[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.