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Scheidler refuses to identify the man other than to say he was not Paul Hill, who also attended the Chicago conference and who now stands accused of murdering Pensacola, Florida, doctor John Bayard Britton and his unarmed escort, James Barrett. But future inquisitors may not let it rest at that. Last week the FBI initiated a 90-day preliminary investigation into a suspected violent conspiracy among pro-life activists. If the investigation discovers additional evidence of criminal activity, a full-fledged inquiry could follow...
...grand jury indicted anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill on two first-degree, premeditated murder counts in the shootings of an abortion doctor and his escort outside their Pensacola, Fla., clinic last week. Hill, the former Presbyterian minister who advocates killing abortionists as "justifiable homicide," faces the death penalty. The escort, James Barrett, was buried yesterday. Today would have been his 75th birthday...
Britton and escort James Barrett, 74, died instantly. Barrett's 68-year-old wife June suffered an arm wound. Minutes later, police arrested Paul Hill, a local antiabortion extremist who had long called for the blood of clinic personnel...
...same laws that put mobsters behind bars. In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal anti-racketeering RICO law can be used against anti-abortion groups. Also today, the Senate voted 98-0 to call for federal authorities to protect abortion clinics.GIRDING FOR BATTLE? Meanwhile, volunteer escorts at two Pensacola abortion clinics -- including the one at which the Pensacola doctor and his escort were killed last Friday -- will now be provided with bulletproof vests, courtesty of the Feminist Majority, a national foundation...
...marshalls fanned out to several Southern cities to guard abortion clinics after a doctor and an escort were killed, and the doctor's wife wounded, at a clinic in Pensacola, Fla. on Friday. U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno assigned the forces to many facilities including ones in Melbourne, Fla., Fargo, N.D., Falls Church, Va., and Wichita...