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With those words and after months of cautious deliberation and disagreement within his Administration, President Ronald Reagan finally unveiled a plan for combatting AIDS -- and further fueled the furious debate over how best to contain the virus. The question is fast becoming one of the most hotly contested issues both in Washington and on the international political agenda. As evidence of growing concern, 6,082 AIDS researchers and public health officials from 50 countries gathered in Washington for the largest conference ever devoted exclusively to the disease...
...home in Short Hills, N.J., to read the newspaper clips about his career. As he thumbed through the stories about his legal troubles, he grew increasingly angry. "That's what people will read forever," Donovan complained. It may be small comfort to him, but now that folder will contain a sheaf of clips headlined DONOVAN ACQUITTED...
...about AIDS has spread across the nation, the Reagan Administration has been paralyzed by a debate about whether to advocate widespread, mandatory testing for antibodies to the AIDS virus. Secretary of Education William Bennett has been outspoken in arguing that testing is the only way to track and ultimately contain the spread of the fatal virus, which has been detected in nearly 36,000 Americans but may already have infected as many as 1.5 million. Opposing him have been medical professionals led by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who contends that mandatory testing would have the undesirable effect of causing...
...President's exhortation, however, would be unlikely to win over an audience of AIDS researchers. While Reagan has pressed for testing, most public health professionals believe the best way to contain AIDS is through education about how to prevent exposure to the virus. Moreover, the new guidelines are being written at a time when many experts are suggesting that the threat to the general public from AIDS has been exaggerated. Says Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "We really have not seen much evidence for the spread of the virus into people...
...stores to display the ratings that have already been given to videocassettes. Jenny Pomeroy, president of the Junior League of Bronxville, N.Y., which has mounted a campaign against these films, advocates an R-V rating for violence, similar to the PG-13 designation advising parents that a film may contain material inappropriate for children under...