European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday february 13,1906 i Navy demons Raffna twin Hull ship to affixes by Dave . Bureau Portsmouth England the United states an fix other nato nation Are testing a twin Hull ship design that could make their navies taster and Moreman severable. La the first of its seven month Lon trials the ses 200, one of the is. Navy s surface effect ships is Mil tag off the Southern coast of England for the Benefit of researchers and Royal Navy officials. The 159-foot ship later will visit ports in Canada France Germany and Spain. Each country will have use of the 200-ton ship and its 19-member us. Navy Crew for research. The ses-200 is one of Only four ships of its kind in is. Military service. Sam capt Victor a. Meyer head of the ebore detachment with the ship. The coast guard is using the other three out of key West Fla for Law enforcement operations. Meyer said the Navy is in Europe to show the ses 200, Fric biased the Jaeger to its allies under the nato trials program. The Craft s twin Hull design gives it the Manuel Trail Ity and stability of a catamaran Meyer Laid. The ship also use two giant fans Between its hulls to lift it out of the water and provide a smoother and faster cruise. Because of the design Meyer said the ses is More resistant to rolling or Side to Side movement than a conventional ship. He said the stability is one of the most profile of ses-200 displacement 205 Long tons left pc 1s9.1 feet beaae39feet depth Amine pc 15.2 feet wet deck height Bow 7.s feet. Wet deck height Stem s feet. Cushion length Beasa ratio 4.25. Hudone draft 9.3 feet Cash Labone draft  feet source uan a important benefits of the  said surface effect snips like this one have been used successfully commercially. Part of the testing i Europe will be to evaluate the military usefulness of the Craft he  country will conduct tests for its own research including payload limits radar susceptibility Crew con army pact with teachers Union May set precedent for civilians by Joseph Owen. Smax Arthana Heidelberg an out of court settlement clarifying teachers hand Billing rights at army posts Proba Bly sets a Standard for in army civilian employees a lawyer who represented the army in the negotiations said  can t very Well deny our own employees rights which we May Are the constitutional rights of the teach in said Sam Horn labor lawyer for the army s office of the judge advocate general. Monday s settlement which preempted a lawsuit originally scheduled for trial tuesday in Wuerzburg included an agreement listing the conditions under which teachers in the overseas education association May pass out  Calls for the overseas education association to Terdan installation commander an Advance written. Hand Billing activity and the number of people expected to participate. The commander must respond promptly la writing explaining reasons for denying the request if it is to  to statements in a Stan and stripes Story  said no put or i resent Usa eur Rogn lation Prou Biu distribution Omrom. He said the new agreement dots not require the army to Issue a new Regula Tion nor revise an existing one. Instead he Sam the agreement Only est Abusbeih guidelines for the  before it was not really spelled  Mesa  they wanted to Handbill in the past they never really knew How to go about it Horn Laid the misunderstanding about regulations stemmed from the language in a dec. 17, 1984, letter from the Wuerzburg military Community commander tothe overseas education association. The letter prompted the lawsuit in the letter the commander col John s. Lua ilm denied an overseas education association written re quest for permission to picket or to Issue handbills if the picketing request was denied. The commander s letter stated incorrectly that Usa eur regulations banned both picketing and hand Billing Horn saw. The overseas education association later filed a unfair labor practice complaint with the Federal labor relations authority prompting the labor relations authority to file the lawsuit against the army. Horn said that while a Usa eur regulation ban picketing on army pasts in Europe. Army lawyers in Wuerzburg had advised the commander to deny  request Only because it was not specific enough and because the Union had not gone through the established grievance procedures. Horn who has worked 11 Yean As a lawyer for the army said he knows of no other instance in which military commander Hai denied a request from teachers to hand out leaflets. Asked about other Amy rape week he  Don t know that the Issue  the labor relations authority s lawsuit also addressed the question of whether teachers have a right to picket on army posts. Horn said that Issue a lure shred. The said monday s Are meat is significant because i provides a Means for teachers to exercise their High ref pee speech in an environment where Mytar Yandoli ical considerations must be  vim the Issue arose from the teachers disagreement with it Brm Saafi editions and operations with other ships. The vessel has changed hands Between the Navy and the coast guard twice Ince it was built by Bell Aerov space and Halter Marine in 1978. It was built As the ses Lio but changed to the ses-200 after 50 feet Wal added to its length in 1982. To. The Navy says the ses is effectively a scale Model if future ships weighing More than 1,500 tons Tia Jonii of 50 knots the Seawoo has a top Speed of 28taofipf. Ultimately the Navy has use for this Type of vessel for ships up to about four times the size of the Jaeger Meyer said. Re  a consultant for maritime dynamics. Wort prob fid oing tests on the vessel said the primary advantage of. This Type of ship is its stable plat form. To John Bell also a former Royal Navy officer said such vessels also have the potential to carry More we afar their size and operate in shallower water than Coati Al Nal vessels. Only about nine feet of the ses-200 is an de water when it is not under Way and six Teet is Abb attwater while it is under Way of Laid. Flthe vessel can operate at Power better than Moo Swatik tonal my Bell said. Because it hulls Are utes it Ai the water it has less drag than conventional or i hulled ships. Its twin propellers also allow the turn faster and in smaller areas be said. Two companies Are building similarly for the Navy. One ship is a 450-ton mine Awe la m Navy unc sni u u us in mkt and the other is a 100-ton, special warfare Craft. News update Tokyo fire victims Tokyo a police said wednesday Tawf Chiave recovered the bodies of All 24 people who Chi in a raging predawn fire on tuesday at sea Tiff spa West of Tokyo. R a police official Masami Goto said the last Boey was recovered about 30 hours after 100 Poluti Aav firefighters with shovels and a Bulldozer Tea a searching for those missing in the fire Thal a strayed a three Story wooden building of the dts Van hotel at Utagawa 81 Miles West of Tokyo on the Izu Peninsula. They recovered 19 bodies the Day and the remaining five wednesday Tesa idl no foreigners were among the victims he , toll rises to 9 Bodega Bay. Calif. A the coast has raised to nine the number of dead when a fishing boat nearly21 sportsmen into the cold water. Five men died 4n the 55-Degrte water at Fly after the Accident outside this Little Scarbor Majc North of san Francisco. Twelve were rescued. Four were declared missing. The coast guard declared the missing presumed drowned. A shortly after the Accident coast guard Effi Owsij said a person immersed in water that Ood com tap be expected