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February 12, 1979

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a reporter at large

THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS II-A RESIDUE OF DOUBT

Henry S. F. Cooper

REPORTER AT LARGE about findings after Viking 2 landed on Mars on Aug. 7, 1976. Three biologists, Vance Oyama Norman Horowitz and Gilbert V. Levin, …