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Reagan called on the conventioneers to support his successor, describing President Bush as a "level-headed leader... with a steady hand on the tiller through the choppy eaters of the 90's, which is exactly what we need...
...Steve Smith, assistant managing editor of the Wichita Eagle: "We're on the fringes of the Bible Belt; we have a strong evangelical presence, a pro- life Governor and an arguably pro-life mayor." More important, Wichita is home to the Women's Health Care Services clinic, where George Tiller is one of a handful of U.S. physicians known to perform late-term abortions...
...Tiller, who wears a bulletproof vest to work and checks his car for bombs every morning, has emerged as a hero to the pro-choice movement, refusing to be intimidated by protesters and death threats. To pro-lifers, he is a modern- ^ day Mengele. Says Paula Winter, a "sidewalk counselor" who tries to dissuade patients from entering the clinic: "He kills 10 to 20 babies a week in his 'abortuary' and then puts them into his incinerator and burns them...
Along the thoroughfare that adjoins Tiller's clinic, a dozen pro-lifers and half as many pro-choicers petition passersby with wrenching pictures and alarming slogans. Commuters honk to register their vote -- or throw cans, bottles and even bags of urine. Says Mayor Knight: "People who in my wildest dreams would never protest -- much less put themselves in a position to be arrested -- have done just that." The abortion debate has a way of inducing indignation even among the timid and indecisive. "I came out of the closet a week ago," says pro-choicer Paul Wilson, 75. "The silent majority...
...utilitarian set, changing the play's locale to the United States (though the heaths of England added more to the intrigue of the story) and changing the famous line "I never drink...wine" to "I never drink...socially." Of course, the last of these alterations is probably playwright Ted Tiller's fault, but whoever's fault it is, the change underscores the effect of the whole play--an old story told in a tired...