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...status of women in the U.S. has changed, we find that women have both progressed towards equality as well as regressed in the military. Last year women were finally allowed to fly combat missions and serve aboard warships after the government lifted the ban against women in combat. But Shannon Faulkner, a woman who wished to join the all-male state-supported military school, the Citadel, was ultimately denied entrance by both the school and the government of South Carolina, which upheld the school's decision. The school and state formed a plan to donate $5 million to another college...
Five months later, an Oregon housewife named Shelley Shannon shot and wounded Dr. George Tiller outside a Wichita, Kansas, abortion clinic. Evidence seized after Shannon's arrest linked her to arsons at clinics in four other states. It also hinted at the existence of a clandestine network. Police found correspondence with two men who were imprisoned for abortion-related violence buried in Shannon's backyard. Also unearthed was a manual for attacking abortion facilities, published by something called the Army...
...Shannon's trail led to a modest blue house in Portland, Oregon, where Andrew Burnett publishes Life Advocate, a magazine regarded as the handbook for abortion militants. Each month it chronicles movement activities and carries a list of prisoners serving time for clinic attacks. But the magazine specializes in identifying doctors who perform abortions. A September 1993 article described how Burt and Hill went about learning the identity of Gunn's replacement in Pensacola. Ten months later the replacement and his escort were dead, and Hill was under arrest...
...would never commit violence but refuses to condemn those who do. As for a conspiracy, he claims that if there is one, he knows nothing about it. Burnett says he and several magazine staff members were called last year before a federal grand jury in Portland that was investigating Shannon's involvement in a series of arsons. When the indictment was handed up, only Shannon was charged in attacks at nine clinics in Oregon, California, Nevada and Idaho. Prosecutors and federal agents are still pressuring her to implicate others. "There is no question that the government thinks she possesses...
State Department sources insist that there is no hard evidence that any U.S. personnel hid information,TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannonreports. But Shannon notes the CIA inpector general is investigating the case, "and that means that there's at least a question...