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...require that members sign a pledge of nonviolence. Yet Fred Hobbs, a special agent with the Florida department of law enforcement who has been investigating antiabortion violence for over a year, notes, "We feel that sometimes these pledges are ((merely)) a means to avoid prosecution under criminal and civil RICO ((federal racketeering)) statutes." In addition, during the meeting more militant pro-lifers founded a new group, the American Coalition of Life Activists, at least partly out of frustration with their colleagues' perceived timidity...
...memo indicating that the Bureau was looking into whether or not anti-abortion activists are conspiring to commit violence at clinics. If so, they could be busted under the same laws 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...
...happens, however, Tyson's interest in Puerto Rico has abruptly waned because the company has found hungrier and less restrictive markets for its surplus chicken parts. Tyson is currently sending most of its dark meat abroad. "If it needs to push more stuff down here in the future," says importer Garcia, "the heat will be on again...
With whom, though? The talks took a strange turn, in which the chicken industry became the mouthpiece of the U.S. government. While USDA officials had the responsibility to bargain with Puerto Rico, as the earlier court order contemplated, the Broiler Council took over instead. USDA staffers in San Juan say their bosses in Washington told them to back off. "Face it," says a career USDA official who has dealt with the poultry industry for two decades. "On something like this we're not going to accept anything the Broiler Council doesn't want and they're not going to accept...
Tyson's Washington friends help it get into Puerto Rico...