                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, September 9, 1995            TAG: 9509090490
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: RICHARDSON, TEXAS                  LENGTH: Short :   24 lines

OPERATION RESCUE EVICTED FROM U.S. HEADQUARTERS

The national office of Operation Rescue was evicted from the headquarters it had set up next door to an abortion clinic.

The group, however, does not have to pay $3,300 in back rent, a jury found Thursday in the lawsuit filed by the landlord.

According to the lease, Operation Rescue was to pay $600 per month, beginning in March. But the Rev. Flip Benham, who heads Operation Rescue, said landlord Warren A. Gilbert Jr. promised that the anti-abortion group could use the space for free until the abortion clinic's lease expired. Gilbert said no such offer was made.

``They evicted us for the bigger issue of us being next to the abortion mill. They felt this was too much,'' Benham said. by CNB