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Charm portunity to run their pulse rates up even higher in the courses of their seven day spaceflight with a little zero gravity jogging A small treadmill has been installed on the mid-deck to keep the two astronauts from growing flabby during their week-long say in weightlessness The treadmill is expected to be a regular fixture on all future long-duration shuttle flights The only problem that surfaced in the first two orbits was dismissed Please turn to LAUNCH 12A auxiliary power unit posed the only sour notes on launch day Neither event was expected to shorten the two scheduled seven days in space the view go for Houston-based shuttle communicator Terry Hart told the crew as they approached the west coast of the United States on their third trip around the earth and got the nod from mission control to stay in space just nice getting it off on the same said George Page shuttle operations director referring to the multi-day delays that bedeviled the first two flights of By MIKE TONER Herald Science Writer CAPE CANAVERAL A of a launch sent the space shuttle Columbia speeding back into space for the third time Monday carrying astronauts Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton a box full of bees and a portable gymnasium into orbit on the longest US spaceflight in more than six years a real barnburner" was about all the travelogue Lousma had time for as the Columbia punched its way through a layer of puffy clouds and disappeared from view out over the Atlantic Ocean As barnburners go it was one of the smoothest and for the space agency one of the sweetest in the history of the space shuttle program It was the first time in three flights that the shuttle has actually been launched on the appointed day and that performance was at least partly responsible for one of the largest crowds ever to see a manned launch from the Kennedy Space Center More than 50000 people crowded into the space center itself and Brevard County officials said that an estimated 700000 more spectators watched the mid-morning spectacular from outside the center Two minor problems a one-hour delay in the liftoff and an indication of a faulty were sorry to be an hour late but we were 150 milliseconds ahead of the scheduled 11 am Page said Although both pilots were outwardly calm during liftoff they each responded differently to the controlled explosion of rocket engines that hurled them off the pad and out over the Atlantic Ocean Lousma a Marine colonel and veteran of 59 days in space appeared to be the most excited His heatbeat reached a high of 132 before leveling off In contrast Fullerton an Air Force colonel who has never been into space registered a peak pulse rate of only 92 Both astronauts will have plenty of op- Arab slain in Mideast disorders Israel threatens to stay in Sinai Prom Herald Wire Services Israeli troops Monday shot to death a Palestinian youth and wounded three other persons at a West Bank refugee camp in the fifth day of disorders and a general strike against Israeli occupation policies The unrest brought a warning from Cairo about the future of peace talks with Israel and a move by Syria to take the matter to the United Nations The crisis heated up further as Israel warned it would not withdraw from the Egyptian Sinai next month unless Cairo accepts border demands shootings on the West Bank of the Jordan River raised the toll in three days of violent protests to two dead and 10 wounded Israeli military officials said the soldiers had fired at the legs of Please turn to MIDEAST 6A 1X1000 dead tied to Red chemical use WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet-supplied chemical weapons have killed more than 10000 people in Aghanistan and Southeast Asia in the last seven years the Reagan Administration told Congress Monday Almost two-thirds of the deaths 6504 occurred in Laos from so-called from mycotox-ins or fungi poisons the administration said in a 31 -page report to Congress Another 981 people have been killed in Cambodia and 3042 have died in Afghanistan said the report a declassified version of a secret National Intelligence Estimate pre- Please turn to CHEMICALS 6A Associated Press The Columbia blasts off from Cape Canaveral launching pad to begin its week-long mission in spaced Artists marvel at beauty writ during thunderous fiery launch of the eight artists imported by NASA to witness and then render for history their impressions of the shuttle launch at that thing look at that thing this is the best Yeah! Do your stuff Atilla Hijja yelled madly snapping away with a camera equipped with a 440mm lens He wanted a permanent record By MARY VOBORIL Herald Staff Writer CAPE CANAVERAL It was high-tech pyrotechnics beauty from a thundering beast an awesome mix of colors sights and sounds Simply put the launch of Space Shuttle III was an artistic success That was the consensus Monday of the liftoff for future paintings so that he could recall even the smallest detail But those photos may turn out to be fuzzier than his memory shaking like a Hijja said moments after liftoff as the shuttle played hide-and-seek with layers of clouds as it fought for altitude Hijja is an experienced rocket watcher He sketched the first launch of the space shuttle for NASA and drew pre-liftoff activities for the second shot On Monday he and the seven other artists were part of a 19-year-old NASA program to assemble painted sketched sculpted engraved printed or otherwise crafted impressions of space program The artists receive $1500 In exchange NASA receives the finished works of art for display For two days before the launch the eight Shuttle III artists sat or United Please turn to ARTISTS 12A Jack Lousma right and Gordon Fullerton head for Clean-air standards left intact by court Ik Press International shuttle WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court Monday left intact federal clean-air standards imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1979 to limit big-city Tuesday Sampler Stock market rally: Dow closes up 1389 The stock market rallied Monday and the Dow Jones industrial average rose 1389 to 81954 Analysts said traders apparently were encouraged by the steady showing of stock prices in recent sessions as well as hopes for lower interest rates 6D Keys roaches hit hig time for last time Associated Press Key roach population is on the wane thanks to the National Zoo in Washington DC Zookeeper Bela Demeter personally gathers breeding roaches from the streets of island city to feed his lizards He made his first trip to Key West four years ago thought we were really he said the lizards love Demeter keeps a trash-can full of roaches for Cuban anoles Central American Baskiliskas and Chinese water dragons The Basiliska has a face that discourages its own mother but it becomes tame as a kitten when approached with a Key West roach said Demeter The Key West breed is big good two-inches and they carry their eggs in their body in-' stead of laying them in breeding nests he said makes them easier to since the eggs hatched in some secret place The hell of first atomic attack is relived for Congress by 4 survivors smog Without comment the justices turned down appeals by the American Petroleum Institute 15 oil companies the states of Virginia and Oklahoma the St Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association and the city of Houston They contended the standards were too stringent i The standards established for ozone levels in the air set new and tougher limits for hydrocarbon emissions which contribute to smog a form of pollution particularly debilitating to humans Smog or photochemical oxidants is not emitted directly into the air Instead it is the product of chemical reactions in the presence of sunlight Its primary cause and component is ozone To limit ozone the federal standards restrict the allowable emission of hydrocarbons from such Please turn to COURT 8A Small quake rattles San Diego County BORREGO SPRINGS Calif (UPI) A minor earthquake shook the eastern portion of San Diego County early Monday Authorities said the quake registered 45 on the Richter scale and was centered in unpopulated desert about 60 miles northeast of San Diego The tremor was reportedly felt in portions of pie neighboring Imperial Valley No damage or injuries were reported WASHINGTON (AP) Their voices quavering and their faces still scarred and puffed from the first atomic attack survivors of Hiroshima pleaded Monday with members of Congress for an end to the nuclear arms race think God has spared some of us from this holocaust to give us an opportunity to say to the people of the world that the things we are doing are not preserving the peace but just going on the pathway of said Dr Mytsuo Tomosawa of Watsonville Calif say that after you die there is heaven and said Hiroko Harris of Baltimore believe that I believe hell is that Tomosawa Harris and Mrs Kimuko Laskey of Vancouver British Columbia were among four people all of them teenagers during the historic raid on Hiroshima Japan in August 1945 who testified at a forum put on by supporters of a nuclear weapons freeze have lived through moments of terror that few people on this planet have ever known and I pray no people will ever know said Sen Edward Kennedy (D Mass) a leading sponsor of the freeze To varying degrees the faces and the demeanor Please turn to SURVIVORS 6A 9E Goren 5E 13D Horoscope 5E 4E Landers 2E 4E Lat News 15A 4E Movies 10D 4B Pope 1C 18A Television 12D 2B Weather 2A Amuse Classified Comics Crossword Dance Deaths Editorials Fla News Chuckle A Washington DC cab-driver asked the meaning of the inscription over a building reading Is Past Is explained it like this: means seen nothing yet! United Press International Mrs Kimuko Laskey: Wipes a tear during testimony Content Tho Miami Horaid 4.