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Madsen originated at the embattled Aware Woman Center for Choice clinic in Melbourne, Florida. Protesters regularly blocked the clinic's doorway and climbed the fences to yell things like "Mommy! Don't kill me! They're ripping my arm off!" at clients. Aware Woman was attacked with butyric acid and its locks were jammed with glue; its staff members were stalked and threatened and their neighbors and children accosted. Finally, last year, a month after the murder of Dr. David Gunn by an antiabortion zealot 275 miles away in Pensacola, a circuit judge acted: he replaced a limited injunction against...
...story and insisted that Zhirinovsky had been involved only in an "ordinary road accident." Fyodorov also claimed that a few hours later in Moscow, Zhirinovsky attacked a policeman after he had tried to ticket one of the politician's bodyguards. According to Fyodorov, Zhirinovsky twisted the guard's arm, ripped up the ticket and then tried to tear the epaulets off the officer's uniform...
...Carrefour, the vast slum in the capital city that remains a principal bastion of support for the exiled President. Plans have been made to place burning cars at key intersections, blocking any moves by the military to defend itself. Angry Haitians like 30-year-old Pierre, whose right arm is scarred and twisted from a fight with the police, are wooing restive elements of the army to join them when the U.S. helicopters come. Says he: "We sleep with one eye toward...
...barking and whining to get out." She slaps a hostile child: "He had absorbed the blow. It was as if the sting had gone right to a spot inside where he stored his wounds." And here is Alice's tiny daughter putting a clammy hand on her arm and trying to console her: "When I was your mom and you were a baby, I beed sweet and nice." This is very good stuff by a novelist whose momentum seems unstoppable...
...High Court kept church and state at arm's length by ruling that New York state could not fund a special public school district for disabled children of Hasidic Jews. The justices voted 6-3 against the Kiryas Joel public school district, created to take care of the needs of about 220 children too handicapped to go to private religious schools. Their parents had opposed sending them to nearby public schools that of course, provided no Hasidic curriculum. While the Constitution allows some room to accommodate religious needs, Justice David Souter said the New York plan "crosses the line...