300 AIDS Protesters Rally
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
About 300 AIDS protesters rallied outside the federal health headquarters building Monday in a warmup for a more intense demonstration planned today in which they will try to block entrances to the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in nearby Rockville, Md.
A small contingent of police watched as a series of speakers ridiculed the Reagan Administration for what they said was a criminally inadequate response to AIDS and castigated the news media as not paying enough attention to the disease.
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