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Eight chosen for dome adventure
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Group to live for two years in Biosphere II, a glass world-within-a-world
ORACLE, Ariz. — Eight environmental pioneers were named yesterday to spend two years with each other and 3,800 varieties of plants and plants used in the design dome designed to duplicate Earth's ecosystem.
Among the crew are a 66-year-old gerontologist, an electrical engineer, a marine biologist and a botanist. There are two Britons, a Belgian, a German and four Americans.
All the "biospherians" have worked together for at least three years on the Biosphere II project, an attempt to copy the planet's natural environment inside a $2/3$-acre closed, self-sustaining system. Earth's natural environment is designated Biosphere I.
"I'm working five years toward this aim of a two-year closure, and the closer the day comes, the more excited I get," said crew leader Bernd Zabel, a 41-year-old German.
As a laboratory for showing ways to solve environmental problems such as pollution, the privately-funded Biosphere could become a moneymaking venture. It also provides an sustainable life in space.
Inside the sealed geodesic frame, all air, water and wastes will be regenerated and recycled
Crew members will be able to leave through airlocks in the event of an emergency.
The venture is planned to begin Dec. 5.
The other crew members, all single, are Abigail K. Alling, 31, a marine biologist and co-captain; Roy Wailford, a nationally noted gerontologist and nutritionist and professor of pathology at the UCLA School of Medicine, medical officer; Linda Leigh, 38, scientific director; Sally Silverstone, 35; Taber K. MacCallum, 26; Jane Elizabeth Poynter, and Mark Van Thillo, 29.
The $30 million world within a-world will be like a space colony tethered to Earth. It consists of distinct ecological areas: desert, ocean, savannah, fresh water marshes, agriculture and saltwater marshes.
"I'm sure there'll be many emergencies that arise during that two-year period, but I think also that it ought to be an extremely stimulating and mind-expanding experience," said Margret Augustine, chief executive officer of Space Biospheres Ventures.
She said all the crew members were highly
qualified, talented, dedicated, enthusiastic and extremely special people. By facing difficult and dangerous situations in other ventures, she said, they have shown themselves capable of "coming up with the needed decisions and actions at the appropriate time."
Augustine said six other people who were candidates for the crew also held key management positions with the project and would be involved in the experiment.
Leigh said that any relationship that developed among the people sealed inside the Biosphere would be a personal matter as long as it didn't interfere with their work.
"I anticipate there will be relationships developing as there are in Biosphere 2," she said.
The wildlife areas connect, with only the agriculture and human habitat areas partitioned. The latter includes apartments, offices, labs and recreational space.
Plants will dispose of the humans' and animals' carbon dioxide, breaking it down into oxygen and carbon, and will provide food. Microbes will break down wastes; filters will purify air and water.
Moisture in the fairly humid contines will condense on refrigerated coils over the tropical
Plane crash near Little Rock kills one
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CONWAY, Ark. — One person was killed and three others injured last night when a small, twin-engine plane carted into a house after an aborted landing attempt at the municipal airport, authorities said.
The plane was attempting to land during a thunderstorm, witnesses said.
Little Rock television station KATV reported that the flight originated in Wichita. Authorities said the plane may have touched down, hydroplanned on the runway and tried to take off again.
Conway Police Lt. Paul Jordan said the Beechcraft plane struck a chain-link fence near the airport, a road and went through the entrance of the building.
"There's one dead and three injured. The extent of injuries, I can't be sure." Jordan said.
Anna Lee Fulmer, the only person in the house at the time of the crash shortly before 7 p.m., escaped uninjured.
One of the injured was identified as Charles Field, 57, of Wichita, an employee of Beech Aircraft Corp. He was taken to Arkansas Children's
Hospital in Little Rock suffering burns over 40 percent of his body. He was in critical condition. Names of the others aboard the plane weren't
It was not known if the plane was owned by Beech.
The plane turned end-over-end a short distance from the runway on the west side of the Conway Municipal Airport, Jordan said.
"It kind of cartwheeled into the house and the house caught on fire," he said.
Conway Police Chief Tim Daley said the plane "was attempting to
land at Conway Municipal Airport and apparently, according to witnesses, they were having some problems during the landing phase and attempted to take off again, but did not gain the clearance.
"Their landing landstruck the chain-link fence at the west end of the runway. That's approximately 100 meters from where we are at the resting site of the wall."
A witnessed the Conway Log Cabin Democrat that the plane came to rest against the house with its tail in the air and its nose on the ground
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Committee approves secret aid programs
WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee approved legislation yesterday that keeps intact U.S. controversial secret aid programs to rebels in Angola, the Philippines and Cambodia, sources said.
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The move, if upheld when the 1991 bill is considered by the full House, would put the committee at risk of losing control of whose members voted for sharp cuts in the Afghan and Cambodian programs, according to sources who discussed the divergence on condition that they not be used.
A potential battle still looms in the house over aid to the UNITA rebels, by Jonus Savimbi, who has threatened a back-tacked government of Angola.
Savimbi since 1986 has used a well-financed lobbying operation to build support for his forces in Afghanistan and it is estimated at $60 million or more.
One member of the panel, declining to discuss the committee's action, said nevertheless that he was annoyed by the heavy lobbying he had been subjected to on behalf of the group, as clear from the number of lobbyists involved that the matter is far too open to be a "covert" program, he said.
One source said he expects members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who oppose aid to the UNITA rebels, to demand an open debate on the secret military assistance.
An Angolan official lobbying to defeat the aid had been telling members of Congress that right-wing South Africans, with the tacit approval of their white minority government, had been U.S. armed rebels with weapons
Maj. Gen. Roberto Leal Monteiro, chief military adviser to Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santo, also argued that further U.S. aid to the rebels prolongs a year-long civil war in his country.
Another source said the vote was "really close." He said the panel approved the administration's request of about $600 million for TIAA.
In its version of the intelligence bill the Senate left the UNITA question open, deferring it until house-Senate conference on the bill.
While most of the bill is secret, it is believed to authorize roughly $30 billion for programs ranging from satellite communications to three rebellions to my satellites.
The program of aid to the non-communist resistance in Cambodia, two rebel groups fighting the Vietnamese-installed government of Hun Sen, is believed to total about $13 million a year. The Senate panel eliminated the program in its version of the bill.
He said two ships from South Africa recently docked at the port of Matadi in Zaire and unloaded two Puma helicopters and a group of uniform-clad black Angolan mercenaries or rebels.
Both moves reflect a growing distaste on Capitol Hill for covert proxy wars, and an erosion of the region's force for many of the regional conflicts.
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