Weather scrubs landing
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (AP)
— Columbia, diverted from landing and still in
orbit, will try again Tuesday in a suspenseful
third-flight finale that could force the shuttle to
bypass sandblown Northrup Strip and return
non-stop to Florida
The runway in Florida: 15,000 feet of con
crete surrounded by a moat
Columbia has never made a paved-runway
landing, but the alternative is another try at
wind-whipped Northrup, and NASA officials
were pessimistic that conditions would improve.
In space, 141 miles above Earth, astronauts
Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton were in fine
fettle with plenty of food, fuel and power
"Sorry about that." Mission Control said
about the scrub.
“That’s the breaks of space, I guess,”
Lousma said
It was the first time in 20 years of space flight
that a landing was scrubbed. Kennedy Space
Center, at Cape Canaveral, is NASA’s third
choice for Flight 3. The main runway in Califor
nia is waterlogged and out of service.
Equipment at Northrup Strip, hastily as
sembled to handle a shuttle landing, may have
suffered some damage from the winds but the
gusts still were too strong to make an assess
ment at midday.
Columbia was less than an hour and a
half from its landing when the decision was
made.
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after pluralistic vote
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The centrist Christian
Democrats and their extreme-right challengers, both falling short of
a majority in El Salvador s election, scrambled for coalition partners
Monday to govern the war-weary country
The U S ambassador called together leaders of all six parties
that took part in Sunday's election, in an apparent bid to build
harmony for a common front against leftist guerrillas
The insurgents pressed their bloody siege of the city of
Usulutan, 70 miles southeast of here, in one of the biggest attacks
of the 2 Vi-year-old civil war in this Central American nation At least
four soldiers were reported killed Monday
In Washington, the Reagan administration sent a new signal on
negotiations to end the conflict Secretary of State Alexander Haig
said the constituent assembly elected Sunday should "hold out the
hand of conciliation" to guerrillas who are ready to join in the
democratic process
The left boycotted the election, saying its candidates would
have been risking assassination by El Salvador's right-wing death
squads ”
As returns continued to come in Monday, the major parties'
shares of the vote held steady The Christian Democrats of Jose
Napoleon Duarte, president of the current U S -backed civilian
military junta, had 41 percent of the nationwide tally, and the
ultra-rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA) of former
army Maj Roberto d'Aubuisson had 29 percent
Each of the two parties predicted it would form a majority
coalition with one or more of the smaller conservative groups in the
60-member assembly, which is to name an interim government and
write a new constitution leading to general elections, probably next
year
With about one-fifth of the 4,600 voting stations reporting the
count of about 260,000 ballots, the Central Election Commission
announced vote tallies and percentages Percentages were Chris
tian Democrats. 40.8 percent; ARENA, 28 9 percent; National
Conciliation Party. 16.4 percent; Democratic Action Party, 9.4
percent; Popular Salvadoran Party, 3.2 percent, and Popular
Orientation Party, 1.2 percent
This did not necessarily indicate how many seats each party
would win. Each of El Salvador's 14 provinces had a number of
assembly seats assigned to it. to be distributed to the parties
proportional to their vote in each province.
Salvadorans used their police-issued identification cards to
vote, and it was estimated that more than one million of the
approximately 1.5 million eligible voters turned out
The Reagan administration and the Salvadoran government
and military had promoted the election as a democratic means of
moving toward peace by strengthening the legitimacy of the
Salvadoran leadership
Christian Democrat leader Guillermo Guevara said Monday
that coalition talks were under way with Democratic Action, the
most moderate opposition group.
D'Aubuisson claimed his party could control the assembly with
help from National Conciliation, the party that ruled El Salvador
from 1961 until October 1979, when a military coup put the current
junta in power
Guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front say
they are fighting for a share of power in a broad coalition govern
ment Their spokesmen said they wanted to negotiate with the junta
before any election.
Usulutan, a city of 60,000 people on the Pacific coastal
highway, took the brunt of the guerrillas’ election weekend attacks.
Rebels seized the port of Puerto Parada last week and marched
north into Usulutan Saturday, seizing a Roman Catholic church
about 400 yards south of the military garrison and main square, and
forcing cancellation of the election there.
The Defense Ministry said guerrillas staged election-eve and
election-day attacks in at least 12 other cities and towns.
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