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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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