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...cases of AIDS in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people, or about one in every 30 men between the ages of 20 and 50, may already carry the virus. "The President's statement was something I could agree with," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who opposes mandatory testing because it might scare away those in high-risk groups who need both screening and counseling. Under the President's plan, Koop stressed, "individuals have a right...
Harvard has not escaped the burgeoning interest in AIDS. The University last fall started a committee on AIDS and this year two undergraduate groups distributed free condoms on campus and sex therapist Ruth Westheimer and Surgeon General C. Everett Koop delivered speeches about AIDS. A student AIDS benefit committee sponsored several fundraising events this year. University Health Services (UHS) officials released the information that six Harvard affiliates have died of AIDS, none of whom were undergraduates...
...Today Koop, 70, is as controversial as ever, but the same proud passion and idealistic intensity that once endeared him to conservatives now enrage right- wing activists. This sea change stems from a single cause: the politics of AIDS. The Surgeon General is the Administration's leading advocate of the view that sex education is the most effective way to limit the AIDS epidemic. Beginning with a controversial report to the President last October, Koop has insistently argued that candor and condoms are more effective public-health tools than sermons on chastity. Last week Koop was the lone Administration dissenter...
...tall (6 ft. 1 in.) bulky man with a Captain Ahab beard and a stentorian voice, Koop recognizes that his largely symbolic job as the nation's top public-health official provides little more than a bully pulpit. "Anything I've done in the five years I've been Surgeon General," he explains, "has been with moral suasion and borrowed money." His crusades have ranged from a call for a "smoke-free society by the year 2000" to militant advocacy of the rights of deformed infants. Koop, who delights in the gold braid of the traditional Surgeon General's uniform...
...Nothing Koop has attempted in office has been nearly so divisive as the current AIDS debate. Former liberal critics, like California Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, now say they were wrong in their initial assessments of Koop. But erstwhile conservative allies, such as Paul Weyrich and Phyllis Schlafly, have mounted protests charging that "Koop's proposals for stopping AIDS represent the homosexuals' views, not those of the profamily movement...