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MR. FLEISCHER: Only two today, Les. (Laughter.)

Q In view of the President's gratitude to the many Americans who donated blood for the wounded at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, what is the White House reaction to the Harvard Crimson news report quoting a Harvard undergraduate organization leader named Clifford Alexander's email to all members, "On the Red Cross form you will be asked, are you a man who has had sexual contact with another man since 1973. This applies to many of you. You should lie." Since the AIDS tainted blood donations also killed Arthur Ashe, surely the White House deplores this statement urging such lying, don't you, Ari?

MR. FLEISCHER: Les, I'm not familiar with that report.

Q I've got it right here. You can read this --

MR. FLEISCHER: You can keep it.

Q Right there. It's on the net. If this is true --

MR. FLEISCHER: Do you have a follow-up?

Q Yes, I do, but if it's true, you deplore it, don't you, Ari?

MR. FLEISCHER: What's your next question, Les?

Q Last Saturday night at the Congressional Black Caucus awards dinner, CNS reports that they videotaped President Clinton being confronted, interrupted and shouted out by a member of ACT-UP who said Mr. Clinton was a liar, responsible for his lover's death because Clinton never launched a Manhattan Project to conquer AIDS. Does the President -- the President doesn't agree with this charge against his predecessor, does he? And he deplores such behavior, doesn't he?

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm also not familiar with that report.