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...Kelly, 62, believes that his personal views on abortion, which he refuses to disclose, should not affect his responsibility to enforce the law of the land. Meaning, on this issue, Roe v. Wade. The judge's determination to stop pro-life activists from closing three abortion clinics in Wichita last week led to threats on his life and a confrontation with the Justice Department. The explosive, passion-stirring legal battle may take the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve...
...Wichita may never be quite the same. Tucked comfortably away in the middle of America's "flyover country," this conservative, image-conscious city (pop. 304,000) prefers to resolve its internal disputes -- which customarily involve school-board squabbles or debates over nude dancing in bars -- away from the glare of media attention. Thus there was some local discomfort in mid-July, when Operation Rescue, an aggressive antiabortion group based in Binghamton, N.Y., set up blockades outside three local clinics; one of them is among the few that perform late abortions. TV cameras soon followed, since the protests turned...
...choice advocates agreed with Judge Kelly's outraged view that Washington's meddling in the Wichita case was, as he put it, "political." Having already made its point in the Operation Rescue case before the Supreme Court, the Administration had no new legal arguments to make other than, apparently, to underline its already well-known distaste for Roe. Vacationing in Kennebunkport, Me., President Bush was asked whether the Justice Department's actions condoned the pro-life pickets' defiance of court orders. Not so, he answered: "Everyone has the right to protest, but it ought to be done within...
Friends remember him as a child who demonstrated a need and a knack for pleasing his elders back in Wichita, where his father sold wholesale auto parts. Young Bob was bright, well-organized and punctual. He read voraciously and loved to run and hike. When he went off to the College of William and Mary in Virginia, he first enrolled in pre-medicine, then gravitated toward history. "I started with American history," Gates says, "and moved east." He studied Western Europe as an undergrad, Eastern Europe for his master's degree and Russian history and language for his doctorate. Gates...
...Yeah, Wichita. Right...