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ORACLE, Ariz
Biosphere 2's crew ends two-year stay in isolation experiment
Biosphere 2's crew emerged yesterday from a two-year experiment in self-sufficiency, filling their lungs with fresh air and waving to about 2,500 reporters and cheering well-wishers.
Operators of the experiment said that the crew set a record for living inside an essentially closed structure designed as a mini-earth with rain forest, ocean, savannah and farm.
But the dome was opened more than two dozen times, first for crew member Jane Poyner's finger surgery and later for import of thousands of small items, including seeds, sleeping pills, mousetraps and makeup. Outside air was pumped in once and pure oxygen was added twice to balance the atmosphere.
After testing and upgrading equipment, operators of the $150 million private, for-profit enterprise plan to resheal the dome with a second crew early next year for a one-year stay.
"They said it couldn't be done," crew member Mark Nelson said. "But here we are—healthy, happy."
The four-man, four-woman crew that left Biosphere yesterday ranged in age from 29 to 69, and most spoke fondly of the world they were leaving.
"I certainly had a big lump in my throat as I walked around Biosphere 2 this morning," said crew member Sally Silverstone of England. "I milked the goats for the last time, fed the chickens for the last time, I saw the sunrise on the space frame in my apartment for the last time."
Crew members lost an average of 13.65 percent of their body weight on a diet heavy on such items as sweet potatoes, rice, peanuts, bananas and wheat. They occasionally had an egg, chicken or goat meat and coffee.
The experiment also had been accused of deception and amateur science and drew more than 400,000 paying visitors in two years.
WASHINGTON Bosnian peace required before aid
If President Clinton orders U.S. soldiers into Bosnia on a NATO peacekeeping mission, thousands of troops will enter Sarajevo in an airborne show of force that could be mounted within days of his request, military planners said.
But before U.S. troops go in, the Pentagon wants to see a peace accord that holds — with the combatants separated from one another, heavy artillery withdrawn and the free flow of humanitarian supplies assured, planners said.
"Both the combatants and their political leaders must be
"Because when you commit to something like this, as we found out in Somalia, if you don't watch out, what your basic premise was ends up not being what the U.N. or the NATO premise was," he said. "Then you're in a situation where the mission gets broader and broader and it's very difficult to find an ending point."
committed to it before this will work," a planner said.
WASHINGTON
End role in Somalia, senators say
The six-month deployment plan, which could involve about 75,000 troops, is subject to change given the uncertainty of the political situation and the administration's wish for Congress' approval.
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said yesterday that the United States must have "a very clear exit strategy" before sending any troops.
Expanding the peacekeeping mission in Somalia was a mistake, and it is time for Congress to narrow the U.S. role there so it has a definite ending point, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee said yesterday.
"This mission cannot continue to be enlarged. And I would make that mission very narrow based on what I know now," Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Demands for an end to the U.S. military presence in Somalia were given new impetus Saturday when Somali militiamen shot down a U.S. helicopter with a rocket-launched grenade. Three U.S. servicemen died. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., called for a rapid withdrawal before more Americans are killed.
The train plunged off a wood-and-steel bridge into the dark water early Wednesday. The accident, the worst in Amtrak's history, was survived by 163 people.
"I don't think capturing one person is going to end this," Nunn said, referring to the search for warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
Still moored nearby were barges that investigators believe struck the railroad bridge shortly before the train careened into the water before dawn. A tugboat lost the barges in heavy fog.
SARALAND, Ala.
Amtrak engine pulled from bayou
The baggage car of the California-to-Florida passenger train was pulled from Bayou Canot earlier in the day, leaving only one of three engines to be removed by crane from the bayou near Mobile, Ala.
Crews began hauling the last engine of the wrecked Sunset Limited out of a muddy bayou yesterday while other workers repaired the bridge from which it plunged, carrying 47 people to their deaths.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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