European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 3, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5research sets 85 As average life limit Washington apr humans May soon expect an average lifetime of 85 years but probably not much More even if medical science defeats All of the major killer diseases researchers say. An average life expectancy of four score and five May be the upper limit because the human body by then is deteriorating from a Cascade of aging effects University of Chicago researcher s. Jay Olshansky said thursday. A even if we found a cure for most fatal diseases such As heart disease and cancer the natural degeneration of the body puts a Cap of about 85 years on the average age of death a Olshansky and two co authors report in the current Issue of the journal science. Other experts on human aging disagree. A if we keep making Progress As we have made in the past then a baby born today can expect to live 100 years a said James Vaupel of the University of Mineso airline gets main blame in 89 crash Washington not the National transportation safety Board placed primary blame on United airlines on thursday for an Accident that killed 112 people on one of its dc-10 jets last year saying that the company had failed to detect a faulty Turbine disk that shattered severing All the planets Hydraulic lines and leaving it virtually uncontrollable. There were 184 survivors. The report cleared Mcdonnell Douglas builders of the plane of any design failure. After the crash the company altered the design of the dc-10 Hydraulic system to separate the lines and to provide better control of a plane even if All three lines Are severed. The safety Board said thursday that a in retrospect a the potential for massive damage to the Hydraulic system a could have been Given More consideration in the original  the Board in its finding of the accidents cause emphasized United airlines failure to inspect the disk properly More than the initial metallurgical flaw that was present in the disk when it was manufactured by the general electric co. In 1970. That microscopic flaw went undetected during manufacturing and after the part went into service the flaw grew into a larger and larger crack. The boards experts said the crack was about a half Inch Long by february 1988, when United airlines took the engine apart for routine maintenance and checked the disk for defects. The crack should have been detected in that inspection the safety boards staff said. To. A there May Well be some biological barriers but we Are spending a lot of Money on biomedical research and the sciences Are poised to make some really significant  Olshansky said that most of the major advances in life expectancy have already been achieved. The average life Span in the United states went from 47 years in 1900 to 75 years today. But this came about he said because of advances in infant and maternal death. Death rates for the Young and those under age 50 Are now so Low that even if All dying in that age group was eliminated the life expectancy at birth would increase by Only 3.5 years said Olshansky. The major killers a heart disease cancer stroke and diabetes a usually strike after the age of 50. He added that even controlling the major killer diseases would have Little statistical effect on the average life Span. A just because we eliminate major fatal disease does not mean that we will not grow older and die. We will grow older and die of other diseases a he said. A once you go beyond the age of 85, people die from multiple Organ failure. Old age basically. And there is no cure for that a Olshansky said. A we done to know Why we age. But it  Vaupel said he believes the Olshansky study is too pessimistic. A we Are beginning to gain a fundamental understanding of aging and we eventually May be Able to slow Down that process a he said. Vaupel said that women in some populations already Are approaching life expectancies of 85. In Okinawa the average life Span of women now is 83, and the life expectancy of women in some mormon groups is almost 85 now he said. Olshanskyj a co authors were Bruce a. Carnes of the Argonne National Laboratory and Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago. Trial begins for Houston woman accused of using men s restroom Houston up jury selection began thursday in the a potty Gate trial of a woman ticketed for using a menus restroom during a concert because the lines outside the women a bathrooms were too Long. Denise Wells 33, faces a $200 Fine if convicted of violating a City ordinance against using a bathroom of the opposite sex in a disruptive manner. A i done to feel that in a guilty a Wells told reporters. A i had no Choice i   Wells said she went into the menus room after seeing a Man take his. Girlfriend into the menus bathroom. She said she covered her eyes when she went into the restroom at the Summit Arena. As she left the bathroom a policeman gave her a ticket and threw her out of the july 7 concert which she had paid $125 to attend. The Media has dubbed the Case a potty Gate and has nicknamed Wells the a bathroom  More than 20 reporters and photographers waited outside the municipal court for Wells arrival thursday. Her family passed out mock Media passes with a drawing of a toilet under the word  the toilet lid featured the female biological Symbol and the words a free Denise  attorney Valorie Davenport said Wells used the menus bathroom Only out of necessity. A i think everybody needs to have certain Basic human rights. The men Actu Denise Wells walks past Media representatives on her Way to a Houston courtroom. Ally Are As sympathetic As the women Are. They feel that frankly when you gotta go you gotta go a Davenport said. But an attorney for the City of he is ton disagreed. A she violated a City ordinance a prosecutor Karl Rosette said. A we have an ordinance prohibiting a person from entering a restroom of the opposite sex without the permission of the owner or the person in charge in a manner calculated to cause a  Davenport said Wells did not mean to be disruptive and the charge should be dropped. A you be got to stand up for something or sit Down for something As the Case May be a said  of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov. 3,1950 the attempt by a puerto rican nationalist group to assassinate president Truman in Washington sparked a bloody uprising on the Island. Those responsible for the attack were being sought by the Fri new York City police and the secret service according to new York District attorney Irving saypol.30 years ago today. Nov. 3,1960 a thousands jammed the sidewalks in lower Manhattan waving banners and shouting greetings As new York staged a rousing Welcome for president Eisenhower and the Man he wanted to be his successor vice president Richard Nixon. Report on Pierce fails to make perjury charge0 years ago today. Nov. 3, 1970 Cardinal Richard Cushing 75, an immigrant blacksmiths son who came a Prince of the roman Catholic Church and an intimate Friend of the Kennedy Imily died in boston.10 years ago today. Nov. 3, 1980 Iran a parliament voted to release the 52 american hostages being eld in Tehran possibly in stages if the United states met four conditions set by Anatol in Ruhollah Khomeini. Washington a former housing Secretary Samuel Pierce directed Federal Grants to political friends and later misled Congress about his involvement congressional investigators said thursday. Their report stopped Short of concluding Pierce committed perjury before a House panel or that he and others at the Agency violated criminal Laws. It said those questions would be left to the special prosecutor now investigating Pierce. An attorney for Pierce said the report was politically motivated and contained a spurious  the report the result of a House subcommittees 16-month investigation of the Reagan administrations department of housing and Urban development said Pierce concealed the extent of his involvement in the steering of Federal housing Grants. A at Best Secretary Pierce was less than honest and misled the subcommittee about his involvement in abuses and favouritism in Hud funding decisions a the report said. A at worst Secretary Pierce knowingly lied and committed perjury during his  the report was released by the House government operations committee whose employment and housing subcommittee investigated the scandals involving favouritism mismanagement and political abuse at Hud where Pierce was in the Reagan Cabinet