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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1979
More moon rocks may he missing
United Press International
WASHINGTON — An internal
memorandum charges the National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion is missing a much larger quan
tity of moon rocks and soil samples
than space officials are willing to
admit.
The document also charges a
space program official told NASA
auditors moon materials were being
stolen, but the case was not investi
gated further.
The memo said more than 24 per
cent of the samples sent to various
research scientists for analysis and
study, under a $41 million grant
program, were either unaccounted
for or missing.
Last week auditors found “sub
stantial quantities” of the lunar
samples brought back by Apollo as
tronauts were missing. But NASA
officials said the missing soil samples
amounted to only 17 ounces.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis.,
whose subcommittee handles NA
SA’s budget, immediately asked for
a written response from NASA and
for an investigation of the lunar ma
terial program by the General Ac
counting Office.
Meanwhile, a private memoran
dum sent last Friday to NASA In
spector General Eldon Taylor by
Claude Lynch, director of the agen
cy’s southwest regional Office of
Audit, strongly disagrees with NA
SA’s response to the audit’s find
ings.
Lynch said his office’s audit found
24.87 pounds of moon samples were
“in the uncertain category” —
either unaccounted for or missing.
That represents 24.6 percent of the
quantity given to researchers for
study and analysis.
“I cannot understand how anyone
can say an uncertainty factor of 24
percent is not substantial when we
are dealing with a unique product,”
Lynch told Taylor.
Lynch’s memorandum also said
one auditor “was informed by a JSC
(Johnson Space Center) Security Of
fice person that an employee work
ing in the Curatorial Facility had
reported to the NASA inspector a
person was stealing moon material
samples and how it was being ac
complished.”
“Allegedy the inspector replied,
T do not believe it.’ Because we did
not want to be accused of internal
strife, we did not develop this
point,” Lynch said.
He also said that with the excep
tion of a 1 percent per year audit,
the remaining moon rocks and soil,
samples, totaling 745.31 pounds,
that remained “untouched” by the
study program have never been
fully verified by NASA since being
weighed originally after the Apollc
flights.
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Drama prop too real;
fake bomb fetches cops
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The
drama class’ props at Northwest
High School were realistic enough
to require an evacuation of the
school.
A teacher Thursday reported to
the principal’s office that something
looking like dynamite wired to
gether with a timer had been found
on a stage.
The 1,800 students were
evacuated and the police demolition
squad was called, said Glen Bow
man, the school’s assistant principal
and safety director.
What police found was “a Lincoln
Log set tied together with wire with
a little old timer off a washing
machine or something tied to it,”
Bowman said.
“We finally got the information
from the drama class that some
props had been used in a drama
production and had been inadver
tently not placed back in the prop
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Credit card financed sniping spree
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United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Police say the sniper who
a jail cell Monday used an American Express credit card to financed
23-hour shooting spree that terrorized downtown last weekend
Inspector Bruce Lorin said Wayne Cullinane, 22, purchasedju
and ammunition in San Francisco with travelers checks bought
an American Express credit card under the alias of Gary Mclntoi
Cullinane took one woman hostage and fired intermittentlyfc;
the 16th floor of an office building until he was captured late Sate
day.
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WASHINGTON — The House, upholding action by Presii
Carter, Thursday rejected a proposal to continue price controls
domestic crude oil.
After three hours of debate, the House in effect told Carter
continue his gradual phaseout of price controls, which end Sept
1980.
The House defeated 257-135 an amendment by Reps. Toll
Moffett, D-Conn., and Bob Eckhardt, D-Texas, which would ha
frozen controls at their present level for a full year.
The amendment was offered to a bill authorizing $6.9 billion for
Department of Energy and various energy programs.
Moffett said that U.S. oil companies have taken advantage of
price increases to raise the price of oil already being pumped oo!
the ground from $6 to $23 a barrel while production costs rem;
constant.
However, opponents led by Rep. Timothy Wirth, D-Colo.,
that the extra money is needed to spur domestic production.
“The era of cheap and abundant oil is over,” Wirth said,
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Guantanamo dn
United Press International
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. —
Support equipment for a Marine
amphibious force of 1,800 men
Thursday was being loaded aboard
Navy ships for a landing exercise
next week at the U.S. Naval Base at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A Navy spokesman said officers
were hoping the convoy would be
able to depart today.
The departure of the fleet was de
layed Wednesday because of strong,
shifting winds that slowed the load
ing of equipment assigned to the
38th Marine Amphibious Unit, or
dered on maneuvers last week by
President Carter in response to the
continued presence of a Soviet
combat brigade in Cuba.
About 250 vehicles and several
loads of cargo remained to be loaded
on the helicopter assault ship USS
Nassau and the USS Plymouth
Rock, two ships that remained an
chored offshore while loads were
ferried out by barge.
Most of the 1,800 combat-ready
Marines boarded the three ships
Wednesday, the spokesman said.
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landing craft at Camp Lejs
about 60 miles away.
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under cloudy skies and i
peratures, hut 25 mile
winds that hampered Wedce
operations had died down 1 , ri rr
time the first cargo barges 1( f tLLl
docks at 7 a.m. Thursday,
The bulk of the assaulli
which will storm the bead
Guantanamo Bay Oct. 17 arii
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square mile base for a monll
assigned to the Nassau, an®
long, 106-foot wide ship desiji
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Time’s up on sentence
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McGann Dlst. Houston, TX. ♦
United Press International
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. —
“Grandma Marijuana” says she is
doing just “splendidly” in jail and
has used her time to meditate,
thinking up a way to cash in on her
notoriety.
Lois Faulkner, 68, says she plans
to go on a college campus speaking
tour and “make a fortune from
Grandma Marijuana T-shirts, pants,
hats, caps, belts and other
paraphernalia. ”
Faulkner will be released from
the Ventura County Jail Oct. 28,
after serving a 53-day jail $
for selling and giving marijc
school children. She saidst*
tributed the pot because it Mi
for the children.
The woman disclosed he!
plans in a letter to the Sim
Enterprise.
Writers have been contart-
about book and movie rij
plans on a lecture tourc
campuses, campaigning for
tion of marijuana, she said.
Faulkner has promised!
sell marijuana again.
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