LEAD: Talks between warring Nicaraguan factions broke down today when representatives of the Sandinista Government refused to accept a cease-fire proposal from the mediator, Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Primate.

NICARAGUAN TALKS REACH AN IMPASSE ON PRIMATE'S PLAN

LEAD:  Republicans Assail Reagan  Republicans, some frustrated and some irritated, criticized President Reagan for his plans to sign an arms treaty with the Russians. Page 6.  Emigres on Gorbachev  Soviet emigres ranging from a Boston homemaker to a former K.G.B. major describe their feelings about Mikhail Gorbachev's arrival.

INSIDE

LEAD: New York City is likely to have trouble recruiting a new schools chancellor because of uncertainty surrounding the future structure of the Board of Education, according to interviews with some of the leading candidates for the post.

Turmoil Mars Search For Schools Leader, 5 Candidates Assert

LEAD: Cuban inmates were led this afternoon from the rubble of burned-out penitentiary buildings they had controlled for 11 days, and the 89 hostages they freed early this morning tried to forget their ordeal.

U.S. Is Taking Control at Prison After Cubans End 11-Day Siege

LEAD: In the gymnasium at the Jackson Avenue Elementary School, 8-year-olds ran through a human circulatory system on the parquet floor.

Gym Classes Teaching How the Body Works

LEAD: Amid surprisingly brisk job growth, the nation's unemployment rate eased one-tenth of a percentage point last month, to 5.8 percent, the Labor Department announced today.

Rate of Jobless Declines to 5.8% Despite Collapse in Stock Market

LEAD: In a brief news item this week, the Government television station took the unusual step of reporting a telephone conversation between Lieut. Gen. Henri Namphy, head of the army-dominated provisional Government, and Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Panamanian military leader, who has been at odds with the United

Haiti's Leader Puts His Faith In the Army

LEAD: Investors continued to flee from stocks yesterday, and by some measures Wall Street is now in worse shape than it was after the market's traumatic collapse in October.

Stocks Below Oct. 19 Lows as the Slump Persists

LEAD: The new Secretary of Defense, Frank C. Carlucci, has instructed the military services to slice about $33 billion from next year's budget, a reduction of more than 10 percent, according to Pentagon and Congressional officials.

CARLUCCI ORDERS $33 BILLION IN CUTS FOR ARMED FORCES

NEWS SUMMARY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1987

LEAD: ''I don't think we yielded to the demands of hostage-takers in this case. I don't think we violated any of our principles.''

Quotations of the Day

LEAD: Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia and its exiled former ruler, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, expressed joint hopes today for a political reconciliation that could lead to the withdrawal of Vietnamese occupation forces and the installment of a government of national unity.

HOPES RAISED FOR CAMBODIA PACT

LEAD: The third reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, damaged in an explosion and fire in April 1986, has been repaired and put back in operation, the press agency Tass said today. The fourth reactor at the Ukrainian plant was damaged beyond repair in the accident, which killed at least 31 people.

3d Chernobyl Reactor Runs

LEAD: A student leader who was charged last summer with slandering the state by making ''undesirable statements'' to a foreign correspondent has been sentenced to four years in prison, the South Korean press reported today.

SEOUL STUDENT LEADER SENTENCED

LEAD: An article in Business Day on Thursday about W. R. Grace & Company misidentified the operations that it plans to sell. The company intends to divest itself of one part of its chemical business - the agricultural chemicals group.

CORRECTION

LEAD: A minibus carrying 13 American college students collided with a car on an expressway today, killing 2 students and injuring 11 people, the police said. The victims' names and their college were not immediately given. The police said the students were traveling west on the M-4 expressway when the accident occurred between Swindon and Newbury, in southern England.

U.S. Students Die in Britain

LEAD: An obituary of Mayor Harold Washington of Chicago on Nov. 26 misstated his marital status. He was divorced in 1951 after nine years of marriage to the former Nancy Dorothy Finch.

LEAD: The Justice Department has told an international panel investigating war crimes charges against President Kurt Waldheim of Austria that it barred Mr. Waldheim from the United States because it found sufficient evidence to implicate him ''personally'' in wartime persecutions, according to those who have seen the material.

U.S. Links Waldheim to Persecution

LEAD: The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a measure tying India's eligibility to receive high-technology items from the United States to a curtailment of its nuclear weapons development.

Bill on Atom Arms Would Punish India

LEAD: Excerpts in some copies yesterday from an Associated Press transcript of President Reagan's interview with four network correspondents misattributed a quotation that formed part of a question. The reporter's question should have begun, ''Mr. President, Winston Churchill once said that 'trying to maintain a good relationship with the Communists was not unlike trying to woo a crocodile and when it opened its mouth you never could be quite certain whether it was trying to smile or eat you up.

LEAD: A Washington article yesterday about the B-1 bomber misstated the circumstances of a recent cruise missile firing. It was the first such firing from a B-1; several cruise missiles were fired previously from B-52's.

Correction

LEAD: With many Korean and foreign experts sensing that his campaign has stalled, the ruling party's presidential candidate, Roh Tae Woo, went to unusual lengths tonight to distance himself from South Korea's unpopular President, Chun Doo Hwan.

Korean Candidate Takes On Chun, an Old Friend

LEAD: Mao was a customer. So was Zhou Enlai. Deng Xiaoping is one now, as are the Communist Party chief, Zhao Ziyang, and the rest of China's inner circle of leaders.

From Mao to Zhao, He Has Stitched for the Mighty

LEAD: George Seawright, a former politician who once declared that Roman Catholics should be incinerated, died Thursday of wounds received two weeks ago when he was shot by an Irish nationalist gunman. He was 36 years old.

Anti-Catholic Politician Dies Of Gunshot Wound in Ulster

LEAD: President Reagan and senior officials met today to review what arms control proposals the United States should make at the summit meeting next week.

Reagan and Aides Prepare Offers on Future Arms Pact

Allen Lorenz "A. J." Pollock is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners, and San Francisco Giants.

December 5, 1987

Headlines from December 5, 1987

NICARAGUAN TALKS REACH AN IMPASSE ON PRIMATE'S PLAN

INSIDE

Turmoil Mars Search For Schools Leader, 5 Candidates Assert

U.S. Is Taking Control at Prison After Cubans End 11-Day Siege

Gym Classes Teaching How the Body Works

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Bad

Whitesnake

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Tunnel Of Love

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 5, 1987