"The child with AIDS doesn't have the community support of a homosexual with the disease," professor McIntosh said. "Usually, the family reacts by cutting itself off from the rest of the world."

McIntosh said children will soon make up more than 5 percent of AIDS patients will have difficulty affording hospital care.

The project will be conducted at four medical centers, including the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago. It is partly funded by a $12 million NIH grant for AIDS projects, according to the institute's newsletter.

Students Protest Israeli General

A crowd of about 40 people opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank staged the second protest this fall against an Israeli general's fellowship at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) yesterday evening.

The protesters gathered outside Johnston gate for an hour, carrying banners and holding candles in memory of the Palestinians killed during the past two years. The event was sponsored by the General Union of Palestinian Students, a national organization which is not based at any individual campus.

The protesters charged that Major General Avram Mitzna, who oversaw military operations in the West Bank from May 1987 to June 1989, was responsible for several human rights abuses in the occupied territories.

"We consider him as a war criminal," said Samy K. Musa, a graduate student at Northeastern University and the president of the General Union. "He was the mastermind of the Israeli policies of killing, destroying, beating, and mass arrests.

At a similar demonstration on October 6, members of the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee (HIPAC) staged a counter-protest. HIPAC was unable to protest yesterday's demonstration, according to committee chair Ivan J. Dominguez '90.

"We view the actions against Mitzna as wholly insignificant to the cause of Palestinian rights given Mitzna's history," Dominguez said.