European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes Friday october 5,1990 Nasa engineers to rewrite Magellan computer program Pasadena Calif. Apr engineers will rewrite the Magellan space probe s computer programs to reduce the risk of again losing Contact with the Venus orbiter an official said. Scientists have abandoned efforts to determine Why they lost Contact with the spacecraft twice in August said Tony Spear Magellan project manager at nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory. A we re reaching the Point of diminishing returns in trying to determine the Root cause so we Are phasing that out. We re focusing on fixes now a Spear said. Magellan on wednesday continued using its radar to map and make pictures of Venus marking its 396th orbit since reaching the planet aug. 10. The spacecraft has now collected More a a bits of computerized data than any other single planetary exploration spacecraft said Steve Wall Magellan Experiment representative. Nasa has said that by the end of Magellan s Mission it will have gathered More information than All other spacecraft combined. The spacecraft made some test pictures of Venus us. 16, out lost radio Contact with Earth that night and again aug. 21. That delayed the Start of full scale map Ping until sept. 15. Engineers suspect the malfunctions Stem from possible damage that happened when the spacecraft jettisoned its braking rocket several hours after it started orbiting Venus Spear said. The damage might be a broken wire or circuit Wall said. If there was such damage it apparently caused or unmarried face earlier death study concludes san Francisco up unmarried Middle aged men and women in the United states face twice the risk of dying within 10 years As those still living with their spouses a study showed thursday. The study of 7,651 people in the United states came to no conclusion about Why unmarried people in lire group died at the higher rate but suggested divorce was a key Factor in putting people at risk researchers at the University of California at san Francisco found 23 percent of the men Between the Ages of 45 Ana 54 who lived alone or with someone other than a spouse died within a decade. Only 11 percent of married men studied died during that period. Of the unmarried women in the same age group 7.7 percent died. Only 4 percent of married women died. The higher death rate seemed connected to Jow income with poorer women at greater risk. The Gap Between the married and unmarried groups slightly narrowed As the individuals grew older the study said. Men who had been previously married were at the most risk researchers said. A of particular interest is that both men who live alone and those who live with someone other than a spouse Are equally disadvantaged for survival Quot said mar acc Davis an associate professor of epidemiology and Bio statistics who led the study. A the critical Factor seems to be the presence of a  because of the High divorce rate in the United states and the trend for older adults to live alone it widowed there should be a general concern about the social isolation health and Well being of older adults living alone Quot she said. The study which is consistent with previous research also found that the percentage of people living without spouses increased with age and was higher for women than men in All the age groups. Slightly More than half of the women Ages 65 to 74 in the study were living alone or with someone other than a spouse compared with 19 percent of the men. Also in that age group More people lived alone than in any other. For instance 32 percent of the women studied lived alone. A this is the group for which there is general concern a Davis said. An earlier study by Davis group indicated living alone or without a spouse was associated with poor diets. An upcoming study will look at the relationship of diet and living arrangements. Davis was to present the study to an american Public health association meeting in new York aggravated a noise a or Static that interferes with Magellan a computers Spear said. Rewriting the computer programs will help Magellan automatically detect future glitches reduce the Chance of a Complete loss of radio Contact and allow the most trouble prone of the four computers to operate while bypassing a a corrupted portions of its memo Spear said. That computer a a backup computer that helps aim the spacecraft a Hasni to been used since the communications blackouts. The new software will allow it to be used in Case the primary directional computer Ever fails. The new computer programming will be radioed to Magellan to replace existing software Only As problems develop and a we will test the living daylights out of it on the ground a Spear said. He said some of the new programs will be installed by the end of this year and the rest by the end of 1991. Magellan a pictures of Venus have shown extensive faulting and fracturing of the planets surface giant meteorite Impact craters and a wide variety of volcanoes. Laboratory spokesman Jim Doyle said 98.9 percent of All radar mapping data collected by Magellan since sept. 15 was successfully transmitted to Earth. That Means about four hours of information were lost or damaged in transit. Spear said the most recent incident happened tuesday when High Energy particles in space slightly degraded one orbits Worth of picture data. Computer processing should restore the Quality of those images be  soviet officer urges peace for a United Europe san Francisco apr the soviet unions top general preached peace and urged expanded East West cooperation in Europe in a speech he delivered during a . Tour with his Pentagon counterpart. Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev chief of the soviet general staff said wednesday that his country is reducing its military forces in Europe in reaction to the end of the cold War a symbolized by German unification. A Europe has used up the allotted limit of wars and human losses a Moiseyev told about 1,000 people during a dinner at the Fairmont hotel. A it can no longer be looked upon As a potential theater of  Moiseyev toured . Military installations in five states with army Gen Colin Powell chairman of the . Joint chiefs of staff. His speech on wednesday was his first during the tour. Moiseyev is the highest ranking soviet military officer to visit the United states since Marshall Sergei Fakhro Meyer met with then Secretary of defense Frank car Lucci in december 1987. Since then however the face of East West relations has changed dramatically with the fall last year of communist governments throughout Eastern Europe and continuing reforms in the soviet Union. Speaking through an interpreter Moiseyev said natos Mission should be re evaluated because the threat of War Between the superpowers has been greatly reduced. A who Are nato members training to fight against in Europe a he asked a in our View the kit a to establishing a system of collective Security on the european continent lies in eliminating the standoff of military  noting the official joining of the Post world War ii German nations on wednesday he said that the a question of Europe a future Security is inseparably linked with the unification of the two German  a the soviet leadership stands for setting up a new All european Security system a United Europe of peace and cooperation a he said. Soviet military strength has been reduced by 300,000 service members he said. A in the european zone alone we have reduced our strength by 20,000 tanks 24,000 artillery pieces Over 860 combat aircraft and 40 warships a Moiseyev said. A in 1991, the soviet forces will completely be withdrawn from Hungary and Czechoslovakia and in the near future from Germany and Poland a Powell introduced Moiseyev to the gathering sponsored by the san Francisco chamber of Commerce world affairs Council and the Commonwealth club. Moiseyev began by saying the a postwar epoch has ended and is being replaced by a Quot new world that would shape the makeup of this planet for Many years to  this new world cannot be seen a in its entirety yet a he said but a part of it is undergoing severe testing in the crisis situation in the Middle East. Stateside Bill that protects benefits for older workers passes Washington api the House gave final congressional passage wednesday to legislation aimed at reversing the effects of a supreme court decision that allowed employers to limit Tab Bene fits for older workers. The House voted 406-17 to approve the same version of legislation passed by the Senate on sept. 24. This is a great Victory for older workers Quot said sen. Howard Metzenbaum chief sponsor of the Senate version after the House completed action on the Bill which now goes to the White House. The supreme court held in a 1989 ruling that employee benefits were afforded Protection under the age discrimination in employment act of 1967. The measure puts Congress on record As taking the position that the High courts decision went against lawmakers intent when they passed the landmark age discrimination Bill 23 years  finds new clues to invention of baseball new York apr a Harvard graduate student combing archives uncovered hew clues in the search for the origin of baseball in an 1845 newspaper sports Story and Box score. Abner Doubleday so a invention of baseball in a Cooperstown n.y., cow pasture has been debunked As a popular myth. The City of Hoboken n.j., claims the first game was played there. The Story and primitive Box score appeared in a copy of the new York morning news and recount a game played oct. 21, 1845, Between the a new York Ball club and a team from Brooklyn the new York times reported thursday the find by Edward l. Widmer a Harvard doctoral candidate researching his dissertation at the new York historical society indicates baseball had been in existence for some time when the Story was written. The newspaper account began a a Friendly match of the time honoured game of base was played  new York won 24-4. Dust storm causes pileup on interstate killing 1 Kennewick Wash. A a blinding dust storm triggered two mass collisions of cars and tractor trailers rigs on an interstate Highway. One person died and at least a dozen were injured authorities said. Interstate 82 in Southeastern Washington was closed for More than nine hours wednesday because of Low visibility from dust blown by wind gusting to More than 33 Mph the Washington state patrol said. Before the Road was closed two crashes involving 26 vehicles snarled lanes in both directions. Christina Rivera 24, of Hermiston ore., died in a crash involving 15 cars and three tractor trailer rigs on the southbound Side the state patrol said. Another mass collision involving five cars and three big rigs was reported in northbound lanes troopers said. At least 12 people were taken to hospitals the patrol said. The interstate reopened before  sideswiped by train calmly walks Home new York apr a teen age boy who did t want his Mother to know head been hit by a Tram walked Home while police searched the tracks for a body. The 15-year-old boy was hospitalized in Good condition with a puncture and abrasion on his thigh and a possible broken Arm said officer Fred Weiner police spokesman. The boy told police he had been talking to a Friend when he was sideswiped by the Long Island rail Road train wednesday evening in the new Borough of Queens Weiner said. The train Engineer thought he hit someone and the train was stopped for 75 minutes while police looked for the victim Railroad spokesman Terry Brown said the boy whom police would not identify because of his age went Home and told his Mother he d been Hurt but did t Tell her How Weiner of the boy finally admitted what happened alter she called for an ambulance Weiner said