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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.
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