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...July, Linda Barber and her brother Rick Middleton hardly ever talked about abortion. Now they hardly ever talk. Rick, 39, enlisted with the pro-life forces and was twice arrested for trying to shut down one of the city's three abortion clinics. Linda, 35, volunteered to escort the terrified female patients past the demonstrators. "I had no clue she was pro-choice," says Rick. "The relationship in our family is definitely strained." Linda is less polite. "I feel he's in bed with a bunch of criminals," she says. "I can't imagine spending this Christmas together...
...Smith, 30, a nephew of Senator Edward Kennedy and a Georgetown medical school graduate, who is charged with raping a 29-year-old woman at the Kennedy compound during Easter weekend. The three women tell remarkably similar stories about meeting Smith at a party, then being offered an escort home and a spare room at his parents' place; none of the women suspected that any harm could come to them. "He was quite charming," recalls one witness, who met Smith at a party in Manhattan in 1983. "I felt completely comfortable with him." In each case there was some drinking...
Harvard University Police Chief Paul E. Johnson says the heightened awareness which has led to the questioning, along with more requests for escort service and extra patrols, is "absolutely a good thing...
...allay immediate student fears, the police added regular walking patrols in the Yard, river and quad areas. Also, Johnson says, "we now have two full-time drivers on the escort service." Shrill alarms have been made available for $6 at Police headquarters, University Hall and Radcliffe Yard...
Students answer these arguments with their own, saying the University can do more. In particular, many cite the example of the escort service as an area where Harvard has devoted insufficient resources to keeping its students safe. And the success of such events at Take Back the Night, a week-long program on crime and safety organized by students, suggests that undergraduates are becoming more willing to take matters into their own hands...