The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 8, 1983 - Page 5 Baker may leave White House for baseball field WASHINGTON (AP)-President Reagan wants him to stay, but White House chief of staff James Baker III of- fered no more than an underhanded reply yesterday to reports that he' s in line to become commissioner of r3 baseball. Caught by reporters at a ceremony honoring the king and queen of Nepal, Baker was asked: "Are you going to play ball?" And his only response was a underhand sweep of his pitching arm-as if softball, not hardball, is his game. REAGAN'S CHIEF spokesman, Larry Speakes, was just as unenlightening, advancing an official no comment spiced by wisecracks-as in "He already chews tobacco, if that's helpful." If Baker does wind up serving the national pastime rather than the presidency, he wouldn't be the first to jump from the Potomac to the playing field. A.B. "Happy" Chandler, once the Democratic governor of Kentucky, left the Senate in 1945 to become baseball's commissioner. And Lawrence O'Brien, the com- missioner of the National Basketball Association, was a key adviser to presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as well as Democratic national AP Photo chairman. SPEAKES, ASKED about reports from the major league meetings in uts," died in a Minneapolis Mashville, Tenn., that Baker was the torof a juvenile detention leading candidate for the job being vacated by Bowie Kuhn, read a formal Haitians jobs 'The truth is there's been a mixup. He's go- ing to replace Billy Martin as manager of the (New York) Yankees.' - Larry Speakes presidential spokesman statement: ''In the past three years, there have been several press reports of job changes for Mr. Baker, and we didn't choose to comment on them then, and we don't intend to start now.'' But reporters pointed out that on other occasions, when Baker was men- tioned for jobs ranging from U.N. am- bassador to the Senate seat of Texas Republican John Tower, Speakes did, in fact, deny such reports. Still, Speakes stuck to his formal statement, adding: "This is what Baker wanted us to say, and this is what we're saying... He did add that he already chews tobacco, if xthat's helpful in gettin' the job." Speakes also said Baker was not unhappy in his job and that he had not discussed leaving with Pr-esident Reagan. Does Reagan want him to stay? "I'm sure he does," said Speakes. REAGAN, WHEN asked about the reports, said, "I was as surprised as anyone to read that." At another point, Speakes joked, "The truth is there's been a mixup. He's going to replace Billy Martin as manager of the (New York) Yankees. "The main reason is he wants to be in the television commercials. The press office will begin accepting orders for World Series tickets the first of the year. I have a statement from (Baker deputy) Dick Darman, who is from Massachusetts, who says, 'This could be good for the (Boston) Red Sox.' " IF BAKER WERE to take the post, which would involve considerable lob- bying in Washington as well as mediating disputes between owners in the major league, he could draw on many of the same strengths that have served him through three years of political wrangling in his present job. Regarded as a strong administrator within the White House, Baker has built a reputation around town as a pragmatist skilled at shaping consen- sus and compromise on complex, divisive issues. His intervention in the struggle to save the Social Security. system last year was indicative of his ability to forge an agreement when other negotiators had tried and failed. {Goodbye Charlie Brown Charlie Brown, the inspiration for Charles Schulz' hapless pitcher in the comic strip "Peant hospice Monday night after a seven-year bout with cancer. Brown, 57, was program direc center. AIDS scare costs MIAMI (AP) - Many Haitians are suffering from job discrimination, some even being fired, because of unjustified fears that they can spread the deadly disease AIDS, community leaders say. "Us Haitians, we are poor, we are black, we don't have the power to deal with the publicity," said Ringo Cayard, who helps run a family grocery store in Miami's Little Haiti. "BY CREATING a stigma on this community, a lot of people are losing jobs or having difficulty in fin- ding jobs," said Dr. Jean-Claude Desgranges, a 'spokesman for the Haitian Coalition on AIDS. Of 2,753 cases of acquired immune deficiency syn- drome reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control as of Nov. 15, 4.8 percent were among Haitians. Homosexuals made up 72 percent of those cases and intravenous drug abusers an additional 17 percent. Researchers say the disease, which breaks dow# the 7bgdy's immune system, appears to be spread by seicual cont.c, contaminated meedles and blood transfusions, not casual contact. Haitian physicians argue there is insufficient medical evidence to classify all Haitians as a high- risk group. They say Haitian culture deeply disap- proves of homosexuality and drug abuse, making Haitian AIDS victims unlikely to admit to either ac- tivity. THE PHYSICIANS, represented by the 60-member Haitian Medical Association, also claim that un- sanitary conditions in Haiti, such as use of un- sterilized neeldes, could make the AIDS problem worse among Haitians there than in the United States. "There are far more whites that have it," Cayard said Tuesday. "But it's very convenient to say, 'the Haitians, they have AIDS.' "IT'S A TREMENDOUS problem," he said. "People are losing their jobs, people have been told, 'I don't want you here because you might have AIDS.' " Dr. James Curran, director of the AWSitask force at the CDC, said Haitians are being kept as a high- risk AIDS category because "the figures sort of. speak for themselves in the sense that they pointed out that 5 percent of all AIDS cases have been of people born in Haiti." He said fewer than 20 percent of the Haitian AIDS victims are homosexuals or drug abusers, other high-risk categories. But he added, "Any implication that these people pose substantial increases of transmitting AIDS to others is misconstrued." CAYARD SAID Haitians were badly hit by job discrimination because many work in service in- dustries and have close contact with people or products, such as hotels, restaurants, and in agriculture. No figures were available on the number of Haitians who might have lost jobs or been denied new positions because of the AIDS scare. But officials say the publicity aggravatged an already severe unem- ployment problem. 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