European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 6, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 volunteers being paid to foil Down stairs Atlanta a Georgia tech researchers have constructed collapsing stairs and Are paying volunteers to Tumble Down them wearing crash Hel mets neck braces and padded mittens. All in the name of science. Stairs Are the second most dangerous consumer product right after automobiles but the one thing we really Don t know is what happens in the instant of a fall said researcher Deborah Hyde of the Georgia Institute of technology s school of architecture. Researchers have constructed a pneumatic Stair Way that can collapse in any of five different ways to prompt a scientific pratfalls. Volunteers Are paid $ 15 for falling on that air cushioned flight. Each subjects flailing arms and legs Are Frozen by Strobe lights and High Speed cameras for later analysis. Designers Are looking for new insights into How to make a safer flight of stairs. Results already have misspelled some misconceptions about when and How people stumble. For example although people generally fear fall ing Down a flight of stairs research shows they Are More Likely to stumble on the Way up. During the Experiment each Volunteer is trussed in a Green flight suit neck Brace crash helmet and padded mittens and Slung from a red Parachute har Ness that automatically arrests each fall. At a predetermined Point we turn on an electric beam that goes across the front Edge of the Stair we want them to fall on Hyde said. They break the beam and that acts As the trigger to collapse the  so far the researchers have entered 1,400 images from 50 recorded Falls into a computer to re create a Complete electronic composite of a bad fall. The computer simulation will Tell us what Posi Tion they would have landed in what they would have hit first Hyde said. We need to learn what kind Offe Rees people generate when they  As Many As 2.6 million people every year Are injured in stairway Falls. An undeveloped or deteriorating sense of balance make the danger acute for children or the elderly. The Georgia tech team has a two year $125,000 Grant from the National science foundation to develop Energy absorbing foams that could replace the Wood Metal and Stone of traditional stairways. With stairs you Are always going to have Acci dents. You can t pad people Hyde said. So you have to come up with some Way to attenuate the forces that build up in a  couple to raise for whatever reason Congress Money of buy was productive this time around guns for police Akron Ohio a City officials say there in enough Money to replace police pistols with automatic weapons but a retired couple has cooked up a plan to raise the  and Virginia Sica both retired schoolteachers plan to organize bake sales and car washes to help buy new  just in t right to Send a Man out in a car with six rounds when he might face a Man with 15 rounds Sica said. The couple got the idea for the bake sales after hear ing two police groups the police patrolmen s association and the Black Law enforcement officers were launching a petition drive to encourage officials to approve the Purchase of automatic weapons. Police say the service revolvers they carry Are no match for the weapons carried by some criminals especially drug dealers. Those guns fire 14 to 17 round before they must be reloaded. City officials say it would Cost about $250,000 Toby automatic guns and ammunition for the More than 400 officers on the Force. Biff of Finif lewd bumper ski Cecers Baton Rouge la. A Bawdy bumper stick ers would have to declare their coarser terms in letters Only one eighth of an Inch High under a Bill passed by the legislature and awaiting gov. Buddy Roemer s  says he will probably sign the measure into Law despite promises of a court fight Over its cons Titu  s not the most important Bill Ever to Cross my desk said Roemer whose state s depressed Oil fire Economy has been blamed for an accumulated state deficit of $1.2 billion since 1982."this is an indecency Bill said rep. . Bella who said he introduced the measure after seeing Lew bumper messages once too often. Ill worry about whether it s constitutional  s Bill would limit to one eighth of an Inch High and wide the letters used for six specific words describing bodily functions body parts and sex acts. Washington a the democratic con trolled Congress is bragging about a session of unusual productivity although the circumstances that have helped make that possible May soon be gone. We think it is probably the most productive con Gress in recent history House speaker Jim Wright d Texas  record backs up that statement. For the first time in years the House has Pas Sedall 13 of the annual spending Bills on time. When the final two measures were voted on june 29, it was the earliest that had been done in 28 years. The catastrophic health insurance Bill signed into Law Friday by president Reagan is the biggest change in the medicare system since the program began 23 years ago. The Senate ratified the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty with the soviet Union. After a seemingly endless partisan Battle Over Aid to Nicaragua s Contra rebels through most of the Rea Gan administration lawmakers on both sides of the aisle approved a non weapons Aid package. Both the House and Senate have approved Bills to overhaul the nation s welfare Laws and an agreement Between the two Chambers is being negotiated. The housing Aid programs have been renewed and after years of stalemate a Compromise has been struck on toughening the nation s Laws against discrimination in  Are some pretty significant things done in this Congress conceded rep. Robert h. Michel of Illinois the House Republican Leader. Michel was also Quick to Point out that republicans played a meaningful role in those  reason we have been productive is because we have a democratic House and a democratic Senate Wright said. After six years of gop control democrats won Back the Senate in the 1986  crediting a unified Congress As the main reason for the legislative Success would be  year when both Chambers were democratic not one of the annual spending Bills was finished onetime. The most important reason Congress was Able to move speedily this year was last fall s deficit reduction pact with Reagan which set in Advance the Overall spending  reason for this year s Success has been just departed White House chief of staff Howard  former senator s non confrontational style and his work directly with Congress to Iron out wrinkles helped keep the process moving on several occasions. Meanwhile Domestic programs have regained som of the attractiveness in Congress that was tarnished in Reagan s Early years of anti big government  test of whether Congress is running better will come next year. Thousands Call hot line for aids data new York not in the first 18 Days after the government began mailing brochures on aids to 107 million Homes throughout the United states More than 100,000 extra Calls were made to a special hot Lin seeking information on the disease Federal health officials say. At to tells us they be never experienced anything like it said Fred Kroger acting director of the National aids information program at the National centers for disease control in Atlanta. It certainly Speaks to the need for information the desire for  most callers to the special number which Telephone company officials say has become one the most heavily used of its special lines have asked for practical advice on How to avoid infection whether their activities May have exposed them to infection what the symptoms Are How to get tested and where to go for medical help health officials said. The eight Page leaflet understanding aids Withan introduction by the surgeon general of the United states c. Everett Koop is government s first attempt to reach every resident by mail on a health Issue. Officials have prepared versions in Spanish an braille and Are working on portugese and chinese editions. These can be requested on the hot line. Little opposition to the mailing has emerged. Officials of the disease centers said they had received a few Hundred complaints. Trump gives press a tour of newest acquisition new York not Donald j. Trump real estate Developer and Yachtsman displayed his latest acquisition to the press monday the Trump Princess an opulent 300-foot yacht with an operating room a discotheque 210 telephones accommodations for 22 peo ple and 31 Crew members and Marble lavatories that Trump described As done in such grand taste there s never been Marble work like this be  there s never been anything like it in terms of Quality which is what i like of course said the Man whose name already graces a Tower a Castle and a Plaza. You re almost afraid to touch it he said As he stroked a padded suede Wall. In one of eight double suites he pressed a Button that slowly spins a worked Metal column. This is a Good sculpture which you want of course he said. But behind it is the to and stereo and Var which you want but Don t want to  Trump bought the yacht six months ago from the Sultan of Brunei who had secured it As collateral for a multimillion Dollar loan to the saudi arabian entrepreneur Adnan m. Khash Oggi. After a six month $10-million refit Ting in the Netherlands the Trump Prin Cess entered new York Harbor for the first time monday at least in its present incarnation. Photographers were in formed that Aerial shots Are suggested from about 8 30 to 9 . As the yacht sails Down the East  Donald really stressed the charitable aspects of the yacht said Tom Gates a reporter for the West Side spirit and Palm Beach social pictorial explaining that the yacht would be used for fund raising parties. Gates was among the 60 or so report ers and photographers who went on a tour of the Princess conducted by Trump and his wife Ivana. Donald said he Felt pangs of guilt sometimes at owning a boat like this Gates said. But he should t. He makes his Money legally after  for Trump who has been wooed Byboth the Republican and democratic parties the ownership of the yacht is a form of patriotism. This country has been taken advantage of by every country in the world especially our allies like Japan Kuwait and saudi Arabia the Casino owner said. So i look at this ship As one of the great jewels of the world and As a american i m proud to have pulled it Back Here. This yacht was considered a jewel the jewel of Monte Carlo and think americans should have the jew Els should go out and buy the jewels of the world because we re a great coun