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...authorities across the U.S. ?are on heightened alert, watching as intensively as they can? to prevent violent attacks on women's clinics as abortion proponents and pro-lifers on Wednesday commemorate the 24th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973. Federal agents, who have investigated 175 clinic attacks to date, continue to search for leads as to who is responsible for two bombings at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Tulsa last week. "There is evidence, and it's evidence that could identify a suspect at some point," cautioned a federal Bureau...
Mystery writer Walter Mosley finished his first novel, Gone Fishin', in 1988, but he couldn't find an agent or a publisher who would touch it back then because they feared that a thriller about working-class African Americans would bomb at bookstores. Then along came Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale. Settling in on the best-seller list for 43 weeks, her tale about four middle-class black women proved there was an audience for commercial fiction by black authors and sent publishers scrambling to find the next black blockbuster. Mosley's second manuscript, Devil in a Blue Dress...
...that prison's population in the course of our investigation. We have drawn no conclusions, but this is one obvious area to look at." For now, the FBI is warning the rest of us. "We're concerned that there could be additional such letters still in the mail," agent Raymond Mislock said. "We would very much like anyone who identifies a similar piece of mail not to touch it or disturb it any way." The FBI said anyone who receives similar mail should notify their local police department or postal inspectors, or call the FBI's terrorism task force...
...powerful Creative Artists Agency, would find himself out of his depth. Over the years, he had built a reputation as a shrewd, tough, almost omniscient leader. Besides representing an enviable list of major clients--Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty--he ranged far beyond the traditional agent's role. He played a part in brokering Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures in 1989 and shepherded Matsushita into its purchase of MCA the following year--deals that soured for the buyers. In 1994 he engaged in highly publicized negotiations to take the top job at MCA. Once those talks...
...world seems a far more treacherous and sinister one. In the "O.J. world" ex-wives beat themselves up, rassling is a noncontact sport, phone companies keep phony records every cop is a conspirator, all photos are doctored, cuts on the finger cause amnesia, blood has a travel agent and night golf is popular. Yikes! I wonder if agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from The X-Files know about this place. JOE BOLSTER Los Angeles...