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...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...
...drew nearer, few workers were certain of the exact date, but they could detect the quickening pace. Bernard Taylor, 84, was superintendent of a Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, making PT-17 flight trainers. One day in November 1941, Taylor noted a harried congregation of high military brass outside his plant. Then he was called in by his boss, who declared, "You're in the glider business...
After deliberating for only about an hour, a Kansas jury convicted fervent antiabortion activist Rachelle Shannon of attempting to murder Dr. George Tiller last summer. Shannon admitted shooting the doctor and testified that she also considered bombing his Wichita abortion clinic...
...phone call came for Nancy Kassebaum as soon as the Senator got back to her office last week from a trip home to Kansas. It was a fellow Republican -- Robert Packwood of Oregon. Were the wire-service accounts true? Had she really told the Wichita Eagle that . . . Yes, he was told. Said a source close to Kassebaum: "She felt the time had come" for him to resign...
...essay "A Nation of Cowards" in The Public Interest, lawyer Jeffrey Snyder argues that individual dignity depends on a willingness to fight back against crime. Owning a gun, and mastering its use, becomes a duty of citizenship; an armed society becomes a safer one. In a community like Wichita, Kansas, where drive-by shootings hit a record high this year and local legislators are debating tighter gun laws, pro-gun activists argue that instead they should make it easier for citizens to carry a concealed weapon -- the deterrent approach. The District of Columbia has enacted a handgun ban -- but some...