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The shuttle lit up the sky for hundreds of miles as it headed eastward over the Atlantic Ocean and was swallowed up by the night. It was a spectacular, and rare, after-hours show. The last shuttle departure in darkness was a year ago. Two minutes into the flight, Atlantis' twin solid rocket boost- Atlantis carries military satellite capable of missile launch alerts ers dropped empty into the ocean as planned. The shuttle continued upward on the thrust of three main engines. An oxygen fuel leak on the launch platform forced a 13- ininute delay. Three workers rushed to the pad and successfully tightened the leaky valve, but the job put crews behind in their work to replenish the fuel supply. The astronauts were eager to get going. "Atlantis is ready," said Air Force Col. Frederick Gregory, the shuttle commander. "We're ready to burn paint," Earlier in the day, the launch team had feared that strong wind and low clouds might thwart its second attempt to send up At lantis. But the weather proved perfect for liftoff. The spacecraft's long journey 224 miles .above Earth is NASA's sixth and final shuttle flight of the year. It would be only the seventh time in 44 launches that a shuttle has blasted off in darkness. NASA's first countdown the 10-day military missioned abruptly Tuesday, just before ing, when the steering syste: the satellite booster malfr tioned. All that was put behind day with final testing of the installed guidance unit. The tem passed a critical three calibration and was cleared flight. Engineers still had notide fied the problem in the navi tional unit that was removed week from the satellite's attac rocket. But program manai were confident the trouble isolated to that component. phon •eal b •allow instee signa »ack. Anti-abortion choic rally concludes; police arrest six more protesters DALLAS (AP) — A weeklong protest touted as the start of a na tional campaign against abortion ended this weekend with the ar rest of six more protesters. The demonstrators were ar rested Saturday as Operation Res cue National ended a week of ral lies, prayer and picketing in Dal las. Local protest leaders called the effort a success. Rev. Flip Benham said the group's pickets outside various women's clinics dissuaded several patients from entering. Benham cited a stout show of force by the Dallas police as proof of Operation Rescue's effective ness. About 125 protesters turned out Saturday — fewer than half the number who began the initial protest Nov. 16. The six arrested were charged with criminal tres pass, obstructing a passageway, disorderly conduct or interfering with an arrest. Dallas police arrested eight protesters during the first day of rallies. AG expands probe of hospitals two HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Attorney General Dan Morales has expanded the state's investiga tion into private psychiatric hospitals to include three more of the nation's largest hospital chains. The three chains are Charter Medical Corp., of Macon, Ga., which has 11 Texas hospitals; Hospi tal Corp. of America, of Nashville, Tenn., with 13 hospitals in Texas; and Community Psychiatric Centers, of Laguna Hills, Calif., which has five hospitals in the state. The move comes at the request of the Texas Department of Mental Health-Mental Retarda tion, said Gray McBride, spokesman for the attor ney general. ^ "We wish we could find a shiny, sparkling, clean, pure set of institutions that are dedicated to one thing — treating patients," McBride sasi "We're finding, unfortunately, too many instill- tions where there's a lot to be checked out." Several state agencies including MHMRhav been warned by Gov. Ann Richards to instigaii better regulation. Morales has sued Psychiatric Institutes: America, charging that PTA and its Psychiatric!.' stitute of Fort Worth violated Texas law again? paying "bounties" or "headhunter fees" toobtai: patients. Iway jis di: by tl ftalk 1 abou O allov kind who inam credi up tl I T His probe centers on fraudulent billing of statf and federal dollars, including funds forworke: compensation and crime victim compensation McBride said. I to pi be al Hearing begins on closure of state schools DALLAS (AP) - An agree ment that would shut down two of the 13 state schools for the mentally retarded gets a court hearing beginning Monday as a 17-year-old lawsuit apparently nears its end. The closures, endorsed by Gov. Ann Richards, would be the first time a state school for the mentally retarded has been closed since the system began in 1917. 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