PRO-LIFERS PICKET ANDRUS

----KUNA, Idaho Eight pro-life activists picketed Idaho Gov. Cecil D. Andrus as he spoke at a Kuna High School assembly on child abuse.

''We were there because we believe that child abuse begins in the womb, and that the ultimate in child abuse is to destroy a living child,'' picket Dee Eisenbarth said at the event Monday.

Eisenbarth said pro-lifers planned to picket all Andrus' speaking engagements to protest his veto of a bill that would have dramatically restricted abortions in Idaho.

The pickets Monday were not associated with a formal antiabortion organization, Eisenbarth said.

Andrus attended the assembly to proclaim April child abuse prevention month in the city.

''We intend to be wherever he goes,'' Eisenbarth said.

''I suspect that they will,'' Andrus spokesman Marc Johnson said. ''He (Andrus) has a very public schedule that is very well known to members of the press and the public.

''People are free to speak to him on any number of subjects at any number of times throughout the week. That is part of being governor.''