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...half-dozen of these adventurers might have come out of Steve Canyon. They keep their rendezvous over martinis in the swank Clipper Club at Miami Airport or at Murray's Mau Mau Lounge in the Green Mansions Hotel, make as much as $5,000 for a Cuba flight. Typical is Arkansas-born Jack Youngblood, 29. He once flew for Castro, now claims that an anti-Castro group owes him $16,000. Romantically fond of danger, girls and uncomplicated poetry, Youngblood says: "I have no loyalties. I just work for money." Can the U.S. stop these mercenaries? The border patrol...
...lunch, the three friends went out for a hike. Janitor Emil Boehn was carrying wood into the lodge as they left. "It's a beautiful afternoon for a hike," said one of the women. "Yes, ma'am," replied Boehn. The women walked to a slippery, narrow canyon trail, wound their way past ravines with 20-ft. drops, came to the dead end of a canyon whose walls rise 80 ft. on three sides, framing a frozen waterfall. They were about a mile from the lodge...
...another day before a search party found the bodies, lying side by side in a cave in the canyon. Twine had been tied on the wrists of two of the women. The binoculars were broken, the camera dented. A four-inch snowfall had obliterated any trace of tracks. Nearby was a bloodied, yardlong log, about four inches thick...
While investigators began checking up on known sex offenders in the Starved Rock area, others brought heavy tanks of liquid petroleum gas into the canyon and slowly began burning away the top layer of snow. A piece of tin foil-perhaps from the fresh roll of film in the camera-turned up; the melting snow ran off to reveal blood stains. A policeman with a broom lightly swept snow from the spot in an attempt to unearth footprints. He found none. Police squads began checking reports about an auto that had been seen at the head of the trail...
...Aharoni's assault on the caves started a month ago with a reconnaissance in force. Trigger was a report that Bedouins were getting scraps of parchment out of caves in the Wadi Saiyal, a five-mile-long canyon in Israel near the Jordanian border. In a light airplane Dr. Aharoni flew close to the wadi's cliffs, taking photographs and spotting the mouths of many caves. Then he recruited 28 amateur archaeologists from tough Israeli border settlements. His expedition moved into the wilderness with a military escort to discourage Arab guerrillas...