ABSTRACT
According to a story filed from the Soviet Union by United Press International, Soviet doctors have admitted that an undisclosed number of AIDS cases have been diagnosed there. The doctors are reportedly searching for a cure. Although the Soviet Union does not admit to the presence of homosexuals or drug addicts among its population, official press reports have blamed the spread of the disease on these groups. One doctor, Leonid Filarov, chief of the Odzhinkidze Sanatorium in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, said that some doctors believe AIDS results from "mixed marriages." An annoyed woman at the office of the Daily World, the New York newspaper of the Communist Party, USA, told the Native that she had "no information" and referred us to the official Soviet news agency, Tass. A representative there said that three or four articles on AIDS had been published in the Soviet Union, but that he had "no information."
