European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 stars and stripes Friday March 7, 1986 air traffic controllers too few to handle needs Gao says Washington a Federal aviation administration should curtail scheduled airline traffic to ease pressure on overworked air traffic controllers according to a new congressional study. Congressional sources said study by general accounting office investigative Arm of Congress concludes there Are not enough experienced controllers to Han dle today s traffic loads. The report also says that plans to in crease controller work Force Are being hampered by stepped up retirements and training problems sources said. The a a has 14,000 controllers in air port towers and 20 in route air traffic control centers around country. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole has promised to add another 1,000 controllers in next two years to meet needs of future traffic growth. But Dole and Faa administrator Don Ald Engen repeatedly have insisted that there Are enough controllers to handle cur rent traffic needs. They said that when there is a question of controllers being Over burdened flights Are held Back through traffic flow controls. But Gao study according to congressional sources who spoke on condition they not be identified concludes that there Are far fewer experienced controllers available than Are needed especially during Peak travel Peri ods and in parts of country where skies Are particularly congested. The study much of which is based on questionnaires sent to 5,500 controllers and supervisors and some interviews and letters from controllers is expected to be released this week. It was prepared for House investigations subcommittee of Public works and transportation committee. Rep. Guy v. Molinari r-., a sub committee member declined to discuss de tails of report but said it generally substantiates that serious problems remain in air traffic control system. Molinari last year called on Reagan administration to rehire some of con trollers fired after 1981 strike. Several senators have made similar requests but legislation calling for rehiring of some con trollers has gone nowhere in Congress. The administration has argued that those former controllers would also take months to retrain and that they might cause friction in towers and control centers where controllers who ignored 1981 strike continue to work. Some of findings of Gao report such As belief by Many controllers that they Are handling too Many planes were disclosed last summer by Gao officials during testimony before congressional committees examining air safety. But Gao has not previously announced any conclusions or Given any recommendations on what might be needed to alleviate problem. The report suggests there May be no alternative to reducing air traffic flow be cause it takes Many months to put new experienced controllers into towers and control centers according to sources. The airline Industry has opposed Faa restrictions on traffic arguing free flow of air traffic is needed during a time when customer demand is increasing and airlines Are fighting to compete. The airlines for More than a year have called on Faa to step up its controller hiring plans. Earlier this week at a congressional hear ing in new Jersey several controllers warned of potential safety problems. We Are stretching our meager resources to breaking Point testified Robert s. Bell a controller at new York terminal radar facility at Westbury . The hearing was held in Cliffside Park n.j., near where a business Jet and Small private plane collided last november kill. Ing six people. While cause of Colli Sion has not been determined investigation has revealed that a controller handling two planes gave an erroneous direction of flight for one of planes involved. A photo a monumental cleanup a . Park service employee uses a High pressure steam Spray to clean a statue of ukrainian poet Taras Shev Chenko in Washington . The Park service and Mazepa foundation of Alexandria va., Are sponsoring a nationwide Campaign honouring ukrainian americans and Shevchenko who opposed a ossification of Ukraine in mid-1800s. Vigorous exercise May prolong life study suggests Boston a up Milne tint or pc r 1imknn 1 \ in of 1o non Tyr a 1 ii a j o i. To Boston a regular exercise that ories climbing 70 stairs uses 28 calories Medicine and Harvard school of Public Burns up 2,000 calories a week appears to Light exercise uses 5 calories a minute and health and published in thursday s new significantly reduce people s risk of death a vigorous exercise uses 10 calories a minute. England journal of Medicine new study concludes. The study found that for older men research confirms earlier studies research based on a 16-year follow risk of death among those who worked out showing exercise is Good for Doole s health per a of non. " th.? a vi89rously was Only half that of least it suggests athletic people live longer be exercised off 2,000 calories weekly had a 28 Active men. Cause they Are physically Active not Sim percent lower death rate than did less Active activity seems to lengthen life maybe ply that they play sports because they Are Mone maybe two years. We can expect that healthier to begin with. There is widespread and longstanding for every hour that they Are Active they will popular belief that adequate physical exer get to live that hour Over and maybe two Cise is necessary to preserve life and its More on top of that or. Ralph s. Paffen pc iraqi a site it Barger or. Told lbs evening research was conducted on 16,936 Harvard graduates Between Ages of 35 directed by Paffenbarger a University school of research found that even when desirable into old age re searchers wrote. The present study adds new evidence to support this blood burned off 2,000 had less than half risk of death As did with hypertension who exercised even cigarette smokers who exercised lived longer than those who did t. Among other findings death rates fell steadily As Energy expended on exercise increased from less than 500 calories a week to 3,500 calories weekly men whose parents both died before age 65 had a 29 percent higher risk of death than alumni whose parents lived past 65. Those who exercised were less Likely to die from All causes but largest declines were in risk of death from card Ivascu Harjind respiratory diseases. Beyond 3,500 calories a week panel Calls Goode s move tactics negligent Phil anti pi4ia si1di\ a Onan in a i. Philadelphia up a special commission charged in its final report thursday mayor Wilson Goode abdicated his responsibilities As a Leader and was grossly negligent when 11 members of a Radical group were killed in a blazing Bat Lewith police May 13. It also blasted other City officials at scene of confrontation in which 11 move members were killed and a neigh boyhood destroyed by flames. It called deaths of five children unjustified Homi cide that should be probed by a grand jury. A spokeswoman for Goode said he would make a prompt response after studying the70-Page report is sued by a special commission of 11 civic leaders. Good set up commis Sion a few weeks after move Battle. Goode refused to Goode comment on a draft of commission re port that was leaked to news Media last week. The mayor abdicated his responsibilities As a Leader when after midday he permitted a clearly failed operation to continue which posed great risk to life and prop Ertry report said. Six move members and five children died in conflict after police dropped a bomb onto roof of move houses sparking a massive fire. The Blaze destroyed 61 Homes and left 250 homeless. commission report also lambasted former police commissioner Gregore Sam Bor for using excessive Force and failing to properly plan assault. Moreover it criticized fire commissioner William Richmond for failing to immediately douse fire and charged entire operation was reckless ill planned and ill mayor s failure to Call a halt to operation on May 12 when he knew that children were in House was grossly negligent and clearly risked lives of those children report stated. It also said deaths of children appear to be unjustified homicides which should be investigated by a grand
