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Abortion vigils
grow, continue
(AP) — Abortion rights sup
porters picketed a Roman
Catholic archbishop’s house
and kept vigil at clinics for a
third day Sunday, while op
ponents held rallies and car
caravans in activities building
up to the 12th anniversary of the
Supreme Court’s decision
legalizing abortion.
Meanwhile, three men were
arrested Saturday in connection
with eight anti-abortion bomb
ings in the Washington, D.C.,
area in the past year.
At least 24 such attacks have
occurred since January 1984,
and the National Organization
for Women sponsored round
the-clock vigils that continued
Sunday at 25 family planning
centers and abortion clinics in
18 states to protest the violence.
Participants generally reported
a quiet weekend without
incidents.
Tuesday is the anniversary of
the landmark court ruling.
In Boston, about 40 pro
choice protesters marched out
side the home of Catholic Ar
chbishop Bernard Law. who last
week offered the support of the
Boston Archdiocese — in
cluding medical and financial
aid — to any woman of any faith
who chose to keep her child
rather than have an abortion.
Braving 18-degree
temperatures, the
demonstrators chanted “Safe,
legal, on demand — abortion
rights across the land” and car
ried signs that read
“Motherhood by choice, not
chance.”
Law was not available for
comment Sunday because he
was on his way to Cuba with a
delegation of U.S. bishops, said
his secretary, the Rev. Joseph
Scorzello.
Across town at Boston’s
Faneuil Hall, about 1,000 abor
tion opponents, including
Mayor Raymond Flynn,
gathered to hear speakers at the
12th annual Assembly for Life.
Outside, pro-choice and anti
abortion groups marched in
separate circles and traded
insults.
More than 90 abortion rights
supporters who were keeping
vigil for a third day at the Fargo,
N.D., Women's Health
Organization formed a human
chain around the building, re
maining outside for 45 minutes
as wind chills dropped the
temperature to 40 below zero,
said Lynn Wilson, president of
Citizens for a Real Choice.
At the same time, abortion
foes drove past the clinic in a
“memorial car caravan" several
blocks long, led by a hearse car
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rying a small white coffin. The
caravan followed a rally outside
the Cass County Courthouse,
said Susan Richard, president
of the LIFE coalition.
In Washington, federal of
ficials announced Saturday that
three men had been arrested in
connection with eight bomb
ings of abortion clinics and
family planning centers in
Washington and its Maryland
and Virginia suburbs during the
past year. Bail hearings were
scheduled for Tuesday for
Thomas Spinks, 37, of Bowie,
Md.; Michael Bray, 32, also of
Bowie; and Kenneth Shields,
34, of Laurel, Md., authorities
said.
Mary Miller DeCamp, presi
dent of the Northern Virginia
chapter of NOW, who was par
ticipating in a weekend vigil at
Commonwealth Women’s
Clinic in Falls Church, Va., said
the arrests would not result in a
relaxation of security at area
facilities.
“We’re still here and we’re
still taking the same precau
tions we have been.... Lots of
times you’ll get copycat peo
ple... who will say, i'll pick
up the cross and carry on,’” she
said.
Gay ordinance
fails in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — Op
ponents rejoiced at voters’ rejec
tion of two proposed ordinances
that would have banned job
discrimination against
homosexuals and pledged Sun
day to campaign against of
ficials who endorsed the
measures in the nation’s fourth
largest city.
“There’s one way we can
avoid doing this again, and
that’s by electing godly,
righteous people to office,’’ said
Dr. Steven Hotze, leader of
Campaign for Houston, a group
that fought the gay rights pro
posals. “We need a slate of can
didates from the mayor on
down so we can sleep well at
night.”
But members of Houston’s
homosexual community said
they were not discouraged.
"We will continue to screen
candidates, endorse them and
try to help elect the people we
endorse,” said Sue Lovell,
president of Houston's Gay
Political Caucus.
Neither proposition mention
ed the words "homosexual” or
"gay.” but voters were asked to
decide whether sexual
preference should be barred as a
consideration in hiring, firing
and promoting city employees.
The proposals were defeated by
margins of more than 4-1 in a
referendum Saturday.
The council delayed im
plementation of the policy
change due to strong public op
position, and groups against the
measures quickly gathered
more than 60,000 signatures on
petitions that forced the council
to rescind its vote or hold a
referendum.
Silence shrouds
shuttle launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) — The five astronauts who
will fly America’s first military
man-in-space mission arrived
here Sunday, and though the
countdown was set to start at 4
a.m. Monday, the exact shuttle
launch time remained a military
secret.
Officials have said only that
liftoff will occur between 1:15
and 4:15 p.m. EST Wednesday.
They contend that keeping the
precise time classified will
make it more difficult for Soviet
spy satellites and trawlers sit
ting offshore to monitor the
flight.
NASA reported Saturday that
the Defense Department is con
sidering opening up the count
down to reporters when it
reaches nine minutes before the
intended liftoff, and a decision
was expected Monday. The
news media will be permitted to
watch the launch from the press
site.
Space shuttle Discovery will
be carrying a sophisticated new
spy satellite into orbit, sources
have reported. They say it will
be parked in stationary orbit
22,300 miles above the equator
south of the Soviet Union, and
from this high outpost it will
electronically eavesdrop on
military and diplomatic com
munications in much of Europe,
Asia and Africa.
Commanding the flight is
Navy Capt. Thomas K. Matting
ly, a veteran astronaut who
circled the moon on Apollo 16
in 1972 and commanded a shut
tle flight in 1982. The other
crew members, all first-time
space fliers, are Air Force Lt.
Col. Loren Shriver, Marine Lt.
Col. lames Buchli and Air Force
Majs. Ellison Onizuka and Gary
Payton.
The news media will not be
able to monitor space-to-ground
communications during the
flight, which has been a prac
tice for years, nor has the length
of the mission been disclosed.
Reporters have been told only
that they will receive 16 hours
notice of Discovery’s landing.
For NASA the secrecy is a
new experience after 24 years of
conducting an open informa
tion policy through 45 man-in
space missions.
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