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AIDS Victim 'Nervous' About Return to School

The New York Times - February 18, 1986

Ryan White, an Indiana teen-ager who has AIDS, said in a television appearance yesterday that he just wanted to be treated "like everybody else." His mother said that might not be possible because of objections still being raised by other parents.

Ryan, 14 years old, who won a ruling allowing him to return this Friday to the Western Middle School in Kokomo, Ind., appeared on the NBC News program "Today" with his lawyer, Charles R. Vaughan, and on "The CBS Morning News" with his mother, Jeanne.

"I'm nervous but I'm ready to go back," said Ryan, who was barred from school last fall. "I think after a while, they'll come around."

Mrs. White said that "I think there's going to be a long, major problem" in getting parents to accept her son.

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