TIP LEADS TO ARREST OF DIFFERENT MAN

LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) - An FBI tip that the man suspected in the Alabama
abortion clinic bombing was on a flight to Baltimore led to the arrest
Saturday of a man with the same name and similar looks as the suspect.

Erik Farley Rudolph, 26, of Baltimore, was arrested at Baltimore-Washington
International Airport as he left a plane arriving from Cincinnati. He was
subsequently charged with drug possession.

``We took him into custody, fingerprinted him and interviewed him and it
became clear to us very quickly that this was not the man the FBI was
looking for,'' said Maryland Transit Authority Police Spokeswoman Lori Vidil.

The FBI is looking for Eric Robert Rudolph, 31, who was identified Saturday
as a suspect in the nation's first fatal bombing of an abortion clinic.

Vidil said police were working off an FBI tip that said a man named
``Rudolph'' was on the flight.

She said the man on the flight and the suspect were both born in September,
although in different years, and are similar in height and weight.

``He does resemble the other man, his friends were even joking him about
the resemblance,'' said Vidil.

After being arrested at BWI, Erik Rudolph was charged with one count of
possessing marijuana and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia,
Vidil said. He was being held pending a bail hearing.

Federal agents have offered a $100,000 reward in the bombing case and have
pleaded with Eric Robert Rudolph to turn himself in.

His truck was spotted near the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham,
Ala., on Jan. 29, the morning an explosion killed an off-duty policeman
working as a security guard and critically injured a nurse.