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Following an incident last month in which sexually explicit materials were distributed at a student conference, Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines of New York City has decided to relocate the district's AIDS-resource center from the campus of a high school to a school board office where it can be more directly administered.
The board of education's H.I.V.-AIDS Resource Center was a sponsor of the conference on safe sex and AIDS, which was held at New York University last month.
While calling the conference "a success in many ways,'' Mr. Cortines objected to materials presented at a table run by an independent AIDS-education group, which displayed information on anal and oral sex and graphic...
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