MARCH 9, 1988 THE WEEKLY NEWS PAGE 5

JESSE HELMS IS PREPARED TO SABOTAGE THE NATION'S

FIRST AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION BILL

If He Wins, You Could Lose Your Job, Your Health Insurance and Your Privacy... BUT YOU CAN HELP STOP HIM.

The U.S. Senate is ready to consider landmark AIDS legislation that will provide new programs for AIDS treatment, research, public education and health care for people with AIDS. U.S. Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and others are working hard to pass a bill that will launch an all-out national war on AIDS.

If Senate Bill 1220 passes, AIDS will at long last be declared the public health emergency that it is.

Yet, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) and his henchmen are poised to cripple this bill with amendments to call for FIRING FOOD SERVICE AND HEALTHCARE WORKERS, CANCELLING HEALTH INSURANCE, REQUIRING MANDATORY HIV TESTING AND REPORTING, AND IMPOSING RIDICULOUS CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR TRANSMITTING THE AIDS VIRUS.

Passage of S. 1220-THE FEDERAL AIDS RESEARCH, INFORMATION AND CARE ACT-is vitally important

to us, because it will require the federal government for the first time to:

Award AIDS education grants to community based organizations. Hire needed scientists at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Provide home and community health care for people with AIDS. Conduct a national AIDS educational advertising campaign. Set strict deadlines for quickly processing research funding requests.

UNLESS YOU ACT NOW OUR NATION'S RESPONSE TO THE AIDS CRISIS WILL BE BUSINESS AS USUAL. OR WORSE.

To protect yourself and your loved ones, please contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to support S.1220 WITHOUT HOSTILE AMENDMENTS.

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