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number of confirmed AIDS cases will double in the next year, to
18,000. And the number will double again the next year. But
whether the number of cases will continue to double every year
will be determined by factors that scientists admit are now un
known.
"Some of the risk factors are going to taper off," Curran
said.... "But the problem is that because AIDS has such a long
incubation period, up to 10 years, we just have no idea how many
of the people who have been exposed to the virus ultimately will
come down either with milder pre-AIDS symptoms, or with the fatal
form of the disease itself." Curran estimated that as many as 1
million people have been exposed to the AIDS-causing HTLV-III
virus in the U.S. "It is such a health problem that if we get a
vaccine we will have to vaccinate everybody, just as we did for
polio," he said••••
New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami account for nearly
two-thirds of all AIDS cases in the United States•••• An esti
mated 60 per cent of gay men in San Francisco and New York are
infected with the HTLV-III virus, researchers said••••
Dr. Mervyn Silverman, the president of the U.S. Conference of
Local Health Officers, said that the threat of AIDS, combined
with existing fears about herpes and other sexually transmitted
diseases, has pulled the reins on the galloping sexual freedom of
the last 20 years.
"I believe the sexual revolution is just
about over," Silverman said.
But take heart, sinning America! "Heroes Are Back," proclaims the headline
of an article in the April 22, 1985
u.s.
NEWS & WORLD REPORT. But the arti
cle itself shows today's heroes are a far cry from yesteryear's:
Clint Eastwood, whose steely film challenge "make my day" has
stirred the combative juices of millions•••, is the No. 1 hero of
young adults in America. So finds a survey of people age 18
through 24 that was commissioned by U.S. News & World Report••••
Today, aside from a few political or religious figures, the icons
of the young are celluloid stars and other entertainers. Actor
comedian Eddie Murphy holds the No. 2 spot, followed by [Presi
dent] Reagan in third place and actress Jane Fonda in fourth.
Actress Sally Field and film director Steven Spielberg tie for
fifth place. Next is Pope John Paul II, then Mother Teresa, the
Nobel Prize-winning missionary, and, finally, entertainers
Michael Jackson and Tina Turner••••
During the late 1950s, [ President Dwight D.] Eisenhower, Bri
tain's Winston Churchill, missionary Albert Schweitzer,•••Billy
Graham, President Harry Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur were
the Gallup Poll's most admired men.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen
Elizabeth II, Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower and Helen
Keller, the blind and deaf writer-lecturer, topped Gallup's most
admired-women list.
The common denominator: Most were either
shapers of history or figures noted for inspirationalsacrifices.