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Part of the reason for the discrepancy is that Operation Rescue was outmaneuvered from the start. Organizers last January promised their protests could rival those last summer in Wichita, which drew thousands of participants, lasted six weeks and produced more than 2,600 arrests. But the opening of the Buffalo campaign drew only 300 members to the area -- a battalion whose weakness led at least one leader to resort to sophistry. The women who kept their appointments at the clinics, said the Rev. Robert Schenck, were "no one of any consequence, I can assure you." By midweek, Buffalo's anti...
Leisure travelers, by contrast, stand to reap fewer overall savings. While rates will drop on most of American's flights, they will rise a bit on certain lightly traveled routes. Passengers between New York City and Wichita, for example, will pay a 3% higher fare. (American and other carriers are also clinging through April to special discounts that are even lower than many of the new reduced rates.) Senior citizens, meanwhile, will pay 20% more starting May 9 for their discount travel on domestic flights...
...Young, who has been Clinton's chief of security for a decade, to run the plane's identification numbers through the fbi's national crime data base. Lo and behold, it turned out to be Reed's missing plane. Reed and his wife were indicted for mail fraud in Wichita. The case was dismissed in 1990 after the government refused to turn over North's diaries, notes and phone records, which Reed claimed would back up his alibi...
...challenge in newsrooms around the country was how to inform readers without appearing to give credence to charges that were unverifiable. "People talk about the media as if the Star, ABC, the Eagle and the New York Times were all the same," says Davis Merritt Jr., editor of the Wichita Eagle. "When we blur the lines by picking up from the Star, we invite that very devastating comparison...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...