St. Lucie News Tribune from Fort Pierce, Florida (2024)

April 11, 1993

Publication:

St. Lucie News Tribunei

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Fort Pierce, Florida

Issue Date:

Sunday, April 11, 1993

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1

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HWEATHER SUNDAY April 11 1993 75 cents SUNNY: Hfeiln upper 70s along beaches to lower 80s inland Ugrtwind becoming northeast 10 mph by afternoon Low in tower 60s Fair skies on Monday LOOK INSIDE wu ww Jim f'1 uwiiw wiiwenj YOUR HOMETOWN WPPW! i 4 yW Pro-choice advocates rally back Anti-abortion activists avoid clash at clinic Robert YorfcTha Tribuna Life: Churches find meaning' in the traditions that come around every Easter PageDl News: The third local baseball league Babe Ruth opened its season Saturday PageBl Sports: Bernhard Larger took a four-stroke lead Saturday in the Masters at Augusta National Paged BUDGET LINE Top five stories Here is a summary of the events shaping our world 1 An angy threatening letter written by cult leader David Koresh as If he were God could be the divine message Koresh says he needs before ending a six-week-old siege the FBI said Saturday 2 The United States is determined to rfgor-ousiy enforce the no-fty zones in Iraq US off- i a aassaaanerAmencanTigiterjes were shot at and attacked an Iraqi artflloy battery In return 3 Astronauts whizzing around the world on the shuttle Discovery experiehbed an earthly problem Saturday a computer crash Fortunately Itde atmospheric date was lost and the problem quiddy was fixed The convenience was more than offset by gaod news about a date relay problem affecting one of the prime ozone moni- A I A- tonngmsmimenis 4 Chris Hanl who headed the armed resistance against apartheid and led South Africa's Influential Communist Party was assassinated outside his home Saturday by a white gjnman wit-isaid 5 Clinton may have run on what some called the Bubba" ticket but TTenyi Bechtoi knows Bubbas alter afl he is one And Mr President he sez you shore ain't no Bubba INSIDEi Eli Lustig of Stuart left gets into a heated discussion with Pastor Sid Black of Palm City on Saturday in front of the Aware Clinic in Port SL Lude The men were at the dinlc to voice their opinions on opposing sides of the abortion issue The protest was peaceful and no arrests were made The crowd broke up shortly before 5 pm Protesters let out of jail Dan Evans PORT ST LUCIE More than 100 pro-choice supporter! readied themselves outside a local abortion clinic Saturday for a confrontation with abortion protesters that never! The show of fine from the movement was spurred in Fort Pierce and Saturday far Melbourne that led to the aneats of more than 125 i A vocal band of traveling aboix tion rights advocates began arriving in Port St Lucie from flie state about noon' rafter grappling with abort tkm foes in Melbourne They Joined frreee with local ear the en-' to the Aware Woman' Health Center on US 1 Just eouth of Port SL Lucie Boulevard In anticipation of a disorderly debate SL Lude Gaudy deputies stood watch over the clinic throughout the day and positioned a group of buses at a nearby school to cart away unruly demonrirators Police made 50 arrests of abortion protesters Saturday morning outside a Melbourne dime protected by a court-ordered buffer That followed the arrests of 76 abortion foes Friday night outside A World Medical Center at 503 12th SL in Fort Pierce The demonstrations were the first large-scale protests organized in Florida since a doctor was shot to death at a Pensacola elinie a month ago Although several abortion protesters picketed the Aware Woman dinic from a distance Saturday afternoon little came of a what was expected to be an ugly encounter Not knowing what they would activists practiced drills that an aimed at Some decked in T-shirts and buttons aiv noundng their belfefi also brought along coolers of food and drinks in case the confrontation lasted into the night But that necessary and almost everyone from both sides of the issue cleared the dinic parking lot by 5 pm without incident -The protests were more heated in Melbourne at the Aware Woman Clinic which is owned by the same couple who owns the clinic in Port Turn to CUHKIKI 4 days tc Tax Deadline returns as soon as If the tax return has not yet been filed Finnan said expect to receive any money from Unde Sam for at least eight to 10 weeks But Finnan acknowledge the foremost reason that taxpayers file this late in the tax season is not because laqr but because they owe the government To give the economy a push President Bush reduced the amount of money the government withholds from employee paychecks in March 1998 said Emfy Shaffer a tax preparer for Block Inc in Fort Pierce a result many owe this Turn to TAXESA8 Bond for the other adults was set at $250 at the bond hearing presided over by Circuit Court Judge Scott Kenney of the 19th Judicial Circuit waa a very long Cliff Beckett 46 of Port St Lude said after his release Protest leaden said their people were being singled out for especially harsh treatment by authorities because of their anti-abortion stance been living in SL Lude County for 14 said Beckett own a house why I released on my own recognizance and allowed to deep in my own bedT Tod Windle senior administrator of the Aware Woman Health Center in Port SL Lude said he had no Sympathy for the demonstrators who have targeted his dinic repeatedly Turn to PROIESIER8A7 Cliff Beckett hugs his wife Jane follow! Saturday The couple was arrested trespassing during a blockade at A Woman in Fort Pierce wing IRS expects deluge of last-minute returns Victor Epstein mauNB staff wnimm FORT PIERCE The parking lot of the SL Lude County Jail was fined Saturday morning with the children of anttabortion protesters waiting for their parents to be released from JaiL Police arrested 73 members of Operation Rescue on trespassing charges Friday for blocking access to A World Medical Center an abortion dinic at 503 12th SL Fort Pierce The 27 juveniles in the group were released to relatives and guardians Friday night but 48 of tlw 49 adults were held without bold in the SL Lude County Jail until a bond hearing Saturday morning: The other adult was Marisa Elrod 26 of Bradenton who told police she was two weeks pregnanL Elrod was given a notice to appear and released at the abortion dinic die said Beating trial jury begins deliberations Linda Deutsch THSASSQCUTOFWISS LOS ANGELES The federal civil rights case of four policemen in the Rodney King beating was placed in the hands of Jurors day with a judge telling them to ignore potential external consequences of your verdict" US District Judge John CL Davies added the phrase an apparent reference to feared riots in a final draft of the legal instructions He also told panelists to disregard the fact that the defendants have been tried before in state court a case which led to their acquittals and sparked deadly riots hut year verdict mist be based solely and exclusively on the evidence TumtoTWAUA8 Big MitchstThe Tribune hr Friday her release from jail and charged with odd Medical Center Steven Shundich TMBUNS staff warm ST LUCIE COUNTY With Just five days to go before deadline tax returns continue to trickle in to the offices of the Internal Revenue Service Through March 30 the Fort jiuWalf district nffim of the ms reported that only 1061319 tax returns had been received 43336 1040 tax farms 298098 lOlQAs 279036 lOMEZs and 49749 KUOPCs to be precise (not including electronic filings) That's also only about one-fifth of the 5 million taxpayers from Veto Beach to the Florida Keys who are npwtrd to file a tax return according to Bob Finnan in his seventh year as a public affairs specialist for the IRS the total number of tax returns received fay the IRS at this same time last year is down more than 8 Firman said Ye (the IRS) had a push urging people to fife their Port St Lucie Tribune 1932 SE Port St Lucie Blvd Mirm Monday-SatunJay holidays 6 toO un lOtfO ajn 7to0un-10to0anl Ta 335-7070 I 3353800 rBteiy arPlMt 3353802 A FREEDOM NEWSPAPER Juan Dais Brownlhe Tribune Frank McLocklin a VITA vo'unteer assists Peter Cymmer with his taxes at the Knights of Columbus hafl in Port SL Lude TOMORROW IN THE TRIBUNE! 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