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The Star Press from Muncie, Indiana • Page 5

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Muncie, Indiana
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The Star Press Saturday, January 23, 1 999 Page 5A On Roe anniversary, Hillary announces clinic security plan RALLY: Thousands gathered in the capital for the 26th annual anti-abortion protest. 1 1 a SHAMfc. 111 4 Tit' If I The Associated Press DESTROYED: Residents of Beebe, remove debris from tornado-damaged homes. Tornadoes killed eight in Arkansas and Tennessee late Thursday and early Friday. Tornadoes ldll eight in South By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Friday that her husband planned to seek $4.5 million for alarm systems and closed-circuit camera systems to protect clinics where abortions are performed.

Across town, thousands swayed, sang and prayed for the government to make abortions illegal again. On the 26th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, Mrs. Clinton told an abortion rights group of the administration proposal. Clinics would buy security devices which also include motion detectors, bulletproof windows and improved lighting with federal money under a White House plan to counter clinic violence.

The money also would be used determine which clinics were most at risk. She said the president would include the plan in his budget proposal for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. "Violence, harassment and intimidation have no place in our health-care system or in this debate," she told members of the National Abortion Rights Action League. NARAL was celebrating its 30th anniversary at Washington hotel.

Mrs. Clinton also saluted Bar-nett Slepian of Amherst, N.Y., an obstetrician who was shot to death by a sniper last October in the kitchen of his home in Amherst, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb. Investigators suspect he was killed by an anti-abortion protester. An appropriate way to honor him is to "make sure doctors are trained and available to provide safe and comprehensive health care to women all over our MISSOURI 'Center Hill Beebe Little Rock 6 The Associated Press PROTESTS: Joe Park (center) of Chicago leans on an anti-abortion sign in front of the Supreme Court during the annual "March for Life" rally in Washington, D.C. A large crowd of abortion foes took part in Friday's protest.

ARKANSAS MISS. 50 miles LOUISIANA 50 km STORMS: Wind blows down tree containing 'Chelsea Clinton's treehouse. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Tornadoes ripped through the South for the second time this week, killing eight people, wrecking historic neighborhoods and knocking down Chelsea Clinton's childhood treehouse. One of Little Rock's oldest areas, the 100-year-old Quapaw Quarter, was sliced in half by a twister that killed three people Thursday night.

A tornado also hit the historic district of early Friday, leaving gaping holes in buildings like the 121-year-old courthouse. "It looks like somebody walked -through with a broom and knocked over whatever was loose enough to knock down," said Fred Dye, photo editor at The Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville, whose building was heavily damaged. Power was knocked out to more than 100,000 homes in Arkansas and Tennessee. mansion crumbled beneath the storm's winds, killing the pharmacist and leaving residents of the Quapaw Quarter without one of the few major businesses remaining in the area. "It's going to affect a lot of people.

A lot of people don't have transportation or cars to get them where they need," Diana Howley said. "My mother Is one. If we weren't here, she wouldn't be able to get where she needs." Four other people were killed in White County, outside the capital. In hard-hit Beebe, residents were tense as police held them back from seeing the damage. After pounding Arkansas, the storm moved Into Tennessee, killing a woman west of Nashville when she went outside to get her dogs.

The state was still trying to recover from storms that killed nine people Sunday, In Clarksville, northwest of Nashville, a tornado cut off power to 25,000. It ripped apart a five-block area, tore through the center of Austin Peay State University and skipped into a residential neighborhood. The university's clock tower was blown over. men to avoid teen pregnancies. "After years of moving in the wrong direction, we are finally seeing teen pregnancies and teen sexual activities going down," she said.

Mrs. Clinton praised NARAL and its leader Kate Michelman for supporting the right to abortion. "We should all take heart that despite many attempts to chip away at its guarantees, Roe is still the law of the land," she said. nation," Mrs. Clinton said.

"In the last 10 years there have been seven murders, 38 bombings, 146 cases of arson and 733 cases of vandalism," she said. When doctors are killed or clinics are bombed, she said, "this is not free expression. This is domestic terrorism and it must stop." She also emphasized the Importance of making contraceptives and health counseling available to young women and AP The Little Rock storm knocked over trees at the governor's mansion, where Bill Clinton once lived. He plans to visit Arkansas on Sunday. One of the trees blown down contained Chelsea Clinton's treehouse from the years when her father was governor.

'The fact that the governor's mansion where Hillary and I raised Chelsea for 12 years was actually in the path of the storm made it all the more real to me," Clinton said. "We are deeply committed to doing everything we can to help the people there recover." A supermarket near the Hussein removes brother as successor a 1 ,1 King Hussein has five sons from four marriages. Sources say the strongest candidate for crown prince is his eldest son Abdullah, provided that the future king appoints his brother Hamza as his heir. Abdullah, who turns 37 next week, is Hussein's son from his second marriage, to Britain's Ton! Gardiner, who adopted the name Mona when she converted to Islam upon her marriage to Hussein in 1960. cured after six rounds of chemotherapy and a marrow cell trans-plant for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

It was not clear, however, whether Hussein was ready to announce a new successor to the throne of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which he inherited from his father Talal in 1953 at age 17. Hassan, 51, was named crown prince to succeed the king in 1965. At the time the king's children were still young. 1 IS --fly THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMMAN, Jordan Jordan's King Hussein told his brother on Friday that he was removing him as heir to the throne, apparently to retain the crown for the king's sons, sources said. Hussein, 63, told Prince Hassan that he would appoint him as his deputy a new post that appears to entail limited authority, according to sources close to the king, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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