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'Communicator' silent on AIDS

Dennis Duggan

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Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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Dennis deLeon says he isn't angry at former President

Ronald Reagan for ignoring the AIDS plague even though many of deLeon's friends

died of the disease during the Reagan years.

"I'm more sad than angry," says deLeon, now head of the nonprofit,

Manhattan-based Latino AIDS Commission after serving as head of the city's

Human Rights Commission from 1990 to 1994, when...

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