Word: gunn
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...Britton, 69, was a man of modest means. When he replaced the murdered Dr. David Gunn as a circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
Many abortion-rights supporters had hoped that the 1993 murder of Gunn by antiabortionist Michael Griffin would be unique -- and not only that but a turning point. As the apparent climax to a period of growing violence and obstructionism by hard-core clinic protesters, it became a catalyst for public disgust and government action. Within the next 15 months, two Supreme Court rulings, an act of Congress and dozens of state and local ordinances contributed to the impression that few places on earth could be much safer than an abortion clinic...
...kill me! They're ripping my arm off!" at clients. Aware Woman was attacked with butyric acid and its locks were jammed with glue; its staff members were stalked and threatened and their neighbors and children accosted. Finally, last year, a month after the murder of Dr. David Gunn by an antiabortion zealot 275 miles away in Pensacola, a circuit judge acted: he replaced a limited injunction against clinic violence at Aware Woman with one of the most severe arrangements in the country. In addition to the 36-ft. taboo zone, he forbade protesters within a 300-ft. radius...
Henry Mancini, who created some of the most popular sounds of the '60s and '70s, died of cancer last night. Among his hits: "Moon River," the "Pink Panther Theme," and the theme song to the "Peter Gunn" television series...
When pro-lifer Michael Griffin shot abortion doctor David Gunn in March of last year, the killing helped crystallize a growing public skepticism that the confrontational blockade-and-harass tactics of organizations like Randall Terry's Operation Rescue and Joseph Scheidler's Pro-Life Action Network accurately reflected the compassionate motivations of many pro-lifers. The pro-choice movement, not surprisingly, had already noticed a growing violence among its opposition, and associated it quite directly with the ascension of groups like Terry's and Scheidler's. Since the mid-1980s the choicers had been searching for a sort of statutory...