New Aids Initiative

The Times photograph (Part I, Nov. 24) of Vincent Chalk being welcomed back to his Orange County classroom was a Christian sermon. Love and joy flashes between the teacher with AIDS and the student who hugs him. One hopes that self-identified Christians who claim AIDS is a curse from God have read that sermon. It clearly values love over hate. It clearly values joy over fear. E.H. DUNCAN DONOVAN Los Angeles

I cannot believe that the LaRouche followers are going to try again to get an initiative "nearly identical" to Proposition 64 passed in next June's election. After the drubbing they took from the voters last year why are they trying again? There is only one reason possible and it sickens me! The gay community must now gear up to fight and spend more millions of dollars which would do a hell of a lot more good used in the battle against AIDS! Those who signed the petition to get this proposition on the ballot should feel half the shame I live with for my anti-gay stance that kept me pecking at this typewriter spewing forth hate to any publication that would print my letters.

Serious strategy sessions are under way among leaders in the gay community, faced with what one leader said was a "here-we-go-again" AIDS-control initiative sponsored by political extremist Lyndon LaRouche Jr. When faced with a similar state ballot measure last fall, opponents managed to fell it by a margin of 3-to-1.

Serious strategy sessions are under way among leaders in the gay community, faced with what one leader said was a "here-we-go-again" AIDS-control initiative sponsored by political extremist Lyndon LaRouche Jr. When faced with a similar state ballot measure last fall, opponents managed to fell it by a margin of 3-to-1.

Followers of extremist Lyndon LaRouche have placed a new AIDS initiative on the California ballot that is nearly identical to Proposition 64, the measure soundly rejected by voters a year ago. Secretary of State March Fong Eu announced Monday that initiative petitions turned in by the LaRouche followers, Khushro Ghandhi and Brian Lantz, carried signatures of 508,695 voters, about 100,000 more than required.

When Hillary Rodham Clinton accepts a Commitment to Life award from AIDS Project Los Angeles in January, it will focus attention on the important work APLA does for people with AIDS and will help APLA raise needed money. It is also an occasion to scrutinize the Clinton record on AIDS. There are signs of movement. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala has said that a new AIDS prevention initiative will be announced soon.