BY MARTIN BOYERS
GREENSBORO, North Carolina - In the early morning hours of May 6, an arson attack closed down Piedmont-Carolina Medical Clinic. None of the clinic staff was at the building when the fire started. Investigators reported that someone pried open an air-conditioning vent, poured in a flammable liquid, and ignited it. The entire inside of the facility is coated with black soot.

Clinic owner Jean Goldston has pledged to reopen the facility. The clinic suffered a similar attack in March of 1991. Goldston reported that anti-abortion protesters were at the clinic the Saturday before the blaze.

Piedmont-Carolina is the only abortion clinic in the city. Greensboro's only other abortion clinic, Options, closed down a week earlier after its landlord refused to renew its lease.

The Militant Labor Forum announced an emergency speak-out against the arson attack for Friday, May 9, at the Pathfinder Bookstore.  
 
 
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