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DALLAS — It was a trip to “in
ner space” for NASA researchers
who said Sunday they have com
pleted a successful six-day recon
naissance trip into New Mexico’s
Lechuguilla Cave for clues to the
possibility of life on Mars.
The team of five scientists, in
cluding three from the National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion, emerged late Saturday from
the nation’s deepest cave after tak
ing samples of rocks and organisms
found 1,000 feet underground.
Larry Mallory, a soil biochemist
at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst who led the scientists’
group, said they examined bacte
ria and other organisms in rock
formations and pools of water.
The bacteria derive energy
from sulfur and iron, believed to
be two main ingredients of Mart
ian soil.
“There were core samples taken
in an area with a lot of corrosion
residue that has a large communi
ty of bacteria,” said Mallory, 41.
We were interested in coring
through this rock to see the color
changes and to look at the basic
microbiology in the rock.”
Chris McKay, a NASA planetary
scientist from the agency’s Ames
Research Center near San Francis
co, Calif, said the cave is uniqi
because it contains rock like tn
on Mars.
“Larry’s work shows that there
are organisms down here,” said
McKay. ‘‘We want to know how
they are making their living, un
derstand the chemistry and biolo
gy involved and see if it is applica
ble to Mars.”
He said NASA is curious
whether any life that may have ex
isted on Mars’ surface could still re
main in the planet’s underground
environments. The work is part of
ongoing NASA research at possible
Earth counterparts to Mars.
‘‘We did a lot of work in the
Antarctic, Siberia, the Gobi Desert
and high mountain environ
ments,” McKay of San Francisco
said. "A lot of these environments
are in some sense Mars-like.”
But in scientists’ first look at
“inner space” linderground, team
members had entered Lechuguilla
Monday. The cave is located in a
surface wilderness area of sprawl
ing Carlsbad Caverns National Park
in southeastern New Mexico.
Their journey with cave explor
ers of the Huntsville, Ala.-based
National Speleological Society led
to the Western Borehole section of
the cave, which has been surveyed
to a length of more than 70 miles
and a depth of 1,593 feet.
Microbiologist Penny Boston
said water samples were also taken
from pools in the cave. The scien
tists, who also included NASA en
gineer Larry Lemke, and cavers
planned to return in the fall for
more, she said.
Access to the cave is restricted
by the National Park Service be
cause of its scientific value and
rough terrain.
‘ It’s an amazing environment.
I’m very impressed with it,” said
Ms. Boston, who consults for
NASA from Boulder, Colo. “It is
unique.”
By Boomer Cardinoli
Davidians
Continued from Page 3
government would like them to.”
Those at the site Sunday paid
$ 1 to park and another $ 1 for a
program, with the money going
to a fund for the survivors. Sev
eral booths sold videotapes, cas
sette tapes, booksi T-shirts, caps
and pins.
Two large placards with the
names of the dead were erected
near a tree, and several tables
were loaded with pictures and re
ports about the siege.
“It was a massacre,” said San
Antonio resident Don Rex, an
artist who was wearing a sand
wich board that compared the
standoff to the legendary battle at
the Alamo.
Like those who died at the
Alamo fighting for Texas’ inde
pendence, Rex said Koresh and
the others died "for standing up
for what they believed in.”
“I can’t believe what happened
here,” said Rex as he stood near
the chain-link fence that sur
rounds a quarantined section of
the complex.
The sand-colored compound
is gone. Now, there are only
mounds of debris and dirt sitting
amid the bluebonnets and others
wildflowers blooming this spring.
“This used to be a place where
people could go to live,” said
David Thibodeau.
Thibodeau, 25, was one of
those who spoke Sunday. He also
was one of those who survived
the fire.
“That fire shouldn't have hap
pened.” said Thibodeau, a drum
mer who played in Koresh s band
and followed his teachings.
"People couldn't get out," he
said. “It was terrifying, you
thought you were going to die
any minute.”
The fire began several hours
after the FBI began assaulting the
compound with tear gas. The
flames, fanned by stiff winds,
quickly consumed the complex.
Only nine people survived
the blaze. Other Branch Davidi
ans at Sunday’s gathering had
left the compound during the
5 1 -day siege.
Drug Ring
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“The juveniles were not a high priority when
there was dope floating around that we had to seize,”
Barnes said. “They were mules (drug carriers). We
had to get the leaders, the people who were calling
the shots.
“We are now getting all of that paperwork (on the
juveniles) ready,” he said.
It is a violation of federal law for either customs or
the U.S. attorney’s office to disclose the identity of
those juveniles, officials said.
At the time the 1 2 people were indicted, the thret
yet-to-he charged juveniles were students at Coroni
do High, Barnes said. But he said he does not tow
whether they still attend the school.
U.S. Customs Service spokesman Roger Maieraid
his agency stands by its initial statements as to the!
number of individuals involved and the Coromd
High School link. • - - \
‘Not everyone is implicated at the same level,
Maier said. “Our initial investigation was that they al
had a tie to Coronado. The basis of the entire devel
opment of this ring was people who had some tie-in
with one individual
basically a recruiter.’
(a Coronado graduate) who was
Bosnia
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Ciftluk, northwest of Sarajevo,
from four days of detention at a
Serb barracks.
But many other UN. personnel
still remained hindered by Serbs,
who began restricting their move
ments last week as an insurance
against further NATO attacks.
In another reflection of U.N.-
Serb tensions, British peacekeepers
briefly duelled with Serb forces at
Kobilja Glava, north of Sarajevo, in
what UN. spokesman Maj. Rob
Annink called a “very heavy fight”
at close range. There were no
British casualties.
In other developments, the
Washington Post reported Sunday
that the Clinton administration re
jected widening NATO air strikes
in response to the Serb offensive
against Gorazde. It said the United
States also agreed for the first time
to discuss a European proposal to
slowly lift economic sanctions
against Serbia prior to a full peace
settlement.
Sanctions were placed againsi
Serbia in 1991 for funding Serb
revolts in Bosnia and Croatia.
The NATO jet shot down Satur
day was one of two British Sei
Harrier jets flying a mission
against a Serb tank firing into the
center of Gorazde. After being hit
the plane exploded and crashed
The pilot bailed out and was safe.
Bosnian Serbs have denied
shooting down the plane.
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itating, he said A&M.
The family toured A&M and fell in love with the
atmosphere.
“The spirit is what sets A&M apart,” John said.
“Other schools have it, but not to the degree of A&M.”
At the Air Force Academy, he said there was also a
tight sense of community, but it only had about
2,500 students.
“For the number of students at A&M, the closeness
is unique,” he said.
Donna said students at other schools in Texas are
“me” oriented, whereas at A&M, they are “you”
oriented.
“At A&M, they reach out to others,” she said. “I
just like walking across campus and hearing people
say ‘Howdy!’ It’s like being in a small town where
everybody likes everybody. If I could have gone to
A&M back then, I would have gone.”
While John was in the Air Force, the couple made
frequent visits to A&M, often flying in from out of
state to attend football games and Bonfire.
said
‘I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere,”
id. “I love the football games.”
Donna
The Van Duyns met in Lubbock when John was in
pilot training school and Donna was a student a(
Texas Tech.
John was the base commander at Keesler Air Force
Base in Biloxi, Mississippi and Donna worked as a
teacher until last year.
When John retired in January 1 993, the couple de
cided to move to Bryan.
“We loved coming here,” Donna said. “So when
we were down here, we saw the house and we liked
it, so here we are!”
Donna enjoys working at Cain Dining Hall because
it gives her a chance to interact with the students.
“Basically, I just love working with kids,” she said.
The Van Duyns plan to talk to the previous Parents
of the Year, Rodney and Sue Hill, to find out what
will be expected of them.
“We really don’t know what responsibilities we'H
have,” Dona said. “We’re still in the clouds on this.”
“1 figure we can meet a lot of students and have
them over for dinner,” she said.
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