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formed a health education .
ne ork. The network's fi st
Fi P educt, a detailed and readab e
School children tOOaY must . bookIe! 0!l AIDS, hs alrea�y ,
learn a lesson, along with been distributed to the NEA s
the three R's: how to protect 1.86 million edu�to members.
themselves against the de dly NEA rec?gn�zes that for
-AIDS virus. it may turn ut to be AlpS educatio� 10 the schools
the most important 1 . of all to work effectively, the com-
Hundreds of· in the munity must be involved. Ac-
.s. have already died J\II)S. cot�y, �ee .local NEA as
A estimated three ousand soc ations IlL Mmne ota, New
chUdrenwillhavethe ;; aseby J� sey,. and Maryland are
19.91, according to t e U .S. �Ioneen!lg local AI�S educa
Public Health Service. 0 fate, tio projects that �I �ducate
the onl ave to teachers and open a di logue
preven reak of wit the public.
AIDs is the dis- I Working together 0 make
some of our children Ie about
AID will be a compli ted t
full of posssible pitfalls. Some of
us tve uch fear of the disease
tha we do not w t to admit that
chi en are threatened. Others
are concerned that any discus
si of issues related to sex win
encourage our children to be
sexually active.
ver our personal at
htu"_l11 or concerns, we m put
our, Children's Ii fir Sur
,eo General Everett ICoop,
withstood attKb
for· d iii of AIDS
educatioD in our schools,
children first. � pareots, we can
do I
ease.
That is why thQ ational
Edueatioa Association (NEA)
nd its President, Mary Hat
wood Futrell, deserve our up-
port for declaring -a war .
AIDS in our public -schools.- At
September press �Dferencet
Futreu aDDOUDced NEAts .
an courageous decision to
promote AIDS education in
America's classrooms. Children
m know what AIDS is,bo9i it
. pre d, and specifically
caD avoid tching it.
NEA, the U. . Public Health
Service, the ·00al Associa
tio of School urses, Inc. and
Merrill Do P armaceuticals
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By ...,...DIDY KOIIIIIII4.
The genius ofOoke ElIiDgtOll
walked aero the stage of
A erican entertainment and
left huge footprin in the shape
of jazz music. E· on's m ic
is intitmately f�ar to millioos
of people, but Ellington, the
man, )'5 bee t
I of a mystery. I Even his autobiog
raphy, Musk.Is My Mistreu, is
just a teasin& glimpse into the
, life of a very private persoe,
In the recently pubJi hed
book, DuU Ellington (Oxford
1987), James Lincoln Collier; a
jazz ai· and a of many
boob aDd articles 0 jazz,
t to"! .. opea,: least a lit
tle, th· extraordinary maD to
view.· He goe on to tate:
(EDington's) impact on· 1M -
tietb-century . is large, &Did
it· only thro un udina
caD bow
our .
Collier h approadled .
t by giving a del ·Ied .
. of Ellington'S compositions;
'colorful sketch of the mem
bers of EIliDgton's band; and
brief glimpses into E1IiDgton's
various relatio hips. lIut all
these pieces of the P'_IZZIe fail to
form • piCtUre of the
maD. EJlin&toa slipped.
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