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Friday • January 17,
Explosions blast buildings in Atlanta
ATLANTA (AP) —Two explosions rocked a building containing an abor
tion clinic an hour apart Thursday, and police said it appeared the clinic
was targeted by an “explosive device.” Six people were injured.
The explosions, which came as abortion rights advocates were an
nouncing in Washington that anti-abortion violence had declined slight
ly, shattered windows across the street and terrified bystanders.
President Clinton condemned the explosions as “a vile and malevolent
act” of terrorism.
“Make no mistake: Anyone who brings violence against a woman trying to
exercise her constitutional rights is committing an act of terror,” Clinton said.
The first explosion was reported at 9:30 a.m. at the Atlanta Northside
Family Planning Services, located on the ground floor of a five-story build
ing that houses offices of lawyers, dentists and other professionals. No in
juries were reported.
An hour later, an explosion erupted from a trash container outside the
building, injuring six people.
“It appears that the clinic was the target of (that) explosion,” said police
Lt. C.C. Cass. “We can’t confirm, but it appears to be some kind of explo
sive device.”
A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent investigating the first
explosion had to be helped from the building and was taken to a hospital
for observation. Two other people were treated and released, while three
more were hospitalized for observation.
t “I saw a couple of guys that were hurt,” said Mitchell Swain, who was sit
ting in his car outside the building when the second blast came. “They were
bn the ground. One guy was bleeding. Another guy was holding his head.”
A half hour after the second explosion, the Piedmont Clinic, an abor
tion center about a half-mile from the Atlanta Northside clinic, was evac
uated after receiving a bomb threat. Police officers have been sent to oth
er abortion clinics around the city as a precaution; the clinics said they
Would remain open.
Geralyn Thompson, a counselor at the Northside clinic, said she be
lieved the first explosion occurred in the ceiling of the first floor. A co-work-
er, Antoinette Sims, said she saw ceiling tiles falling.
J “It shook the entire building,” Sims said. “The clinic was in ruins.”
• Both women said they knew of no threats or protests before the explosions.
Outside, two cars near the trash container were heavily damaged, and
police evacuated everyone within 500 yards of the building.
Witnesses who had gathered outside after the first explosion heard a
loud boom and felt the concussion when the second one went off. They
could see a bright flash and debris flying in the air.
The first explosion rocked nearby buildings as well.
“It shook the actual wall of my office, and I have a lot of glass around
me,” said Craig Harris, sales manager at Auto Data Inc., across the street.
“It definitely scared me. It sounded like an extremely close thunder strike
.... but there was no rain. My second thought was that it was an explosion.”
In Washington, at a news conference scheduled before the bombing,
the Feminist Majority said there were fewer violent acts or threats against
abortion clinics last year than in 1995.
Abortion clinic
building explosion
A pair of bombs exploded at a
building housing an abortion
clinic in Atlanta Thursday
morning. The five-
story structure:
9:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Blast occurs at
Atlanta Northside Family
Planning Services on the
ground floor.
10:30 a.m.
Explosion erupts from a trash
container near front of the building.
’"Times are approximate
10:30 a.m.
Second
explosion
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A survey of 312 clinics showed about 30 percent of clinics reported acts
or threats of violence last year, down from 39 percent in 1995. from 1995.
The groups also noted that Wednesday will mark the 24th anniversary of
Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Vicki Saporta, executive director of the National Abortion Federation,
said the explosions showed “that abortion violence is a problem that is con
tinuing at unacceptable levels.”
Last month, there were three arson attempts at the A-Z Women’s Center in
Phoenix, Ariz.; an armed robbery at Planned Parenthood of Dallas and North
east Texas; and a doctor was stabbed at a Baton Rouge, La., abortion clinic.
In 1994, John Salvi killed two receptionists at abortion clinics in Mass
achusetts and former minister Paul Hill used a shotgun to kill two men out
side a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic. A year earlier, Dr. David Gunn was
shot to death at another Pensacola clinic.
Hill was the first person convicted of violating the federal Freedom of
Access to Clinic Entrances law, and was sentenced to two life terms.
Campus
Support groups
meet with women
Women who survived sexual
abuse as children can turn to the
Brazos County Rape Crisis Center
for support.
On Jan. 14 the center began of
fering free weekly support groups
for adolescent and adult female
survivors of childhood sexual as
sault or abuse.
The adolescent group will meet
on Mondays and the adult group
will meet on Tuesdays.
The group for adolescent fe
male survivors of childhood sexu
al assault or abuse will hold its
first meeting Jan. 20. The adult fe
male survivors group will meet for
the first time on Jan. 21.
For more information on meet
ing times and locations, contact
the Brazos County Rape Crisis
Center at 268-7273.
Gov. appoints new
regents to board
Gov. George W. Bush announced
the appointment of three members
of the Texas A&M University System
Board of Regents Wednesday.
Anne L. Armstrong, a rancher
from Armstrong and former U.S. am
bassador to Great Britain, is among
the nominees
Bush also appointed Erie Allen
Nye of Dallas, president of Texas
Utilities Company, and Dionel E.
“Don” Aviles of Houston, owner of
Aviles engineering company.
The appointments must be con
firmed by the Texas Senate.
The regents will serve six-year
terms and will replace Chairman
Mary Nan West of Batesville, Alison
Briscoe of Houston and Royce E.
Wisenbaker of Tyler, whose terms
expire this year.
State
County rules o
hellish greetini
KINGSVILLE(AP) — Inthi!
ly little ranching town, “Hs
wearing out its welcome.
And Leonso Canales Jr.ii
as heck.
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ty commissioners on Mi
imously designated “Heaver-:
the county's official greeting
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word “Hell.”
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they tell you 'hell' is nega*
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old Canales, who owns the Krs
Rea Market. “I think it's timer:
set a new precedent, to te
that we are positive adults.'
Crime scene has
'.WOUII
no sign of intrudt
KERRVILLE(AP) — A crii
consultant who toured DarlieRi
Dallas-area home after the
of her two sons says he fou
signs of the intruder she sassf
mitted the crime.
Routier, on trial for capital mi
her sons’ stabbing deaths,saysa
truder broke into the house,
her and killed 6-year-old Devonai
year-old Damon last June 6.
But prosecution witness
Cron, a 39-year law enforcement11
eran, testified Wednesdaythatlies j
no evidence of that.
Cron said he entered the
home with police officersonthe
ing of the murders to look for at|ii
unusual, including pry marks on*
dows or blood on walls.
He testified that he sawfuji
marks or other evidence that
one broke into the house andirt
of debris, blood or other
Routier claims.
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This day in history
► Weather
, Today is Friday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 1997. There
|are 348 days left in the year.
! Today’s Highlight in History:
; On Jan. 17, 1946, Soviet ahd'Polish forces liberat-
>ed Warsaw during World War II. The same day, Swedish
;diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens
■of thousands of Jews, disappeared in Hungary while in
,'Soviet custody.
• In 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston,
i In 1893, Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown as a
'group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen
lliliuokalani to abdicate.
' In 1961, President Eisenhower warned in his
farewell address of “the military-industrial complex.”
In 1966, an Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hy
drogen bombs crashed on the Spanish coast.
In 1994, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck South
ern California, killing at least 61 people and causing
$20 billion worth of damage.
In 1995, more than 6,000 people were killed when
an earthquake with a rpagnitude of 7,2 .devastated the
city of Kobe, Japan.
Ten years ago: Hundreds of, Ku Klux Klan.mernbers
and supporters disrupted a “brotherhood anti-intimi
dation march” through all-white Forsyth County, Ga.
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
Today's birthdays
Today’s Birthdays: Actress Betty White is 75. Balleri
na-actress Moira Shearer is 71. Hair stylist Vidal Sassoon
is 69. Actor James Earl Jones is 66. Ventriloquist Shari
Lewis is 63. Talk show host Maury Povich is 58. Former
heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is 55.
Rhythm-and-blues singer William Hart (The Delfonics) is
52. Singer Steve Earle is 42. Actor David Caruso is 41.
Singer Paul Young is 41. Singer Susanna Hoffs (The Ban
gles) is 40. Actor-comedian Jim Carrey is 35.
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