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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 18, 1968
Eleven-year-old sentenced to 'life in detention'
NEWCASTLE, England (UPI)
—Eleven-year-old Mary Bell was sentenced to life in detention yesterday for unprecedented "thrill
Official Bulletin
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Foreign Students. If you are leaving Lawrence for any or all of the Christmas vacation period don't fail to complete and turn in the final page of the December International Campus Newsletter.
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Social Work Educators Conference.. All Day, Kansas Union.
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Theta Sig's named
Nineteen upperclass women have pledged KU's Epsilon chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalism fraternity for women.
Seniors who pledged are:
Joanna K. Wiebe, Hillsboro;
Carol Sue Stevenson, Leawood;
Jan Vandeventer, Raytown, Mo,
and Diane Oliver, Newton.
Junior pledges are: Marilyn Buller, Lawrence; Linda Phelps, Clarendon Hills, Ill.; Christy Bell, Kansas City; Jean Hershey, Holton; Linda McCerey, Honolulu, Hawaii; Rebecca Massey, Olathe; Mary K. Mueller, Red Oak, Iowa; Sue Somers, Lawrence; Donna Shrader, Salina; Marla Babcock, Ottawa; Linda Loyd, Ottawa; Gloria Vobejda, Overland Park; Ruth Rademacher, Arkansas City; Susan Brimacombe, Kansas City, and Judith K. Diebolt, Atchison.
Cwens will carol tonight
KU's 32 members of Cwens, sophomore women's honorary, will have a party tonight at the home of Emily Taylor, dean of women, after carolling.
kill" murder of two young boys. The audience broke into sobs at the verdict, but little Mary had a large smile when she left the courtroom.
A jury of seven men and five women found Mary guilty of manslaughter, but absolved the girl of a murder charge. Mary's onetime friend and neighbor, Norma Bell, 13, was found not guilty on similar charges, but was held for trial on another offense.
When Mary heard the decision that turned Norma free, she peered at the other girl and mouthed the words, "I hate you."
Norma and Mary had been accused of the "Rat Alley" strangling of Martin Brown, 4, and Brian Hole, 3, "solely for the pleasure and excitement afforded by killing."
Chooses detention
Before passing sentence on Mary, Judge Ralph Cusack said evidence indicated it was "impossible" to find an institution where the girl could be committed safely for psychiatric treatment.
The detention sentence was passed, he said, "because my primary duty is to protect other people."
As the jury's verdict was read almost the entire courtroom sobbed after the strain of the 10-day trial which heard the story of violent death in a northern England slum.
Mary, dressed in the wrinkled yellow dress she had worn during the last three days of the trial, broke into tears.
Aggressive bully
Her mother, sitting on a bench behind her, rushed forward, sobbing, "my baby, my baby," and then was led struggling from the courtroom.
Aggressive bully During the trial prosecuting attorneys described Mary as an
Nixon revisits United Nations
NEW YORK (UPI)—President-elect Richard Nixon, paying his first visit to the United Nations in 12 years, pledged yesterday his administration would "do everything possible" to strengthen the organization.
Nixon spent more than an hour with U.N. Secretary General Thant and other officials in Thant's 38th floor suite. At no time, aides said, did Nixon discuss whom he would name to represent the United States at the United Nations.
One source close to the U.N. delegation said Nixon had told him the time "was not ripe" for ratification of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty but the time would become ripe. The source said Nixon gave him the impression the treaty would be ratified but not until after Jan. 20, the date of his inauguration.
Earlier in the day, Nixon aides refused to discuss his position on the treaty.
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Nixon said Thant briefed him on U.S. activities in non-political areas such as health and education and the projects were "tremendously exciting."
Zeigler said the announcement of Nixon's choice for U.N. ambassador would be made later in the week.
Nixon named Herbert Stein as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers earlier in the day. Stein, a senior fellow the Brookings Institution, has been Nixon's chief adviser on fiscal policy.
aggressive bully with an unusually high intelligence and capable of wielding considerable influence over Norma.
Nixon, who had a busy day of meetings with advisers and appointees and also named two new members of his administration, spent 15 minutes at the United Nations with the United States' current chief delegate to the United Nations, J. R. Wiggins, then crossed to meet Thant.
The president-elect also named John C. Whitaker, a campaign scheduler for Nixon and a vice president of the International Aero Service Corp. to be secretary to the Cabinet. Whitaker, 42, will arrange agendas and schedules for Nixon's Cabinet meeting.
Prior to sentencing a Home Office psychiatrist told Cusack Mary was suffering from a psychopathic disorder and that she should be put under treatment for "some years." But he didn't know where.
Testimony indicated Norma was a simple girl with subnormal intelligence.
Weather
Cloudy with intermittent rain today changing to snow this evening and continuing into tomorrow is the weather forecast for Kansas City and vicinity. Colder tonight and tomorrow with east to northeast winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. Probabilities of measurable precipitation 80 per cent today and 50 per cent tonight. High today near 40, low tonight in the upper 20s. High tomorrow near 30.
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