<HTML>Heartfield: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Whatever the reasons, the empirical evidence has been mounting up ever since AIDS was identified: some groups are more at risk than others. </BLOCKQUOTE> Nonsense. Lesson One of the epidemic was: it is specific behaviors which allow/facilitate the transmission of HIV, and _not_ membership in a group, which put people at risk for HIV. It is too bad that the reality of that does not conform to _LM_ ideology about 'risks.' <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The combined effect of both these strategies was that activists constantly warned of a heterosexual aids epidemic that never happened. Estimates of millions dying increasingly outstripped the real death rate. These scare mongering stories were not supported by people's actual experience... But that is a convenient way of ignoring the painfully obvious: the threatened heterosexual aids epidemic never happened. </BLOCKQUOTE> Therefore, there are millions of "gay men," who just happen to be women or men who have never had sex with other men, dying in Africa. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --</HTML>