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Tuesday, February 2. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
N.Y. plan to fight AIDS draws prosecutor's fire
The Associated Press
NEW VORK — Giving drug addicts clean needles is a crime, and that could mean arrest for workers who dispense syringes under a new state Health Department program designed to combat AIDS, a special narcotics prosecutor said yesterday
Health officials Sunday announced plans to dispense clean needles in New York City in a small-scale experiment to determine whether use of aerosol spread of AIDS. It is believed to be the first such program in the country.
Various clergymen opposed the plan, and Cardinal John O'Connor, Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, called it "an act born in desperation."
AIDS is spread primarily through sex and through the sharing of contaminated needles by intravenous drug users.
Under the plan, according to the
state Health Department, an adnict would get a clean needle during a drug treatment session and exchange it for another clean one at the next session. Blood on the needles turned in would be tested to determine if others had used it.
Both state Health Commissioner Dr. David Axelrod and his city counterpart said New York's Public Health Law gives Axelrod authority to allow certain individuals and groups the right to possess needles without a doctor's prescription.
New York City's special drug prosecutor, Sterling Johnson, however, said "no bureaucrat, no matter how high up he is, can authorize the violation of a law."
Giving needles to addicts so they can shoot up would be facilitating a crime, a misdemeanor punishable by
up to a year in prison, he said, and could leave the city vulnerable to lawsuits by relatives of addicts who overdose using city-supplied needles.
Johnson said he was stopping short of committing himself to making arrests until he sees full details of the plan. That was not expected until later in the week.
Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner, said the experiment would end if it showed clean-needle distribution was not effective against AIDS' spread.
"I fail to see how, in the world that is New York, with 200,000 intravenous drug users, that doing this for a limited period of time with 200 to 400 people, is likely to destabilize the entire drug scene." Joseph said.
The experiment will probably last a year, he said.
Trial starts for Klan leaders
2 accused in beating, hanging death of 19-year-old black
The Associated Press
MOBILE, Ala. — Attorneys yesterday questioned potential jurors in the murder trial of two former Ku Klux Klan leaders accused in the death of a black teen-ager who was beaten and hanged from a tree in a case that eventually drove a Klan organization into bankruptcy.
Mobile County Circuit Judge Michael Zoghby withheld rulings on several pretrial motions yesterday, including a defense request to exclude blacks from the jury.
Bennie Jack Hays, 72, and his son-in-law, Frank Cox, 32, were inducted in August in the March 1981 death of Michael Donald, 19, whose death
resulted in a $7 million civil verdict that led to bankruptcy for the United Klass of America.
The judge also considered a defense request for separate trials for Hays and Cox. Zoghby earlier denied that request, but defense attorney Neil Hanley asked the judge to reconsider.
Earlier, Hanley argued that race must be an issue in jury selection because of the Klan's hatred of blacks.
"If I strike blacks because it's a Klan case, it is the same reason I would strike Jews from the trial of a PLO member." Hanley said.
But District Attorney Chris Gala-
nos opposed the request.
"Just because they're black doesn't mean they hate the Klan," Galanos said.
Beulah Donald, 67, of Mobile, the victim's mother, sat in court yesterday as the jury was selected. After her son's death she filed suit in federal court against the Tuscaloosa-based United Klans of America Inc.
An all-white jury a year ago awarded her $7 million. As part of the judgment, the national headquarters of the United Klans in Tuscaloosa was deeded to Donald's estate.
Religious teens answer sex survey
The Associated Press
The "Teen Sex Survey in the Evangelical Church" found that 43
WASHINGTON — More than 40 percent of teen-agers who attend conservative churches have had sexual intercourse by age 18, and one-third decline to brand outside marriage as morally unacceptable, according to a study released yesterday.
percent of the respondents to a confidential, four-page questionnaire had had sexual intercourse by their 18th birthday.
About 35 percent of the 17-year-olds said that they had engaged in sexual intercourse, while 26 percent of the 16-year-olds said that they had had intercourse.
The questionnaire was given to 1.438 young people, ranging in age
from 12 to 18, last June and August. Eight evangelical denominations conducted the survey of the youths,
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In comparison, a Louis Harris and Associates poll in December 1986 found that 57 percent of the country's 17-year-olds, 46 percent of the 16-year-olds and 29 percent of the 15-year-olds said that they had had sexual intercourse.
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