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Other Views A4 Style sisters Siblings share business and clothes too Features B1 Sports Alabama AAU team looks good winning Page Cl i BirmimdMm FostHerald Tuesday Abortion ODrQg Manhunt for abortion clinic bombing suspect unabated The antis knew that I would liot be good for their V'7V l1 By Rachel Smolkii Birmingham Port-Herald From the window of his command nat in Andrews NCL FBI Inspector Terry Turcfaie can see miles of trees the limitless posable i for fugitive Eric Robert yCi'TS Monday by the National Abortion Federation that une House Republicans had blocked her appearance at the hearing Several House members (fid not return phone calls However a Democratic counsel to the House Judiciary Onmmittrf said the Re-staff of the committee reeded i a witness Witness lists for all bearings are put together by both parties and submitted tot to the By Carrie Junes Birmfaifhain Rat-Herald Emily Lyon who wm seriously Injured the Jan 21 bombing at an abortion didc in Birmingham said die hu been baned tram speaking at a congressional bearing later this week- "Tbe antis (anti-abortion supporters) knew hid I would not be good for their Lyons said -Iyons had been invited to testify at a hearing by the House Subcommittee on Bill McCollum R-Fla on landCbr- reward of up to $1 million for information leading to bis anest As the months dip by investigators continue checking each new tip including one in the Andrews area on Monday that agents confirmed but would not elaborate on They say they believe Rudolph is still alive and in the United They have followed tips to places i as upstate New Yarit and but have concentrated on western North Curtins they lay 11 is charged with the abortion clinic bombing Jan 29 that killed an off-duty police officer and seriously injured a dink nurse He is wanted for Questioning in three Atlanta bombings beginning with Centennial Park during the 1991 Olympic Games In May the FBI named Rudolph to its Ten Most Wanted fist and offered a far approvaLl ment relations director for the Abortion Federation hr Washington ssid she worked with aides of UJS Rep John Conyers DMicL to come up with a list of pro-choice speakers to testify at the hearing Please tints LYONS page AS rapt Organization! Act of 1170 should apply A 1 -i- rJiiln Aum to vtoMut proton tpro fiiwn tncir File photo Entity Lyons exercises during therapy in ApriL Lyons hat been baned from congressional hearing on whether tho Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Oraanziationa Act appies to violent protests at abortion cbnica staffi and their patients However Iyons said she was informed DOTHAN Ad error In control Please tan to HUNT page AS REPUBLICAN PARTY Some plan to miss Unity Day dinner By Phillip Rawls Tbe Anocialed Pros MONTGOMERY The Alabama Republican Party Unify Day Dinner is imposed to create harmony for the fall election but a few will be mining Friday night to Birmingham Former Gov Guy Hurt who finished third in the Republican primary for governor will not be in attendance Neither will Tuscaloosa businessman Mac McAllister who finished fourth in tbe primary Gov Fob James and hfs muff opponent Montgomery burinevnan Win-ton Blount will attend the fund-raising dinner spokesmen for their campaigns said Monday Blount is taking a skin-diving vacation with friends but will return just in time for tbe dinner already committed to the whole Blount spokesman Bill Goolsby said Former state Finance Director Phil Williams to state contractor Anti-gay group lists wrong number -V The Associated Praa WASHINGTON -A full-page ad in The New York Times by a group that advocates overcoming homosexuality through prayer had the phones ringing off the hook Monday at the offices a an Alabama electrical contractor strange for Dothan AUl to be involved in this kind of said Byron Griffin a company vice president not as liberal here aa they are in New York City" Callers were respamfing to a newspaper ad featuring a woman who says a former lesbian Through faith in God and prayer die became a loving wife and mother the ad says But became of aa error by the arga-dzation sponsoring the ad Exodus International the wrong phone number was printed in tire Timea A lot of them had an Griffin said of the 40 or 50 callers who impended to the ad-Bob Dsvim the head of the Seattle-based Exodus said he telephoned Griffin and apologized when he learned of the mistake -The ad paid for by a coalition of conservative and Christian-right groups shows the photo of Anne Paulk fnd tells her story "Recently several prominent people like' (Senate Majority Leader) Trent LotL Reggie White and Angie and Debbie Winana have spoken out on homosexuality calling it a the ad fcaya I was firing ail lesbian I like hearing wards like Davies arid Exodus had budgeted 1200000 for the campaign Similar ads with the correct telephone num- her were planned for The Wartringtm Poet today and USA Today on Wednesday If the newspapers agreed to the Julie HunterPort-Herald Dave Carisy an air oontrol spedalsttalks to an incoming Airport Urn Federal Aviation Administration has approved fat craw In tha control tower at Birmingham Intarnational final funding to buld a new control tower Tower gets final clearance The Federal Aviafion ACNTawTEulOn WNI begin txdUng anew control towerfor HmUngham Airport When It is oomptotodhthayaar 2006 tha old tower be tom down The FAA approved nearly $78 million for the proposed construction at the Birmingham International Airport The new facility is slated for completion in 2000 date field said Monday he also will attend the event Please tan to GOP page A1 MISSOURI Activist pleads guilty to offering beer coupons during campaign By Natalie Gott The AwociatedPnM ST LOUIS An activist working for the most senior member of Legislature pleaded guilty to giving voters coupons good for $1 at a convenience store The investigation was dubbed the for VoteT case because the coupons were enough to buy a can of beer Lester Bernard Gillespie 42 pleaded guilty Monday fa Cape Girardeau in mtheari Missoni to a federal tetany charge of making expend-tore to jnfiMiMj voting during the November 1996 general election He tons up to one year in print and a fine rt up to IIOOAOO when he is sentenced on Sqd SO Gillespie declined to comment Monday The favertigafiou began when Republicans claimed black votes were bought in Charleston in southeast Missouri to bolster Democratic state Rep Gene Copeland's bid for a 19th consecutive term Please tan to BEXS page AS By Steve Juynt Birmbyham Fort-Herald If size does matter the ham International Airport la way to the big time -The Federal Aviation Administration recently approved the final amount of monev needed nearly $7J million to build a new control tower at the airport And the new tower set to be completed sometime to the year 2000 will be i more than twice aa big aa the current tower "We are certainly extremely pleased that all of this is coming said Carol Windham spokeswoman for the airport The rite for the new tower haa been selected fart the rite has been undergoing preparatim since thespring The airport experts to turn the site over to the FAA which will oversee the bdhfiag of the tower on Sept The new tower which will be to the tower at Ra-NjG will be 211 feet from tiie south tUt of the airport across the street from the exitt The current tower located on the north ride of the aiport is feet tall and 22 years oil Once the new tower is completed and operational the old tower will be rfhmntVL The very toft or cupola of the old tower will be removed and i Surf graphic awarded to the contractor Cannon Construction to build the tower The new tower Windham said will allow Birmingham to handle a larger traffic load and It will give traffic controllers a much better view of tiw still-expanding airport grounds nmsJBynlMn rtKUaacrSMUsynlOaoljOoni JmMa Sponsors of the ad included the Family Research Council the Christian Coalition and Americans for TMh About Homosexuality Dsvim describe! Ezotaas an umbrella group for organizations that help men and women deal with homosexuality in a Christian Wfaaiwft Birch spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign the largest gay and lesbian advocacy group said her organization would respond with its own newspaper yd later in the week "Nobody wants to denigrate this story but the fact is ft doemt reflect the vast majority of experience! of gay people in she said "It also perprtuates the myth thkt gay people are not people of (fimiay in the nearby Southern seumof Flight 1994 UA Rep Spencer Bachut R-Vestaria Efills helped convince the FAA that a new tower was needed rt the Birmingham airport and the FAA at that time allocated $5 million for the project Those funds were used to fund the design of the new tower preparation of the rite and certain changes to nearby Village Creek The latest amount of money to be granted for the project to be exact was the amorat JtAaHwSwc Cloudy Newsroom fax: 325-2410 Sports fax: 325-3350 To subscribe: 325-2251 DeBvery problems: 325-2251 Jim WKs editor and president 325-2215 Web site: wwwtostherakLcom roar'll E-maL mafiboxpostheraldco(ii ICdlli US News tips: 325-2344 -) High 05 Low 74 Weather A2.