Inqlings | MOVE's Guinness record riles survivor

MOVE's

Ramona Africa

is fuming at the new Guinness Book of Records. Under a list of "modern mass suicides" assembled by the London-based Cult Information Centre, the 2008 edition identifies "The Move" while citing the deaths of 11 members in May 1985.

"Suicide?" asks Africa, the sole adult survivor of the May 13, 1985, inferno started by a bomb dropped by the city. The fire also leveled a block of Osage Avenue in West Philly.

Africa points out that the city paid millions to the so-called back-to-nature group to settle civil suits. "Why would they settle if it was mass suicide?" she says.

She also bristles at the "cult" tag.

The Cult Information Centre and Guinness have not responded to my requests for comment. Africa said she reached the center and received an "arrogant and uncooperative" response. "The point is," she said, "if they are an information center, how can they do that without even talking to anybody in the organization?"

Topping the Guinness list were the 924 members of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (Uganda, 2000). "The Move" falls between Heaven's Gate (39 dead in California in 1997) and the Symbionese Liberation Army (six dead in 1974).

Barack Obama

- running and going nowhere! He was on a treadmill, silly, at the Sporting Club at the Bellevue the morning before Tuesday's Democratic debate. Obama also worked out on the elliptical and shot hoops with two members of his entourage.

Reporter

Erin O'Hearn

of 6ABC, covering the debate at Drexel U, flashed the engagement ring she acquired over the weekend. Fiance is

Sal Paone Jr.

, a Montgomery County developer, who did not return my call to his office yesterday. O'Hearn interviewed Paone in May, when she reported that he had helped an Ambler family whose house was damaged by a fallen tree. Wedding is up for next year. (This happy news adds a twist to my item Sunday, in which her 6ABC colleagues were buzzing that she had just broken up with a Web producer.)

Tuesday's debate also brought out Inquirer/Daily News/ philly.com chief

Brian Tierney

, who appeared with

Michael Smerconish

on MSNBC's

Hardball

with

Chris Matthews

. Though the show was politically charged, Tierney said he was on camera "not as a Republican . . . but as a publisher talking about an important event coming to our region."

The

CBS Early Show's

Dave Price

will be outside the National Constitution Center tomorrow morning for one of his "All-Access Pass" promotions, where he drops into a city and whisks a local off to a whirlwind weekend trip somewhere (e.g., bungee jumping in New Zealand; riding Harleys in the Australian Outback; visiting

Nelson Mandela's

cell on Robben Island). He won't spill this weekend's winner or destination, only to say it's "someplace that very few people get to see." (A gym, maybe?) The winner leaves straight from Fifth and Arch Streets and comes home Tuesday.

But first, Price has to get to Philly. His father,

Larry

, is due to have heart surgery today in New York, and he expects to see him through and arrive overnight. "I told my dad I'd cancel [the Philly trip], but he said, 'I don't want to take this opportunity away from anybody,' " he says.

Price - whose pre-CBS resume includes a 1998-99 stint as host of Fox29's

Good Day

- amasses 300,000 miles a year. In reality, he says, "I just want to be home with my dog."

The National Constitution Center, speaking of which, amended its staffing needs last week - dismissing the 11 part-time "interpreters" (mostly women of a certain age) who greeted visitors, started the "Freedom Rising" show, and answered questions. Most had been with the center for four-plus years, before the building opened. One staffer told me that all of the $12.65-an-hour workers were called to a meeting, ordered to hand in badges and empty their lockers, and told they could reapply for jobs as "demonstrators" at $9 an hour. A spokeswoman said the center's needs have changed and added that one worker has been rehired.

Philly native

Tony Bruno

will broadcast his syndicated radio show tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon on WPEN-AM (950) from Tony Luke's in South Philly. Bruno's past includes WIP, and the old "Famous 56" WFIL and WIFI 92.

If you caught

Dei Lynam's

report on Comcast SportsNet from the 76ers' practice session Tuesday, you probably didn't realize that her water had broken hours before, sending her into labor. After practice wrapped at 1 p.m., Lynam did her spot and sent the tape back to the station with the videographer. She went to the hospital, where she delivered her second son,

Beau

. Both are doing well.