Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1985
University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
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Mistaken identity confuses brothers
United Press International
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two brothers, waiting anxiously in a hospital corridor for their critically injured brother to come out of surgery, were shocked to get a phone call from the man they thought was on the operating table.
Three and a half hours into the surgery Saturday night, Scott and Randy Reiniger learned that the patient was not their brother.
The mistake was revealed when hospital telephone operators received an urgent call from Robert
Reiniger, 21, the presumed accident victim.
Robert Reiniger was alive and well at home and wanted to know what all the commotion was about.
"My reaction, obviously, was astonished," said Scott Reiniger. "I got the message from the security guard, called the number in Jupiter, and there was Robert on the other end.
The real accident victim was Robert J Kirky, 21, who was mistakenly identified even though he carried a wallet containing his driver's license.
United Press International
Guild combats AIDS discrimination
LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild, which contends that fear of AIDS may be affecting job opportunities for gay performers, has requested a meeting with representatives of producers to discuss the issue, it was disclosed yesterday.
In a letter released by the union and sent to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, guild Executive Secretary Leonard Chassman said a meeting was needed to discuss potential discrimination against homosexual entertainers because of the deadly aliment.
The guild is seeking a commitment from producers to treat performers fairly no matter what their sexual preference.
"The Screen Actors Guild intends
to vigorously enforce its contract with the industry to insure that there shall be no discrimination based on sexual preference." said the letter to J. Nicholas Counter III, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
The letter added that it was imperative that a meeting between representatives of both groups be held quickly to "quell unfounded fears which may be affecting the employability of performers who may be gay or even just suspected of being gay."
The guild's concern about possible unemployment discrimination of gay entertainers comes at a time when scores of celebrities are lending their names to AIDS Project Los Angeles' first benefit dinner which will take place Thursday night.
The benefit gained impetus with the recent disclosure that actor Rock Hudson had been afflicted with the disease.
So far, the roster for the evening includes Sammy Davis Jr., Carol Burnett, Cyndi Lauer, Rod Stewart, Diahann Carroll, Sam Harris and Shirley McLaine.
Bette Midler also had made a personal donation of $10,000 to the project to raise money for AIDS research.
"Celebration for Life" is the evening's theme. Organizers hope to raise $1 million from the dinner.
About 1,800 people responded to the $250- to $500-a plate dinner even before invitations went out last week.
AIDS case undecided
The Associated Press
KOKOMO, Ind. — Officials will meet Thursday to decide whether a 13-year-old AIDS victim who has been monitoring seventh-grade classes by a telephone link can return to school.
Charles Vaughan, an attorney for Ryan White, said yesterday that he expected the request to be turned down.
Vaughan said he would rather go directly to federal court with his claim that the boy should not be barred from classes.
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GEORGE WILL AGAIN STUMBLES IN TREACHEROUS SUPPLY-SIDE THICKET
Dedicated public servants and Chamber of Commerce ideologues have been seen wandering in the supply-side thicket where every growth is said to be privately-owned and flourishing. During one not-too-distant visit to this supply-side shrine, syndicated columnist George Will apparently lost his footing and emerged praising President Reagan's "stimulative tax cuts" which had led to "full employment." Mr. Will presumably didn't mention the 8.4 million individuals who then were unable to find work because most status quo theoreticians consider unemployment rates of from $4% to $8% to be an integral part of "full employment."
As such semantic dishonesty is not limited to the supply-side crowd, Mr. Will's omission was perhaps culturally-induced. But his piece, in the Journal World's September 1st edition, must have been conceived after yet another fall in the treacherous supply-side thicket as it is pure propaganda. In this effort Mr. Will says:
"Blacks especially, but all other Americans too, suffer from the shortage of black leaders, especially elected leaders who will say this: the principle impediment to the improvement of blacks' lives is not racism; and changes in the behavior of individuals can do more than changes in government policy...
Nothing does more to perpetuate poverty than the disintegration of black families, and especially the conceiving of children out of wedlock. When two-thirds of the children born in a ghetto are illegitimate, that is not the fault of "society" and cannot be corrected by Congress."
Mr. Will evidently thinks that racism no longer plays a part in keeping the black unemployment rate more than twice as high as the white unemployment rate. But when Mr. Will claims that ghetto residents could effect more change by applying the power of positive thinking to their lives than the government could by exhibiting flexibility, he ignores the inadequate housing, schools, sanitation service, health care apparatus, and police protection in these areas for which the government is responsible.
While the soaring ilegitimacy rate in such settings is a clear expression of decline, it, like so many other distasteful aspects of ghetto life, is a result of the state of unemployment to which our economic system consigns many men willing to work. Every study about which I've read in the last twenty-five years acknowledges that prolonged unemployment undermines an individual's confidence and thus alters his personality and behavior.
For as long as Mr. Will, a brilliant man, and other supply-side zealots can persuade the electorate that the privately-supervised marketing of sugar-laden soft-drinks, carcinogenic cigarettes, filmed brutality, defamatory pornography, and life-terminating intrauterine devices is more important than the publicly-funded creation of good schools, public transportation systems, clean air, quiet neighborhoods, and safe streets; the so-called "free enterprise" system often will continue wasting resources while the government stands aside and smilingly oversees our devolution.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th Street Terrace
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