Tuesday, April 29, 1986
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IUD lawsuits
cut options
in birth control
LINCOLN Planned Parent
hood and medical officials say
they are concerned that women
are running out of options be
cause lawsuits are depriving them
of a popular, effective means of
birth control.,
Resulting liability costs from
women harmed by use of the
Dalkon Shield an intrauterine
contraceptive device sold byA.II.
Robins & Co. in the early 1970s
have forced many manufactur
ers to stop making IUDs. Most
public ami many private clinics
have stopped prescribing IUDs.
"It's a bit of a tragedy," said
Tim Moran, community relations
coordinator for Planned Parent
hood in Lincoln. "Many women
who use, or who did use IUDs, did
so because they couldn't tolerate
the rill. Now they are left with
nothing.
"We're afraid that might result
in more unwanted pregnancies,
perhaps even more abortions."
An IUD is a small device of
plastic sometimes copper
coated that is inserted into a
woman's uterus and acts to
change the lining and hinder
pregnancy. An estimated 2.3 mil
lion American women are now
using them, according to the
National Center for Health Statis
tics. She said women can opt for
less effective and less convenient
forms of birth control dia
phragms, foams, condoms or
permanent sterilization.
"I'm afraid some, women are
going to be forced into choosing
permanent sterility, when they
really aren't ready," said Dr,
Deanna Hutchins, a Lincoln
obstetrician and gynecologist
State Health Department
clinics across Nebraska have
stopped prescribing IUDs, along
with Planned Parenthood d Lin
coln, the Medical Clinic at the
University of Nebraska-Omaha ,
and many private physickKS. .
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One reactor said to be damaged
oviets report nuclear plaint
MOSCOW The Soviet government
Monday reported a nuclear accident at
the Chernobyl power plant. It said one
nuclear reactor was damaged and those
"affected" were being given aid.
Official Tass news agency reported
on the accident did not disclose
whether there were any deaths. It was
not immediately known if the reference
to those "affected" implied that some
people were injured.
The Tass reports were issued after
Swedish officials said increased radia
tion levels were detected north of
Stockholm, apparently because of a
radiation leak in the Soviet Union.
Similar increases in radiation levels
were reported in Finland.
It was believed to be the first time
the Soviets had reported on a nuclear
accident. The initial accident report
came in a brief dispatch from the
1 don't have feed for my cows'
Distraught farmer
arrested after chase
PRINCETON, Mass. Residents
rallied around a computer engineer-turned-farmer
whose apparent depres
sion over hard times triggered what
police say was a suicide attempt and a
three-town chase that ended when he
rammed a cruiser and threatened
officers.
Authorities said James A. Eden
Kilgour became distraught over the
weekend because he had no feed left
for his cows.
"1 don't have feed for my cows, and I
don't have money to buy any," Lawson
quoted Eden-Kilgour as saying after his
arrest.
Eden-Kilgour, 44, appeared briefly in
Clinton District Court on Monday, where
a judge entered an innocent plea for
him and ordered a psychiatrist to
determine if he was fit to face the
variety of assault charges.
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carried by Tass.
The government said an investigatory
commission has been set up, adding,
"measures are being undertaken to
eliminate the consequences of the
accident."
One nuclear reactor was damaged in
the accident, Tass said. The Tass report
gave no other details.
The city of Chernobyl is located 750
miles from the area in Sweden where
officials reported increased radial ion.
An editor answering the telephone
at Tass said the nuclear plant was
located in the Ukraine, but he was
unsure whether it was actually in the
city of Chernobyl. Tass did not report
when the accident occurred, and the
editor said he did not know.
Tass reported the accident was the
first in the Soviet Union.
However, Western analysts and exiled
Eden-Kilgour became distraught
Saturday morning after he apparently
argued with his wife in the barn and
then threatened her with a hoe, Lawson
said. Mrs. Eden-Kilgour fled to neigh
bor Joyce Szerejko's house.
When another neighbor approached
Eden-Kilgour's house a few minutes
later, he saw the farmer sitting in a car
with the engine running and a hose
attached to the exhaust pipe through a
window into the car. Eden-Kilgour drove
off, with the hose will through the
window, when he saw the neighbor.
Princeton Officer Maryanne Frost
found Eden-Kilgour in his car in the
Leominster State Forest with the hose
still through the window and motor
running, Lawson said. When she walked
toward him, Eden-Kilgour "slammed
his car into reverse," nearly hitting her,
and drove off.
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Soviet scientists have said there was a
nuclear accident in the Chelyabinsk
areaof the Ural Mountains in 1958 that
killed hundreds of people and con
taminated a wide area. The region is
still off limits.
A Swedish official reported earlier
Monday that increased radiation levels
detected on. Sweden's eastern coast
apparently were caused by a radiation
leak in the Soviet Union.
Bo Holinquist, a senior official in the
regional government in Uppsala, north
of Stockholm, which supervises
Sweden's Forsmark nuclear power
plant, said increased radiation was
discovered around the plant this morning.
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Holmquist said radiation from a leak
in the Soviet Union had probably been
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Swedish coast.
"The radiation level was very weak,
but it showed on Forsmark's sensitive
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another source of radiation when similar
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