    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 11 (Monday, March 22, 1999)]
    [Pages 429-430]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Statement on the Attempted Bombing of a Family Planning
    Clinic in Asheville, North Carolina

    March 13, 1999

        I was deeply disturbed to learn of the attempted bombing of a family
    planning clinic in Asheville, North Carolina. We can all be grateful
    that no one was harmed and that the clinic suffered only minor damage.
    But whether or not a terrorist's bomb achieves

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    its deadly purpose, such cowardly and criminal acts strike at the heart
    of the constitutional freedoms and individual liberties all Americans
    hold dear. I strongly condemn this act of senseless violence. Federal
    agents are already in Asheville to assist local law enforcement
    officials. I am confident that the perpetrators of this terrible act
    will be brought to justice.