With Operation Rescue targeting clinics in 7 states for its summer anti-abortion campaign, cities and abortion clinics far and wide are making plans of their own to keep things calm.

Next weekend, Operation Rescue begins a 10-day "Cities of Refuge" demonstration aimed at closing clinics in Cleveland; Minneapolis-St Paul, Minn; San Jose, Cal; Philadelphia; Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; Jackson, Miss; and several cities in central Florida.

In spring 1992, more than 600 Operation Rescue protesters were arrested in Buffalo, NY. In summer 1991, Wichita, Kan, police arrested more than 2700 people in a 46-day clinic blockade. [OR members slugged a few police officers in Kansas in 1991.]

As protesters plan, the target cities are preparing:

* Two Cleveland suburbs last week banned picketing in residents' driveways, obstructing traffic and disturbing the peace at a residence. Abortion opponents often demonstrate outside the homes of doctors, nurses and other clinic staff members. The San Jose City Council passed a similar measure after doctors complained about getting threatening letters.

* Philadelphia and San Jose city councils have made it illegal to prevent patients from entering abortion clinics.

* Police in St Paul have erected an 8-foot-high, chain-link fence around the Planned Parenthood clinic. Officers guard the gates.

* A Cleveland TV station said police will convert the city convention center into a jail to feed, house and try hundreds of detainees. Police would not comment on the report.

"We're ready for anything that comes down the pike," said Philadelphia Police Inspector John Norris.

Eric Johns, 21, and his wife, Michelle, have been in Jackson, Miss, since May, preparing to protest there.

"We hope to put these places out of business, expose abortionists to their community, embarrass them for what they do, expose staff workers at these places and eventually shut down the whole grisly abortion industry in the state of Mississippi," Johns said. [Racketeering.]

"I think I have a biblical responsibility and am commanded by God [sic] to do what I'm doing."

In Dallas and Fort Worth, Operation Rescue has targeted 13 clinics and some doctors' homes, a spokesman said.

At abortion clinics around the country, staff members are intensely making ready.

"They will not close us down. If a patient wants an abortion, we will figure out a way to get them in the clinic," said Jeanie Hollis, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Women's Medical Clinic in Jackson.

Dianne Straus, director of the Cherry Hill, NJ, Women's Center, said she fears [more of O.R.'s] violence.

Much of the fear recalls the March 10Th. killing of Dr David Gunn, 47, who was shot 3 times [in the back] as he entered a Pensacola, Fla, abortion clinic.

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