World News Tonight (ABC) - 1995-12-06
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[0:01] [music]
[0:03] >> The first White House conference on
[0:05] AIDS, groundbreaking new research today
[0:08] on ways to beat the AIDS virus.
[0:11] The president vetoes the Republican
[0:12] budget today.
[0:14] And what concerns our children? Many of
[0:16] them are very frightened.
[0:20] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:23] with Peter Jennings. Good evening. We
[0:25] begin tonight with what everybody in the
[0:27] country knows is the massive unsolved
[0:29] problem of AIDS. This is about politics
[0:32] and social behavior, public money, and
[0:34] certainly science. Today at the White
[0:36] House, the president put the full weight
[0:38] of his office behind the desperate
[0:40] campaign to find a cure. And our first
[0:43] reporter is ABC's Barry Serafin.
[0:46] The conference was the first of its kind
[0:49] ever held at the White House. 250 AIDS
[0:52] activists, physicians, and researchers
[0:54] came to make their appeals directly to
[0:56] the president.
[0:57] Mr. President, I support what you're
[0:58] doing for the Bosnian people
[1:00] >> to keep peace and end the war.
[1:03] But we also have a war raging right here
[1:05] for the last 15 years.
[1:07] Since 1981, more than a quarter of a
[1:10] million Americans have died of AIDS.
[1:12] AIDS has become the eighth leading cause
[1:14] of death in this country and the number
[1:17] one killer of Americans between the ages
[1:19] of 25 and 44.
[1:21] There has been progress. The lifespan of
[1:23] those with AIDS has doubled in the past
[1:25] decade. But the president said today the
[1:28] ultimate goal must still be reached. A
[1:30] cure and a vaccine. That must be our
[1:33] first and top priority. The president
[1:36] pointed to his administration's efforts
[1:38] to increase research sp