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AIDS hospital in
business in Houston
HOUSTON—The nation’s first hos-
pital devoted solely to research and
treatment of AIDS became a reality
with the signing of an agreement
July 30 between the private company
that will run the facility and the
university that will staff it.
American Medical International,
Inc. will open the 150-bed Institute
for Immunological Disorders Sept. 2
and doctors from the University of
Texas System will staff the facility.
Dr. Peter W.A. Mansell, and AIDS
researcher who was named medical
director of the hospital, hailed the
facility as offering “almost limitless”
opportunities for the advancement of
research, diagnosis and treatment of
AIDS.
Initially, a team of seven research-
ers will work at the hospital. Officials
expect the facility to have about 20
patients by December and 130 within
a year. By then, officials expect about
35 doctors to be working at the
facility.
Not everyone is enthusiastic about
the new hospital, which has come
under attack for being located too far
from where most potential patients
live and for possibly excluding pa-
tients who cannot afford to pay for
treatment.
Benjamen Schatz, head of the
AIDS Civil Rights Project of Nation-
al Gay Rights Advocates, said the
Houston facility is a mixed blessing:
“It is important for AIDS to get more
attention,” he said. “But there
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wouldn’t be a need for facilities of this
nature if the federal government was
taking care of the problems instead of
relying on the private sector.”
Frito-Lay Corp.
settles AIDS case
DALLAS—The State of Washing-
ton has told Frito-Lay, the Dallas-
based snack-food company, that the
company must abide by a state anti-
discrimination law protecting AIDS
victims when doing business there.
Frito-Lay agreed to obey the law
and paid a customer who filed a
complaint against the company $500
and said it would distribute educa-
tional pamphlets about AIDS to its
employees.
The settlement stems from a case
filed by a gay bathhouse owner who
charged that a Frito-Lay driver re-
fused to deliver snacks to the estab-
lishment, saying he feared contract-
ing AIDS.
Michael Mirarchi, Frito-Lay’s
manager of industrial relations, told
the Dallas Times Herald, “It was a
nuisance case, just one salesman who
had an unreasonable fear.”
Mirarchi said Frito-Lay would not
establish a company-wide non-dis-
crimination policy. “We have never
had a problem of any kind,” he said.
‘Christian Voice’
expands to Texas
AUSTIN—The Washington-based
lobby, Christian Voice, which rates
voting records of members of Con-
gress on “moral and spiritual issues,”
announced that it will expand opera-
tions to Texas.
Christian Voice-Texas will rate
statewide officeholders and members
of the Legislature according to their
stands.
“In 1980, the Christian Voice dis-
tributed report cards in districts of
32 liberal congressmen, and 23 of
them were defeated,” said Robert
Grant, chairman of the group. “We
had great success in Texas and North
Carolina in 1984 and anticipate an
even greater effort and more accom-
plishments in 1986.”
Levi, Senator trade
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views on nature of
homosexuality
Jeff Levi, executive director of the
10,000-member National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force, was put under
close questioning by Sen. Strom
Thurmond at hearings last week on
the nomination of Associate Justice
William Rehnquist to be Chief Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court.
“I was interested in one statistic
you gave, that one-tenth of the popu-
lation are gay or lesbian,” Thurmond
said. “I’m shocked to hear that if
that’s true. Are you sure that figure is
correct?”
“Well, those aren’t my figures.
Thosb are figures that have been
around for 20, 30 years.” Levi res-
ponded. “The Kinsey Institute first
put forward that 10 percent of the
American . . . adults are predomin-
antly homosexual in their behavior.
A much larger figure would fall into
the category of bisexual and those
with relatively small numbers of
homosexual experiences.”
“Does your organization advocate
any kind of treatment for gays and
lesbians to see if they can change
them and make them normal like
other people?” Thurmond asked.
Levi replied: “Well, Senator, we
consider ourselves to be quite normal,
thank you. We just happen to be
different from other people. And the
beauty of American society is that
ultimately we do accept all differ-
ences of behavior and viewpoint. To
answer the question more seriously,
the predominant scientific viewpoint
is that homosexuality is probably in-
nate, if not innate then formed'.very
early in life .... The responsible
medical community no longer con-
siders homosexuality to be an illness
but rather something that is just a
variation of standard behavior.”
“You don’t think gays and lesbians
are subject to change or you don’t
think they could ... be converted so
they’d be like other people?” Thur-
mond asked.
“Well, we think we are like other
people with one small exception. And
unfortunately it’s the rest of society
that makes a big deal out of that exception."
Levi said.
“A small exception? It’s a pretty
big exception, isn't it?” Thurmond
countered.
“Unfortunately, society makes it a
big exception. We wish it wouldn’t...
that’s why our organization exists,”
Levi said.
New York predicts
40.000 AIDS cases
Health officials in New York City
predict that by 1991 the number of
AIDS cases in that city will top
40,000, with nearly 30,000 deaths.
Dr. Stephen Joseph, the city’s
health commissioner, said that in
1991 alone, there will probably be
6.000 new AIDS cases. That’s more,
than the number of cases from 1981 to
1986. he said.
“It’s clear that the darkest days are
still ahead of us,” Joseph said.
The New York City prediction
mirrors estimates released earlier
this summer by epidemiological re-
searchers at the Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta and the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda,
Maryland.
In their report, government re-
searchers predicted that more per-
sons will die of AIDS in 1990 than
will be killed in automobile accidents
across the United States.
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