Politics And The Panic Button
October, 1987
Welcome to the 1988 Presidential campaign. For the first time in American history, sex promises to be a featured attraction of campaign rhetoric, as the candidates, advisors and back-room boys grapple with the volatile subject of AIDS.Most of the candidates' statements will naturally focus on the issues of testing, sex education, research, health care and quarantine (for the contenders' stands on AIDS, see overleaf). Meanwhile, another debate--just as important, just as influential--will focus o...
