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Friday, January 30, 1998
Explosion rocks abortion clinic, kills 1
■ The bombing came one
week after the anniversary
of the Roe vs. Wade case.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. A powerful
bomb exploded at an abortion clinic
Thursday morning, killing an off-duty
police officer who had just arrived for
his moonlighting shift as a security
guard and critically injuring a nurse.
It was the nation’s first fatal bombing
at an abortion clinic.
The blast, which blew a crater in the
ground and shattered windows and
shook walls a block away, came just a
week after the 25th anniversary of the
Supreme Court’s decision in Roe vs.
Wade legalizing abortion.
“It felt like lightning had hit the build
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ing,” said Lindsey Thompson, who was
at a University of Alabama residence
hall when she heard the blast.
Nearby residence halls and a day care
center were evacuated for fear of a sec
ond, delayed bomb blast.
Police Chief Mike Coppage said late
Thursday afternoon no other explosive
was found.
He said no one had claimed respon
sibility by Thursday evening.
Jim Cavanaugh of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said the
bomb appeared to be homemade and
not intended to blow up the entire clin
ic.
“It was a smaller device intended to
kill or injure,” he said.
FBI Agent Joseph Lewis said the
bomb apparently was in a package, but
it was not immediately known what
kind.
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A year ago, two bombs went off an
hour apart at a clinic in Atlanta, injuring
seven in the second blast. That bombing
is still unsolved.
Hours after the explosion in
Birmingham, the surrounding area
remained sealed off while bomb experts
in masks and heavy protective gear
combed over it.
“We still have a hot scene. We’re
being very cautious because of what
happened in Atlanta,” said the ATF’s
Brian Lett.
The bomb went off about 7:30 a.m.
just outside the main entrance of the
New Woman All Women Health Care
clinic, rocking nearby buildings at the
university and leaving a crater outside
the blackened, wrecked entryway.
The explosion occurred as clinic
employees were arriving but about 30
minutes before doors normally open to
patients.
“We were shaking. We were 30 sec
onds away from being in that parking
lot,” said Terry Hermes, who was taking
his wife, Lisa, to her counseling job at
the clinic.
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belief that what I’m doing is right and
not be scared off. After this, I don’t
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Witnesses said the off-duty police
officer appeared to have been killed
instantly, while the nurse lay injured in
the yard as the smoke rose from the
blast. Her charred clothes were partly
tom away.
The victims were identified as Officer
Robert Sanderson, 35, and nurse Emily
Lyons, 41. Both were from
Birmingham.
The police officer “had gotten off
work and he had just gotten there,”
Coppage said.
Gov. Fob James, a Republican who
opposes abortion, offered full state sup
port in the investigation, saying, “I can
not think of any more cowardly and rep
rehensible act.”
He said those responsible should be
“tracked down, indicted, convicted and
executed."
The blast shook a second abortion
clinic a block away, the Summit
Women’s Clinic, knocking things off the
wall.
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Grant to create new center,
study minority aging issues
BY JESSICA LUGINBUHL
STAFF WRITER
As minorities get older they might
have one less thing to worry about
aging.
The UNC Institute on Aging received
a five-year, $3.1 million federal grant
Thursday to create a systemwide Center
on Minority Aging.
“The minority elderly don’t use cer
tain health services as much as whites,”
said Elizabeth Mutran, director of the
new center and professor of health
behavior and health education at the
School of Public Health.
“We want to understand the differ
ence. Is it because families are filling in
or if there are barriers to services or
care.”
The center, made up of UNC-CH,
East Carolina University, Fayetteville
State University and North Carolina
Central University, will have several
goals.
It will increase research partnerships,
address social problems in health care,
screen for chronic diseases in elderly
minority groups and fund pilot studies.
NCCU and FSU will serve as the
community outreach base, and ECU
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“I have four graduate students work
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Mutran said.
Roy Carroll, senior vice president of
academic affairs for the UNC system,
said one important aspect of the center
was its ability to unite different pro
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that it serves as one more concrete vehi
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school lines,” Carroll said.
John Hatch, professor of health edu
cation at NCCU, agreed cooperation
between the universities was important.
“Collaboration clearly strengthens
the quality of work,” Hatch said.
Carroll added that the center had an
important role beyond the educational
world. “This is not a problem simply for
health affairs and health schools.”
Minority aging is a social issue that
affects the entire world, Mutran said.“l
think it is a problem of the Western
world, but Asian countries have even
greater issues with aging,” she said. “It’s
a worldwide phenomenon.”