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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY
10, 1985
Governments in modern-day Israelite nations keep coming up with wacky solu
tions to moral dilemmas. Canada is no exception, as this Reuters report of
April 24 indicates:
Prostitutes should be allowed to sell sex in their homes and
Canadian provinces should be given permission to regulate "small
scale prostitution establishments," a federal committee recom
mended Tuesday••••
Police have been left largely powerless to deal with the problem
of street soliciting since
1978,
when the Supreme Court ruled
that prostitutes could not be convicted unless they are "pressing
and persistent."••• In its most revolutionary recommendation, the
committee said Canada's criminal law "should not prevent one or
two prostitutes,
18
years or older, from operating out of a place
of residence.
If any provinces decide to allow and regulate
small-scale prostitution establishments, the federal law should
not intervene," the report added.
If this happened in the U.S., the young "entrepreneurs" might even qualify
for a Small Business Administration loan! Meanwhile the scourge of AIDS
stands, some scientists believe, on the threshold of becoming a major na
tionwide disease disaster. In the article, "Grim News at AIDS Battlefront:
Scientists Stand on Shaky Ground," the HERALD-EXAMINER (also April 21) re
ports:
ATLANTA--The international AIDS conference was held here this
week•••• It presented an inspiring picture of dedicated scien
tists facing a momentous challenge, and marshaling all the re
sources of laboratory and clinic to battle a teasingly clever
enemy•.•• But even so, after
400
speeches and presentations by
some of the best scientific minds of a generation, the grim bot
tom line remained the same••••
Although improved treatments are now available for AIDS symptoms,
they can only postpone inevitable death; a vaccine, if one is
ever found, is years, perhaps
_!
decade away.- � .QY that time the
disease will be� widespread that everybody 1n the United States
will have to be inoculated.
And most alarming to the general public, AIDS, or acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, which so far has afflicted mostly homosex
uals and drug addicts, now stands revealed as a sexually trans
mitted scourge that can strike straights as well as gays. "This
is a true medical health emergency," said Robert Gallo, the co
discoverer of the AIDS virus, HTLV-III, and a top research scien
tist at the National Cancer Institute. "And we don't have many
tools to fight it with."
In the major cities, AIDS inexorably has expanded its hold. This
week alone the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
confirmed another
59
cases of AIDS, bringing the number diagnosed
in the Los Angeles area to
805.
Nationwide, there have been
9,000
confirmed AIDS victims, and half of them already are dead.
Dr. James Curran, the head of the AIDS task force for the Na
tional Centers for Disease Control, said that it is certain the