Wednesday, April 2, 1997

• Murder of Women in Domestic Violence

  
  

  A groundbreaking new study examining the murder of women
  was released this week, and in it are some startling new
  conclusions that are challenging old assumptions about
  violence against women.

  The New York City Department of Health studied the murder
  of more than 1,100 women in the city over a five year period.
  The portrait that emerges details how women were murdered,
  who they were, and where they died.

  GUEST:

• National Cancer Institute Urges Mammograms

  
  

  The Federal government this past week officially recommended
  that beginning at age 40 women undergo an annual breast
  screening procedure known as a mammogram. Reversing its
  previous position, the National Cancer Institute joined with
  other large cancer groups saying that the screening of younger
  women can reduce the death rate from breast cancer.

  In 1997, more than 180,000 women will be diagnosed with breast
  cancer, and some 44,000 will die of it.

  The National Cancer Institute’s recommendations were the
  latest in a tumultuous four-year debate over the value of
  mammograms for women in this age group. And many
  women’s health groups still insist that there is no hard
  evidence that mammograms help younger women and, in fact,
  they may be harmful.

• Arrests Made in Canada Linked to Saudi Arabia

  
  

  Last June, a truck bomb parked outside a US military base in
  Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killed 19 US servicemen and wounded
  400 people. Now, the Canadian government is holding two
  Saudi men that it claims were involved in the bombing.

  Canadian intelligence officials say that one of the men, 28-year-
  old Hani Abdel-Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, was a driver who
  helped set up the bombing. They also say that his affiliation
  with an Iranian-backed organization in Saudi Arabia links the
  bombing to Tehran.