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...Reproductive Health Services clinic is purchasing an intercom so that the security guard posted outside can relay messages without having to open the front door. The Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, which is already patrolled by armed guards, made plans to install a metal detector. Even Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, who has practiced under the tightest security since he was shot by Rachelle Shannon in 1993, felt a new level of anxiety. "The turning point in our profession occurred last week," he said, "when innocent bystanders, as it were, were slaughtered...
...served Henrickson with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury and given him a two-page letter of immunity, which protects the pilot from criminal charges and subjects him to perjury charges if he is lying. The former Tyson captain has also volunteered to take a lie-detector test. In his first conversation with TIME, Smaltz did not admit to knowing Henrickson. But when asked about the letter of immunity and presented with information that TIME had gathered, the independent counsel spoke with unusual candor. He found Henrickson's story "very interesting," he said, partly because in their first...
...sixth anniversary of the explosion aboard Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it will begin installing a new plastic explosives detector technology that might have prevented that and other terrorist bombings. The $8 million move -- first disclosed last week in TIME Daily -- means that U.S. airports with international service will install it this year, with a FAA verdict on additional sites to follow by early 1996. The detectors, which use X-rays and CAT scan-like technology to scan passenger luggage, is now in use at Brussels and London airports...
...Supreme Court left intact the conviction of a St. Louis man on charges of marijuana-growing despite the fact that the FBI nabbed him using data gathered by flying over his house in a helicopter equipped with an infra-red detector. Joseph Pinson claimed that the FBI obtained the evidence -- later used as a basis for a search warrant -- illegally in July 1991. But a lower court, in affirming Pinson's conviction, said "Pinson did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the heat emanated from his home." The Supreme Court, acting without comment, left intact Pinson's conviction...
Smith's story began to crumble even before she failed the first of two lie- detector tests. Police continued to give her the benefit of the doubt, at least in public; extreme stress or medication could make the test results inconclusive, they noted. But some neighbors, too, began to wonder. Catherine Frost lives across the street from Smith's tidy little brick house. She heard about the crime on the police scanner she keeps in her bedroom. She supported Smith in the crisis, but the story nagged at her. "Ain't no carjacker going to put a lady...