Some of you may be able to catch tonight's Nightline on ABC.  It is the
second part of the coverage on a woman blinded in last year's embassy
bombing.

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   Nightline
   Friday, August 6, 1999
   Friday, August 6, 1999, 11:45 p.m. ET
   Last night, we began telling the story of Ellen Bomer - a Commerce
   Department employee blinded when the American Embassy in Nairobi,
   Kenya was bombed last August. She compares her progress over the past
   year to that of a boat - turning a corner, albeit slowly.
        Tonight's broadcast centers on the annual National Federation for
   the Blind convention - and the goals its members work to achieve. The
   big goal - independence - is the centerpiece of conversation.
        "We are tired of having our road to hell paved with other
   people's good intentions," Barbara Pierce, an NFB spokesperson says.
   "But the discrimination that we face is based on fear and lack of
   understanding and imprecision in the way people react to us."
        You don't hear the same anger in Ellen's voice-just a commitment
   to live a fulfilling life in spite of her blindness. And Osama Bin
   Laden, the man who allegedly ordered the bombing that caused her
   blindness? "He isn't going to defeat me," she says, "and I know there
   are just as many other Americans out there that feel the same way."

                                                          - Brad Phillips

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