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fo r g ran te d .”
The right to confront your ac
cuser in open court, and to have
the protection o f legal counsel
are more than abstract rights, Tsai
says.
“T hey are basic rights that are
under siege in the nam e o f na
tional security, and the dam age
to our rights may be lasting,” he
says.
cans,” he says.
Tsai, w ho is an expert on consti
tutional law, is alarm ed about the
consequences o f this policy.
“ H ow do you h o ld the g o v
ern m en t ac co u n tab le w hen in d i
v id u als are h eld in secret and
d en ied ac cess to leg al a d v ic e ? ”
he asks. “W hen p eo p le are so
frig h ten e d ab o u t terro rism that
they allow the g o v ern m e n t to
v io late the C o n stitu tio n in the
nam e o f n atio n al se cu rity , they
risk losing p ro tectio n s w e all take
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We Need War Aainst AIDS
Terrorism Fear Erodes Civil Rights
O ne year after the Sept. 11
te rro ris t a tta c k s irre v o c a b ly
c h a n g e d th e la n d s c a p e o f
A m erica, the governm ent re
sponse threatens to cause irre
vocable harm to the U.S. C onsti
tution, according to University
o f Oregon law professor Robert
L.Tsai.
“The Justice D epartm ent's re
fusal to release the nam es o f doz
ens o f suspects w ho were d e
tained after the attacks threatens
to erode civil liberties for all Ameri
September 11,2002
Robert L. Tsai can be reached
at 541-346-3691 or by e-mail at
rtsai @ law. uoregon. edu.
T
B y S alih B ooker ,
or $2.5 billion per year. This
condom s and safe-sex educa
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
price tag is m odest compared
tion, are essential. W om en
A frica A ction
with the sums quickly appropri
m ust have the right and pow er
ated in response to Sept. 11.
to control their sexual choices.
W hether measured by num
bers killed or nations wounded,
AIDS is now acknowledged
Treatrnent, including access to
by econom ies upended or
as the w orst plague hum an
antiretrovirals, m ust be avail
fam ilies crushed, the AIDS
kind has every faced. The new
able to provide hope for sur
pandem ic is a m uch deadlier
U.N. estim ates fo r 2001 are
vival and an incentive to be
global threat than that posed
chilling: 3 million more dead, 5
tested. H ealth system s m ust
by terrorist groups. Butalm ost
m illion m ore HIV infections,
be given the capacity to fight
no one draw s the logical c o n
40 m illion people now living
back by treating diseases and
clusion: T he w ar on A ID S is
with HI V /A ID S -28 million of
by blocking HIV transmission
from m others to new borns.
more important than
Years from now,
the w ar on terror
people will ask about
ism.
AIDS, as with the
E v e n th o u g h
Holocaust or the
C o n g ress is c u r
Rwandan genocide: How
rently considering
could they have known -
increasing annual
and failed to act?
Small classes
Real-world
instructors
Easy transfer
Low cost
«
U .S. funding for
co m b atin g A ID S
- Salih Booker, executive
directorof Africa Action.
w
globally, with atotal
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to carry out these efforts, notes
U.N. Special E nvoy Stephen
Lewis.
“W e have, all over the (A f
rican) continent, individual r
projects and program s that are
successful and the frustration •
lies in our inability to take them
that could possibly
them in Africa. Since the start
to scale,” L ew is said. “(L ack
reach $1.2 billion, it
of the infection, 22 million lives
o f dollars) is the single m ost
still is not nearly
have been lost w orldw ide,
inhibiting factor.”
enough.
U.N . Secretary-
more than 17 million o f these in
Africa.
M ost o f the dying are in
Africa and therefore invisible
K o fi
Years from now, people will
outside that continent. Even if
Annan hascalled for
ask about A ID S, as w ith the
m oved by A fric a ’s tragedy,
SlObillion in annual
H olocaust or the R w andan
the average A m erican often
global A ID S fund
genocide, “ H ow could they
assum es it is som eone e ls e ’s
ing. A dvocates say
have know n - and failed to
responsibility.
th a t th e U n ite d
act? The reason is not k n o w
Strong U.S. leadership in
States should pro
ing w hat to do. T he m ain ele
funding the global w ar against
vide at least one-
m ents have been agreed on:
AIDS could turn the tide. W e
fourth o f this total,
P revention m easures, like
need a world war against AID S.
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