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Page 6/The BattaliorvTuesday, August 28, 1984 3609> A S. CoU<2q<2, (QciVSS prtvn Chidxn OH Co.) M<0'hZ72. •k £xtervtv<z -Pnzz w&fWs - Op&r 6000/£>s. ■*Fu/f //nsz. of mcs/t/'Cam, vanst/e- res/sferce ggc/s/vnosTt A O/ean, sp&yoc/s ir/orko</f ama + /oc/cer roo/ns tfs/jow£FS jc OPFAJ 7 DAYS A + 77\n SUEDiSN WAY 0^ OU£ SktesnCLs TAUN/NG Bed' $10 expires' 9-30-84 _ 00 OFF SEMESTER . MEM8ERSW\? oMi^s ad! ’W'rr>iinmn'jam^tVTt Our Dookpacks Graduate with Honors Our time te&ted bookpacks will hold up to all the rough treatment a student has to offer. Known for durable materialsand reinforced construction, all our packs have a lifetime guarantee. Stop by soon and choose from a wall of rich colors and over a doz.en different designs to suit your personal needs. Whole Earth Provision Co. 105 boyett College Station 8^6-8794- Workers prepare shuttle United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Shuttle commander Henry Hartsfield and co-pilot Michael Coats practiced touch-and-go land ings at the Kennedy Space Center Monday while workers readied Dis covery for its third launch try Wednesday. America’s third billion-dollar shuttle is scheduled to blast off on its revised first flight at 7:35 a.m. for a six-day mission ferrying a record three communications satellites into orbit. Discovery’s six crew members ar rived at the Cape on Sunday to begin final preparations for their twice-de layed mission. The countdbwn be gan six hours later at 11 p.m. Flying a business jet modified to mimic the handling of an orbiter, Hartsfield and Coats roared aloft in the edrly morning light Monday, re peatedly diving toward the space port’s 3-mile-long runway . at the shuttle’s particularly steep 20-degree glide angle. Passenger jets typically dive at about three degrees for landings. For added realism, half of the shut tle training aircraft’s cockpit is an ex act duplicate of Discovery’s controls. Three miles away at its oceanside pad, Discovery stood surrounded by the steel latticework of launch com plex 39-A where the early stages of the 43-hour countdown ran smoothly. The carefully orchestrated proce dure, including 14 hours and 35 minutes of planned “holds,” began right on time ztnd engineers pow ered up Discovery’s electronic sys tems ind started checking its on board computers. They began loading the three main engine computers with flight programs about 8 a.m. Monday. During a practice countdown two weeks ago, £kn engine controller failed to accept its program and prompted a three-hour delay. But the space agency later traced the problem to a programming er ror and the controller was cleared for flight. While Hartsfield and Coats prac ticed shuttle landings, the rest of Discovery’s crew —Judy Resnik, Ste ven Hawley, Richard Mullane and Charles Walker — brushed up on the details of their complicated flight plans. Warped by Scott McCulla Moslem gunmen fuel tension Lebanese snipers kill girl United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon — Snipers killed a girl in the northern Leb anese port of Tripoli Monday, and Moslem gunmen fueled tensions in Beirut by fighting in the streets and attacking an army post with hand grenades. Sniper fire also swept the moun tains southeast of the capital and a car packed with explosives blew up in Isrdeli-occupied southern Leb anon, killing two men, the official National News Agency said. The violence in the Moslem west ern half of Beirut came less than a day after Moslem militiamen clashed with army units in the center of the capital. It was the most serious breach of a Syrian-backed peace plan that has been in effect in the city since July 4. Amid what Lebanon’s main Chris tian militia called “the obvious anar chy prevailing in west Beirut,” seve ral Lebanese newspapers speculated Syria would take new steps to ease tensions in the city. The respected An Nahar newspa per said Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam might visit Beirut this week to set the stage for a pro posed summit meeting between Leb anese President Amin Gemayel and Syrian leader Hafez Assad. Official Beirut radio reported that sniper fire killed a girl in Tripoli, the northern port where about 100 peo ple were killed and 300 more were wounded last week in three days of heavy fighting between rival Moslem militiamen. The shooting in Tripoli followed Prime Minister Rashid Karami’s an nouncement Sunday that govern ment officials expected to put a new security plan into effect in the city 42 miles north of Beirut. The plan under consideration calls for Lebanese army units to take up key positions in Tripoli in hopt of stopping the fighting. S)ra: troops based in northern Lebanc. for the past nine years also mightl« called on to move into thecit\ a! : buffer force. In west Beirut, a brief guife erupted in late afternoon neari 1 ! commercial Hamra district. Secur: sources said the fighting p®: Druze Moslem militiamen again gunmen of the little-known Arabic- cialist Party, a leftist Moslemmifc There was no report of casual® and no immediate explanation what started the clash, The National News Agency si:I two brothers were killed in theaj bomb explosion near Nabarijrl which appeared to be aimed all raeli occupation troops who hal been in Lebanon since their 1982cj vasion drove Palestinian gu< from the country. Arabs ask for ban on rally United Press International ACRE, Israel — Representatives of Israel’s largest Arab town asked police Monday to ban American- born militant Rabbi Meir Kahane from holding a demonstration there because it could cause violence. The leaders of Umm el-Fahm said they could not be responsible for the reaction of the town’s 22,000 Arab residents at the demonstration, scheduled for Wednesday. Umm eh Fahm is the largest Arab town inside Israel proper and for four years has been governed by the left-wing Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. KAhane, who founded the mili tant New York-based Jewish De fense League, was elected to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, last month with a promise to seek the ex pulsion of all Arabs from Israel. “Good evening, Jews. Good eve ning, Arab dogs,” Kahane said at a rally in Acre Sunday attended by 500 Jews and 300 Arabs, who were staging a counter-rally. He repeated his policy by calling for expulsion of the 10,000 Arabs from Acre. “If the local residents attack Rabbi Kahane we will put him out of the village in an attempt to calm the tense atmosphere,” a senior police officer told United Press Interna tional. Abdul-Wahab Darawshi, a lisl Party member of the Knesset, si;l the demonstration in Ummel-Fo would be clear provocation ad would hurt the feelings of all AeJ in the area. Hundreds of residents fr«j| Umm el-Fahm and neighbor! lages will organize a counter-demt:| stration to prevent Kahane fronu:l tering the town, police said. A senior police officer, who ask j to remain anonmymous, adtnotl edged the visit would be a de. 7 | provocation but said authoritiescait| not legally prevent Kahane fronuti tering Umm el-Fahm. JUNIOR & MISSY SPORTZWEAR AT ITS BEST” Welcome Back Special [ 10% OFF i Purchase coupon good thru 9/1 Jordache Ralph Lauren Palmetto Chic Culpepper Plaza • College Station • Open 10-6 MSC Endowed Lecture Series „ xse otl ' For more information contact The MSC Endowedl Lecture Series at 845-1515 YOUR KEY TO HIGHER EDUCATION. JJU Memorial Student Center speech ress press prel 1 v assembly l ress n jgmn spe pre •tub I ress re< ligion re >eeeh spec ^ss press pn ] v assembl'