European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. August 26, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 5pro-Choicers say operation Rescue backfired from wire reports Wichita Kan. A fur five weeks abortion rights advocates have watched with increasing anger As their adversaries defined the abortion debate by blockading three Wichita clinics. On saturday they vented much of that pent up anger at a loud but peaceful rally at a downtown riverfront Park. A operation Rescue is a Mere footnote a pathetic miserable Little footnote in political history a Eleanor Smeal of the fund for the feminist majority said of the National anti abortion group that targeted Wichita abortion clinics for protests this summer. The crowd at the abortion rights rally included most of the National feminist leadership As Well As 6,000 supporters from As far away As new Jersey and California. It was the largest rally so far for either Side on the abortion Issue in Wichita. But at least twice As Many anti abortion activists were expected to attend a rally sunday featuring religious broadcaster Pat Robertson. The crowd chanted a go Home go Home a whenever a speaker mentioned operation Rescue. They cheered a Kelly Kelly a at any mention of . District judge Patrick f. Kelly whom Many abortion rights supporters regard As a hero for his stance against clinic blockades. They carried signs Reading a impregnate Randall Terry and a Send Terry to Tehran a references to the new yorker who is director of operation Rescue. They jeered at references to president Bush whose administration filed a Friend of the court Brief challenging Kelly a jurisdiction in the Case. Most of the speakers said they had mixed feelings about what has happened in Wichita this summer. On the one hand they deplored the blockades and harassment at the clinics. Hut on the other hand they said they believed operation Rescue s tactics had backfired. Said Kansas pro Choice action league spokesman Peggy Jarman who works at Wichita s largest abortion clinic Quot special thanks go to operation Rescue and president Bush for changing Kansas from wizard of of land to the reproductive capital of the  Kate Michelman executive director of the National abortion rights action league said operation Rescue won the headlines hut lost the Public relations War. A if they think they arc winning converts to their Side they better take a poll Quot Michelman said. A they Are  a local poll in the Wichita lag la recently showed More than two thirds of the people in Wichita oppose operation rescues tactics and behaviour. The Wichita rally was Tine of several held around the nation saturday in support of abortion rights including one in Kennebunkport. Maine where Bush is vacationing. Patricia Ireland executive vice president of the National organization for women predicted that the nation s Pivotal abortion Law. Roe is. Wade will most Likely be overturned by the supreme court within the next year making it easier for states to ban abortions. A this fight is a Long Way from  Ireland said. A it is a fight to reassert control Over women and ultimately for the soul of this  in California anti abortion rallies were held in several cities capping a week of events organized by the California coalition for life. In the largest demonstration about 200 people at a prayer Vigil outside a los Angeles women a clinic were met by a larger crowd of abortion rights demonstrators. Meanwhile police in Providence , arrested 31 abortion opponents who occupied an abortion clinic. Pro Choice supporters wave flags and sunflowers during a rally in downtown Wichita on  drop for 4th year in Row report says Washington up1 a fewer people Are taking the plunge into holy Matrimony As marriage rates tumbled for the fourth consecutive year the . Government reported sunday. Despite the dip there were still 2,395,926 couples in the United states who exchanged vows in 1988. The year of the most recent data released by the National Center for health statistics. The 1988 rate of 9.7 marriages per in the stars and stripes 1,000 people continued a four year downward spiral and was lower than it has been since 1967, when it also was 9.7. Provisional data indicate the rate stabilized in 1989 and increased to 9.8 in 1990. Illinois had the fewest brides and grooms in 1988 a 6.7 marriages per 1,000. Nevada had the most with 111.3 per 1,000 a not surprising because of its wedding chapels for Quick a i  but that was fewer than the states 1987 rate of 122.7. Hawaii and South Carolina had the next highest rate at 15.7 per 1,000. Officials said Illinois marriage rate was Low in 1988 because of a new Law requiring All applicants for marriage licenses to have a blood test for the his virus which causes aids. Illinois loss was neighbouring Stales gain. For example Indiana a rate was 9.3, Missouri 9.5. Iowa 8.9 and Wisconsin 8.5. Between 1970 and 1988, the marriage rate dropped for All categories of people getting married a single divorced and widowed. During those 18 years the marriage rate for single women dropped 37 percent to 58.4 per 1,000, Lor divorced women Down 36 percent to 78.6 and Tor widows Down 48 percent to 5.3. Also during those years the marriage rate for single men dropped 40 percent to 48.3 per 1,000, for divorced men Down 46 percent to 109.7, and for widowers Down 38 percent to 25.1. 10 year Sago aug. 26,1981 a new York City police had not yet identified a Man who took off his clothes and leapt from the 85th floor of the Empire state building. He was the 27th person to jump to his death since the building was built.20 year Sago aug. 26, 1971 the . Dollar Sank for the third straight Day in european Money markets while americans trading partners protested Washington a 10 percent surcharge to curb imports into the United states.30 years ago aug. 26, 1961 a a squad of French military police on Border patrol in West Berlin discovered communist police extending their Wall with a barbed wire entanglement along a rail line on French sector territory. The French demanded that it be removed and the communist police dismantled it.40 years ago aug. 26. 1951 a for the first time in More than a year . B-29s bombed the freight Assembly Yards at Rashin North Korea about 20 Miles from the Frontier of soviet Siberia. 13 percent of those in local jails committed crimes for drug Money Washington up about 13 percent of More than 219,000 convicts held in local jails nationwide in 1989 said they committed their crimes to obtain Money to buy illegal drugs according to a study released sunday. The study by the Bureau of Justice statistics which is part of the Justice department said that among convicted robbers and burglars about 33 percent reported they were out for drug Money when they committed the crime that landed them behind bars. The final figure fell to 13 percent when the Survey accounted for those convicted of other crimes. The Bureau said its findings also determined that people charged with drug offences accounted for 23 percent of All in mates held in local jails during 1989, compared with about 9 percent in 1983 when the last study was conducted. A these findings make Clear  Between illegal drugs and crime a said Bureau director Steven Dillingham. A among those jail inmates who had been convicted of crimes about one in four violent offenders and almost one in three offenders who committed property crimes said they had been using drugs at the time the offence occurred a More than three quarters of All jail inmates in 1989 had used illegal drugs at some time during their lives and More than half had used a major drug such As heroin cocaine crack pc Ltd or methadone outside a treatment program. The Survey studied inmates in the More than 3,300 City and county jails. Other key findings a compared with the 1983 Survey those charged with a drug offence were More Likely to be Black hispanic and female. In 1989, nearly half of All persons in local jails who had been charged with a drug offence were Black a Quarter were hispanic and nearly 14 percent were women. A among All jail inmates about 72 per cent of those charged with a Dru g offence had been on probation or incarcerated in the past. A inmates who reported that their parents had abused drugs or alcohol were. More Likely to use drugs themselves than were inmates whose parents had not abused drugs or alcohol. Boy 4, shoots 18-month-old sister to death new York up an 18-month-old girl was shot to death by her 4-year-old brother inside their Queens Home saturday. It was the second shooting in the City by a 4-year-old gunman within a six hour period police said. The unidentified girl was sitting in a car seat on the living room floor of her family a apartment at 2 . When her 4 year old brother climbed onto a Wall gun rack and pulled Down a loaded Rifle police sgt. Mary Wrensen said. The boy fired a single shot at Point Blank Range into his Sisters head he baby girl died instantly Wrensen said. The children s Mother was in another room at the time. In the first shooting an unidentified 4-year-old boy playing alone in his family s Bronx apartment picked lip his father s gun and shot himself at 8 19 a.m., police said. The 4-year-old boy was taken to Mon to Giorc Hospital where he died alter hours of surgery a Hospital spokeswoman said. The boys father. Carleton Russell was charged with endangering the welfare of u child and criminal Possession of a Dan