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...gunman shot and killed Dr. John Britton and his volunteer bodyguard, James Barrett, outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic. A suspect -- antiabortion activist Paul Hill -- was promptly arrested at the scene. The murderous attack was the second on a Pensacola abortion provider in 17 months...
Like any reasonable businessman in Moscow, Boris Berezovsky took the possibility of an assualt on his life for granted. The chairman of Logovaz, the country's leading dealer in Zhiguli cars (a Russian-made Fiat), he never traveled without a bodyguard to ward off attacks by racketeers, competitors or any of the city's other assorted thugs. Yet such precautions couldn't prevent a remote-control car bomb from exploding as he walked out of his downtown office early this month. Berezovsky escaped with only burned hands. But his bodyguard suffered severe chest injuries that required six hours of surgery...
...afraid to go out at night; stores have difficulty keeping pistols, Mace and bulletproof jackets in stock; dinner conversations stop abruptly whenever a tail pipe backfires in the streets. "The crime problem today knows no limits," says Pavel Gusev, editor in chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who travels with a bodyguard. "In the U.S. your Mafia has already divided up spheres of business, so the bosses no longer kill each other off. Here we have a wild market where state holdings are being turned over into private hands...
...election-eve bombings are more likely to signal the last gasp of a weak, splintered racist Afrikaner minority than the start of the long-threatened great Boer revolt. Three of the 32 arrested are close to Terreblanche, including leaders of his personal bodyguard unit, the elite Iron Guard. The long, resolute march of democracy has caused deepening divisions within the white right. "The bombing campaign," says Wim Booyse, a political consultant in Pretoria, amounts to "a struggle for control of the heart of the right wing...
...news followed by Kinnear wisecracks) and lots of prepared shtick to keep the interviews from bogging down in, say, real conversation. For Julia Louis-Dreyfus, he introduced a taped bit purporting to reveal that she is actually bald. For Martin Short, he took out a script of ! The Bodyguard and asked Short to read for the Kevin Costner part. The program's redeeming feature is Kinnear himself, who is confident and comfortable in his first talk-show gig. If he doesn't replace O'Brien within six months, NBC really does need psychiatric help...