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NE THE BATTal AVednesday, July 10, 2002 Jack Teez- > uHat & (?RZAT J MuH > < Sos*£.TH\a>& ,s Hate ^ see*k IT To VA K.D, LjfMTs 'icyj 'S.pZAJCE ? h . pilots notified air traffi control before plane eras X Haij The AiEsset* uf > ^ DREW r^KEy AaJI> E UET TSfl/«r Co/uTEST , AfrAtyO > Beernuts by Rob Appling ^Adrien NEWS IN BRIEF Man who beheaded his mother found innocent by reason of insanity MERCED, Calif. (AP) — A man was found inno cent by reason of insanity in the beheading of his mother and could spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital. Sheriff's deputies found David Donald Lange, 20, naked and reading a Bible next to Aurelia Hernandez Lange's decapitated body in 2000. A judge rendered the verdict Monday in the non-jury trial after Lange's lawyers submitted three psychiatric reports. His lawyer said he suf fers from schizophrenia and is being successfully treated with medication. 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BERLIN (AP) — Both pilots of the planes that slammed into each other over Germany noti fied Swiss air traffic control less than a minute before that they were descending — putting them on a collision course, investigators said Tuesday. The German investigation into the crash that killed 71 peo ple last week sharpened its focus on the apparently conflicting instructions to the Russian char ter plane’s pilot from controllers on the ground and the on-board collision warning system. Investigators are “looking to clarify what the real legal situa tion is” in such a case, said spokesman Odo Zboralski. Analysis of the cockpit voice recorders show that the Bashkirian Airlines pilot acknowledged the controller's order to descend about 30 sec onds before the collision, but he did not mention an order to climb that he had received from his cockpit warning system, Zboralski said. Some 15 seconds before, the pilot of the other aircraft, a DHL International cargo jet, told ground control over his radio that he was following a cockpit computer warning to descend. “But there was no acknowl edgment from the ground station to (the DHL plane), it’s just on the tape and we are not so sure if the controller really got that message,” Zboralski said. Swiss air traffic controllers had taken over the planes as they approached one another over the German-Swiss border just before midnight July 1. The crash killed 69 people on the Russian plane, including 45 school students heading for a Spanish beach vacation, and the two DHL pilots. German investigators have already said that both planes’ automatic warning systems simultaneously told pilots to take emergency evasive maneuvers about 45 seconds before they hit, directing the Russian plane to climb and the DHL International cargo plane to descend. But one second later. Swiss air traffic control told the Russian plane to descend. Laced with conflicting orders, the Russian pilot hesitated until the order was repeated by air traffic control 14 seconds later. The Russian, speaking in English, then acknowledged receiving the order to (fc Zboralski said. Russian officials have the Bashkirian Airlines made the correct decisioni: low the air traffic control order over his onboardwi- system. Western experts,he. er. maintain a cockpit % system always takes precede Procedures set down by 187-nation International f Aviation Organization,» works for global air traffic dards, allow pilots to ove ground control if on-board: ironies warn him to ch course to avoid a collision another plane. But an ICAO spoke> Denis Chagnon, said it “difficult to answer’’ pilot should do if given com ing instructions. “It’s basically up to: f pilot,” he said. Swiss officials on TumtS took efforts to bolster airtdj 1 control in response to reveta | that a lone controller wasoeef at the Zurich flight control an at the time of the crash, acd sitm-wanting system wash for maintenance and wort -: also being done on thephoK' Si re F Art Ke' bn tee the f o see col lys A& N e an Tue S Elr All- for S 19 rot Da he Su| the Sc ne Al-Qaida spokesman quoted saying terror is alive, thriving Larsen Continued from page 1 two million animal species have been described so far from all environments on earth, and less than one quarter of them are from the oceans,” Larsen said. Much of the deep-sea envi ronmental baseline and monitor ing survey work carried out by the offshore oil and gas industry has traditionally involved core and grab samplers, he said. He said other techniques used such as deep-sea landers and towed video systems have relatively high capital and main tenance costs which would nor mally preclude their use by an individual business unit. An initiative therefore was taken to establish a package of sophisti cated equipment, which can be made available to all BP deep-sea business units as an adjunct to their routine surveys, he said. Bright Continued from page 1 resources major and friend. “It’s depressing to see the one guy that enjoys life more than anyone else having to struggle for it.” Even though Bright is fighting cancer for the second time, he tries to remain positive. “I’ve beat it once and I’ll beat it again,” Bright said. ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — In an interview published Tuesday, the spokesman for al-Qaida said the terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden was thriving and planning new attacks on Americans. He called the U.S. campaign to dismantle the group a “Hollywood script.” “Al-Qaida still maintains its mil itary, security, economic and infor mational structures,” Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was quoted as saying in the Algerian daily El Youm. There was no way to verify the authenticity of the quotes. But U.S. officials said two weeks ago that a recent audio recording by Abu Ghaith appeared to be legitimate. Government analysts had matched the sound of his voice to previous recordings. In that message, released as an audio file on Islamic Web sites, Abu Ghaith said bin Laden and his deputy were still alive. The United States, leading the war on terrorism ii Al-Qaida still maintains its military, security, economic and informational + + 99 structures. in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, hassaL® doesn’t know whether bin Laden is aliveorfe fe The editor in chief of El Youm. an Arabic If r guage daily, said the interw published was conducted C via two intermediaries. | Editor H'Mida AyacMff |F Youm formulated ques • were taxed to an intermed®'. A second intermediary ac ^‘ ly asked the questions. He w° not say where the interview tfwj place. Abu Ghaith is quoted as | that al-Qaida “functions acconjj to a rigorous, secret logic an '|l it cannot be knocked oul ' ',|| — Salaiman Abi Ghaith spokesman for al-Qaida more att» and on Qaida will organize inside American territory side, at the moment we choose the place we choose and with the objectives we want.” m He dismissed the U.S.-led strikes Afghanistan to rout out al-Qaida. Kuwait Continued from page 1 He said approximately 12,000 firefighters are here at A&M and the museum wanted to provide something for the firefighters. “We wanted to do an exhibit that would be of interest to the firefighters and to the communi ty and A&M,” Blake said. “We also wanted to focus on the Exhibit Continued from page 1 Adams developed the system of weights and measures, Blake said. The exhibit features several prominent works of art, includ ing portraits of John and Abigail Adams by Gilbert Stuart and portraits of George and George W. Bush by Ron Sheer. “I think (the exhibit) is unbe lievable,” said Britt Harris, a vis itor to the museum. “I am from Connecticut and heard about it through a friend who recom mended that I come. I was sur- environmental disaster. Everyone remembers the Gulf War, but not everyone remem bers the devastation of the fires.” The exhibit says that two bil lion barrels of crude oil burned into smoke, causing $25 billion in damage and 20 years of envi ronmental effects. “Lirefighters thought it would take three years to gain control of the tires, but the top three teams in the state helped bring it about prised to see the Adams’ as part of the exhibit. It was neat to see the links from the past to the present. It makes you feel the whole history of the country.” Also included in the exhibit is a display from the Sept. 1 1 attacks, including pictures of the attack and a copy of the speech President George W. Bush gave on Sept. 20. “I was impressed by the bull horn on display which President Bush used to talk to the rescuers at Ground Zero and the letter he wrote to his father explaining the reasons behind his decision to attack Afghanistan,” Harris in seven months,’ Blake Joan Ledwig, a museum j unteer, said it is import^ 1 students and the yoimg^M ations to learn and r ^ a ' ,■ effects of the fires and ger associated with it. “The American people i to realize that when you teamwork, you g et a ° fi Jgg done, as seen with the S ers in the exhibit,” sa.d Staffel, a museum voluntee said. “It makes things set more real.” .. AjJ The National Portrait and the Adams His* Society helped contn u for the Adams display ^ White House was a MS with the George W. Bush orabilia, Blake said. a “It was amazing to s presidents’ lives an ., ?.T n of grew up,” Harris saic ' tv picture, former P reS1 e ^ then a senator, was ho J current President J the time was only t * ire we J years old. 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