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LOS ANGELES (AP) - County health officials are having trouble finding a TV station willing to air a public service announcement about syphilis that employs a lumpy, red cartoon character named 'Phil the Sore.' Los Angeles-area broadcasters said the ad is in poor taste, but the county health agency said it is simply trying to reach gay men - the group at greatest risk of getting the sexually transmitted disease. In the 30-second ad, Phil follows two men going home together. As the men later part, one of them, dressed in a bathrobe and underwear, says, 'Let's do it again sometime.' Phil then calls in his whole family, whose members carry boxes labeled 'brain damage,''rash' and 'blindness' - all of which can result from syphilis. None of the five Los Angeles-area television stations that were approached has run the ad....
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