The issue has been a divisive one within the anti-abortion movement ever since the fatal shooting last year of Dr. David Gunn outside the other Pensacola clinic.

Dr. Gunn, 47, was shot three times in the back as he approached Women's Medical Services, the Pensacola clinic where he worked.

Protesters kept vigils outside the Pensacola clinic with powerful camera lenses, the article said, in the hopes of sighting the new doctor's license plate.

Under the watch of armed Federal marshals and the escort of a team of female volunteers, 34 women received abortions today at a Pensacola clinic.

Abortion-rights proponents said today that the killings at a Pensacola clinic underscored the necessity for making abortion part of a basic benefits package.

Ms. Reno first ordered a broader Federal inquiry in 1994 after the killing of a Florida doctor and his security escort outside a Pensacola clinic.

A judge today ruled out an insanity defense by the man on trial in the killing an abortion doctor outside his Pensacola clinic last March.

In March, Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola clinic.

Operators of the Pensacola clinic, which provides routine first-trimester abortions two days a week, would not return calls seeking verification that Dr. Brigham, 37, was now working there.

Abortion opponents originally identified Dr. Brigham as the latest medical practitioner at the Pensacola clinic.