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FD-350Rev.5-8-81 (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)1A DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE ROCHESTER, NEW YORK (Mount Cipping in Space Below) Date: MARCH 5, 1985 Edtion: METRO m PUBLIC AFFAIRS MATTERS 9A-168S Character: or Classricaton: 80-2206 Submatting Otfice: Shot hits BUFFALO ndexing: justice's window No injuries, but wife showered by glass : Unted Press Internatonal and Los Angeies Times "It put a hole in the window aboat the WASHINGTON Justice Harry A. size of an apple or orange," a source said. Blacknun, who has received numerous The bullet, a'9 mm cartridge that could Aeath threats for writing the Supreme have been fired by a pistol or rifle was Court's decision legalizing abortion, dis. embedded in a chair. tksed yesterday that somone fired a bul Law enforcement sources who asked let through the window of his apartment. not to be identified said that the 9mm. Thursday night, showering his wife with bullet, which is a type of bullet usually glass. used in handguns rather than rifles, could Neither Blackmun, 76. nor his wife, have been fired from the other side of the Dorothy, were in. Potomac River, raising the possibility. jured. that the shot was a random one that hit In a statement re- leased by his office, Blackmun's window by accident. Another local law enforcement official Blackmun confirmed that a single shot was handgun if you're really trying to hit fired through a win. someone. Odds are you'd use a rifle be- dow in his home on cause of the distance and its greater accu. the third floor of a 12-story apartment. racy. Blackmun's life was threatened last Oc. building in Arlington, tober by the Army of God, a radical anti. Va., across the Poto- abortion group that has been linked to mac River from 'Washington. the bombing of abortion clinics. Last. 1 A source said week, Blackmun was threatened again in Blackmun walked out. Blackmun. a typwritten letter that had a New York postmark. The writer threatened to blow f the room just before one shot was the justice's brains out and said he would fired, showering Mrs. Blackmun with glass. Jattend the justice's funeral "and-laugh? .. 4... b6 b7C