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Draft registration law ruled invalid Page 8A Cloudy Rain Details on 2A Final Edition 56 pages Tuesday November 16 1982 25 cents With spacewalk canceled astronauts pack their defective suits and head for home 1 A Monday in outer space By MIKE TONER Herald Science Writer HOUSTON Mechanical failures in the Columbia $2-million spa-cesuits forced dismayed officials to cancel a long-awaited spacewalk Monday and the crew prepared to return to earth today The space shuttle is scheduled to make its fiery re-entry into the atmosphere and land shortly after dawn this morning at Edwards Air Force Base in California Touchdown is set for 9:34 am Miami time Space officials said they were deeply disappointed by separate successive nine years by American astronauts Instead it became the first hardware failure to scrub an EVA or extravehicular activity since Gemini astronaut Ed White stepped outside his capsule in 1965 for the first US spacewalk are space shuttle program manager Glynn Lunney said crew had been looking forward to this first EVA out of the shuttle So had work out the way we said Mark Sullivan a spokesman for Hamilton-Standard obviously got some work to do to figure out what failures in the back-pack life-sup-port systems a crucial fan in astronaut Joe 'suit and a pressure regulator in Miami-born Bill oxygen line The suits destined to be used by a whole generation of astronauts who will live and work in space took 10 years to be developed at a cost of more than $250 million by the Hamilton Standard division of United Technologies Corp The zy2 -hour excursion in space already rescheduled once because of bout with motion sickness was supposed to be the first spacewalk in Although the shuttle had already achieved the major objectives the delivery of two communications satellites into space the first demonstration of the new suits had been intended to blaze the trail for their use on future flights The shuttle will be carrying cargo regularly next year and the space agency has been assuming that the astronauts would be able to go out into the open-space cargo bay to correct minor problems that might develop with the Please turn to SHUTTLE 12A Auociatfd Prcu A huddle at Houston mission control: Disappointment 1 Bus ms -ftwii'Jm 9 6117' Talks rfe I From Herald Wire Services MOSCOW Soviet leader Yuri Andropov held talks with US Vice President George Bush in an apparent move toward detente Monday but earlier he had used his funeral to warn the West against any military buildup The new Communist Party general 45-minute meeting with Bush came after Russians gave a burial to President Leonid -Brezhnev the son who guided the Soviet Union to superpower heights His somber military funeral in Red Square was as grimly stolid as his 18 years at the Kremlin helm The Bush-Andropov meeting that followed was the highest-level encounter between officials of the two governments since former President Carter and Brezhnev signed the Salt II pact in 1979 It was also the first known meeting of a former head of the KGB intelligence agency with a former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency Andropov served as KGB chairman from 1967 until last May and Bush was CIA director in 1976-77 Their meeting produced pledges from both sides of their desire to work toward better bilateral relations but little indication that either was ready to make concessions on basic issues Bush described the meeting as cordial and gave both sides the opportunity to exchange views on the state of their he said before boarding a US Air Force plane for Zimbabwe where he was resuming a 10-nation African tour The official Tass news agency reported the meeting Monday evening without comment It said the conversation included a ex- By SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer ZACATECOLUCA El Salvador A criminal court judge Monday trials for five former na- tional guardsmen accused of killing: four American missionary women in 1980 Judge Bernardo Rauda Murcia called his decision which opens the way for jury selection big and momentous in bringing the case to a conclusion Salvadoran judges have an inves- tigative role that enables them to judge the strength of a case and Rauda said Monday the evidence in this case is strong enough to convict the five But he stressed that he was not declaring the men guilty of the two-year-old crime That is a legal determination to be made only by the five-person jury to be selected in this new stage of the proceedings he said The ruling came slightly more than two weeks after US Ambassador Deane Hinton made a biting attack on the Salvadoran judicial system for its failure to prosecute Associated Press Fur-hatted Soviet leaders Tikolai Tikhonov Andropov Constantin Chernenko carry body Rumors but not footballs 9 -ordered maintaining its insistence that a settlement was near Paul Martha a former NFL running back and lawyer who was acting as a go-between between management and players said the negotiations which resumed suddenly earlier in the day were on and that both sides now in is mainly a question of Martha said have a long night of bargaining ahead By LARRY DORMAN Herald Sports Writer NEW YORK Ed Garvey executive director of the NFL Players Association shot down reports of an imminent end to the pro football strike just before midnight Monday Jim Miller a spokesman for the Management Council confirmed that the two sides remained far apart Rumors that a settlement was near raced wildly through Manhattan early Monday evening There were reports that the end of the one of them We had a number of discussions Sunday and Monday trying to close the money gap with the Management Council and in fact at one point we thought we had reduced the gap to some extent Sargent Karch general counsel handed us language that took away many of the benefits the players felt they could accept from management was a classic case of union Almost at the same time Garvey was speaking management was OB rent dispute ID Dolphins ready IE strike which enters its 57th day today But Garvey flanked by 15 player representatives put the optimism on hold this point we are disappointed to tell you that we are no closer to an agreement There has been a flood of misinformation by the Management Council things never change Please turn to STRIKE 12A Please turn to BREZHNEV 4A Please turn to SALVADOR 4A Diplomatic curtain hides envoy from law Accused of rape attempt Korean ducks behind immunity rule Tuesday Sampler Suspected carcinogen found in Medley well Tests on one well in the Medley well field which serves as a backup water source for 700000 North Dade residents have found alarming levels of vinyl chloride a suspected cancer-causing agent Government agencies will now test all six wells in the field ID MICHEL duCILLE Miami Herald StaH Seaman Philip Rahner paints side of cutter Dauntless to prepare for Reagan Miami scurries to welcome President 4B Goren 15D up after a day and now drive by only occasionally cops go in and not coming prosecutor Richard Molea explained kind of a Oh is keeping the law at bay not because he is a flint-eyed shootist but because he is a bureaucrat on the staff of North observer group at the United Nations Because of the rules of diplomatic immunity as long as Oh stays inside his office-apartment complex the police cannot touch him But one false move a walk around the block say and he faces a trial that could lead to seven years of confinement The story of Oh has all sides contesting the facts but the basic circumstances are these: On Sept 5 Oh and several colleagues went on a Sunday afternoon picnic at a park in suburban Westchester County just north of New York City A 43-year-old Bronx woman whose identity has not been disclosed was also in the park She told police that one of the diplomats chased her down a bridle path tackled her from behind threatened her with a rock and attempted to rape her She said she fought off Please turn to DIPLOMAT SA By DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times Service NEW YORK It is one of the stranger stakeouts in the annals of crime a mid-Manhattan face-off between the United States and North Korea For more than six weeks Nam Choi Oh who is accused of attempted rape has been holed up in an elegant Madison Avenue apartment building refusing to come out Police initially camped outside in case he tried to escape but gave Chess master seeks asylum Deutsche Presse Agenteur LUCERNE Switzerland Bulgarian chess master Tatyana Le-machko went to Swiss police Monday and requested political asylum sources said She was in Switzerland for a chess tournament and was expected to ask Soviet authorities to allow her six-year-old daughter to join her The 35-year-old Lemachko is Russian-born but has lived in Bulgaria for nine years since marrying a Bulgarian She is regarded as one of the best women chess players in the world 8D Horoscope 15D Amuse Classified Comics Crossword Dance Deaths Editorials Fla News 3B 6A 5B 2A 9C 2A 14D Landers 14D Lat News 15D Movies 4D People 14 A Television 9 A Weather Cotnt Copyright 192 Tht Miami Haratd Air Force One is scheduled to land at Miami International Airport at 8:50 tonight In two hours Wednesday President Reagan will tour the cutter Dauntless at the Miami Beach Coast Guard base review troops there and meet with the Miami Citizens Against Crime at Homestead Air Force Base before leaving for Washington at 12:30 pm His 16-hour visit including a sleep will generate a massive logistical event involving civilian and military airports police the Secret Service highway and bridge operations land sea and air transport governmental-military communications Please turn to REAGAN 12A By ARNOLD MARKOWITZ and DORY OWENS Herald Staff Writers A hotel chef is preparing a tray of petits-fours pastry iced red white and blue and shaped like the American flag The Air Force has cleaned out an airplane hangar And the Coast Guard has redecorated a 210-foot ship thoroughly enough to offer it for sale The President is coming His trip to Miami is intended as an inspection of progress in the government battle against narcotics smuggling and distribution a multibillion-dollar industry of which Miami is the reluctant embarrassed headquarters Chuckle Dropping a letter in a mailbox is a marvelous act of faith You know safe and will be delivered downtown about a week later '9.