>Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 06:47:05 EDT
>From: Tom Neal <70471.2523@COMPUSERVE.COM>
>Subject: Tipper Gore Leads AIDS March

Editorial comment: for all the faults of the Clinton admin. you wouldn't have
read anything like this in the prior 12 years. Tom Neal.

   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The health care reforms that the Clinton administration
is proposing will guarantee that people with AIDS "have the security of having
their needs met," Tipper Gore told thousands of demonstrators Saturday.
   And Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the nation's newly confirmed surgeon general, said
she will use her office as a "bully pulpit" to send out the message of AIDS
prevention and education.
   In mist and spattering rain, several thousand demonstrators followed Gore,
wife of Vice President Al Gore, as she led the annual "AIDSWALK" past the
White House through the streets of the capital.
   The fund-raising march is sponsored by the Whitman-Walker Clinic for
research and treatment of AIDS.
   "We will continue to walk until the last mile is reached and the cure is
found," Mrs. Gore said.
   Wearing an AIDSWALK T-shirt and purple shorts, she told marchers on the
Ellipse behind the White House that "this country is now going to provide
health security for those who need it."
   "All Americans will be protected for the first time," she said, adding that
the Clinton health system will provide limits to the money that those
suffering from AIDS and other chronic diseases have to pay for prescription
drugs.
   "In many ways, AIDS and other chronic diseases represent the ultimate test
of a reformed health care system," Mrs. Gore said. "AIDS will be included in
the Clinton administration's health security system."
   Elders said her job as surgeon general is twofold.
   "First, we must do everything possible to help those who are afflicted with
this disease," she said.
   "And secondly, we must realize that HIV prevention is our only cure," she
said, referring to the virus that causes AIDS.
   "I believe the only way to heal our nation is through education," she said.
"AIDS is the enemy of all I believe in. It robs us of our best and our
brightest."
   And she said she will put prevention first and send that message across the
nation "with the power of my bully pulpit."