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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Nov. 1, 1985
Suspect called 'Ms. Rambo'
United Press International
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. - A woman charged with spraying a shopping mall with semi-automatic gunfire, killing two people and wounding eight, was described yesterday as a mental patient who frequented the stores where she was known as "Ms. Rambe."
Sylvia Seegrist, 24, who was charged with the killings, also stabbed a counselor in the back at an outpatient clinic during the summer of 1981 while applying for readmission to the clinic, officials said.
"While we were screening her for readmission, out of the blue she attacked one of our counselors," said Eileen Joseph, director of Tri-County Fountain Center in Landsdowne.
The counselor was not seriously injured but did press charges. Joseph said clinic employees were upset that Seegrist was admitted to a rehabilitation program instead of being jailed.
"I believe the criminal justice system failed her, and the mental health system failed her," Joseph said. "This was tragic all around."
Richard Zensen, manager of a Springfield Mall drug store, said Seegirt was a regular customer who he described as "very tough." Zensen said he would occasionally pass her in an aisle and jokingly say, "Oh, hello, Ms. Rambo." She'd give me a dirty look, like a demon possessed.
Zensen said he last saw Seegrist a week earlier when she was refused a refill for an outdated tranquilizer prescription.
"Well, she was furious," he recalled.
Seegrist, clad in green combat fatigues, Wednesday opened fire with a 22-caliber semi-automatic rifle "at anybody and everybody who was in her path," at the suburban Philadelphia mall, said Police Chief George Hill.
Pollice said they could deduce no motive for the attack in which a 2-year-old boy and a 64-year-old man were killed. Eight others were wounded, including a man who remained in stable but critical condition.
A hospital spokeswoman identified the dead boy as Recife Cosmen of New Castle, Del., and the man as Augusto Ferrara of Philadelphia.
Britain decides to keep Greek art
United Press International
LONDON — Britain has formally rejected a Greek governmental request for the return of the priceless Elgin Marbles, removed from the Athens Acropolis in the early 1800s, an agent spokesman said yesterday.
The spokesman said the decision meant that the magnificent 5th-century marble frieze that once adorned the Parthenon would remain in the British Museum, where the sculptures grace the walls of a separate display room.
A year ago, Greece approached Britain through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in a bid to negotiate the return of the marbles taken from Greece by Lord Eligin, a British diplomat, in 1812.
"We formally rejected the request yesterday in a letter through UNESCO, and the marbles will remain in the British Museum for the time being" the spokesman said. He would to disclose the contents of the reply.
Greece had requested the return of the treasures as "sacred"
monuments embodying the spirit of the ancient Athenian democracy. Neil Kinnock, the British Labor Party leader who had advocated returning the marbles to Greece, once said, "The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a missing tooth."
The Greek government did not immediately comment on the report. The Greek government has pledged to build a special museum near the foot of the Acropolis to house the remaining sculptures from the Parthenon and the Elgin Marbles if they are returned.
WASHINGTON — One of the largest studies of its kind has found no link between breast cancer and birth control pills, which are the second most widely used form of contraception in the United States, researchers reported yesterday.
United Press International
Pill-cancer link denounced
Scientists found that oral contraceptive use neither increased nor decreased the risk of breast cancer, regardless of how old the women were when they started taking the pill, how long they used it, the amount of the hormone progesterone in the pill and whether they took the pill before having their first child.
The results contradicted the results of 1983 studies that found increased risk of breast cancer up to age 37 among women who started using the pill early and among those who used it before their first pregnancy.
"I have substantial personal confidence that the results in this study correctly describe oral contraceptive use as having no effect on the incidence of breast cancer in this country," said Bruce Stadel, a medical instructor at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
"We feel reasonably confident that those earlier reports do not warrant further concern," he said.
However, he said, the issue would have to be studied further.
There is concern that the pill contributes to cell changes which may lead to cervical cancer, he said, and study is under way to determine this.
The breast cancer group was part of a larger study which also found that the pill reduced the risk of endometrial, uterine and ovarian cancer by 50 percent or more. Those results were reported in 1983.
published in the Nov. 2 issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal, compared 2,088 women age 20-44 diagnosed with breast cancer between 1880 and 1892 to 2,065 women of similar ages who did not have breast cancer.
The breast cancer study, to be
The institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, conducted the study with researchers from the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Other researchers said that caution was still in order because of the diversity of studies, some of which support the latest report, and others that support the 1983 reports.
"There is a danger of accepting comfortable results on OC's and breast cancer before we can be certain that there is no effect," the editorial said.
Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Health Citizen Research Group, called Stadel's statement "outrageous in that it dismissed the results of two other studies."
However, many prominent physicians have said the benefits of the pill outweigh the risks of pregnancy.
8:00 p.m. Crafton-Preyer Theatre/Murphy Hall
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Twelfth Night is KU's entry in the 913/864 American College Theatre Festival
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A Lecture By John Law
HOW MANY MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT?"
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985 7:30 p.m.
"Arab Israeli Conflict:
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The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Concert Series Presents the sensational
Concert Series Presents the sensational Ballet Eddy Toussaint de Montreal in its first, major American tour 8:00 p.m. Friday, November 1, 1985 Hoch Auditorium
Program
Missa Creole (1980), Souvenance (1982), Cantates (1978) and Concerto En Mouvement (1984)
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office/All seats reserved/Public: $12.50 & $10.50; KU and K-12 Students: $6.25 & $5.25; Senior Citizens and Other Students: $11.50 & $9.50/VISA/MasterCard accepted/For reservations, call 913/864-3982
Partially funded by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; additional support provided by the KU Student Activity Fee, Sawarthout Society and the KU Endowment Association.