Zamora

MANSFIELD, Texas -- Beside the track where Adrianne Jones ran, her coaches and fellow students at Mansfield High School planted a red oak tree in her honor. In front of the tree stands a bronze plaque with a simple motto: "Strength, Unity, Courage."The epitaph was written just two weeks after her slaying Dec. 4, nine months before the arrest of a Naval Academy midshipman and an Air Force Academy cadet would catapult the killing onto the national newscasts. Yet it is an oddly apt commentary on this lurid slaying in the suburbs of Fort Worth that have seen more than their share of such murders.

IN THE PUBLIC'S mind, rectitude used to be synonymous with the U.S. Naval Academy. Now it seems the word "scandal" has replaced it. No sooner than furor over one disgrace dies down -- be it cheating, drugs, car theft, pedophilia, sexual harassment -- another one seems to pop up and take its place.Academy Superintendent Adm. Charles R. Larson must feel like a modern-day Sisyphus, stuck in a rut that he can't exit despite his best efforts. Instead of having to roll a rock up a hill only to see it roll back down again, as in the Greek myth, every couple of weeks Admiral Larson is condemned to pick up the morning paper and read about another incident tarnishing his school.

A Naval Academy midshipman has resigned and is leaving today after admitting he failed to report that classmate Diane M. Zamora told him more than a month ago that she had been involved in a Texas murder.Jay L. Guild, 18, signed resignation papers Friday and will return to his Kankakee, Ill., home today, said his mother, Cheryl Guild. He believed he would be dismissed under the academy's honor code and chose to resign instead, she said.The first-year student told police from Grand Prairie, Texas, that in long walks on academy grounds since early last month, Zamora gradually revealed to him how she and her fiance -- Air Force Academy cadet David C. Graham -- had killed a teen-age girl who had a single sexual encounter with Graham.

MANSFIELD, Texas -- It was a love that some say was strong, others obsessive. And it appears that somehow that bond became twisted, leading David Graham and Diane Zamora down the forlorn, Seton Road toward murder on Dec. 4.The two 18-year-old honor students who within six months would be at prestigious military schools -- Graham at the Air Force Academy and Zamora at the Naval Academy -- are today in jail, charged with the murder of Adrianne Jones, a...

On the same day last spring, Diane M. Zamora and her boyfriend, David C. Graham, learned that their enviable high school records had won them appointment to the nation's prestigious military academies -- Zamora to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Graham to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.The 18-year-old Texans announced their engagement to be married after graduation, setting the date for Aug. 13, 2000. But the clean-cut couple carried to their new campuses a terrible secret.

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SONSONATE, El Salvador -- Leftist presidential candidate Ruben Zamora, flanked by former guerrillas who until recently were waging civil war, gazed out yesterday over the smattering of red flags waving in this town's central plaza.The left's opponents "want to look at a past of suffering and explosion . . . a past that must be left behind," he told the small crowd. The leftists, he said, "want to walk to the future . . . a future that we dreamed of, fought for, year after year."In their first foray into civilian politics, El Salvador's former guerrillas have positioned themselves as the country's second major political force going into elections next Sunday, polls show.