European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 06, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday novembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 test could help Navy pick Best pilots Pittsburgh a candidates for Navy combat flying who have the wrong stuff can be identified by a new test pre venting the government from wasting up to $1 million Worth of training says a re searcher who devised the test. Harold Gordon a Neur psychologist at the univ sri a of Pittsburgh said monday that his test which measures the brain s ability to perceive spatial relationships can identify More pilots who Are Likely to fail than methods now used by the Navy. Comparing the folks who actually left the program and those who stayed in and got their wings there s a big difference in How they performed on the spatial tests Gordon said in an interview. He cautioned however that the test measures Only one Factor and that some trainees who Are less than Brilliant in his test might still make the Grade in combat. Gordon an assistant professor of pay Aetiology and psychiatry has been working under a $500,000 Grant from the office of naval research for nearly three years. Gordon who began his study of brain organization at the California Institute of technology with Nobel prize Winner Roger w. Perry reported in 1981 that successful combat pilots in the is Icli air Force scored markedly higher on visual spatial brain tests than those who had failed to Complete flight training. The right hemisphere of the brain is dominant for three dimensional spatial abilities while the left hemisphere is Gener ally associated with speech function and certain analytical and mathematical skills. Gordon administered a number of Neu a psychological tests including the visual spatial exam to More than 1,100 aspiring combat pilots in 1983 at the naval air station in Pensacola Fla. About 400 of them eventually became naval flight officers who do not Pilot com Bat planes. Another 500 finished the pro Gram and went on to Fly jets helicopters or propeller driven planes. The remaining 200 were forced out or left the program. Gordon found that those who graduated had fared better on the spatial exam than those who did not regardless of other men Tal and physical abilities. The spatial test identified a Large percentage of those who failed to Complete the program Al though Gordon could not say How Many. Rule designed to prevent jammed circuits acc limits automatic re dial telephones to 15 tries Washington a trying to avoid jammed lines that sometimes occur when a radio station has a Call in contest or when a Power failure has everyone in town calling the Utility company Federal regulators on monday set limits on the number of times an automatic re dial Telephone can Call the same number. At the same time the Federal communications com Mission ought Public comment on How to limit computers which Call the same number Over and Over again. Last july the Telephone system in the nation s capital was flooded with Calls to the Box offices Selling tickets to Rock Star Bruce Springsteen s Washington concert. A Simi Lar overload of the Telephone system occurred when presi Dent John f. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. But even routine radio station contests especially the ones where an announcer selects not the first caller but the 20th or 30th, can easily choke the phone network forcing would be callers to other numbers to wait several seconds or longer for a dial tone or to discover that All circuits in an area Are tied up. To Cope with the problem the acc has modified its rules so that any new piece of automatic dealing equip ment designed to be hooked up to the Telephone network must quit calling after 15 successive attempts. Equipment already registered with the acc and Auto Matic dealers now in the hands of Consumers will not be affected by the Rule which goes into effect 30 Days after publication in the Federal Register. The acc had proposed limiting re dials to once every five minutes but it was argued that might be dangerous for people trying to re Call emergency services. Instead the 15-trics limit was suggested and no one objected. The commission Rule announced on monday affects the computer modems but not the computers. The commis Sion also suggested putting limits on computers since some automatic dealing functions Are controlled by the computers not by the modems which make the direct connection to the phone system. Many phones contain circuitry that allows a caller to press a single Button to re dial the last number called. Some computers handle that function automatically dial ing Over and Over again until a connection is made. In its notice of proposed Rul making the acc suggests a requirement of some form of control Over the hardware software or firmware in or used with the computer. This limitation is intended to prevent network congestion at Telephone company Central offices particularly during the Peak network usage periods the acc said. Massachusetts dedicates Park As Kennedy memorial Cambridge. Mass. A More than 20 years after the assassination of president John f. Kennedy the state of Massachusetts on monday dedicated a Park As an official memorial to its native son. I wish he was Here today said his daughter Caroline 27, at the groundbreaking ceremonies on a five acre Corner lot next to Harvard University and the Charles River. I know he would be grateful to you for marking this Corner of Cambridge As his memorial she said. Miss Kennedy a member of the commis Sion that developed the Park plan said the $2.5-million Public Park should serve As a a living memorial As Well As a quiet Oasis for City dwellers and visitors. She noted that it was 39 years ago this week that her father was elected to con Gress from the District which includes the Park Ite. Peaked joining miss Kennedy for the presenta Tion on a raw wet morning were her brother John f. Kennedy jr., 24 her Mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Uncle sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mnss., and his for Mer wife Joan Bennett Kennedy. Sen. John f. Kerry d-mass., state legislators and officials and members of the Harvard University Community also were among the crowd of about 300. Gov. Michael s. Dukakis who addressed the crowd reminisced about a time when he was a Harvard Law school student and got his first Opportunity to see the late presi Dent up close at a meeting of democratic students. There is no question in my mind there arc Many Many Many of us who would not be in political life today had it not been for his example and inspiration Dukakis said. The Park adjacent to Harvard s Kennedy school of government is near the site originally planned for the Kennedy Library which later was built on Boston s Dorches Ter Bay. The legislature set aside the land in 1976 for the metropolitan District com Mission Park which will contain a Granite Fountain walkways surrounded by a Fence and four  framed by Granite columns inscribed with quotations from the late president. It is expected to be completed next fall. Kennedy told the gathering that his brother would have liked the Park because it was near the River he loved near win Throp House where he lived As a Harvard student and is in the District that first sent him to Congress. Around the world there Are Many memories of and memorials to John Ken Nedy he said. But this Small plot of land along with the Kennedy school and the Kennedy Library Are the most pre Cious of All. For they come from his own from the people who knew him Best and who treasure him still not As a myth but As a  rep eafe use of ecstasy damaging to brain cells. -. My i to. Al or Nettas from lhc5c of Washington up University of Chicago researchers have found evidence the recreational drug known As ecstasy which has been outlawed damages brain cells but Only after repeated use the University said. Two researchers submitted a paper to the drug enforcement administration on experiments showing Rau which were Given one dose of the drug mama  to amphetamine suffered few by