European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 25, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7100 abortion foes arrested in Buffalo Buffalo . Up a police on Friday arrested anti abortion activists who tried to Block a downtown clinic in the fifth Day of their hit and run Campaign. Police said about 100 members of operation Rescue moved in on the gyn women a services. Some blocked the opening in police barricades to the clinic and were hauled away. It was not immediately known How Many were arrested. In another incident police said there were a few arrests outside the Sweet Home United methodist Church in the suburban Community of Amherst. The Church is near an abortion clinic where hundreds of demonstrators were arrested wednesday along with five journalists. The new York civil liberties Union said it had observers in Amherst on wednesday who saw police remove their name tags before making arrests. In a letter to John Askey chief of the Amherst police department the unions Western regional director Karen Welch asked for an investigation of the police action. Welch also said some of the journalists were not warned they would be arrested if they went into the Street with the demonstrators. A was you know journalists have a first amendment right to report on Public events As they Are happening a she said. A threat of arrest inhibits journalists from exercising their rights and performing their  faced with hundreds of abortion rights counter demonstrators through the first week of the two week Campaign the anti abortion protesters apparently were keeping authorities guessing As to where they would hit. On thursday the Rev. Keith Tucci executive director of operation Rescue said his group had inside information on which clinics Are planning abortions. A a it a no secret we be hired private investigators a Tucci said. Police in Buffalo ., stand in a Buffer zone Between abortion rights activists on the left and members of the antiabortion group operation Rescue during a demonstration  orders waiting period before abortions Topeka Kan. A gov. Joan Finney on thursday signed an abortion Bill that requires parental notification for minors and an eight hour waiting period before the procedure is performed. A if the life of one baby is saved then the action i take today is All Worth it a said the first term Democrat who disregarded complaints from some fellow antiabortion advocates that the Law does no to go far enough. The Bill was described by its supporters As a Compromise and some advocates on both sides were critical of it. Before announcing her decision thursday Finney had said she was undecided about whether to sign the Bill or veto it As too weak. Kansas had one of the least restrictive abortion Laws in the nation requiring Only that a woman obtain the consent of a doctor before obtaining one and go to a licensed medical facility. There were no limits on when an abortion can be performed. In Wichita last summer a nationwide anti abortion group staged a weeks Long series of protests against a clinic that did abortions late in pregnancy. The new Law contains the following restrictions a a doctor must notify at least one Parent before a girl younger than 18 receives an abortion. That requirement could be waived by a court however. A if a fetus is viable a capable of living outside the womb a a woman would not be Able to undergo an abortion unless her life were in danger or the fetus were severely deformed. A a woman must wait eight hours before obtaining an abortion. A doctors must provide information about the procedure such As How Well developed the fetus is under an a informed consent provision. The Law also prevents cities and counties from regulating abortion and increases the penalties for blockading clinics. That provision is a response to the protests in Wichita. Abortion rights advocates had hoped to get a Law on the books to guarantee a woman a right to an abortion in most circumstances. They had hoped for action before the . Supreme court rules on the Issue again and possibly overturns its its 1973 Roe is. Wade decision in which it legalized abortion nationwide. The nations High court is considering a Pennsylvania Law restricting abortions that is in some ways similar to the new Kansas Law. Unlike the Kansas Law however it contains a provision requiring that married women seeking abortions notify their husbands. Actual rapes 3 times higher than official figures study says by the los Angeles times Washington a far More women Are raped in the United states than official crime statistics indicate a rape victims rights group reported thursday. Nevertheless Only about 16 percent of victims report the crime the National victim Center said. But half of All victims surveyed say they would be More Likely to go to police if the Media were prohibited by Law from using their names. The report also estimated that 1.3 women become rape victims every minute for a total of 683,000 victims each year. That is More than three times the 207,610 rapes reported this week by the department of Justice for 1991. One in eight adult women now living in the United states has been raped at least once in her life bringing the number of victims to about 12.1 million the Center projected. A i done to think this is a High number a said Cassandra Thomas president of the National coalition of sexual assault. A it Falls in line with what we see in crisis centers across the  department of Justice officials while questioning some of the study a methodology acknowledged that rape is a dramatically under reported crime. A a we be always admitted that our estimates of rape Are under counted a said Mike Rand a Survey statistician with the departments Bureau of Justice statistics. A measuring rape is problematic and the study uses some questions that in a general crime Survey we cannot ask. They were a lot More specific than we could Ever  the report billed As the most comprehensive report on rape of its kind is the result of two studies. The first was a three year Survey that began in 1990 in which female researchers interviewed More than 4,000 women by Telephone nationwide including 600 rape victims. The subjects were tracked throughout the study to record the physical and psychological effects of rape. The second Survey evaluated the findings of 370 rape crisis centers. It was conducted this year by the crime victims research Center at the medical University of South Carolina. The surveys defined rape As the Lack of consent a threat or use of Force and sexual penetration. In trying to determine whether a woman had been a victim she was told by interviewers that a rapist or a person making the advances Isnit always a stranger but can be a Friend Boyfriend or even a family member.�?�1 million ballots cast for Elvis Presley stamp from wire reports Washington the balloting for the . Postal services Elvis stamp has gone Gold with More than 1 million votes cast. Postcards had to be postmarked by Midnight Friday night to count in the contest which will determine which image of the Rock in Roll King will appear on a postage stamp next year. Postal service spokeswoman Robin Minard said thursday that 1,018,000 ballots had been received so far. The votes Are being tabulated by a private  s manager held Wheeling . The Fri arrested the manager of a brinks armoured car service thursday on charges he stole $468,000 Over a two year period from Money kept at his office. Frank p. Pollock Iii 31, of Wheeling was charged with Bank larceny said Fri agent Thomas f. Burgoyne. Pollock a 10-year employee of the brinks inc. Armoured car service allegedly removed the Money from a Trust account for Bank one of Steubenville Burgoyne said