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Show 1 CkaoNicU Friday, Apuil Paqe Two NES DA Senate OKs measure to require AIDS testing Senate agreed to overwhelmingly Thursday require AIDS tests of felons convicted of drug and sex offenses as the Senate pushed toward final passage of a massive bill WASHINGTON, D.C. (UPI)--Th- e funding research for the deadly disease. The Senate voted 98-- 0 for the amendment by Sen. Don Nickles, to require routine confidential testing of people convicted of drug and sex offenses, although the bill itself avoids such sensitive issues as widespread testing, counseling and notification. "I think this is a serious problem," Nickles said, pointing to a 1986 National Institutes of Justice survey that found 1,232 confirmed AIDS cases in 58 responding state and federal prisons. Shortly after accepting the proposal, the Senate became entangled in a parliamentary web spun by Sen. Jesse Helms, who offered an amendment to cut off all federal money for any AIDS educational program that encourages or promotes homosexual sex. Helms has offered a number of amendments during the two days of debate on the bill to increase research, disseminate information and provide care in the battle against acquired immune deficiency syndromea package Helms said would "encourage and condone sodomy." The Senate twice defeated an effort by Helms to bar the use of any money to provide free needles or syringes to drug addicts. Lawmakers instead agreed to give the surgeon general power to pass out clean needles to drug addicts to prevent the spread of the deadly disease, approving amendments by Sens. Edward a., R-N.- C, anti-homosexu- al and Orrin Hatch, Kennedy, of Senate Labor and Human the chair Kennedy, Resources Committee, and Hatch, the panel's ranking Republican, joined forces in support of the bill and their amendment. Hatch insisted his proposal "corrects and cures ambiguities" in the Helms amendment by barring s., h. clean needles to drug addicts for illegal drug use and covering recreational drug users, too. Kennedy added language giving the surgeon general the discretion to fund needle exchange programs pop- ular in some states, if the spread of AIDS can be reduced. Kennedy's amendment was approved a voice vote on Hatch's proposal. preceding 70-2- 7, Reagan asks group for new ways to fight drugs WASHINGTON, D.C (UPI)-Presid-ent Reagan, acting on a major election-yea- r issue, gave a government study group Thursday 30 days to come up with new ideas for escalating the federal war on drugs, with special attention to drug users. "We don't have much time," Reagan said in a directive to members of his National Drug Policy Board, which represents 17 federal departments, agencies and offices. "But I want to do all I can to expand the drug fight." White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater announced the move after Reagan was briefed on the scope of the efforts drug problem and the status of current anti-dru- g of federal nine agencies. by representatives The message, Fitzwater later said, was that even with all the resources already marshaled against illegal drug trafficking, "it's not enough," Asked why Reagan set such a short timetable for the development of additional steps that can be taken, particularly against drug users, Fitzwater said, "There is a sense of urgency in that we've only got nine months left." Increased attention has focused on the drug problem d in recent months as a result of a surge in violence--Washingtohas alone D.C, experienced a d wave of killings since the beginning of last as a consequence of election-yea- r year-a- nd politics. With Vice President George Bush campaigning hard as a point man in the administration's war on drugs as chair of a federal interdiction task force, both factors have been seen in the recent White House emphasis on drugs. Fitzwater said Reagan was told in the National Drug Policy Board meeting that there are nearly 23 million drug users in the country and that "efforts must be focused on reversing the national tolerance for drug use." Additionally, he said, the call for stepped-u- p action came after Reagan was briefed on the increasing connection between drugs and crime, with specific references to the situation in Washington and recent actions by urban gangs. drug-relate- n, drug-relate- -- mom wxsm m bill Education, anti-por- n gets Reagan signature WASHINGTON, D.C. Reagan education bill signed an $8.3 billion, Thursday that likely is headed for a constitutional "dial-a-por- pay-per-ca- dial-a-por- ll R-N.- C, . international self when he returns home. 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Reagan voiced his support for a provision included in the bill that bans sexually explicit telephone message services, a controversy that has obscured some educational merits of the bill and almost sidetracked the measure en route to passage. n Reagan commended Congress for attaching the ban to the bill, but acknowledged the legal problems that could ensue because "current Supreme Court jurisprudence is unfriendly" to such steps to curb pornography. "I hope that the courts and the Congress will do as much as is permitted to enforce the provisions of this statute," he said. Congressional debate on the education bill bogged down over how best to protect children from using n services. An amendment added by the Senate at the urging of Sen. Jesse Helms, imposes an outright ban on such services. With that amendment included, the Senate version of the bill cleared the House only after opponents of the Helms rider predicted it would be struck down on First Amendment grounds once subjected to court challenge. Nearing the end of the week of administration emphasis on education, Reagan hailed the progress made since a 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, declared American schools were suffering from "a rising tide of mediocrity." "We remain, as that earlier commission said, a nation at risk," Reagan said. "But today, more than ever, the American people, the federal government and the states are working together, not at from page one Volpe said people should take advantage of cultural differences. "Everybody has things to learn and things to give to each other." 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