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?wire??? Space Shuttle moves to pad CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The space shuttle Columbia today completed the slow, crunching trek from its hangar to the seaside launch pad where workers will make final preparations for its fifth mission Nov. 11. The reusable spacecraft will carry four men when it blasts off on its first operational flight. The shuttle arrived at the pad at about 10 a.m., on time and without difficulty. But the rollout procedure was not expected to be completed until about 1:30 p.m., when "metal touches metal," said NASA spokesman Mark Hess. The next step will involve three days of hooking gas, electrical and propellant lines to the shuttle, he said. The rollout began on time at 5:14 a.m. with the shuttle, perched nose up atop a giant transport vehicle, NASA spokesman Hugh Harris said. The transport vehicle moves at "about a mile per hour, but it has to go slower on corners," Harris said. The shuttle. mated to its 15-story-tall fuel tank and two powerful booster rockets, rolls the three-and-a-half miles to the launching area on a gravel road the equivalent of an eight-lane freeway, Harris said. Among the final preparations workers will make on the spacecraft while it rests on the launch pad will be the loading of two communications satellites. The satellites, owned by Satellite Business Systems and Telesat of Canada, are to be loaded aboard the shuttle Oct. 18, said Mark Hess, spokesman for Kennedy Space Center. The satellites will be the first launched from the shuttle's GO-foot-long cargo bay while in orbit, Hess said. Police allow maternity uniform NEW YORK (AP)-The police department is expanding its dress code to include a maternity uniform because more of New York's finest are becoming pregnant. The new flexibility in dress policy was taken because some precinct commanders would not allow pregnant officers to wear maternity clothes "until they literally couldn't fit into their uniforms anymore," said Deputy Police Commissioner Alice McGillion. Commissioner Robert McGuire said he has appointed a committee to find a "modest, practical, attractive maternity uniform." McGiilion said other major police departments let women wear civilian maternity clothes. But McGuire said that because the women were fully sworn officers, they should wear an appropriate uniform. Warning put on aspirin labels WASHINGTON (AP)-The Reagan administration, concerned about the suspected link between aspirin and Reye's syndrome, wants to put warning labels about the childhood disease on aspirin bottles. In the meantime, Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker proposed Monday that the government use public service anouncements to issue an official warning until labels are ready. Label changes "take time and we must address products already in retail stores and homes," Schweiker said. "We have to alert parents as quickly as possible." Available data indicates the risks are greatest for youngsters under 16 who have chicken pox, flu or other viral infections, Schweiker told the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee, which is examining the issue. Reye's syndrome is characterized by vomiting and lethargy, which may progress to delirium and coma in youngsters recovering from viral infections. Between 600 and 1,200 cases occur in the United States each year. Between 20 and 30 percent of these cases end in death; many others result in permanent brain damage. Dr. Joseph White, president of the industry's Aspirin Foundation of America, criticized the data used in developing the proposal as "poorly developed" and "badly flawed." "There's nothing that would prevent the government from changing its collective mind if the industry were to come up with new data now," said spokesman Bill Griggs of the Food and Drug Administration. Nudists donate to blood drive LOS ANGELES (AP) - It was a case of grin and bare it for 72 nudists who staged what was billed as the world's only clothing-optional blood drive. Members and guests of the Elysium Institute, a recreational facility near Malibu, donated about 55 pints of blood to a local Red Cross chapter. "It's the only blood drive where nobody needs to roll up their sleeves," said Elysium member Mike Meyer. Bloodletting led to some light-hearted needling during the day, said Dana Mia Lang Newman, associate diiector of Elysium. "They give donors a sticker that says 'Be nice to me, I gave blood today,'" she said. "We had one guy who said, 'Where do F it*'' "The fully clothed lied Cross nurse looked him right in the eye and said, 'Anywhere you want to."' jusc today RH film: "Citizen Kane" starring Orson Welles and Joseph Gotten. 2:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m., FREE Soccer: USC vs. Baptist College of Charleston, 4 p.m., the Graveyard. Multi-nation A multi-national force including U.S. Marines will return to Beirut by Thursdayt charged with protecting civilians and restoring Lebanese authority following the Israeli occupation and the massacre of Palestinian refugees. In Jerusalem, the Israeli Cabinet scheduled a meeting early yesterday to discuss the reconstituted peacekeeping force of American, rrencn ana iianan iroops, Deing deployed in response to world outrage over last week's massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children in two Beirut camps. The United States and France said advance elements of the force would redeploy in Beirut within 72 hours. Estimates of the number of massacre victims, who were Palestinian or Lebanese Moslems, ranged from at least 300, according to the U.S. government, to 1,400, aci ? .^y^><^ife$t>^ -yw^x-io^S Mo^b^i "?irV ^ Residents of Towers dorms have fou latest in block letters. Oil companiei (AP) - Motorists have always had to pa charging their gasoline purchases. N panies are offering incentives for consi with cash. Exxon, Amoco and other suppliers ai on gasoline if the buyer pays cash, ac Department of Consumer Affairs. The cash discount programs are customers away from independent ser traditionally have sold gasoline on a pnncMiuoritlv havo hoon oKlo tn coll oacn wttuvvjuviivi^ Itu f V* K/VV11 UM1V VV UVyll The cash discount programs also in< and hopefully will eventually reduce c costs, spokesmen for several companies Under the program, customers usual of between two and four cents per gallo their gasoline. Those who pay with receive the discount. Dave Abshear, a spokesman for Amo began offering the cash discount prog mid-June, after testing the progam in cities. He said the test programs were succei percent gain in business for Amoco deal "Marketing surveys have shown tha the motorists in this country pay for Abshear said. Preacher says SALUDA, S.C. (AF) - Piles of records will be consigned to a bonfire this week in protest of what a former : ~: 11,. itii : i _ _ r 1 i ock. musician cans me evns 01 rocK music and country music." Young people at the Saluda First Pentecostal Holiness Church were inspired to gather their albums after a sermon last week by the Rev. Billy Hay Adams, an evangelist from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and a former rock'n'roller. "We want to send a message to the music industry," Adams said. "We want to tell them, 'Hey, we know what's going on."' Adams is a pianist, vocalist and songwriter as well as a preacher. He said that during the 1950s he had a rock group called Billy Adams and True Hocketeers. He said he had a recording contract at age 15 and the group recorded on the Nua-Voo label out of Portsmouth, Ohio. al force retur cording to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Lebanese Christian militiamen, who supported Israel's June 6 invasion to rout PLO guerrillas from their stronghold in Moslem west Beirut, have been blamed for the nuiuig:?. israeii newspapers nave accused Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government of knowing about the killings in advance. Red Cross workers Monday collected 120 bloated bodies, wrapped them in nylon sacks and blankets and prepared to bury them in a mass grave. Witnesses to the bloodbath at the Chatilla and Sabra camps said the killers bulldozed rubble over bodies. Wailing women clawed at one earthen mound that they claimed covered 200 children. The refugees were massacred during the Israeli drive into west nd an unusual use for their empty cans. This 5 offer discoun y for the privilege of "Many go to indep ow, major oil com- lower, but the prices imers to pay for fuel don't offer credit serv The new cash disco re offering discounts on the consumer wh :cording to the state customers who pay c; "Under the progra designed to draw percent discount on vice stations, which his pump price," Abs cash-only basis and, "The dealers are line cheaper. themselves, "Abshea :rease dealer profits Amoco dealers pay company credit card on each credit card pi said. He said the discoun ly receive a discount 90 percent of Amoco n if they pay cash for participate. Exxon s\ credit cards do not began offering the customers about a m co, said his company Because the progrs ;ram in Columbia in sure just how many d several Midwestern Amoco official Ker retail buisnesses ? ji ssful, resulting in a 30 "People have alw; ers. credit, but with gasol t about two-thirds of hasn't had to absor their gas in cash," customers won't be p rock music is t He added that the group played backup for singer Jackie DeShannon when she performed as Jackie D. "Our song, 'Return of the AilAmerican Boy' in 1959, about Elvis' return from the Army, won a double blue ribbon spotlight pick," Adams remembered. But since Aug. 8, 1965, he has performed only gospel music. 4 4 T ooiri f ornnml 1 ? -1 4 ? x nuiu icuuntil i*_? i wr (tnu cuumry music and was born again," he said. A central theme of Adams' preaching is about the evils of such music. "The lyrics are terrible in country music now. It's all about sex, booze and men running around on their wives. It's degrading and demoralizing," he said. "In rock music, the beat is a health hazard," he contended. "It affects the pituitary gland and breaks down moral inhibitions. Rock music ns to Beirut Beirut, which followed the assassination last Tuesday of rightwing Christian Phalangist Presidentelect Bashir Gemayel. Gemayel's brother, Amin, a 39year-old lawyer and businessman, was virtually assured victory in today's Parliament election for a new nK/ui</lnnt At tka mor.tnpn notinn |li COIUCI1V VI mv TTMl vvr* II IICAWWAA. His main rival, former President Camille Chamoun, 82, withdrew from the race Monday, saying he feared Israel would pressure any elected president to sign a unilateral peace treaty. Foreign ministers of the Arab League were meeting in the Tunisian capital today at the demand of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to consider a joint response to the Beirut massacre. * .x r* - Ph?4o bv FRANK IUSTER . aluminum/concrete art may be thR its for cash indent dealers because the prices are are often lower because those dealers ice to customers." unt program will place the cost of credit 10 uses it, thus lowering the price for ash, he said. m, we give a participating dealer a 1.7 hi? cfasnlinp nmvhacpc vuhifh rAfliippc rv.. hear said. responsible for the customer discount r said. the company a 4 percent processing fee urchase, he said. t program is an optional one, but almost i dealers across the country decided to 3okesman John Reidy said his company cash discount program to Columbia nth ago. im is new, Reidy said, the company isn't ealers will participate. 1 Smith said the programs aren't new to ist to the gasoline business. ays paid for the privilege of buying on line company credit cards, the borrower b the cost," Smith said. "Now, cash enalized." iealth hazard promotes drugs, illicit sex and Satanism." In his church presentations, Adams uses a cassette player to demonstrate what he believes are subliminal Satanic messages in rock music. He preaches that some records, when played backward, contain hidden lyrics about Satan and drugs. "I learned about this from a converted disc jockey down in Florida," V\r\ Oft Irl tic aaiu. Adams charges that the song "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen contains backward masking of the phrase "start to smoke marijuana." "We're not promoting censorship of music, but let every individual become his own censor," Adams said. About 225 people attended Adams' sermon Thursday, and church leaders expect an even larger crowd for next Thursday's bonfire.