Word: nevadas
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Paul Etxeberri Reno, Nevada AOL: EUSKO...
That, perhaps, is one of the few eventualities for which the owner of northern Nevada's only abortion clinic remains unprotected. After his former clinic in downtown Reno was fire-bombed four times, Stutes acknowledges, "I was mad as hell -- and afraid." Today, he is still angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees...
Patricia Glenn, head of Nevada Right to Life, condemns attacks on physicians: "We don't believe in killing babies or abortionists," she says. Although the former nurse and mother of 10 demonstrated at Stutes' old clinic, she says she has no plans to do so at the new site. "With the video cameras, they see you coming," she says. "It's like Hitler's fortresses. People couldn't get in there to protest the killing of the Jews...
Fortress Mentality: A Nevada clinic is built like a bunker...
Jaksha's attitude, however, was anything but fringe. He was supporting the ballot proposition to limit the terms of congressional officeholders, a measure that rolled to victory Nov. 8 in Nebraska and six other states: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Only voters in Utah, which earlier had adopted limits, turned down a proposed addition to their restrictions. The past election brings to 22 the number of states that have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate...