The Nation - News from Sept. 9, 1987

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Citizen Health Research Group called on President Reagan to appoint additional members to his AIDS commission to assure a balanced report. In a letter to the President, the groups asserted the Federal Advisory Committee Act requires panels “be fairly balanced in terms of point of view represented and the functions to be performed by the advisory committee.” The call to expand the 13-member panel came the day before it convened its first full session in Washington to hear from Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and other health experts.