Article: COLLEGES HONOR KOOP, MANDELA MARTIN FELDSTEIN ALSO SPEAKS AT COMMENCEMENT

Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, in New Hampshire yesterday to speak at the 150th commencement of Colby-Sawyer College, defended the mass mailing of AIDS education pamphlets after criticism by Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.)

Koop, responsible for the distribution to 107 million households in the nation, responded to Humphrey's statement on Friday that people who lead "moral lives" need not be concerned about the epidemic. Koop said Humphrey's assumptionwas "dead wrong."

"If all the world were like Gordon Humphrey claims he is, then we wouldn't have to worry about AIDS at all, would we?" Koop said at a news conference following his commencement address at the women's college in New ...

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