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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...groups and the church, have been sluggish in acknowledging the epidemic. For them AIDS presents a disturbing dilemma: the disease threatens to increase racial discrimination and further distance blacks and Hispanics from full participation in mainstream society. "We don't want to get to the point," says Dr. Reed Tuckson, public health commissioner of Washington, "where people say to any black, 'You can't come into my restaurant, and you damned sure can't come into my swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of AIDS | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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