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Associated Press - December 19, 1985
The Los Angeles Times Poll found that 51 percent of the respondents supported a quarantine of acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients, 48 percent would approve of identity cards for those who have taken tests indicating the presence of AIDS antibodies and 15 percent supported tattooing those with AIDS.
The poll of 2,308 people was conducted by telephone Dec. 5 to 12. The margin of sampling error in the survey was three percentage points in either direction.
Seventy-seven percent of those responding said they would support a law making it a crime for homosexuals or others in groups at high risk for AIDS to donate blood, while 51 percent said they would support a law making it a crime for an AIDS patient to have sex with another person.
Although 51 percent of those polled said they favored laws to protect homosexuals against employment discrimination, AIDS notwithstanding, 45 percent said they would support testing job applicants for AIDS antibodies.
But 55 percent said they would not refuse to send their children to a classroom where another pupil had AIDS.
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