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United Press International
EDWARDS AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. — Living up to
their “we deliver” motto, four
astronauts flew the space shuttle
to a smooth landing at dawn
Tuesday after a $250 million
mission that proved the Col
umbia can launch satellites.
Vance Brand, Robert Over-
myer, Joseph Allen and William
Lenoir landedjust eight minutes
after the sun rose over the Mo
jave Desert 60 miles north of Los
Angeles.
Thirty-five minutes after
landing, the world’s first four-
man spaceship crew climbed out
of the Columbia smiling and
shaking hands with awaiting
officials. Then they strolled
around the winged spaceship
and looked it over.
The space freighter, flying a
flawless course back from orbit,
broke through thin clouds and
touched down at 6:33 a.m. Cali-
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fornia time (8:33 a.m. CST) for
an impressive conclusion to its
fifth orbital flight.
“Hey, Roy, are we down
now?” asked co-pilot Overmyer,
suggesting the landing was so
smooth he couldn’t feel it.
“Absolutely, it was beautiful,
and you certainly lived up to
your motto this flight,” replied
Roy Bridges in Houston. “Wel
come home.”
The only big disappointment
of the mission was Monday’s
cancellation of a two-man space-
walk. That raised questions ab
out the shuttle’s new spacewalk
ing gear.
The Columbia, which now
has traveled more than 10 mil
lion miles in space, was directed
to the 15,000-f oot-long concrete
runway used for its July 4 land
ing because the long, broad,
normally dry lakebed runways
were muddy from recent rains.
It came to a stop in the middle
of the runway, with plenty of un
used rollout space ahead.
A NASA spokesman said a
cursory examination of the
black and white rocketplane
found it in good shape, with no
apparent damage to its glassy in
sulation tiles.
The ship, protected from the
fiery re-entry heat by those tiles,
slowed from more than 17,000
mph to the landing speed of an
airliner in less than an hour.
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Draft registration
law ruled invalid
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — A feder
al judge ruled the nation’s
Selective Service registration
law was invalid because the
1980 presidential order rein
stituting draft registration was
enacted nine days too early.
U.S. District Judge Terry
Hatter made his ruling Mon
day in dismissing charges
against David Wayte, 21, who
had refused to register for the
draft. A crowd of Wayte’s sup
porters packing the cour
troom burst into applause at
the end of the hearing.
Justice Department attor
neys immediately said they
would appeal the entire deci
sion to the 9th Gircuit Court
of Appeals.
Hatter agreed with a de
fense motion the government
waited just 21 days instead of
the legally required 30 days
from the time the registration
law was published in the Fed
eral Register in July 1980 to
the time it took effect.
The judge also cited the
Reagan administration’s re
fusal to let def ense lawyers see
White House and Pentagon
documents and question pres
idential counselor Edwin
Meese as reasons for throwing
out the charges.
“T his court does not agree
with the government that con
tention statements made by
President Carter at I he time
he issued Presidential Procla
mation 4771 amounted to a
clearly articulated and legally
sufficient waiver of the notice
and comment requirement,”
he said.
Hatter said he realizdl
ruling would have a"
spread effect” on the Sets
Service registration butsj
“justice compels the t
grant defendant’s motioul
Both the registration]
and selective prosecutioJ
ings could jeopard® j
cases against several i
young men who contendll
were singled out for pros
tion because they pufl
proclaimed their oppt
to draft registration.
“This is not an easy ii
Hatter said. “It involve^
personal liberties, hi
the three major brandiel
government.”
The judge’s 37-pageoj
ion also rejected a
merit claim of executive]
vilege.
Price Index rises
slighdy in October
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Whole
sale prices were pushed up in
October by the cost of 1983
model-year cars but otherwise
were mostly unchanged, private,
analysts say.
After falling 0.1 percent in
September, the third monthly
decline this year, the govern
ment’s measure of wholesale
prices had been expected to
climb about 0.4 percent to 0.6
percent during October,
analysts said.
The Labor Department pub
lished its official measure of
October’s Producer Price Index
at 7:30 a.m. T uesday.
“There’s not a whole lot of
inflation around,” said econom
ist Donald Ratajczak of Georgia
State University.
Except for the difference be
tween discounted 1982 auto
prices to dealers in September
and the greater cost of new 1983
models picked up in the govern
ment’s data collection process in
October, “the numbers I’m look
ing at indicate declining infla
tion,” Ratajczak said.
Evans Economics — a forecast
firm subsidiary of McMahan,
Brafman, Morgan & Co. — pre
dicted a 0.6 percent increase.
Another key economic statis
tic, industrial production for
October, was expected to show
further deterioration in factory
output, which has declined dur
ing nearly every month of the
recession. That figure, too, was
published Tuesday.
The Producer Price Index
also doubles as an economic sta
tistic because prices often firm
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be no evidence of such inen
economic demand.
And the most sensitive
the index — the partt
with raw materials—isex[i
to show another month)
dining prices. Economic
raw materials prices
climb in anticipation of as
nomic recovery.
“There could be a turm
near future but it’s not her
economist Ratajczak said
The economic uncer
showed up on Wall Street!
day, where stocks plunge
the second consecutive stt
Investors, worried thatl
dine in short-term intereit
may have leveled off, cash
on profits from Wall Street
toric rally.
The relatively slow tradit
dicated the selling press®
not extreme, however
The Dow Jones industif
erage, which plunged
points Friday, droppedan
18.49 to 1,021.43. Thed
watched average, which
1 1.86 points overall Iasi!
has dropped 44.06 points
hitting an all-time higl
1,065.49 on Nov. 3.
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