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Silvia Seegrist, 28, was taken into custody following the 4 p.m. shoot ing rampage at the Springfield Mall in Delaware County, said Police Chief George Hill. Democrats say cutting staff may undermine Social Security program Associated Press ,ongr nal Democrats charged Weanesday that President Reagan’s attempt to cut 17,000 positions from Social Se curity’s stall by 1990 is a back-door effort to erode service and under mine support for the program. Several senators and representa tives held a news conference to re lease copies of internal Social Secu rity documents discussing possible cutbacks in service. “It’s all a very clever game to build up public antipathy and resentment of the program,” said Sen. Paul Sar banes of Maryland, where officials are acutely worried about a potential toss of thousands of jobs at tne Social Security Administration headquar ters in Baltimore.' The Reagan administration has acknowledged previously it wantfr-io eliminate 1 / ,0()0 of Social Security’s 79,600 jobs by 1990 through attri tion. But spokesman James M. Brown said Wednesday, “There is absolutely no list of offices to be closed or combined.” Twenty-four members of the House, including two Republicans, Virginia Smith of Nebraska and Clarence E. Miller of Ohio, signed a letter urging colleagues to accept a Senate appropriations rider that would bar Social Security from cut ting 1,000 jobs or closing offices in fiscal 1986. Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., the author with Sarbanes of that prohi bition, said lines at the nation’s 1,300 Social Security offices already are “too long” ana any plan for further cutbacks is “reprehensible.” Social Security already has re duced its staff by the equivalent of 7,000 full-time workers in the past four years. An Aug. 29, 1985, memo by Louis D. Enoif, deputy Social Security commissioner for programs and pol icy, said that clerks spend the largest amount of time helping people piece together all the information needed to get a retirment benefit. He suggested that a change “such as altering the assistance we provide claimants in obtaining evidence could have a big payoff.” Another recent memo from Dep uty Commissioner Herbert R. Dog- gette Jr. advised Social Security’s 10 regional commissioners to keep a tighter lid on studies of potential of fice closings or reorganizations. It said they should not contact lo cal advocacy or community groups before clearing any closing with Bal timore. Wilbur Cohen, secretary of health, education and welfare in the Johrson administration, said, “This whole thing is engineered by the Of fice of Management and Budget.” He said people only go to Social Se curity offices when they retire, be come disabled, someone dies or are seeking help from Medicare with hospital hills. irecords*tai»es*video ^ Culpepper Plaza happy hour friday 2-6 movie rental over 2,000 titles 0, all $8.69 list cassettes or LPs $1.99 1 2 for $13 1 bestseller books 25% off Open: Mon. - Thurs., 10-10 Fri. &, Sat., 10-11 Sun. 12-10 1631 Texas Ave., College Station 693-2619 Police then closed the shopping center. Police had dealt with the Spring- field Township woman before be cause of “emotional problems,” said John McKenna of the Delaware County district attorney’s office. She was scheduled to be ar raigned later Wednesday night. Seegrist got out of her car at an entrance to the mall and began shooting the .22-caliber rifle at a woman using an automatic bank machine, but missed her, Hill said. “Then she began firing at every body and anybody who got in her path,” he said. A 4-year-old boy was killed near the entrance to the mall, Hill said. She then moved inside the mall, turning and firing as she worked her way through tne crowded main walkway, firing more than 15 shots in less than five minutes. Hill said. “The woman went on a random shooting rampage until she was wrestled to the ground by a college a college student” outside a shoe store, ne said. Jack Laufer, 24, of Media, “grabbed her from behind,* tied her to the ground andiin| the rifle away,” Hill said. She still had several rounij the rifle when thestudemji her, he said. It was not immediately! where the man in his40swastl Fiie victims, who ranged in* f rom 2 to 67, were taken to silt pitals. Of the eight injured, onev was listed in serious condition! the 67-vear-old man unden* surgery f or a head wound. Name may change U.S. Steel bids for oil compan Associated Press PITTSBURGH — United States Steel Corp. said Wednes day it agreed to acquire Texas Oil & Gas Corp. through an ex change of aix/ut $3.6 billion in stock, a move that would further a shift away from its steelmaking roots. David Roderick, the chairman of U.S. Steel, also said he was keeping an open mind about changing the name of the nation’s leading steelmaker to reflect that steel and related sales now ac count for only 34 percent of over all revenue, a figure that would shrink if the merger is completed. “We don’t think we’re backing away from steel,” Roderick said. “This was a stock transaction. It took away no cash from our steel operations.” Texas Oil 8c Gas, one of the largest independent natural gas companies, is a highly regarcFed low-cost producer that is Known for the freedom its gives its divi sion managers. U.S. Steel offered to exchange 0.633 share of its common stock for each share of Texas Oil 8c Gas, including the 14.5 million shares, or 6.9 percent, of Texas Oil & Gas that is held by its pen sion trustee, U.S. Steel and Car negie Pension Fund. would be worth $3.66 billion, or about $ 17.42 a share. But after the offer was an nounced, both U.S. Steel and Texas Oil 8c Gas shares fell, ap parently because investors did not find the offer of U.S. Steel stock attractive and because they had doubts about the perfor mance of Texas Oil 8c Gas under U.S. Steel ownership. NEW I shooters i prime Mil he addre; number a the anniv* sassinatior Angry a c Imn mnsMU'd shares of TexasOI .Lin Sikh 8c Gas at $17.42 a share. Iiib* £| a |j 0ra negotiated an option to bJMjg helit three kev gas pipeline sufcj tyednesda of 1 exas Oil Sc Gas for III | onor ing “We don’t think we’re bucking away from steel. This was a stock transaction. It took away no cash from our steel operations. ” — David Roderick, U.S. Steel chairman troops we Jerrorist a sary of tb Fai Based on a closing price Tues day, before the deal was an nounced, of $27.50 a share lor U.S. Steel, the swap for the 210.3 million shares of I exas Oil 8c Gas U.S. Steel was the most actively traded stock Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange, fall ing 75 cents to $26.75 a share, a price that would make the pur chase of the remaining shares worth $3.56 billion, or $16.94 a share. Texas Oil & Gas was the second most active issue, drop ping $ 1.37 , /9 to $ 16.50 a share. I he offer was well below the $5.2 billion that analysts earlier had estimated for a Texas Oil 8c Gas takeover. But to protect itself against los ing to a.higher hid, U.:S. Steel re ceived an option to buy^S.O mil- hillion, a purchase that w «Kh ot h er an make the remainingasseubtH “Securii ii.k u\c-in another suitor. Hj|| not , • ompletion ot thedealisiiH (atesnian ject to antitrust clearance hll Throng government and approval i35^ stockholders If the takeover is condudrii planned early next year,thee® nitration would further expu one of the largest companie the country, giving it total aw of about $23 billion and anni revenues of approximately|! billion. I he merger is U.S. Steeli ond big venture into the oil pe 111 lour years. It paid $63 in 1981 to acquire MarathonU Co. Marathon contributed $/ billion, or 53 percent, off Steel’s 1984 sales of $19.1 bills U.S. Steel produced 15.1 Si lion tons of raw steel last yearia| Roderick said the company irf been investing in better steel ilities at an annual rate of Jif| million “We’re absolutely commitwli ontinuing that course of adit he said The company scommitiKiii®ipi anat j on ii v ii.ime mav l>e lessendurinj Bj ee p| y j n w< le not hung up that4 u, would nevei change the MB* V . |PI L ;i r Kodei it k said. We hawnopfaBnancial tr. ... but our minds are open" K “j see WASH asked We lion to ke< from top| of farm b< “Absen istance, i he radic; agricultui airman il, the sy :the House Some r warmed t pressed s South African election show mixed rei Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The National Party, putting its race reform measures on the line with white voters in five special par liamentary elections, handily won one race Wednesday, narrowly de feated an ultra-rightist in another and lost a third, unofficial returns showed. Results were not in from two con servative farming communities. The elections were viewed as a gauge of white feeling toward the government’s limited moves away from apartheid after 14 months of black riots and a deepening eco nomic crisis. Meanwhile, police said at least seven blacks were killed Wednesday and late Tuesday in violence be lieved linked to unrest against apart heid, South Africa’s system of en forced racial separation. In Sasolburg, south of Johannes burg, an ultra-right candidate, Louis Stoiberg of the Reformed National Party, ctefeated the National Party candidate by 367 votes out of nearly 13,000 cast. Stofberg’s victory was the first parliamentary seat won by his party since it broke from the National Party 16 years ago when the Nation- aWsvs suggested aWovrivva vac.v«\\ \wve- gratiou on the country’s athletiv fields. One National Parts victory canie. in Port Natal, near Durban, where Home Minister Stoffel, Botha won easily, as expected. The second win was in Springs, a depressed blue-collar town east of Johannesburg that was heretofore solidly Nationalist. The government’s candidate, for mer journalist P.W. Coetzer de feated the Conservative Party candi date by only 749 votes out of nearly 10,000 cast. Results were not in from Bethle hem amf Vryburg, both farm com munities. The balloting was to fill midterm vacancies in the whites-only cham ber, which has final say in the three- chamber Parliament. Whites, people of mixed-race and Asians meet separately in the Parlia ment. Blacks nave no vote and no chamber. The National Party, in power since 1948, fought to hold the five seats against challenges from far- right white supremacists. In two districts^ caiulidates ran from a party which wants apartheid dismantled. W\e ri^tvusvi wgAeii tob dem P.W. Boina's reform ajxmheid signal thqoit' mem is abandoning white it® and handing the nation toblath All five elections were in cosKf live areas dominated up to to'- the Nationalists, who had pretfei thev would keep every seat. I he National Party portrait| candidates as cautious, enlipj reformers who will protect wte 1 terests. Botha campaigned in thret munities, calling for national behind his party at a time*i South Africa faces economk and increased intern® uons criticism. The rightists of the Consent Party and the Reformed Nit Party said changes so far meant country is headed toward blatb jority rule. The Progressive Federal f* which opposes race-separatioa asked voters to put themselvesoft cord as viewing Botha’s race reft as too timid. The 1 whose candidates ran in Port Natal, oppose race-sepatJ laws, said Botha overstatestnetlt f rom the right. The Aniga will talk to you, read back what you write, answer your phone and compose music like a professional synthesizer. It can add new creativity to your life and bring new life to everything you create. See the /Amiga today at Yes Computers. Authorized Amiga Dealer wVkl Computers ' 2553 Texas Avc. S. 693-8080 College Station (Shiloh Place) Sc St 1 1 Rc Be K