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...doctor had been gunned down outside an abortion clinic in Florida, B.J. Isaacson-Jones was shaken -- but not surprised. At the St. Louis, Missouri, clinic where she is president, staff members always vary their routes home from work. Mail is opened only by employees trained by a bomb and arson squad to detect suspicious envelopes or packages. "Those of us providing abortion services feel very vulnerable," she says. Even more so since December 1991, when a man in a ski mask opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun at a clinic in Springfield, Missouri. Two people were wounded, including...
...Wade and a pro-choice Administration rules Washington, clinic operators fear that frustrated pro-life militants will become even more aggressive and threatening. According to the National Abortion Federation, a Washington-based advocacy group, in 1992 alone there were 116 cases of clinic vandalism, 12 reported incidents of arson, 9 cases of attempted arson, 5 burglaries and a bombing...
...federal law protecting clinics could give stronger authority to the FBI and other agencies to investigate attacks. The record of state law-enforcement efforts so far has been mixed. In the 28 cases of arson and fire bombings against clinics from 1990 to 1992, only one suspect has been arrested. Earlier this month, representatives of the Feminist Majority Foundation met with Florida attorney general Robert Butterworth. Katherine Spillar, national coordinator for the foundation, says he refused their request to seek a state court injunction that would keep protesters away from clinics...
...what some regard as the most foulmouthed, misogynistic and incendiary rap groups in the hood. Its growing stable of raucous rappers range from the explosive Ice Cube, who provoked public outrage nearly two years ago with songs that called for the killing of a white Jewish businessman and threatened arson against Korean grocers, to the dreaded Dr. Dre, whose lyrics have also advocated violence. Last month the Los Angeles-based firm added to its own notoriety by signing up the bad boy of rap, Ice-T, after he and Time Warner's Sire label severed their ties. His inflammatory...
Assaults were among the 14 of 21 categories of crime that fell over the past calendar year. Nine of the 14 types of felonies also decreased, including rape, arson and assaults on a police officer...