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CK1TF2R10N Pa^je 2—Thurs., Dec. 29-Jan. 4, 1989 eaM)ns s Tonr Brownli Comments What Killed Max Robinson? Max Robinson, macho and very heterosexual (mariitHl three times), was I h - s I known to the c<iuntry as the first Klack network anchor. To the Black community, however, he was Ix 'S t understo»Kl as Inunn extremely sen sitive to racism. Like many, many Blacks, he lost his battle. Although racism cut him down, .AIDS took his life. On his deathlH*d. Max wanted the public to know that he died of connilicalions Ijxissibly penumocystic carinii pneumonial caused by an im- I murie svsU'm that could no longer d«-f«-nd the Ixnly against viral attack. He wanted the Black public, in particular, to 1 h ‘ ‘ educated\ to th«- causes and sensi tized to a humane caring for the victims of .MDS. However, what digging into the .AIDS file may reveal, may b<» more than many of us are prepart*d to face. Fducation on AIDS, so far. has consisted of a tht*ory of America’s leading .AIDS researcher. Dr. Roliert tiallo. that has convinced the media and world opinion that the plague liegan when a virus jumped from an African monkey into a human Ix'ing in .Africa. Through si-xual contact, the Africans then gav«- it to White homo,sexuaJs who are now passing it on to the rest of us. This media promoted myth holds two of the most despised groups in the world res|vinsible for an .AIDS pan demic The government agency responsible for .AID.S education, the Center For Di.sea.se Control tCIX'), is the target of Rep. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.l investi gation tor tailing to do its job, in spite of an increas*’ in budget from $17 million to . $210 million. CDC has even refused to s«‘nd a ri'piesentative on my TV program to discuss .AIDS. Dr. Robert Strecker, a Los Angeles physician — an Internist, Gastrenterolo- gisi and trained Pathologist — who also holds a Ph.D. in Pharamacology, after extensive library research has decided that the AIDS virus is biological warfare, made in a laboratory and injected into the .African population, perhaps acciden- tially. as a routine smallpox vaccine, and inu> Anierican homosexuals as a Hepatitis B vaccine. If you want the details of his resi-arch call Dr. R o I h 'II Str«“cker’s foundation at l -8(KI-.548-3198 or if 13-977- 0901. To get you started, there is a vidis) cass*“lt*‘ by Dr. Strecker and a iMKik, ( AIDS And The Doctors of Ib'ath\ by Dr. .Alvan Cantwell — Aries Rising Press in Los .Angeles). The AIDS virus, he says, is .so differimt in structure from any known virus, itial it is impossible for it to have IxH’ti fornu'd by \mother nature. AIDS is what is know n as a retrovirus and they an* all present in animals — or at least, they us«*d to lx* Among this handful of retroviruses is the txivine virus (a deadly cattle leuki’mia virus) that creates the same symptoms in cattle that AIDS causes in humans — including pneumocystis pneumonia — which may have ended Max Robinson’s life. In addition to having similarities to laivine virus, the AIDS virus. Dr. Strecker says, has characteristics of a virus in shi*ep called visna virus; the .AIDS virus was probably man-made — created by splicing together visna and Ixivine viruses. They recombine (which is why. Dr. Strecker believes, no vaccine cure will ever be found) in humans and we get .AID.S — a \new” disease. But the deadly results of AIDS — Ka[K)si’s sarcoma and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia — are \o ld ” forms of cancer. Is .AIDS really a contagious form of cancer in a laboratory by scientists EYE ON HISTORY By Eva M. Doyle EVA M DOYLE who are creating new viruses with no vaccines to cure the \new” disease? Dr. Strecker sent his research to 50 state governors, all Cabinet memliers, the CIA, FBI. President Reagan and Vice President Bush. Only three governors acknowledged the report. His information included a copy of one of the world’s most respected newspapers. The London Times, which ran a front-page headline: \Smallpox A'accint* Triggen*d AIDS Virus.” It referred to the vacinnation program during the early '70s, sponsori*d by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Brazil, Haiti and Central Africa, where 100 million Africans were inoculated. The American media to this day have consciously avoided this story. Furthermore, certain biowarfare weap ons have l>een specifically designed to target and kill certain ethnic and racial group.s — much like the crude murder of Blacks with syphilis by the Public Health Service in Tuskeg<*e, Alabama in the ’.30s. In Novemlrer, 1978, a Hepatitus B vaccine trial, largely supported by grants from CDC and National Institutes <if Health (NIH), among others, liegan on 1083 White homosexual men (average age 29) in New York. In January of 1979, two months later, the first casi* of AIDS app«*ared in a homosexual in New York. In March, 1980, an additional 1402 gay men were vaccinated in five more cities; Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco fV*nv«>r and .8I Ivouia. (ie w n months later, gay men were struck with AIDS in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Within 10 years, most o f the men in the experiment were dead or dying. Women who are si'xual partners of IV drug abusers and bisexual men and all intravenous drug abusers are critical groups facilitating the AIDS crossover to the heterosexual population. The growlh will be exponential: “ Even without sexual intercoursi*, the infected will reinfect each other and the uninf<*cted will become infected, leading to an explosion of infection and disease,” Dr. Str<*cker says. The population of Africa will be dead within 13 years and the world population within 32 years, he predicts. There may never be a vaccine cure. But there is one option — a very slim one: An electronic means to destroy thest* new viruses. Details are in “ The Cancer Cure That Worked!” — a book that has been suppressed for !>0 years, it is claimed — (Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville, * Ontario, LOG IRO, Canada 416/478- 2201 ). Mysteriously, people who are j questioning \the green monkey” theory are dying. Dr. Strecker’s brother allegedly committed suicide and a Chicago Congressman who wanted these theories investigaU’d, suspiciously died of an alleged drug overdose. How did Max Robinson get AIDS? He said he didn’t know. There is no evidence that he was gay or bisexual. And if he used drugs, he didn’t need to share a needle. Chances of hetero.sexual transmission from a woman to a man are statistically slim. If what Dr. Strecker and many others are saying is true, we will only be safe if others know what’s going on. Then, perhaps, we can find out what' killed Max Robinson. TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL TV series ran be seen on public television, Sunday, on WNED-TV, Channel 17, at 3:30 p.m. Setting Goals for the New Year The end of a year gives us all a reason to stop and reflect on the year that has passed. And yie can ask ourselves, \what have 1 accomplished during the past year? What are my goals for the new year? One of the things that I plan to do when 1 return to work next week, is to have my students at the College L**aming Laboratory set goals for the new year. The start of a new year means that we all have a new chance, a brand new opportunity to do things differently. I lx*lieve that it is better to have a few simple goals, rather than many goals to work on. I have four goals for 1989. They are as follows: 1. To write that book that I have been putting off for a long time. 2. To make \Eye On History\ a much better column. 3. To expand my writing on a national level. 4. And on a p**rsonal level, to kxik better and feel better in 1989, than 1 did in 1988. And I believe that I can accomplish these goals. One of the important things to rememlier about st>tting goals, is that they must be within your ability to achieve them. It does not make sense to make an impossible promise to yourself. The four goals that I mentioned aliove are within my reach liecause I feel that I am already doing these things. What 1 have to do now, is just to expand my current activities. In planning for the “ Eye On History” column, I realize that there are many topics that I have not covered. There i.s more research and information available, thanks to people such as Dr. Asa Hilliard, who is a well-known scholar and historian. I would like to do more writing related to spi*cific topics. For example, it would be interesting to lake the topic of inventions and do several articles related to it; or Space Travel, and relate articles to the role of African-Americans in space technology. I would like also to be more creative in emphasizing African-American history. I was listening to Dr. Fierstein, author of the book, \W hy Didn't 1 Think Of That?” Dr. Fierstein would like to encourage more people to be creative in their daily lives. We do not always have to do things the same way. There are many ways to solve problems and to change things. It is a challenge to come up with new ideas. With a little more effort anyone can become more creative. And think about it, if it wasn’t for piHiple like the Black inventor, Garrett .Morgan, we would not have the trafbc light or the gas mask. It started out as an idea in his mind. All inventions start with ideas. One of the things that I like to do with my .students, is to challenge them to come up with new ideas for a variety of activities in the classroom. The reason the Japanese people are so far ahead of us in this country, is because they are always developing new ideas and they are willing to take a risk on these ideas. Americans generate ideas too, but not fast enough. Our students must have as many experiences as possible in doing this. Sometimes I give my ttu4fm4.* « variety of materials and ask them to create whatever they want to . And they come up with some retilly good ideas. We can all do this in our daily live.s. And this would be an excellent goal for the new year. I would like to encourage all of my readers to set at least one goal and to try being creative in at least one way for 1989. It will enhance the quality of your life! 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Programs like Toys For Tots and literally tens of thousands of local initiatives are examples of this nation's determination to give all children a sense of what the Christmas spirit is and what it can mean for them. I know all Americans have joined with me in grieving for those who perished in the Armenian earthquake. Tragedies of this nature afflict our spirit; it is hard to see why such a thing happens, what it might mean. But the Armenian people are showing us they know they are loved, they know they can renew their strength and rebuild and rededicate themselves to life. We have been witness to the breathtaking bravery of the people of Leninakan and Spitak as they ready themselves for the task of going on. Yes, they will go on; for the Armenian people are made of hardy stuff. As Hazel Barsamian, an American of Armenian descent, says, and I quote, \W e have a history of this kind of tragedy. We are fighters. We are survivors. We stand together and we will survive.” And at a time of such terrible calamity, something happens in the world, something worth thinking about at Christmas time. For a time, the real differences that divide us and will continue to divide us fall away. Closed borders open. Friends and enemies alike share the burden and hope to help. From Israel and war-tom Lebanon alike, supplies and aid have been sent to Soviet Armenia. And from the United States the response has been staggering. Relief workers, tens of million of dollars in private contributions, food, clothing, a cascade of goodwill and fellow feeling. Christmas is the time of the Prince of Peace, and we are therefore reminded yet again that our differences are not with common people, but with political systems. In Armenia the birth of our Lord is not celebrated until January 6th. It is an Armenian tradition that priests travel lo the homes of their flock, and there make a special blessing with bread, water and salt, representing life and substance. This season, more than ever, may the blessings of the priests over the bread and the water and the salt provide the Armenian people with the strength to persevere and triumph. Apply directly lo EOC - 465 WaiMnglon 849-6727 Prepare at EOC to enter ECC Prepare at EOC lor success at ECC Prepare al EOC lo earn a degree at ECC ■ Classes start January 9, 1989 ■ TU ITIO N The EOC pre-iscn Drogrsms srs im lion.lree APPLY NOWI...LIMITED OPENINGS A p p ly d ire c tly to E O C - 465 W a a h inston St. W a r d e n ’s AUTO INSPECTION AUTO REPAIR STATION Kehr and W'oodlawn Sts. Buffalo, N. Y. \Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.\ Philip James Bailey PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 625 WILLIAM St. BUFFALO, N.V. 14206 f r a n k E. MRRRIWEATHER ............ 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