Word: clinics
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...days and was taken by his wife, Donna Harris-Lewis, to seek a second opinion at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she had once worked in the human resources department. There Lewis was examined by a team headed by Dr. Gilbert Mudge, chief of the hospital's cardiology clinic. Mudge's diagnosis, delivered in a televised press conference: no life-threatening heartbeat arrhythmia, but instead neurocardiogenic syncope, a fairly benign fainting condition caused by nerve irregularities during or after peak periods of exertion. "I am confident," said Mudge, "he can return to professional basketball without limitations...
...chilling effect this could have on provocative programming. "Once you get advertising redlining, you'll have a debilitating effect on some of TV's most powerful dramas," says Dick Wolf, executive producer of NBC's Law & Order. "When Law & Order started, we did episodes on subjects like abortion-clinic bombings. In this current environment, I don't know if those would ever have gotten made." The network standards-and-practices departments are already increasing their vigilance. "We're used to dealing with Standards & Practices on a daily basis in terms of language and violence," says Langley of Cop Files...
...campaign of abortion-clinic harassment fails
...will be under tight scrutiny because pro-life radicals stand accused of neglecting their quest's spiritual side and turning to bravado and brutality. In Milwaukee, not a Refuge city, one of the newer forms of protest is "speed-bumping" -- throwing oneself under the cars of patients headed for clinics. Local doctors have received death threats in person, and bullets were fired through a clinic window last week. Declares pro-choicer Joan Clark: "The blockaders are not from here. They're all from somewhere else, and they're paid by the missionaries. They're thugs, and they travel...
Increasingly, those who once made common cause with Terry and his group have been alienated. Bill Price, head of Texans United for Life, is boycotting the current Dallas campaign, citing incidents including a case in which a Rescue member allegedly made a bomb threat to a Dallas clinic from a phone in New Jersey. "These are the tactics of the Mafia," says Price. Earlier this year, Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Roach urged militant antiabortion groups to avoid his area. "I do not find Operation Rescue to be a positive element in the pro-life movement," he said...