Complex sentence: Saying AIDS needed to go "the way of smallpox and polio", President Reagan announced the appointments at the commission's first meeting, where Lilly and O'Connor, seated side by side, "chatted cordially", the "New York Times" reported.
Split into simpler sentences: Saying AIDS needed to go "the way of smallpox and polio", President Reagan announced the appointments at the commission's first meeting. At the commission's first meeting, Lilly and O'Connor, seated side by side, "chatted cordially", the "New York Times" reported.