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Presents the results after two months of condom distribution in New York City's schools--the first such large-scale effort in the nation. The number of students asking for condoms appears modest, and it may be that the condom program has heightened the fear of AIDS and caused many to abstain from sex altogether. Or perhaps students feel uncomfortable asking teachers.

Analyzes the condom issue in New York City high schools. The problems that will surface when the program is started sometime in the next few months; The unmapped wilderness of philosophical and legal questions as the city becomes the first in the nation to make condoms widely available without any say by parents.

Analyzes the condom issue for New York City schools. Importance of the issue for Mayor David N. Dinkins. His surprising intervention with the Board of Education; His worries about his chances for re-election in 1993.

Reports that, in a dramatic and emotional session, the New York City Board of Education narrowly approved a plan to make condoms available on request to the city's 250,000 high-school students. Parents' role at issue.

Discusses the Dinkins Administration's shift in position on the condom-distribution plan for schools. After supporting a possible compromise it backed off, then seemed to say it could live with one. The compromise would give parents the right to exclude their children from the condom program.

States that New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins favors Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's plan for making condoms available on request to high school students, even without parental consent. Proposed compromise on the plan.

Discusses the hearing at the New York City Board of Education on the divisive issue of whether the city's high schools should provide condoms to their students. Present differing opinions.

Discusses the plan to make condoms available on request to all New York City high school students. It may have to be scaled down before it can win approval of a majority of the Board of Education. Division in the Board.

Discusses the criticism advanced at the New York City Board of Education for the plan to give condoms to high school students. Suggested changes in the plan that Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez said would `take the heart out' of it.