European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 19, 1992 the stars and stripes Page 7 a a abortion rights activists respond to a passing motorists car Horn during a practice Drill in Buffalo . Anti abortion pastor attacked during protests outside clinic Buffalo . Apr abortion rights advocates repeatedly attacked a pastor opposed to abortion saturday As activists from both sides of the Issue staged protests outside a clinic. The Rev. Paul Schenck was shoved spat on and screamed at. Police interceded once but made no arrests. The incidents occurred As activists pro and con prepared to make Buffalo the focus of Large demonstrations in an escalating conflict Over abortion rights. Starting monday the anti abortion group operation Rescue Aims to close Down abortion clinics in Buffalo As it tried to do for 46 Days last summer in Wichita kan., despite 2,600 arrests. Organizers have said they a to wage their Effort for two to four weeks. On Friday abortion rights advocates began practising tactics to keep the clinics open rehearsing chants and forming human Walls. Schencks interdenominational new covenant Tabernacle Church in suburban Tonawanda was targeted Friday by abortion rights protesters. During a Good Friday service where operation res Cue founder Randall Terry spoke about 100 abortion rights proponents marched around outside shouting obscenities and a shame shame Schenck 33, was set upon the first time saturday when he Knelt to Pray before some 150 abortion rights activists forming a protective ring at the front door of the clinic. Witnesses said about a dozen women and men punched and shoved Schenck. Some of the dozen police on the scene stepped in but took no other action. In the second incident about 20 people approached Schenck this time As he Knelt at a yellow line marking the 15-foot perimeter . District judge Richard Arcara imposed in february to keep anyone from blocking clinic traffic. The protesters knocked a Bible from Schencks hands and dropped cigarette ashes on his head. Others taunted him with obscenities. A Man pointed a bullhorn in Schencks face screamed obscenities and spat on Schencks Bible. Chunks of route 66 for Sale Williams Ariz a part of route 66, celebrated in song and in a television series is up for Sale. Chunks of Concrete from the original Highway went on Sale last week for $4.66 a or $6.60 through the mail. A you put your hand on this and you can just feel those dust bowl people heading West to California a said Teri Cleeland an archaeologist for Kaibab National Forest who came up with the idea. Just 1,000 Concrete chips a about 3 inches Long and about half As wide a Are available through the Wiliams historic preservation commission As part of celebrations marking 66 years of route 66 in Northern Arizona. Road Crews dug up the Concrete four years ago to make Way for new pavement Cleeland said. Proceeds from the Sale will pay to renovate an old freight depot in Williams into a route 66 museum Cleeland said. Commissioned in 1926, route 66 stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica calif., running through Williams. It was the setting for John Steinbeck a novel the grapes of Wrath and inspired a to show and hit song in the 1960s. The Highway was gradually replaced by interstate 40. Elvis foe chided in Anonymous letter Pembroke Pines Fla. Up officials Are trying to find the Loyal Elvis Presley fan who used a Posta service envelope to scold a woman who denounced Presley As unworthy of appearing on a postage stamp. Rose Selcovitz when Given the Choice of selecting a Young Elvis or an older heftier Elvis wrote that she did no to want to see Elvis on a stamp at All. A the should not be honoured a Selcovitz told the Miami Herald on Friday. A what kind of example Are we trying to give kids when we Tell them to a just say no to drugs and then Honor a drug addict her views apparently did not sit Well with someone. The great grandmother who lives in a retirement Village in the Miami suburb of Pembroke Pines opened her Mailbox one Day to find an unsigned letter in a postal service envelope. It said a the . Postal service would greatly appreciate in the future to keep your antiquated relics of an idea to yourself. Might i offer some helpful advise sic that has help sic countless scores of others. If you do not have anything constructive to say shut postal officials were mortified and have told Selcovitz they will try to find out who sent the letter a yesterday i was made aware of the disgraceful unauthorized correspondence that was sent to you postal official James Walton wrote to Selcovitz i assure you we will attempt to determine who the culprit is and take appropriate Selcovitz said physicist Albert Einstein or Jonas Salk Developer of the polio vaccine would be better choices than Elvis for a commemorative stamp. Former selectman told to pay for broken nose from wire reports Wilmington mass. A judge has ordered a former selectman to pay $17,000 in damages to another town Board member whose nose he broke in a 1989 fight. The Brawl broke out when Michael Mccoy and Robert Cain argued Over a letter supporting a proposed property tax override. Mccoy 33, knocked Cain Down twice. Mccoy said he would Appeal the ruling by District court judge Linda Giles. A Bob Cain did hit me first. It was a fight and he got the worst of it Quot said Mccoy who is 25 years younger and 120 pounds heavier than Cain. Cain said he would have settled for $10,000 and an apology. Cain is still on the Board but Mccoy lost a re election bid in 1990. Disabled jetliner lands new York a an Airliner carrying 96 passengers arrived safely at Kennedy International Airport on Friday after a Landing gear failure forced the Pilot to abort his descent into Newark International Airport in new Jersey. No passengers of american airlines flight 114 from Lais Angeles were Hurt and the Landing at 5 52 p.m., appeared Normal said Tim Smith an american spokesman. Duncan b. Pardue a spokesman for the Federal aviation administration said the Hydraulic system in the left Wing Landing gear had failed. He said it was unclear now the gear was engaged for Landing but that Crew members of the Boeing 767 could Nave lowered it manually. Teen killed in Van crash South Lyon Mich. A a Church Van overturned on an interstate Highway Friday killing one person and injuring 14 others one critically. Three adults and up to 16 youths mostly teenagers were travelling from Faith lutheran Church in Detroit to an Outing in grand rapids said the Rev. Bruce Johnson associate pastor. The cause of the crash on interstate 96 was under investigation but witnesses said a Blowout preceded the wreck. A 16-year-old boy died at Mcpherson Hospital in Howell said nursing supervisor Sandy Thomas tissue Sample stolen Milwaukee a a woman s Biopsy tissue was stolen before it could be tested to determine whether she has cancer. A Hospital offered $1,000 for its return. The tissue Sample a preserved in a Small plastic bottle a was among other tissue and blood samples stored in a cooler in a Hospital station Wagon that was stolen tuesday. The cooler was found hours later but not the woman a tissue. A a blood Sample you can draw again but you can to duplicate the missing tissue a said capt. Roscoe French in suburban West Allis. In appealing for the return of the tissue Sample Friday West Allis memorial Hospital officials said Joyce Rohrwasser 54, might have to it i to r a a a Mirril 1ll _ sue. The missing Sample contained a mole that doctors suspect might be cancerous. No one has been arrested in the theft of the car. Parolee convicted in death Omaha neb. A jury Friday convicted a parolee of manslaughter for killing a Man one month after being freed from prison. Gov. Ben Nelson immediately renewed his Effort to replace parole Board members. Ronald fort 31, who had claimed the killing was self defense said he Wasny to Happy with the verdict. Hell be sentenced later. A Justice is Justice Quot fort said. The Nebraska parole Board released fort on july 22. On aug. 19, he fatally shot 25-year-old Baron Seon Smith in an Omaha parking lot. The governor appoints Board members but can to fire them. An administrative hearing found no grounds to remove them so Nelson has pressed the three who released fort to resign
