<HTML>We seem to be heading down a familiar road here. But I can't help but be astounded by the willful, thickheaded stupidity of some of the HIV deniers. We have witnessed a major decline in AIDS mortality, and a major improvement in the quality of life, among those in the US and Europe with access to the anti-HIV 'cocktails.' Now this is sure as hell the biggest, counter-intuitive and counter-logical coincidence that ever hit medical science if HIV is not the cause of AIDS, and if anti-HIV drugs do not help, at least for a time, abate the progress of the disease. But, the HIV deniers ignore it all, blithely going on about now the anti-HIV drugs are the cause of AIDS. It just blows the mind.   Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>