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Where's the straight-talking Joycelyn Elders when you need her? Her replacement, Surgeon General David Satcher, went to the big AIDS confab in Geneva late last month and seemed to call for condom ads on TV. "As you know, we've had significant problems in our country with condom advertisements on television. In a country in which sex is happening everywhere-it shows up in movies, on TV. It's happening everywhere you can imagine. And yet, when it comes to addressing it frankly, we still have a long ways to go." He went on to criticize as "three major barriers" abstinence-only programs in schools, the condom ad problem, and the ban on federal funding of needle-exchanges. Liberals praised him. "surgeon general: in praise of honesty and condoms," said the Kaiser Family Foundation in its daily update. Yet when an AP story reporting the speech said Dr. Satcher called for televised condom commercials in the United States, a spin-controller from his office talked the AP into retracting the story. The wire service offered a legalistic 71-word correction that said Dr. Satcher "did not specifically advocate such commercials."

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