine the state of mind of the parents protesting
against admitting teachers and students with AIDS into the
school.    There are two alternating states of mind among those
parents.   On the one side,  they are engaged in a protest.
Protests really don't mean much usually;  it's a form of let-
ting off steam,  a form of recreation akin to spectator sports.
Protesting in that way,  by itself,  is simply an extension of
the fantasy-life of a foxhole mentality.   At the same time,
there is a little voice inside saying,  "But this is real!  This
is deadly serious."

      For that reason,  in the beginning,  most of the parents
are confused.   They are confused not so much by the debate;
their essential confusion is internal,  emotional.   They are
not emotionally certain,  whether they are simply protesting,
or acting in deadly seriousness.   On the one side,  to the
degree they are merely protesting,  they will be appeased by the
proper sort of fatherly or motherly handling from the of-
ficials sent to put the lid on the event.   At the same time,
they are enraged by the officials' efforts to treat them like
children,  to ignore the fact that this matter is deadly ser-
ious.

      They leave the meeting,  so confused.   The foxhole side
of them says,  "Let's go back to the TV set,  now that the
protest is over."   Then,  a few days later,  another hand
grenade in the foxhole.    If the issue would go away,  the
return to foxhole fantasy-life-style would be settled;  it won't
go away,  because AIDS is striking here and there every day.

      One should begin to recognize from this,  that the new
movement out of the foxholes is somewhat like a new baby:  it
must be conceived;  it must be gestated under appropriate cir-
cumstances;  and,  then it is born as a self-acting individ-
ual.   Last Summer and early Fall,  the conception occurred.
Now, the gestation is in progress.   Some months ahead,  the
baby will be born.

      Only very rare individuals in our society act as in-
dividuals on important issues of public policy.   Most act in
groups,  or not at all.   Not merely "groups";   movements
around issues of public policy are at least subtly organized
entities,  and derive their energy from the group's percept- ion
that it is an expression of a larger movement to emerge from the
same sort of citizens composing the group at the given moment.
The first critical point of analysis to be made here,  is the
distinction between a collection of individuals and a group
unified around an issue.   Until the collection of
individuals takes the "organic form" of a task-oriented group-
ing,  sustained action by the individuals is most unlikely.

      Then,  we must consider a second point.   The groups of
parents and students protesting against AIDS in the schools,
were doubtlessly organized groups.   However,  the basis for the
association up to that point had been common association on the
basis of a common foxhole sort of world-outlook.   The point is,
 the association was not defined on the basis of an agreed,
shared non-foxhole world-outlook.    The quality of the issue
raised by the group had a seriousness which stretched the
preexisting character of the group beyond its cultural lim- its.

      The communities represented in those protests can not be-
come an effective and serious movement around the AIDS issue,
until the groups representing this sentiment in the communities
are constituted on a non-foxhole basis of common task-orienta-
tion.    Until a locally influential nucleus of such associat-
ions begin to form,  significant numbers of friends and neigh-
bors will find the courage to make a commitment to such an ef-
fort.    This process must proceed in such a way,  that the
group senses it has a broader base of support for its work in
the community at large:  "I know that A,B, and C agree with us,
but they're not ready to get involved at this moment."   The
group senses that it has the sympathy of A, B, and C.

      This sort of process within the population,  is the pro-
cess of gestation.   It is a process kept in motion by the re-
curring plopping of the hand grenades into the foxholes.   The
process builds up to a threshhold-value,  and thus the baby is
born.

      To the superficial observer,  it must appear,  in many
cases of these protesting groups,  that they are quite labile in
their disposition for action.   This lability is,  essent-
ially,  an oscillation between the idea of deadly-seriousness
and the foxhole mentality.   It is a lability permeated with
that anger and irritability which erupts,  whenever persons long
conditioned to fantasy-foxholes find themselves engaged in the
real world once again.

      The change in values,  away from American to Aquarian
values,  which has dominated the recent twenty years,  is a
process described by specialists as a "cultural paradigm-
shift."    The essential feature on which we have concentrated
attention here,  is the past twenty years shift away from real-
ity,  into fantasy-foxholes.   To discover the broader implica-
tions of the developing AIDS revolt in the population,  we must
see the essential feature of this process as a reversal of the
earlier "cultural paradigm-shift."

      As the AIDS revolt passes through the phase of gestation,
into birth,  there will be a change in the mind-set of those
involved,  and in the population around the revolt.    In place
of the "perception-game" mind-set,  which has come to dominate
the electorate,  the reality mind-set will take over.   This
will reshape the way in which the population reacts to all
issues.   Their view will be of this form:  "The reality of a
policy is the practical effects it causes;  if we don't like
effects,  we must find the responsible policies and change them;
 we shall not accept any new policy,  unless we are sat- isified
with its calculable effects."   It will be,  relatively
speaking,   a return to the remembered values of the 1950s and
early 1960s.

      With such an electorate,  Washington politicoes who con-
tinue to play the "perception game,"  will get nowhere.   This
population will demand the kinds of policy-changes which the
Congress and the Administration are not wishfully working to
avoid.


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