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...fingers, Dr. Buck Williams, the only doctor who provides abortions in South Dakota, got a licensed .38 revolver. He jokes grimly about it now: "I figured if I had only one finger left, I could use it to pull the trigger." After he learned about the Pensacola killing, Williams upgraded his weapon...
...murder in Pensacola has already led to the resignation of two doctors at the clinic in Melbourne. Antiabortion groups had featured them on wanted posters similar to those that Gunn had appeared on before his death. Clinics elsewhere are finding themselves compelled to take expensive precautions against attack. The Houston chapter of Planned Parenthood is spending $100,000 on security devices for its new headquarters. Last week their clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, hired an armed guard...
...what was to be his last morning, Dr. David Gunn, 47, woke up in a good mood. "He was happier than I'd seen him in a long time," says Paula Leonard, his girlfriend, in whose apartment he stayed when he came to Pensacola. He did so regularly, another stop on his 1,000-mile, six-day-a-week schedule of performing abortions at seven clinics in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly...
...trying to scope out who would have the upper hand in the new information age. He also tried some restorative time off. In June he set out on a cross-country drive, renting a Chrysler convertible in Miami and wending his way along the Gulf Coast through towns like Pensacola and Biloxi. But the summer heat and stale motel air left him dehydrated, and by the time he reached Little Rock, he was running a 100 degrees fever...
...there is no mystery about the spell Barney casts on children. One Washington toddler wakes up each morning and greets his parents with an eager, "Hi, watch Barney." A four-year-old girl in Pensacola, Florida, who learned that Barney appears on TV while she is attending preschool, threatened to boycott school until her parents agreed to videotape the show for her. At a Connecticut elementary school, first-graders pay homage to a Barney poster on the door before they walk into the classroom...