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FREE VOUThitbieiE, 6r-March14. I Give the People Light and they will find their own way. The Wisconsin Light Our While Thousands of Teens Contract HIV, A White House Report Ignores Gay Teens 200th Washington, D.C.—Teen- agers are contracting the AIDS virus at an average of more than one an hour, and Issue the White House has again urged the nation to teach them how to protect them- For One Brief, selves. But to some disappointed Shining Moment young people, the report, is- sued March Sth, and its me- dia fanfare were just more the Possibility of government talk and no ac- tion. $8 Million Brought "This report isn't really doing something for youth," Camelot said Lam Duckim, 24, of Washington, who • has the By Terry Boughner HIV virus. "There is a need Milwaukee—Now it appears to have been for accountability." nothing more than an elaborate con in the Between 40,000 and 80,000 classical definition of that word. Then, how- Americans become infected ever, it didn't seem like that at all. with the AIDS virus each On Tuesday, February 27'5, a thick envelop year, and one in four is a marked "Confidential" and "For Editor teen-ager. That means that Only" arrived at the offices of Wisconsin between 10 and 20 thousand Light. Inside was a packet of very official teens are infected with HIV looking documents. With them was a hand every year. written covering letter addressed to the edi- Liberation Time—The once repressed Wally (Scott Thompson, top) joyously proclaims hi sexual identity to a chorus of celebrants Based on those sobering tor.
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