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EXECUTED. PAUL HILL, 49, who in 1994 serenely gunned down a doctor who performed abortions and his volunteer escort in Pensacola, Fla.; by lethal injection; at Florida State Prison, in Starke, Fla. The unrepentant former Christian minister, the first killer of an abortion provider to be executed in the U.S., maintained until his death that abortion opponents should "do what you have to to stop...
None of the violence feared by abortion clinics across the country materialized as the state of Florida put Paul Hill to death Wednesday, but the former Presbyterian minister, convicted of the shotgun murders of an abortion-clinic doctor and his escort in Pensacola, Fla., in 1994, may still prove dangerous even as he fades from the headlines. Hill?s legacy, written in prison as he awaited death: A how-to manual for people looking to follow in his violent footsteps...
...admit that because there is more concern with winning next year's election, and a massive troop buildup in Iraq won't do. I wonder too about the mental health of the young men who do make it back. Is this Vietnam all over again? James Buonocore Largo, Fla...
...commanders on scene are the only ones qualified to determine if their forces are stretched too thin. The media and politicians sitting in their plush surroundings have done nothing but report the negative aspects of the situation in order to influence the general public. Wes Rowley Bonita Springs, Fla...
DIED. ROBERT J. DONOVAN, 90, author of PT-109: John F. Kennedy in World War II; after a stroke; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A former reporter for the New York Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, he wrote a book on the Eisenhower Administration before telling the best-selling story of Kennedy's war years...