(NEW _YORK NEWSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1986

U.S. Official Attacks

AIDS Plan

The Dec. 3 memo, written by Jack
Klenk of the Education

AIDS.”

Klenk is director of iasues analysis at the
department In the copy of his memo ob-
tained by Newsday, he also said that Edy
esti n Yliam Bennett *
third

In Koop’s AIDS report of Oct. 22, pre
pared at the request af Premdent Ronald
Reagan, Koop advocated strong sex edoca-
tion m the home and at school “at the low-
est grade possible.”

to avoid to protect themselves from expo-
sure to the AIDS virus.” His advice was to
begin sex education at the point when
youngsters start to ask questions about sex,
which, be said, is usually by the third
grade.

ommendations Koop made in his report.
Klenk’s memo is critical of many of those,

as well. For instance, Koop urged that the

results of blood screening tests for AIDS

asks “if there isn't good reason to believe
that local health authorities ahould be in-
formed of AIDS test results?”

Similarly, be takes imsne with an HHS
statement that “AIDS is not an excuse to
Giscriminate” because the virus is not
transmissible by ordinary, nonsexua! per-
sonal contact. According to Klenk, the
smtaiement conflicts with the Justice De-
partment’s view that fear of contagion may
justify discrimination agminst carriers of
the virns.

HUES recommendation that community dis
tribution of condoms may be an effective
way to reduce the spread of AIDS.

“Provision of condoms to unmarrieds
equals sex outside of marriage .. .,”
Klenk’s meino saya. “Dispensing
to aunmarrieds spreads the ennditton which
facilitates the spread of AIDS, namely mul-
tiple- partner sex.”

Marion Blakey, an Education Depart-
roent spokeswoman, gaid the department
would not comment on the memo because it
had been intended only for internal use.