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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 7, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 end blockades or face arrest protesters Wichita Kan. Apr a Federal judge said monday that he will use any Means necessary a even ordering the governor arrested and filling jails across the state a to break blockades by antiabortion activists at two women a clinics. A this court has now taken charge a said . District judge Patrick f. Kelly who has ordered demonstrators to allow Access to the clinics. Police have made More than 1,900 arrests outside the clinics since the National anti abortion group operation Rescue began demonstrations july 15. Many protesters have been arrested repeatedly. One of the clinics performs late term abortions a medical procedure offered by few clinics in the United states. On monday 65 people were arrested after crossing police barricades outside a clinic and another Man was charged after allegedly confronting Kelly outside the judges Home. In court Kelly ordered operation Rescue to Post a $100,000 Bond for damages that May be proved in a lawsuit filed by the clinics. The two clinics women a health care services and Wichita family planning  sued on july 23, seeking an order re Quiring protesters to permit Access to the clinics. Kelly said he ordered the Bond because the lawsuit might be amended later to seek monetary damages. At a news conference after the hearing Kelly said Deputy . Marshals will be stationed at the clinics tuesday. The judge said he will order the arrest of anyone who violates his order even if it takes Federal  30 county jails. A9ross the state to House them. Kelly said that even gov. Joan Finney and Bishop Eugene Gerber of the roman Catholic diocese of Wichita would be subject to arrest if they helped Block Access to the clinics. Finney opposes abortion and spoke to an operation Rescue rally Friday. Gerber was at the blockade of a clinic on saturday and said he supported operation rescues intent. Kely criticized operation Rescue founder Randall Terry of Binghamton n.y., and one of his lieutenants Patrick Mahoney of Boca Raton Fla. The judge said the groups followers should have seen Terry and Mahoney in court when they pleaded with him to release them. Abortion rights activists lock arms and try to escort an unidentified patient around the blockade mounted by operation Rescue at a Wichita Kan., clinic on monday. A they would come to realize they have hypocrites As their leaders a Kelly said. The leaders were released last week after they told the judge they did not intend to participate m any More blockades at the two clinics. A in a news conference monday evening Terry said Kelly had shown bigotry against christians and appointed himself the governor mayor chief of police and prosecutor. A i have never seen a judge in my life this out of control who has become Lawless a Terry said. A the has literally taken the Law into his own hand such As you would expect from a nazi judge in  Terry said operation Rescue leaders would Pray fast and meet with local religious leaders before deciding what to do next. The groups lawyer Jay Sekulo said Kelly a order would be appealed. A Cranston rips Helms Over ethics report by the los Angeles times Washington sen. Alan Cranston d-calif., cried foul monday Over the release of a confidential ethics report that accuses him of a a reprehensible conduct for his past actions on behalf of savings and loan magnate Charles h. Keatingjr. Cranston charged that sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., who released the report is a an extreme right Winger who had acted out of partisan motives. Wielms is one of six members of the Senate ethics committee which is evaluating the Case. The report was prepared months ago by Robert s. Bennett special counsel to the committee. It Calls for censure of Cranston by his Senate colleagues and uses stronger language than the committee itself adopted in criticizing Cranston last february. Cranston is one of the a Keating five senators who were accused of intervening with Federal regulators on behalf of Lincoln savings amp loan while accepting contributions from Keating its owner. Lincoln eventually was seized by the government and its collapse is expected to Cost taxpayers As much As $2 billion. The ethics committee said in february that the other four senators had engaged in questionable activity but had broken no ethics rules. It said the Case against Cranston appeared More serious and would be referred to the full Senate after he had been Given another Chance to respond. The committed will continue its investigation of the affair after Congress returns from its summer recess in september. Ultimately the panel will report its findings to the full Senate along with recommendations on possible sanctions against Cranston. The options Range from a finding of no wrongdoing to formal censure. Helms said he released Bennett a findings a an Effort to Force the panel to resolve the  won t answer aids victims Calls Arvada Colo. Apr Volunteer firefighters in this Denver suburb no longer will respond to first Aid Calls involving people known to have aids or other infectious diseases City officials said. The new policy has enraged civil libertarians and aids activists. Dispatchers in the Arvada fire Protection District will Send a private ambulance service when infected people seek assistance and the City a Volunteer firefighters will respond Only when requested by paramedics fire chief Bob White ordered in a july 24 memorandum. The fire districts computer system has been programmed to Flash a warning to dispatchers if an assistance Call comes from someone known to have an infectious disease such As acquired immune deficiency syndrome said an Arvada official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The policy stemmed from an episode in june in which someone believed infected with his the virus that causes aids vomited on a firefighter the official said David Miller a spokesman for the Colorado Macri can civil liberties Union on monday called the policy a brutally inhumane and not Well thought  Sarah Hankins a spokeswoman for the Colorado aids project said a people with aids should be treated with logic and care and not avoidance and  White told radio station Koa on m it nday however that the policy was meant to protect firefighters not to discriminate. Miller said firefighters should treat every Call equally while taking Steps to protect themselves at All times he said. The Acle said he Hasni to yet decided whether to pursue the matter in court he said. Arvada mayor Lynn Easton said the fire Protection District is outside City jurisdiction but City officials Are looking into the Issue. A i am concerned that we provide adequate Emir gun service for All of our citizens a Easton said. A i can residents and people being upset about by understand this a Lack of cargo forces firm to cancel soviet flights Anchorage Alaska up the first trans Pacific flight carrying cargo to the soviet Union has been cancelled and All subsequent flights grounded because of a Lack of freight airline officials said monday. A a we be put All our soviet flights on hold a said Scott Tho Sori marketing manager for Northern air cargo. A a there a not enough  the cargo airline based in Anchorage recently won exclusive rights to initiate Airt Reight service to the soviet far East. Last Spring airline president Wilson Hughes predicted that 40,000 pounds of goods per month would be flown across the Bering sea to soviet cities. Hughes expected the airline to deliver Western Oil Field supplies to Siberia and material to assist the mining fishing tourism and even Reindeer industries. At that time the company believed there would be demand for Western goods and supplies especially in Remote isolated Eastern Russia. The planes were to return with souvenirs and other soviet exports. However the Trade never materialized. There has Beer a flurry of various proposals for joint ventures Between West coast entrepreneurs and soviet far East businesses since the opening of the Border permitted travel Between Alaska and several soviet cities. The highly touted .-soviet link across the North Pacific and Bering Strait has produced a new tourism Industry numerous cultural and scientific exchanges and the beginning of Commerce. A the Only thing that a changed is the. Volume of cargo a Thorson said. A a there a nothing to  Northern air cargoes inaugural soviet Boeing 727 flight was to leave Anchorage on sunday but was cancelled and not rescheduled. And future flights Are expected to be delayed six months to a year Thorson said  
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