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Show 8A Pcgo DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1973 By Walt Kelly UJORLD : DflTGUnES Skylob station posses -- end end-t- a checkup pletion of a five-daflight readiness test that checked all major systems and experiments in the house-sizespacecraft. ByAIRosslterJr. y UPI Science Writer d CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -Space agency plans to launch the nations first manned orbiting laboratory in May appear brighter today with the successful completion of the iast test of he big Skylab space station. Project officials are reviewing test results and all for the other preparations start of the $2 5 billion program. A decision on a definite launch date is expected within 10 days. Skylab tentatively is set for launch May 14 with astronauts Pete Charles Conrad, Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz to take off the next day and spend a record four weeks in the station. end-to-en- d Military officials said today government troops, supported by jet fighters and naval gun200 killed Moslem fire, secessonists in a battle with rebel forces in the southern Philippines. The officials said in terms of casualties the battle was the largest since President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared The martial law last Sept. fighting began last Thursday and ended Saturday. u. s. scene Drug arrests cut music fest short - JEKYLL ISLAND, GA. (UPI) About 5,000 youths island camped through the weekend on this only to find a rock concert cut short by thundershowers and dampened by scores of drug arrests. The festival-goer- s came by car, motorcycle and thumb d for the Golden Isles third annual rock concert,' organized to raise funds for muscular dystrophy research. While no arrests or incidents were reported on the Island itself, many young people never made it past the mainland. Cairo British Chances for a signifilaunching improved cantly Sunday with the com mid-Ma- y . Preliminary data indicate that the test went exceedingly well, a space agency spokesman reported. Project officials considered the test the final major testing hurdle for the spacecraft. Its Saturn 5 rocket and supporting ground systems still face a countdown test two weeks before alunch. All nine astomauts sche- duled to live and work aboard Skylab at one time or another participated in the readiness exercise. The last astronauts to check it out were Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma. They simulated closing down Skylab systems and leaving the station playright Noel Coward dies in orbit for another crew to visit a month later. LONDON (UPI- )- Sir Noel Coward died from a heart attack today in Jamaica, his agent said. He was 73. Funeral arrangements for the British playwright, author and actor were pending, they said. Bean, Garriott and Lousma are scheduled for launch Aug. 8 two months after Conrads crew returns to earth, A revival of his famous play of the ISSOs, Private Lives, and an anthology of his songs and Cowardly sketches, leaving Skylab in orbital storage. The Bean crew is to spend eight weeks in Skylab. playing before packed houses in London. Then the vhird and final Gerald P. Carr. crew' Edward G. Geibson and William R. Pogue will take off Nov. 9. according to the tentative and live timetable, aboard Skylab for eight more weeks. After they depart, Skylab will be abandoned in orbit. , Coward, bom in Teddington, England, had resided in Ja- maica almost 20 years after for tax rea- leaving Britain sons. During his career, he made many stage and film performances both in the United States and Britain, often playing roles he created in his own plays. Skylab now is mounted on its rocket in the tall vehicle assembly building. If the data review confirms that the spacecraft is trcuble-free- . the whole assembly will be moved to the V launch pad in three weeks. f rocket-spacecra- are currently Custard, McCONAHAYS His best known plays includBitter Blithe Spirit ed EncounBrief and Sweet" included films His ter. World in 80 the Around Mar. in Our and Days Havana. His agents said he died of a heart attack at his home m Firefly Hill, Jamaica. Coward, who always earned with him a haunting nostalgia of the 1920s, climbed to fame at by being in the right place the rignt time with the right talent for the right era. Cowards early 1 JEWELRY REMOVAL SALE ft COMIMED THIS WEEK 79 SOUTH MAL 9TH FLOOR 7 President Anwar Sadat announced today he has decided to assume the premiership in order to prepare the nation for with total confrontation Israel and strengthen the domestic situation. Sadat announced the move a 2j hour address to a joint session of parliament and the in Arab Socialist Union (ASU), Egypts sole legal political party. He said he would hold the premiership for some time. Nairobi President CIA backed My Lai, paper says - The My Lai massacre CITY (UPI) was planned and coordinated by the Central Intelligence Agency, an Oklahoma City newspaper said Sunday. OKLAHOMA of Idi Amin has ordered his 2nd Infantry Brigade to move up to the Tanzanian border at once to fight off another invasion. Radio Uganda has Uganda The sources were identified by the Sunday Oklahoman as five Army officers who were involved in the My Lai incident and who had access to secret documents concerning the incident The newspaper said the massacre was an attempt to wipe out the civilian population of a village as an example to the enemy. Air controller crisis near WASHINGTON (AP) The airline industry forecasts a senous shortage of controllers by the end of next year unless hiring and training of new personnel begins immediately. A controller shortage could lead to a nightmare of clogged air traffic even worse than occurred three years ago, say Air Transport Association ( ATA) officials. AS A RESULT OF A MARCH 21 WASHINGTON, D. C. NEWS CONFERENCE BY CONGRESSMEN ROSENTHAL OF N.Y. AND WALDIE OF CALIF., THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT WAS RELEASED TO THE NEWS WIRE SERVICES: reported. STATEMENT FOR NEWS WIRE SERVICES. Beirut Palestinian guerrillas day denounced Jordan publicizing allegations Sun- for by a Fatah guerrilla leadjailed er who said the extremist A1 Black September movement is not a separate guerrilla group, but is part of A1 Fatah. 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