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Section Sunday Sept. 27, 1987 mm 4 City editor: Dan Elliott, 546124 El Paso Times imum 2B Deaths 5B Military 13B Mexico 14B Texas Sailor's Mm wonder Iiow lie died "Our son had claustrophobia," she said. "He wouldn't have shut himself up in a 4-foot-by 4-foot area with no ventilation." Hector Giron, 32, said the Navy told him and his family that it may take 30 to 60 days John Laird National Cemetery. The bodies of Daniel Giron and Brian Hooper, 20, of Athens, were found in a tiny compartment aboard the guided-missile cruiser Thomas S. Gates Monday as the ship was leaving dock at Norfolk, Va.

Families of both sailors say the Navy has refused to answer questions about the mysterious deaths. But a Navy spokesman said trunk" meant to protect sailors from flooding. Pat Hooper, stepmother of Brian Hooper, said she has learned the bodies were found sitting "shoulder to shoulder in a 4-foot-by-4-foot compartment" about 40 hours after the men were last seen alive aboard the ship. She said she learned from the office of Sen. Albert Gore, that the two men had suffocated.

Time staff, wire reports As an Anthony, N.M., family prepares to bury Daniel Giron, who was found dead last week in a cramped compartment of a Navy cruiser, grief is mixed with frustration. "We want to know, we need to know" what killed Giron, 19, and a fellow seaman's apprentice, Giron's brother Hector said Saturday. Daniel Giron is to be buried Monday at Fort Bliss the service is awaiting the results of autopsies and is not "covering up" anything. The Associated Press, which identified the spokesman only as a senior naval officer, said the officer described the compartment where the bodies were found as a small access area next to a jet fuel storage area. But Hector Giron said he and his parents, Refugio and Dolores Giron, were told the compartment was "an escape 1-10 traffic rerouted past construction A SM'n mi is JnTflf viTff 3 si El Paso police officer Raul Figueroa directed traffic at Gateway West and Viscount Saturday.

Westbound Interstate 10 traffic will be rerouted to the Gateway at least through today on a 4-mile stretch between the McRae and Geronimo exits as construction crews continue work on the freeway. Motorists cope as access roads tangle up Watch out for scab columnists The more I listen to pro football players, the more sense they make. I wish columnists had a union, so we could leave the office, march around in camouflage fatigues and complain about averaging only $230,000 a year. Buoyed by this new enthusiasm, I charged into the publisher's suite Friday and announced I wanted to talk about free agency. His aide intercepted me in the lobby.

She said she didn't have any free agencies, and I'd have to buy one like everyone else. I stormed past her, toward the publisher's office, and heard a bark, "8 ball, side pocket." Then I heard a firm thump, a plastic whack and a soft click. While he smugly chalked his cue stick, I sidled up and said, "How ya' hittin 'em? Let's talk free agency." His reply tore a nasty swath through my thick pride: "Do 1 know you?" "I'm your columnist." "I thought Ann Landers was a woman." "No, I'm the Borderland columnist. You know, top left corner of the page. Four times a week." "So, go columnize," he said, adjusting the horizontal hold on his MTV.

It was get-tough time: "I demand we talk about free agency. You publishers have conspired to prevent my reaching full market value. All the publishers have agreed to avoid hiring free-agent columnists. So, basically, I'm stuck here." "Don't you have a deadline to meet? Don't you have a windmill to fight?" "You don't own me. I'm not some cow you can do with what you please." "Look at your paunch, and tell me you're not a cow.

Look at all those old Jines on your belt. When's the last time you jogged? We're talking major league heifer, son." "Personal harassment won't do you any good. If you don't consent to free-agent columnists, I'm going on strike." "Don't let the door hit you in your thesaurus. We'll just hire another columnist. Remember, a man who can't work may be a pathetic figure, but he grows to majestic stature next to the man who won't work." "Where'd you hear that?" "I stole it from a Joe Biden speech." "Look, I have rights.

I am a journalist. I am a literary giant. I am woman! Hear me roar! In numbers too big to ignore!" "You're a columnist, not Helen Reddy," he said. "If I go out on strike, it won't be a very pretty sight. I've learned a lot of scientific techniques from the pro football players." "Like what?" ne asked, Bhaking baby powder onto the fingers of his left hand.

"Oh, just mature, dignified things that'll rally the public. Things like throwing eggs at scabs, banging my head on a bus and waving a shotgun while riding around in the back of a pickup truck." It was the publisher's turn to break the rack of balls. He did so with a grimace. He sank four stripes, three solids and sent the cue ball crashing out the window and rolling down Kansas Street. I decided to leave and go plot a different approach.

That night, I told my wife I might be forced to strike. She should be ready to adjust the family finances. "Who'll take your place?" she said. "A scab." "What's that?" "A dishonorable columnist." "Isn't that term a little redundant?" she asked. Deiore tney una out what killed Daniel Giron and Brian Hooper.

"Thirty to 60 days seems Please see Sailor 2B Fans brace for Sundays football By Benjamin Keck El Paso Times What is the meaning of life without pro football? "It ain't no life at all," laments Jan Carroll, a bartender at the Sportsman Club, 1900 E. YandelL "It's gonna be like a morgue around here Sunday." Negotiations in the National Football League players strike are at a standstill, and today's games have been canceled. The league hopes to play next Sunday schedule with substitute players so-called "scab" games. But fans want the real thing. "You want me to explain this the best way I can?" asks Ken Strom, a computer technician and television salesman at Dillard's in Cielo Vista Mall.

"You like to go fishing. You like to sit out there in the quiet on a fall Sunday when it's not too hot and not too cold. You like to put out a line and sit there and drink a few beers and think and maybe catch a couple of fish. "So you get up early and pack the car and drive 140 miles to Ruidoso and go up to Alto Lake. You get your chair and your gear out of the car and start to set up your lines.

Then you discover that you left your bait at home. "Well, you think you can still sit there in the quiet and think and drink a few beers. So you walk back to your car. And there you discover you left your cooler with the beer in it at home. "That's what Sunday without pro football is like." In the Sportsman and in other bars, the laments of the beer-and-ball set are much the same: They've seen last year's Super Bowl, which CBS will rerun today.

Baseball's OK, and will do in a pinch, but the game NBC will broadcast in its football slot today just isn't the same rough-and-tumble thing. The loss also should affect the people who get itchy in the Please see Fans 2B ing special occasions. "I'm not a teetotaler but it just doesn't make sense" to drink and get sick, County Attorney Joe Lucas said. "And you don't want later in life to admit you missed something. We want you to know, that we care about you," he told the students.

Carl Proffer, a special education teacher at Andress High School, shared his strategy for putting together a party at the high school last year. "We wanted to put on a Please see Alcohol 2B pioneers Dr. David Simons explored the upper atmosphere. last through late today or early Monday. Maria Hernandez, headed to Juarez, said she was frustrated with the traffic but anxious for the day the interstate construction would be complete.

"It's just taking forever," she exclaimed just before the light changed colors and she was able to stream forward with the overflow of cars making their way down the Gateway. Some motorists chose Mon By Amber Smith El Paso Times On Gateway East Saturday afternoon, Jeff Dowry stared blankly ahead at the line of cars that were held back from the McRae intersection by a police officer's hand. He had planned for and accepted the delay, due to freeway construction, in his trip from Las Cruces to the Trevino Outlet Mall unlike some other motorists who leaned on their horns behind him. "I'm not one of those people that fly off the handle," he said from his car. "Besides, I'm an engineering student, and we think a different way.

We analyze a situation." Above him, on the westbound side of Interstate 10, construction crews worked to widen the freeway. It meant closing westbound traffic between the McRae and Geronimo exits, which is expected to El Paso Times Emphasizing alternatives to alcohol Program seeks to keep students' celebrations happy occasions Rudy Gutierrez El Paso Times tana Avenue or the Border Highway to avoid the congestion along the gateways. John Porter, a Hanks High School math teacher, and his wife were headed to the grocery store when they got caught up in traffic at the Hawkins and Gateway West intersection. Porter said they selected the gateway route rather than an alternative because he had driven on Montana earlier and noticed heavy traffic there. Dilemmas: Center tackles tough problems facing teens 9B organize drug-free and alcohol-free celebrations so that more young people don't die on the streets and highways.

Project Celebration is modeled after a nationwide program, Project Graduation, which originated in Maine after 11 high school students died in 1980 in alcohol-related accidents. Today, more schools are adopting it as a year-round plan to provide alternatives for nigh school students celebrat ducted Dr. Homer Newell, a principal organizer of the U.S. space program. Newell, associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1967 to 1973, was inducted posthumously.

He died in 1981. Carruthers, in an address that saluted the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, said space exploration was made possible by the freedoms granted in the Constitution. "The greatness of any nation, the greatness of any state, the greatness of any community is nothing more than a summation of the accomplishments of our people," he said. Mark Ernst conferred with teacher Carl Proffer during a planning session Saturday for Project Celebration. Sitting between Ernst and Proffer is Maryann Tifford.

International Space Hall of Fame inducts 2 By Berta Rodriguez El Paso Times When El Paso police Sgt. Al Borunda came upon an alcohol-related car accident on Alameda two years ago, he looked down at a 16-year-old girl whose face was obliterated. He felt a twinge of fear because his daughter was the same age. "You realize it could be your- own child, he said. Saturday, Borunda and about 45 high school students and teachers attended a three-hour planning session on how to launches.

The International Space Hall of Fame honored Simons for his work at its 11th annual induction Saturday. The colorful outdoor ceremony complete with Indian dances, singing, a four-airplane F-15 flyover and a speecn by Gov. Garrey Car-ruthers. The Space Hall also in Elsewhere in the Borderland Mexico: While much of Mexico is mired in a 6-year-old economic crisis, Tijuana is coming out ahead 13B Texas: A brochure advertising a newsletter that promises to tell the "complete truth" about AIDS instead has prompted a federal inquiry over its false statements 17B By David Sheppard El Paso Times ALAMOGORDO The first man to study the upper atmosphere from a space capsule says the dividing line between Earth and space is like a half-full soup bowl. Dr.

David Simons, a physician who pioneered research in space biology, said his 1957 balloon flight into near space was the "most fantastic experience one can imagine." "It was like sitting in a soup bowl with the sky around me and nothing overhead but blackness," Simons said. Simons, a retired Air Force colonel, ran an Air Force pro gram in the 1950s called Project Manhigh that carried balloon pilots high above' Earth to study the effects of cosmic rays and weightlessness on the body. The program, based at Hol-loman Air Force Base, proved that humans could live and function in space and paved the way for the Mercury space.