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Show Time Becomes Vital for NASA As Shuttle Lands in California Los Angeles Times Service EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. The luckless crew of the Calif space shuttle Columbia glided in for a perfect predawn landing here Satur- - V 's, day. ending a frustrating mission and forcing the spare agency to tiptoe along a tightrope for the next few months. A slip in the schedule of more than a few days would kill one or more of the most important scientific missions planned during the shuttle era including a spaeeborne observation of Halley's comet Rainy weather in Florida forced the landing here, one that will cost the National Aeronautics and Space Administration six days of precious time because the spacecraft must be loaded atop a transport plane and flown back to the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral Even if the hardware and the work crews cooperate, it will take extraordinary luck from the weather for NASA to do all it plans to do during the months ahead. Some scientists who have worked for years to prepare the scientific missions are bitter that NASA allowed its schedule to become so crowded that the missions may have to be sacrificed. a glider without runThe shuttle down on the touched lights ning dry lake bed here at 6 59 a m. MST It was visible only moments before it plunged into the brilliant beams from six runway lights, each putting out 800 million candlepower of 4""' ''fit White N.C., - 'jnrtf-- Patriot Iarty members in Raleigh, march in honor of Robert E. Lees Rr Inter not onO Phot'; birth instead of Martin Luther Kings, as civil rights mart r was praised elsewhere. White Supremacists Protest King Holiday By United Press International While supremacists Saturday pro- tested Mondays national holiday honoring Dr Martin Luther King Jr. with a rally in the birthplaee of the Ku Klux Klan and a march honoring Confederate (fen Robert K. Lee. In Pulaski. Tenn where the Klan was organized in 11105. Klan members assembled in Sam Davis Park for a rally that was scheduled to end with an eight-blocmarch around the city . square "Martin Luther King went all over the country stirring up animosity." said James It. Venable of Stone Mountain. (la., a member of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "King was a troublemaker. lie was a Communist and sat up there with the leading Communists." The original Ku Klux Klan was a secret society formed in Pulaski in 1865 and disbanded four years later after it was denounced by the state Legislature. In Raleigh, N C.. members of the W hite Patriots Party marched downtown to honor Lee. whose birthday is Jan. 19. Party leaders said they would celebrate Lee's birthday as an alternative to the King holiday. But elsewhere, cities found different ways to honor the civil rights jazz in Kansas martyr run in Denver, City, a a march led by mule-drawwagons in Tucson, Ariz , and the rededication of a King statue in San Bernadino, . . old-tim- e n Calif. Mondav is the first national holi day honoring King, who would have been 57, and federal workers Saturweekday began their first three-daend of the year. But most workers will have to be on the job Monday. Many municipalities are observing the holiday, but some only after heavy pressure at the last minute President Reagan, who once opposed the King holiday, used his weekly radio address Saturday to praise the slain leader. "Martin Luther King believed us I and so many other Americans do that our country will never be completely free until all Americans enjoy the full benefits of freedom," Reagan said in his speech from Camp David. Md. Jazz bands were to honor King with a musical tribute at a Kansas City hotel Saturday night, and runners in Denver participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Run for the Dream In ll rights movement when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery. 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Moore said. He said that he thought the spare agency has "a very good shot" at making the March 6 launching of Columbia. which is to carry an ultraviolet observatory called Astro. One top level scientist at the God dard Space Flight Center in Green-belt- , Md., home of Astro, told the Los Angeles Times that NASA could have Were glad to see tnern buck, shuttle chief Jesse Mucre said during a post landing pre-- s conference from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Robert Sieck. director of shuttle operations a. the Florida spaceport, said five days would be shaved from the normal ' processing flow" required to get the shuttle ready for its next scheduled launching March 6. The launch date is critical because the Columbia is to carry a huge telescopic observatory in its cargo bay so that scientists can study Halley's comet from afar at the same time that five international spacecraft collect data as they speed past the comet A slip of three or four days would mean Columbia would not be on station for most of the encounter, and a slip of five or six days would also jeopardize importan' scientific mis- el C.O.D. Orders Since 1957 |