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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1997
SECTION A VOL. 103, NO. 84
(USPS 650-640)
Police investigating Olympic bomb links
SPOKANE, WASH. — Three men charged with several bombings and bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest also are being investigated for possible links to the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta.
However, while anonymous Justice Department and FBI officials said that the Spokane bombing suspects are being investigated in the Atlanta case, they cautioned that they have other leads and no solid suspects.
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The three men are
being held without ball on charges of robbing banks and bombing one of the banks, an abortion clinic and an office of The Spokesman Review.
They were arrested Oct. 8 near Yakima, Wash., after a military surplus dealer, encouraged by a $130,000 reward, reported that he recognized a parka worn by a masked gunman in a bank surveillance photo.
Cheap pill may prevent HIV transfer to infants
WASHINGTON — At least five major studies are under way to find inexpensive, easy ways to prevent the spread of AIDS from mother to infant, a tragedy that has killed more than 1 million children worldwide.
Last year alone, the World Health Organization estimated that 400,000 babies caught AIDS from their mothers.
This kind of spreading is relatively rare in the United States and other developed countries, but it is a major health hazard in poor areas of the world.
Doctors are looking for ways to prevent this transmission.
Without treatment, an HIV-infected mother in the United States faces about a 25 percent risk of passing the virus to her child before or during birth. In poor countries, the risk is significantly higher, perhaps around 40 percent.
One of the simplest regimens uses just two doses of a single drug, nevirapine. The idea is to give a pill to the mother when she comes to the hospital in labor and the other to the baby soon after birth.
Moderate Republicans 'balance' in budget deal
WASHINGTON—Moderate Republicans see themselves as potential catalysts for a balanced budget deal between Congress and President Clinton. However, conservative GOP leadership is moving quickly to retain control of the process.
On key budget issues that have divided the president and Congress since 1995 — how deeply to cut taxes, how much savings to extract from Medicare, Medicaid and other domestic programs — GOP moderates have occupied the middle ground. If the two parties' quest for a compromise again falters, they hope to be able to draw the two sides together.
sides of the house. In the House, moderates say they have the clout to pressure both parties to a compromise on balancing the budget by 2002, cutting spending and reducing taxes.
Their muscle comes from their numbers. About 40 of them help make the Republican majority in a chamber. The party dominates by only 1.9 votes.
Moderate Republicans will have less influence in the Senate. November's voting pushed the GOP majority from 53-47 to 55-45, and the Senate became more conservative.
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'Seth is love personified'
300 gather at Kansas Union to honor swimmer
By Kelly Cannon
Kansan sportswriter
Justin Dunscomb found it ironic that his brother, Seth, died of an enlarged heart. (Walt Disney, high bid.) Justin said
"We all fit in his heart," Justin said.
Friends and family shared stories and memories about Seth Dunscomb with nearly 300 friends and teammates Friday at a memorial service at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf addressed the crowd first.
addresses him.
"I met with Seth's parents earlier today, and I understood how he grew up to be the man he was," Kempf said. "Seth's parents taught him to love, and Seth taught everyone how to love him."
After a scripture reading from the Bible, friends and family talked about Seth Dunscomb and the memories they had of him.
Seth Dunscomb began swimming at the age of six, said Connie Dunscomb, his mother.
Seth Dunscomb continued to swim, and in high school placed first in the 200-meter individual medley and third in the 100 backstroke in state competition. Because he spent so much time swimming, Connie Dunscomb said that he had little time for anything else.
"Seth couldn't play other sports, but he did find time for track," she said.
Seth Dunscomb also achieved success in track, placing fifth in the shot put and second in the discus in state competition.
When Connie Dunscomb found out about Seth Dunscomb's death, she said that she was afraid he had been alone when he died.
"But he wasn't alive, he was with his swim family and his swim father," she said. "Seth was doing what he loved the most until the last minute of his life."
Connie Dunscomb said that Seth had several unfulfilled dreams he was just starting to follow, including playing the guitar.
"Seth loved KU because it had these bands that came to Lawrence and Kansas City," she said.
Seth Dunscomb was also planning on going to Wales, Great Britain, because Dunscomb is a Welsh name, she said.
Seth Dunscomb had enrolled in a guitar class this semester. When he last spoke to his mother, he was excited that he had learned two chords, Connie Dunscomb said.
him to loving:
"Seth is love personified," Tejada said. "He wore that smile like a badge, and that is how you're going to remember Seth."
Alex Tejada, Flower Mound, Texas, senior and Seth Dunscomb's teammate, described him as loving.
Kostaki Chiligris, Decatur, Ill., junior and lifelong friend of Dunscomb, said that he had problems figuring out what to say about his friend at the memorial.
friend at the memorial.
Not knowing what else to do, Chiligiris said that he turned on the television and started watching The Simpsons. The episode, Chiligiris said, dealt with how one character befriended another and had to defend the friendship to his church.
At the end of the episode, the character described his friend in a way that reminded Chiligiris of Dunscomb. Chiligiris paraphrased what the character said.
"If everyone was like Seth, there would be no heaven because heaven would be right here."
Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf speaks Friday afternoon at a memorial service for Seth Dunscomb. The service for the Kansas swimmer was held in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. About 300 attended.
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Tests failed to find enlarged heart
By Kelly Cannon Kansan sports writer
When swimmer Seth Dunscomb suffered a blackout before winter break, he went through a barrage of tests to determine what was wrong with him.
That was what Connie Dunscomb, Seth Dunscomb's mother, said at his memorial service Friday at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The diagnosis was exercise-induced asthma, but in all the testing, the problem with his heart was missed. Dunscomb died Wednesday. According to the Douglas County Coroner's report, Dunscomb's death was related to a pre-existing cardiac disease expressed as an enlarged heart.
The most common type of an enlarged heart is when the heart becomes sickened, said Robert Hauser, cardiologist at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
"There are two different things that can happen," Hauser said. "The heart can sicken abnormally, and that is the most common cause of death in athletes. The heart can also expand like a balloon, but that is the least common. In the sickening, it is often an inherited problem."
interferen problem.
Hauser said that an enlarged heart was fairly uncommon. Death from an enlarged heart is preventable, provided it is tested for, Hauser said.
"One can be tested if there is a hint of it in family history or symptoms have occurred," he said.
An enlarged heart
Swelling of the heart can cause ventricular fibrillation, a sudden irregular beating of the heart that leads to cardiac arrest.
Source: Robert Hauser, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis
Fire damages apartment complex, kills two men
Eric B. Howell / KANSAN
Tenants at Sundance Apartments, 1421 W. 7th St., evacuate from a burning building early Saturday morning. These residents stayed in a hotel room paid for by the American Red Cross.
By Stephanie McDuff and Doug Weinstein
Kansan staff writers
Noah Musser/KANSAN
Fire swept through Sundance Apartments early Saturday morning leaving several KU students homeless and killing two construction workers.
The two fatalities, 34-year-old Charles Shoemaker of Kansas City, Kan., and 34-year-old Bruce Kloss of Rogers, Ark., died from smoke inhalation in their second-floor apartment.
Both men worked for an Arkansas-based construction firm and had been working on a local construction project. The temporary residents had only been living in the complex for about a week before the fire.
Fire department officials said that the blaze began on a couch in the victims' apartment as a result of careless handling of smoking materials.
At 2:33 a.m. Saturday, firefighters responded to a resident's 911 call to the building at 1421 W. 7th St. When the first firefighters arrived at the scene, heavy fire was visible in three center apartments in the 30-unit apartment complex.
Three alarms sounded, and 43 fire, police and medical personnel responded to the emergency.
The fire spread and eventually consumed six apartments and damaged several others. Many KU residents of the complex found themselves homeless and their possessions inside destroyed.
Fire officials said that the residents who were left homeless after the fire had either moved to undamaged vacant apartments in the complex or had arranged other lodgings.
Mastercraft officials repeatedly refused comment on any aspect of the fire, including confirmation of basic details in recent police reports.
freezing temperatures and the spray coming from firefighters' hoses caused a thick sheet of ice to form over many of the cars in nearby parking lots, preventing many residents from using their vehicles.
Fire department reports said that the damages to the complex are estimated at $250,000.
In addition to the damages sustained by the fire, residents also experienced other problems.
Sundance resident Matt Parker, Sloux FALL, S.D., sophomore, said
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Gutted computers found in Watson Library stacks
Kansan staff report
The hollowed shells of three KU computers were found in the stacks of Watson Library last Tuesday.
John Miller, the automation librarian who filed the police report, said that the computers had been stolen from the cataloging offices in the southeast section of the second floor. No monitors or printers were stolen.
Miller said that the doors had been locked but that the perpetrator or perpetrators could have found another way into the office.
"They could conceivably scale the walls," Miller said.
In that area of the library, the walls surrounding the office do
not reach the ceiling. They only go up to about eight feet.
Miller said that the computers had not been tied down like the library's public computers.
Police speculated that the robbery had taken place between 5 p.m. Jan. 17 and 6:30 a.m. Jan. 21. Among the items stolen from inside the computers were the hard and floppy drives, and the ethernet and video cards.
Mike Swalm, assistant manager and computer technician for the Jayhawk Bookstore, said that it was easy to open the shell and remove components from a computer.
"If the individual knew what they were looking for inside the computer, it probably wouldn't take any more than five minutes," Swalm said.
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