Pubdate: [Fri, 01 Mar 1996] Source: Trenton Times (NJ) Author: Ashley H. Clements Dear Governor Whitman and Attorney General Poritz, I am writing in response to your refusal of medically-sound AIDS-reduction policies and the politically-motivated arrest of the Chai Project volunteers for distributing clean needles to IV-drug users. The Chai Project volunteers are giving clean needles to addicts, while you, Governor Whitman and Attorney General Poritz, are giving the infected needles to the AIDS patients of tomorrow. It is you who are passing the HIV virus from one generation to the next. And what purpose is served by your decision to prosecute two brave Americans for giving "life" to strangers? What is the prison sentence in New Jersey for good deeds and random acts of kindness? Jersey must be safe indeed when both the Governor and Attorney General have time to supervise the prosecution of these two innocents caught in the insane war on drugs. Your political policies are filling hospitals and graveyards with AIDS/HIV patients. No matter what IV-drugs have done to these miserable addicts, it still takes a Governor and an Attorney General to kill them. Ashley H. Clements Atlanta, Ga.