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Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, August 30, 1983 i Come See and Ride the HONDA AERO 80 featuring: • Electric Start • V-Matic Transmission • 2 Passenger Honda Aero 50 — *598°° TWIN CITY HONDA 903 S Main Bryan, TX 823-0545 Elements of life found in meteor United Press International WASHINGTON — Scientists say they have found the precur sors of life, the five chemicals which make up genes, in a meteorite — indicating there may be living things elsewhere in the universe. “The possibility of the evolu tion of life elsewhere in the uni verse certainly receives a tremendous boost from this evi dence,” said Cyril Ponnamper- uma, director of the University of Maryland’s Laboratory of Chemical Evolution. Ponnamperuma summa rized 13 papers on the origins of life on Earth and the possibility of extraterrestrial life in a pre sentation to the 186th annual meeting of the American Che mical Society. Ponnamperuma said his team picked apart a meteorite that fell to Earth in 1969 in Au stralia and found the base che micals that make up DNA and RNA, the components of genes. The team said testing showed those five nucleic acids on the meteorite — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil — were not the result of earthly contamination. The team also created the same materials by subjecting a mixture of methane, nitrogen and water — believed to have composed Earth’s atmosphere billions of years ago — to an elec trical charge. Ponnamperuma said no one has been able to isolate the five nucleic acids in such an experi ment before. He cautioned, however, “We found only the precursors of life. We have not found life there (in outer space). We have not found E.T. We have not made life in the laboratory.” The team demonstrated 13 years ago that amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, could be found in meteorites, Ponnamperuma said. 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It i and f culpr “I McK; Hijackers still hold passengers in Iran United Press International Four hijackers holding an Air France jetliner at the Tehran airport with 17 hostages aboard, including three Americans, warned Monday they would order the plane into the air un less Prance met their political demands by afternoon, officials said. The deadline was set for 2:10 p.m. Tehran time (6:40 a.m. EDT), Air France officials said. Tehran Radio said the four hijackers were armed with guns and grenades in the Boeing 727 that sat on a runway at Mehra- bad Airport in the Iranian capit al. Iranian police surrounded the airliner. The 17 passengers and crew members were reported safe this morning by a Mehrabad control tower official. “They are in the airplane, but I cannot give you more informa tion about them,” said the air port official, who declined to give his name. “I tell you only they are in the aircraft and the crew has not been released yet.” In Paris, Air France officials said the hijackers warned they would force the plane to takeoff unless France responded im mediately to their political de mands. “They are asking for a reply in the next few hours,” an airline spokesman said. “They are threatening to take off for an unknown destination this morn ing if their demands are not met.” The French foreign ministry said the hijackers demanded that France release unspecified prisoners from jails and justify French policy in the Iran-Iraq war, the Chad conflict and the Lebanese crisis. Tehran radio, however, said the hijackers had specifically de manded the release of Lebanese prisoners in French prisons. The sky pirates comman deered Air France’s Flight 781 Saturday on a flight from Vien na to Paris. It was first forced to land in Geneva, then Sicily and Damascus before arriving in Tehran. Ninety-three of the ginal passengers andoet released before the ed in Tehran. Air Frantt rials in Paris said three! ican men were amongth tages, but did notidentih The other hostagesnu CA be in bring A gg>€ Th returi a Swedish woman, sixfi In the nationals and the seven e rew members. The Air France spokes! Paris said another! team, to co\ Sta footb; arisen over the sudden it might one hostage, a french* passenger, who was the plane with her husk the airport terminal An Iranian doctor*: amining the stricken « mates them make: PROBLEM PREGNANCY Are you considering Abortion? Confidential Free Pregnancy Testing & Referrals Call (713) 524-0548 Houston, Texas whose ailment waSnotdkl hut the hijackers werehl ding that they returntolil craft, the spokesman said! Air France officials 1 the hijackers threatenedl troy the aircraft, but It| radio, in a broadcast nwl in London, reported the! late Sunday. “The hijackers have sal if their demands are iHJ within 48 hours theywl up the aircraft,” Tehraiil said. Negotiations betweei French f oreign ministry hijackers were condi Arabic through an Sunday. At the insist! French Charge d’Affaii Perrin, 14 of the 17 aboard were allowed to off the plane briefly,a as proof they were health, the radio said. : ■ >OOs MSC Cafeteria Now Better Than Ever. 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