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Page 6 THE BATTALION f WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1980 Shuttle has testing problems; launch may be off until 1981 <Viow oo you ! 'START W s J SPACE SHur-nuE ED United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — En gineers and scientists are having more problems with the space shut tle Columbia. A five-day test began Monday night, but trouble appeared before it started when a simulated engine failed to function. Space agency offi cials said if they couldn’t get it going in time, the make-believe launch would be scrubbed. The simulator was one of three in stalled to replace the three on-board rocket engines taken to Rockwell In ternational’s Rocketdyne Division plant at Canoga Park, Calif., for modification. Backup astronauts Air Force Col. Joe Engle and Navy Cindr. Richard Truly were scheduled to climb into the cockpit of the space shuttle Col umbia for the mock-flight late Tuesday. It was to be a repeat of a simulated space flight conducted Dec. 20 by the Columbia’s primary crew of John Young and Navy Cmdr. John Crip- pen. They plan another make- believe launch Wednesday if all goes well. In that test, the Columbia will be operated with electricity produced by on-board fuel cells instead of out side power. The first space shuttle flight had been scheduled for last November, and is now set for June 30. ^illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^ S ’ IF IT’S AUTO & TRUCK PARTS — WE HAVE THEM! = I LEONARD AUTO SUPPLY COMPLETE LINE OF WHOLESALE & RETAIL = FRONT END ASSEMBLIES — FENDERS — HOODS — DOORS = 1 —QUARTER PANELS—DECK LIDS, FOR LATE MODEL CARS = = & TRUCKS & ALL FOREIGN CARS = USED GENERATORS • STARTERS • FUEL PUMPS ETC. OPEN MON.-FRI. 8 A.M. TILL 6 P.M. SAT. 8 A.M. TO 12 P.M. WE BUY WRECKED & RETIRED AUTOS Arab retracts attack story Looking for an Apartment? United Press International BELLEVUE, Wash. — A Lebanese student who claimed three men mistook him for an Iranian and beat him unconscious has confessed he made up the story because he was ashamed to admit his brother had hit him, police said. Camille el Hannah, 17, a student at Bellevue Community College, said it was his brother who hit him We’ve got the best in town. Scandia - Sevilla Sausalito - Sundance Aurora Gardens Taos Cripple Greek and gave him two black eyes. Police Capt. Dan Hansen said Monday. El Hannah originally reported three men attacked him in the col lege parking lot Nov. 30, hit him over the head with a large tree branch and knocked him out. alleged attack. Thomas O’Connell, the commun ity college’s president, said El Han nah agreed to publicly retract his story to undo some of the damage to relations between American and Mideastern students at the school. 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