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`THE WASHINGTON W&%3
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Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
yesterday said AIDS educcrtton must

i start at the 3wqst school grade pos-  sumem imaem saxa.

sihle and he sriggestad that .Third-       y
and fourth-waders could be taught    .,

how to avoid the dtxu#y disease. -

Paillting tit6 that XnRrE than TO ,,
pm-cant of the nation's 26,500 re-
parted AIRS casss &we r~ultsd
Eram, hainosexcial relations, DI:
Kcx$ said, `!!A@ need tqtchertl ta
teach sex, including'homosexuality.'

He said it would not be nec~ry
,$a teach L;bililren as young as 8 or 9
about hllabogsxilaiityt 4s WY wauid
tWil@y be experhnepting e0x.ua&
at tbrt t&m, But, Dti ICorm said, teen-
qare a& aquafly actdva and,"tend
totake rbksks brtcrrusc they think thw
pre immor#l. I would hope that teen-
agers w&Id have so much informa-

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panic.

Dr. Koop said the AIDS education
effort should be a far-reaching pm-
gram - available in all languages.
For those who can't read, the AIDS
message should be presented in
such forms as pictures in comic
hooks, he said.

According to the federal Centers
for Disease Control, 73 percent of
the AIDS cases are homosexual
men, 17 percent are intravenous
drug users, 2 percent are those who
r&Wed transfusions sf infected
blood, 1 percent are hemophiliacs, 1
perce&t are Wants born to infected
mothers, and 4. percent we heterm
asexuals, many'.from Haiti or east
Aft+&, ykt.heve had intimate co&
tact with aonieone with AIDS or in
:m      ~~~~,

wn srrmcr reservations by the sec-
retary of the D&wtment of Educe-
tion and many national aqd Low1
educational groups.

"Like most Americans, X believe
children should be taught about the
physical, psychological `and moral
consequences of sexual activity;'
said William Bennett, sscretary of
education. `A frank description of
the danger of AXDS s&&d cqq&~Jy
be part af this teaching. But b&ore
teaching a specific c~riculum,
schools should get parental in-
volvement and approval!'

The Rev. Jerry F4~@8 e#xdors&
Dr. Koop's rep&.' V# ,mgree
wholeheart@y, in tk
analysis, that duMtjao
the home and in the who&C- wig
be the solution to a pr&$~lesn lib;e
this;" he said.

qap lead IQ diseases such as MD&"

Dr; Kaap said, iqtapsified educa-
:ldanal effwts T invdlvin parents
and phyatd~- sty pee d ed ta help
control the qmwi 00' @zquired im-
munu detickqcy syn#ome, which
has f9ahsd Jleqr&-: ~g,wo lhcs.
`That f&u&is sxpec@l to increase
twlyfold by tlw
~mqwrs:fm  d of I!?91 T only
   aI *` he said.
Ik Koop'a co 8 men+,  which
came aa' part 0 a report to
Americans on C&B MDS epidemic, a
rqort requesf@ in FNruary Iry
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"Third and fourth grades may be
tao early to be teaching this kind of
thing. But if these other things f%-
formation about hete!Vse~alityl
are being taught that eariy, infortna-
tion about the reIationshiP between
AIDS and ham&exuaIity should also
be taught," MC FaiweU said.

Dr. Koop's remarks sparked con-
CIXR - and, in son%= cases, outrage
- from several organizationa. "I
find his proposzds appaWng," said
Robert Bar&so%, executive direc-
t0r0fUniMF%mi!bof.Americaa

overcome honW%ZxUal
andnot-@veintothem."

AmericanFeddtion&~f%&che=
spokeswoman
her organization "supparts sQOW$
general education aboutthe hazards
of AIDS, but it is aa issue schools
should be handltig individually.
.Schoo& are governed by local gov-
ernments zi;d morea. And where b
clllS&OOlbO8iFdS~~adamantlyap
posed tQ sex &?dUcati~ I wouldn't
seeourgroupencQura~thiskind
&program t&X." -

"wesayedttc-ationisanimportant
part of f.X3nT&&ng this ugiy Priob-
lem. But we have no farmal program
for react AIDS nor have we come
upwithip(v   . its @ to haw or
   YF
when it sb&ki  taughtp said Ho\p-
ard Car&l, s~okesmaa Par the IU-
53nal &pasption Asso+ticm. "Any
such e needs fo be tied in
kth thy eatire community, so par-
ants, h&th aurhotities and the tom-
-w&y at hrge are involve&~

thirdorfointBgrades,"chiidren*
that age can understand the mcept
ofthed&eaae$hesaid."Butaafar
as going into detaiIa about h&M it's
txxmmitted, it's just too ear@"

Dr. Koop said Dr. Robert Wiim,
ag txsdtant secfetary for Public
HealthServiceintheDepartmentof
Health and Human services, 90031
will release infbrtnation about a
"multifrceted AiDs educatiau pro-
graml?cha8developed"

DC Koop said his goal will be to
`reach e%wyoIle in the ullitcd state8
withhisAIDSmessage+andthathe
is running public service an-
ilorflloement3 on teievisica, urging
peq$etpsendforactqyofhisAIDS
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