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- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
- Date: Wednesday, 23 Dec 1992 06:50:45 EST
- From: Marty Helgesen <MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92358.065045MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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- Subject: A blast from the past
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- Here is part of a news story I clipped from a March 3, 1988 news-
- paper. It seems relevant to a current discussion:
-
- "An abortion rights activist who got a one-year suspended sen-
- tence for making false bomb threats to make the pro-life movement
- look bad got a 'light' sentence, said a California pro-life leader.
-
- "Susan Carpenter-McMillan, president of the Right to Life League
- of Southern California, made her comments in a telephone interview
- two weeks after Frank Mendiola, 30, was sentenced Feb. 10 after
- pleading guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court to three counts of
- telephoning false bomb threats.
-
- "Mendiola, a frequent speaker for abortion rights groups in
- California and Washington, made the false threats to a newspaper,
- women's groups and police. The calls, court records said, were among
- several made anonymously in 1986 from someone claiming to be with the
- Army of God, an anti-abortion group, and saying he had planted bombs
- in abortion clinics and offices and homes of people who ran them.
-
- "Mendiola, while in jail awaiting sentencing, told the Los
- Angeles Times that he telephoned false bomb threats to 'have you
- people, the media, come done with a harder line on those people who
- are harassing the clinics.'"
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- Marty Helgesen
- Bitnet: mnhcc@cunyvm Internet: mnhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
-
- "Experience beats in vain upon a congenital progressive."
- -- C. S. Lewis
-