European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 13,1987 the stars and stripes Page air traffic controllers accept new Union Washington the Federal aviation administration is imposing new air traffic control measures aimed Al keeping Busy sections of sky from be coming More crowded but officials admit thai the changes also arc Likely to delay More flights. Some critics expressed doubts that the change will be enough to assure that controllers can handle the heavy traffic Levels this summer. The lighter controls on the number of aircraft allowed to Fly through certain Busy airspace sectors were announced thursday. They Are Likely to increase the flight delays that have plagued air travel ers for month As More plane Are told to hold on the ground and others Are diverted or slowed Down in the air Faa officials acknowledge. The Faa said it already implemented the tighter controls in 32 sectors that feed Busy airports at Chicago Atlanta Newark san Francisco and Detroit. In All about 125 of the 652 air raffle control sectors most of them Are Al higher altitudes were singled out by Faa As being Likely targets for the traffic flow restrictions in the coming months. On any Given Day the Faa will re strict air traffic in As Many sectors As necessary to keep he system at Safe lev Els said transportation Secretary Eliza Beth Dole. Jim Burnett chairman of the National transportation safety Board said he was encouraged by the new measures be cause the Faa at least has acknowledged that about 20 percent of its High Altitude airspace sectors Are in danger of becom ing saturated Wilh planes. In Congress aides to the chairmen of both the House and Senate aviation sub committees suggested that the changes outlined by he Faa May not be dramatically different from past practices. A spokesman for sen. Wendell Ford d-ky., said he is considering hearings perhaps As Early As next week to exam Ine the Faa s traffic control plans for this summer As Well As the transportation department s announcement that it needs nearly 1,000 More controllers and supervisors nest year. Dote said the new controls Are needed to keep Pace with the growth of air Iraq fic in the coming months. One Faa official described it As a Fine tuning of the traffic management procedures that have Long been in tuna. Last  notional transportation safely Board concluded the Faa s flow control measures Are inadequate to protect against controllers becoming inundated by planes during Peak travel periods in some pans of the country. The safety Board called on the Faa to order the number of flights Cut Al Peak Ravel hours at major airports to reduce inc pressure on controllers saying there already arc indications that the margin of safety is being eroded. The Faa rejected specific cuts in flights. The traffic control measures outlined thursday however Call for a lighter reign on How Many air planes would be allowed into so tailed red sectors of airspace hat Are on the verge of becom ing saturated. If traffic becomes Loo clogged for a controller to handle traffic managers would order aircraft held on the ground or slowed Down in flight. This technique has been used for some time but Faa officials said now the Agency will take a much closer look at the sectors considered trouble spots and move immediately to restrict traffic if they seem to be becoming Loo Busy. Bit some critics including Burnett question whether the Faa s traffic Man agers will be Able to predict far enough ahead of time when a Section of airspace is becoming overcrowded. The Faa also is asking general aviation pilots to provide notice of up to four hours in Advance before flying in air space above 23,000 feet to help the Faa manage traffic demand. Babies Are bom people Dio people get married. People divorce people Are arrested teens drop out of High school. People become Hospital patients 10,300 5,700 13,300. 6,500. 28,000. 14,000 Chicago Tribune graphic source to one Dey by Tom Parker baby Boomer marriage patterns detailed in new government study Washington a that massive population bulge bom after world War ii has helped America set a pair of seemingly opposite records most marriages and lowest marriage rate for Young women. The number of marriages was at a historic High at he same time the rate of marriages per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15-44 years was at a historic Tow the National Center for health statistics reports. A new National record of 2,477,192 couples mar ried in 1984, 1 percent More than the number in 1983," the Center said in releasing its study the most recent detailed statistics available. But despite that Rise in total marriages the most eligible women were tying the knot at their lowest rate Ever the study added for every 1,000 women Between the Ages of 15 and 44,99 got married that year. The previous Low Rale was 99.3 per 1,000, set in 1983. Currently an unusually Large number of divorced and single people who Are in the age groups most Likely to marry Are remaining unmarried the new study said. This phenomenon has been widely discussed by so Cial scientists in recent years with a debate under Way Over whether Young people arc foregoing marriage and families for education and careers or merely postponing the traditional husband wife status. Either Way the massive Post world War ii Genera Tion has helped these seemingly anomalous records to be set since even at Low rates Here Are so Many people in the common marrying Ages that they can still set records for the total number Wing the knot. Even As it issued the new figures however the Cen Ter for health statistics added that provisional data for 1585 and 1986 indicate that both the number of marriages and the marriage rate have since declined.1 while the marriage rate for eligible Young women dropped to a new Low the National marriage rate was steady at 10.5 weddings per 1.000 people during the year the same As a year earlier. That indicates that the increase in total marriages was about the same percentage As the Overall Popula Tion growth in the year. But the 15-to-44 age group was growing faster thus resulting in a lower marriage Rale for Hose people. One tradition remained the study confirmed How Ever the june marriage is still most popular More than doubling he january rate of weddings. Other findings of the new study included among every 1,000 women married in 1984, 704.6 were first marriages while for men �98.1 of every 1,000 were first marriages. By contrast of every 1,000 wed in 1972, the marriage was the first for 960.8 men and 866.9 women. This decline in the share of first marriages at least partly reflects the postponement of marriage in the life Cycle of people the report comments. It May also portend a change in the proportion who Ever  e while women have a higher first marriage rate men Are More inclined to remarry after divorce. E for divorced people who do remarry women wait an average of 3.4 years while men wait 3.1 years. Widows who remarry do so after an average of 6.2 years while widowers remarry after an average of 3.7 years. In general divorced persons marry at far higher rates than do single persons and both divorced and single people marry at higher rates than widowed ones