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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 79

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Commentary Analysis Editorials F6 OpEdF7 Deaths F9 New England F12 Boston Sunday Globe January 28, 2001 TT 0 A 711 TKi (Of0 PROLIFE Willi 111C CllCll PROCHOICE Frances X. Hogan For nearly six years, leaders on both sides of the abortion debate have met in secret in an attempt to better understand each other. Now they are ready to share what they have learned. By Anne Fowler, Nicki Nichols Gamble, Frances X. Hogan, Melissa Kognt, Madeline McComish, and Barbara Thorp Melissa Kogut Madeline McComish fry the morning of Dec.

30, 1994, John Salvi walked into the Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline and opened fire with a rifle. He Anne Fowler Barbara Thorp ed with this horrifying act. Governor William F. Weld and Cardinal Bernard Law, among others, called for talks between prochoice and prolife leaders. We are six leaders, three prochoice and three prolife, who answered this call.

For nearly 5V2 years, we have met together privately for more than 150 hours an experience that has astonished and enriched us. Now, six years after the shootings in Brookline and on the 28th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, we publicly disclose our meetings for the first time. How did the six of us, activists from two embattled camps, ever find our way to the same table? abortion, page F2 GLOBE STAFF PHOTOSBARRY CHIN seriously wounded three people and killed the receptionist, Shannon Lowney, as she spoke on the phone. He then ran to his car and drove two miles down Beacon Street to Preterm Health Services, where he began shooting again, injuring two and killing receptionist Lee Ann Nichols.

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SCHOOL COMMITTEE, Pag F2 Anand Vaishnav covers education for the Globe. By Anand Vaishnav How's this for an image to frighten the children: a Boston School Committee with 116 members, including the mayor and representatives elect-BOSTON ed from the city.s wards, all bossing a superintendent who has no executive authority. That was in 1875. It must not have worked, because that same year, the state Legislature chopped the committee down to just 25 members. So, if that year's model was a wrong one, is the 2001 version seven people appointed by the mayor, with no elected members the right one? A number of Boston's local education watchdogs are asking that question, four years after voters overwhelmingly approved keeping the appointed committee.

Few Bostonians long for a return to the Top scientific groups and 50 Nobel Prize-winning scientists call it "premature, wasteful, and dangerous." A highly classified THE MILITARY intem. gence report warns it could provoke China to expand its nuclear arsenal tenfold and prompt Russia to add warheads to its ballistic missiles. And initial tests of the $60 billion system have for the most part flopped. Nevertheless, a national missile defense system is likely to be under construction by year's end. Those who doubt that needed only to listen to the words Friday of newly-sworn Defense Secretary Donald H.

Rumsfeld. Although he declined to put a date on deployment, he said that President Bush's overall intentions are crystal clear. "He in will do so despite objections from Russia and other countries. Expect the move sooner rather than later. A new Pentagon timetable requires Bush to decide by March whether to authorize initial construction on a powerful radar station in Alaska.

If he chooses to delay his decision, the ultimate deployment of a missile defense system would face slowdowns that Republicans have warned against for years. Given the system's high price and acknowledged flaws including last summer's failed test one might think the president will pay a political price for proceeding with construction. But that presumption ignores one critical fact: A ma-MISSILE DEFENSE, Pag FS David Abel is a member of the Globe staff. Inside Today Lights out California-style blackouts could happen here unless we act now. F4 Feeling a draft Arguments against women registering for military service no longer hold up.

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