AIDS and the Education of Our Children: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, from the U.S. Department of Education (Consumer Information Center, Dept. ED, Pueblo, Colo. 81009, 28 pp., free)
Since AIDS emerged as a critical public-health issue, the strongest voices within the Reagan Administration for developing a sound AIDS policy have come not from the Public Health Service or the U.S. Surgeon General’s office but from the Department of Education. Last May, for example, after President Reagan called for routine AIDS testing of inmates in federal prisons, patients in VA hospitals, and immigrants applying for residence visas, and urged states to test marriage-license applicants, it was Education Secretary Bennett, not Surgeon General Koop, who was most often found defending the President’s position before the media.
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