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The Mars Lander ha;-still not made contact with NASA after it was supposed to on Dec. 3. Shortly after it was supposed to touch down on Mars south polar region shortly after 3 p.m. This would be the second failed mission to mars this year. Any hope of the Mars Lander making contact will be diminished significantly in the next 24 hours.

by Joe Holden assistant news editor

Philadelphia Daily News columnist W. Russel G. Byers was stabbed to death outside a Wawa convenience store late Saturday night near his Chestnut Hill home in northwest Phila Byers, 59, and his wife had stopped to purchase ice cream at the Highland Avenue Wawa, when Javier Goode, 20, ordered Byers to "give it up," presumably referring to his possessions, police said, according to published reports. Byers refused, and received a stab wound to the heart. Bleeding profusely, Byers stumbled back into the convenience store. He uttered an apparent cry for help and then collapsed.

Goode was formally charged through closed-circuit television in the stabbing death and other related offenses such as weapons possession.

Goode was arrested and taken into custody Monday following an overwhelming response to the broadcasted Wawa security tape. The arrest was a short distance from the scene of the murder.

Goode moved to the the Chestnut Hill area last year from Dallas where he had a misdemeanor charge for criminal trespassing in October, 1998.

He was employed for a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp. as a billing clerk.

Through videotaped statements Goode stated that he committed the crime for drug money.

A $40,000 reward was being offered for the tip leading to the assailant's arrest, which is thought to have prompted the abundance of calls. The police responded by saying that the information they re-

The father of Edd~ Gonzolas is demanding his return from the U.S., s • that the boy's mother took him without his ~ssion. The boy was found floatieg on a raft off the coast of Florida on Thanksgiving 'DllY· His moth~lO otliers drowned when their boats . Cuban president Fidel stro has demanded that U.S. return the boy father, calling this in• ent a kidnapping. Thousands of Cubans took to protesting in the streets because of this incident.