European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday augusts 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 politics nothing to shout about Proxmire roars Washington a noise. Screeching Yelling bellowing desk pounding , sen. William Proxmire says is invading political inspiration Well perhaps it May be the influence of a Quarter Century of ear blasting Rock music upon the nation s the age of Rock v Roll so corrupted our generation with noise that Only the loudest Houters can win Proxmire asked the Senate on perhaps the Wisconsin Democrat said one can blame television talk shows which elevate rudeness to a Fine Art and operate under the Rule of never Start talking unless you rebutting in on another if two speakers interrupt a third speaker simultaneously and All three keep talking the you have the supreme thrill Proxmire said. With three people taking at once it s impossible to hear a coherent word let alone a coherent and More people Are catching on to this Rock n Roll oratory Proxmire told the Senate. They Are finding it s a real Winner. Content is nothing. It does t matter whether the speaker is logical or matters is the loudness the Deci Bels Proxmire said his own voice the speaker really get your attention he bellowed to the several senators on the floor at the time and the galleries mostly filled with tourists from around the he slam his fist on the table the sen Ator exclaimed slamming his own fist on his Senate he stamp and shout asked the sen Ator doing both at the same his voice Range from a Roar to a screech and Back to a Roar he asked roaring with Thebes of them. Does he flail the air with his fists he shouted flailing at the empty air next As if it were a punching he slap his hands together and keep shouting he waved his arms above his head slapped his hands together and shouted if he does All of these things the press will Call him charismatic and More and More people will come to see him and hear his roaring thoughts on political noise and loudness were ignited Proxmire said by a re cent column on the subject by Russell Baker of the new York Are shooters in the Senate also. But Proxmire said the place is More often bound by slow and sleepy oratorical tradition conducted according to a gentlemanly code in which speakers refer to each other As the distinguished and the future however May belong to the red hot shooters Proxmire hot emotion and cold reasoning clash hot emotion wins every shouted his Hope that the Decibel level of political and congressional oratory will be reduced Proxmire lowered his voice and ended his speech . David Pryor d-ark., sought recognition and made Clear Proxmire s Point had struck the distinguished senator from wis Consin s oration he said i May deliver my speech in just a Little above a critic hails air traffic gains but says system still stressed Washington a a frequent critic of Federal air traffic control efforts says a new government report showing a reduction in near accidents is Good news but he says the system remains under severe pressure. We re All Happy to see it but by no Means Are we ready to celebrate sen. Frank Lautenberg d-n.j., chairman of the Senate s transportation appropriations subcommittee said monday after the Federal aviation administration released its figures. The Faa said there were 518 operational errors by air traffic controllers during the first six months of this year an 18 percent drop from the 635 recorded in the first half of 1987. The 366 Aerial near collisions reported by Pilot from january through june this year was a 27 percent decline from the 500 reported during the same period in 1987. In addition there were 60 reports of aircraft or ground vehicles entering Active runways without per Mission during the first three months of 1988, 27 per cent fewer than the 82 tallied in the first Quarter of 1987. These numbers combined with the generally downward movement in aircraft Accident rates in the first half of 1988, indicate a continued pattern of improvement in aviation safety Faa administrator Allan Mcartor said in a statement. But Lautenberg said the figures showed encouraging numbers not satisfactory he said a military plane he was in last Friday flying to Teterboro Airport in new Jersey had to veer of course to avoid colliding with another aircraft thai his Pilot later told him had been Only 200 foot away. The system is under Strain he said. The frequency of operational errors in which the required spacing Between aircraft in flight is violated has been declining since the Middle of last year. But the number of Aerial near collisions has begun declining for the first time in about five years Faa spokesman John Leyden said. The Agency defines Anear collision As an incident in which two aircraft come within 500 feet of each other in flight or when flight Crews believe a Hazard of a collision existed. Public concern about safety in the skies peaked Las year. Complaints from passengers surged airliners crashed at the Detroit and Denver airports and a Heli copter carrying president Reagan averted a collision with a Small plane near his California ranch. Expensive film prop a red White and Blue Rolls Royce is rolled out of the liberate museum in Las vegas for shipment to los Angeles where it will be used in the filming of a movie based on the life of the late entertainer. The 1964 luxury car was featured in liberate s final performance in new York City s radio City music Hall in 1986. Train crash evacuees going Home Altoona Iowa a authorities allowed 2,000 evacuees to return Home tuesday for the first time since two freight trains collided and derailed. Police chief Britt Adair said the fire was extinguished late monday. The two Iowa interstate Railroad trains one of which included two Tanker cars carrying As much As 20,000 Gallons each of volatile denatured alcohol collided shortly before noon saturday. Two Crew men were killed and their bodies were recovered monday. Fire coming from one of the cars had burned out by monday but authorities waited to allow residents to return because of the danger of explosion from the second Tanker. Investigators were trying to determine How the two trains came to be on the same track. The chief investigator said the probe was entering on whether one of the trains was off schedule. Investigators examined the controls of the Wrecke eastbound train and found nothing out of order an official said. The emergency Brake was being applied he added. The crash killed William Peers 54, of Des Moines and Larry Buckingham jr., 35, of Winterset both Long time employees of the Railroad. Their bodies were located under the two derailed tankers but had not Bee recovered earlier because of the danger of explosion. Scientists claim evidence of fifth Force Gravity los Angeles up scientists said they found evidence supporting existence of a fifth Force a Type of Gravity that is both similar to and differ ent from the Force that keeps All things firmly put in the universe. Geophysicists from a score of universities participating in the project say analysis of their data in which a Gravity meter was lowered Down a 5,488-foot Hole in a Greenland Icecap suggests exis tence of the elusive Force. The investigation suggests a fifth Force that enhances conventional Gravity at certain ranges. Scientists led by air Force physic Standrew Lazarewicz last summer discovered a similar gravitational Force when they climbed a North Carolina television Tower. Other scientists have found evidence of a fifth Force that is repulsive and acts in opposition to conventional Gravity. The Hullabaloo that for More than a decade has surrounded investigations of additional forces of nature has sharply divided scientists who believe additional forces of nature exist from those who Donot believe in them. A fifth Force Many hypothesize would link All of the forces of nature into the Long sought grand unification theory suggested shortly after Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity More than 70 years ago. The other four forces of nature Are electromagnetism or Light the Strong Force that holds atoms together the weak Force that is a key in radioactive decay and conventional Gravity. The latest tests led by physicists Mark Ander of los Alamos National Laboratory and Mark Zumberge of the Scripps institution of oceanography indicate that the new fifth Force if indeed it s there is about 50 times weaker than conventional Gravity and exists Over a Short Range
