Ten patients are treated at each of three targeted concentration ranges of U-87201E. Patients in the second cohort are enrolled immediately after patients in the first cohort are accrued; patients in the third cohort are enrolled when 5 of 10 patients in the second cohort have tolerated that dose for at least 4 weeks. The MTD will be the dose below that which produces dose-limiting grade 3 or 4 toxicity in five out of 10 patients. At least two women and five antiretroviral naive patients must be enrolled in each dose concentration range. Patients receive at least 8 weeks of monotherapy with U-87201E, with possible extension to at least 24 weeks with the same dose of U-87201E alone or in combination with zidovudine plus either ddI or ddC. Patients are followed weekly for at least 8 weeks and, if applicable, at weeks 10, 12, 16, 20, and 24 and monthly thereafter, up to 1 month following the last dose. Patients on combination therapy will have an indwelling venous catheter inserted for the first 2 days of combination therapy. Per 10/15/93 amendment, if no MTD is established with the first three cohorts, then 10 additional patients will be enrolled at a fourth concentration.