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...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...
...former minister and fervent pro-lifer is the suspect in the shotgun murder of a Pensacola, Fla. abortion-clinic doctor and his volunteer security escort. Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the gunman shot him in the head. The wife of the slain escort was injured. Paul Hill, who has in the past advocated violence as a biblically sanctioned means to stop abortion, has been arrested. Another Pensacola abortion-clinic physician was murdered in March, 1993. Spokespeople for and against abortion rights condemned today's slaying...
...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 to approach patients and employees unless invited, and he drew...
...Olympic heroes acknowledge they are gay -- as gold-medal diver Greg Louganis did, movingly, during Saturday night's opening ceremonies at the Gay Games. The gay dollar is courted by big companies, and gay tourism is encouraged, not only in Miami and Los Angeles but in traditionally conservative Pensacola and Palm Springs as well. Gays rally for rights not only in big cities but also, if more anxiously, in such places as Missoula, Montana, and Tyler, Texas. Earlier this month 20,000 gay men and women were made welcome at that icon of bourgeois family life, Disney World. Barbara Hoffman...