European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday july 15, 1991 the modern Day Santa Maria sets sail from Spain for Japan with film Mogul Haruki Kadokawa at the Helm. Ship replica follows dream of Columbus Barcelona Spain apr with a thrill seeking japanese millionaire at the Helm a copy of Christopher Columbus ship the Santa Maria set sail saturday on an asian journey that Columbus dreamed of five centuries ago. The new Santa Maria is scheduled to spend nine months on the 17,000-mile voyage from Barcelona to Japan a goal of Columbus and other 15th-Century european explorers seeking a new Trade route to the far East. A the trip is one of Many events that Are planned to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus first journey to the Western hemisphere in 1492 aboard the Santa Maria the largest of the explorers three ships. Funded by japanese film Mogul Haruki Kadokawa the Santa Maria project took three years to Complete at a Cost of $3.14 million. The vessel is scheduled to sail through the Panama canal and Dock in Mexico Honolulu and Guam before reaching Kobe Japan in april. A if i am to have a place in the future it May be As a Man of achievement. If we Complete this voyage and the 21st Century is peaceful i will be very pleased Quot said Kadokawa whose epic 1980s film heaven and Earth Cost $40 million. A Harmony must be the priority of the next generation a he said. A Harmony Between the Earth and spirits Harmony Between the spirits and human beings and Harmony Between human beings and human beings. If you can achieve this you have general the Santa Maria carries a 21-member japanese Crew and was designed in the style of the original 100-ton vessel the Mari Galante. The other vessels the Nina and the Pinta were 60-ton caramels. The 15th-Century portuguese King Joao ii called Columbus a a Man of caprices and daydreams of Only Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to Back his project. A the original Santa Maria described by Columbus As a not suitable for sailing for discovery a carried him to from wire reports London a the mi5 Security service emerged briefly from its customary secrecy last week showing itself to be almost As bumbling As the two British would be spies it foiled in a plot to sell nuclear submarine secrets to the soviet Union. Mis which came out of the cold Only three years ago to be legally acknowledged by the British government As a the Security service a routinely monitors Calls to the soviet embassy in Kensington Park in London. That is what people in the intelligence business say but the service would never admit it. Thus a Crown court in Preston in Northern England was told that a someone Quot had informed police an unidentified Man had called the soviet embassy. The caller offered to sell the embassy one of the secret acoustic tiles used to cover the hulls of Britain s giant Trident nuclear submarines built at Vickers shipyard at Barrow in Furness to make them undetectable by soviet sonar. A do you want to buy a rubber tile that goes on the outside of a sub Quot was the jocular approach that Joseph Wilson a former Security guard at the shipyard told police he made to Alexander Madric Hyk who Wilson said was an official of the soviet Trade group in London. Wilson and Arthur Price a Driver for Trident taxis in Barrow said they also called capt. Mikhail g. Shad Rin an assistant naval attache at the embassy and tried to interest him. Wilson using the name John Stuart mentioned a figure of 3 million pounds $4.8 Millionth court was told and Madric Hyk laughed so hard that Wilson said he had to hold the Telephone away from his ear. But it was apparently no laughing matter to the Security service which had no idea at the time who a John Stuart Quot could be or what else he might have to offer the soviets. The police knew that the Calls had come from the area around the shipyard and that Quot alexanders had laughed off the menus first approach something a Good spy should never do. San Salvador Island in the present Day Bahamas. But it was wrecked on Hispaniola Island now shared by Haiti and the dominican Republic on Christmas Day 1492. Columbus returned to Europe on the Nina and made three More Atlantic Crossings the last in 1504. The modern Day Santa Maria left Barcelona following a two hour shinto ceremony. Shogun author James Clavil International olympic committee vice president Richard Pound and Kobe mayor Kazutoshi Sasayama were among the guests. A this project will recall the dream of Columbus a said Angel Serrano Estellez head of Spain a state run mi5 and the police took out advertisements in the personal columns of local newspapers that made it look As if Madric Hyk had suffered pangs of remorse. A John Stuart last heard of in the Cumbria area a one advertisement said. A a done to take what i said at face value. Please Contact Alexander m. Calling the Telephone number you have May cause problems. Please write to me at Box 110, mail Barrow so we can get in touch a John Stuart from Alexander my a a began another. A i repeat that you should not Telephone us on our London numbers. Please understand that they cannot be used to discuss such matters. A also i am not an expert in this business. Instead Elease Telephone my colleague Nick who wants to Elp you on 0836-632363 any weekday Between 1600 hours and 1700 hours starting wednesday 29th Wilson and his cohort had almost forgotten about the plot by then perhaps because As they told the court they had dreamed it up Over glasses of bitter in the conservative club of Barrow in Furness. But Wilson who had worked at the shipyard for 15 years and told the court that the acoustic tiles were stacked out in the open All Over the place spotted the advertisement and contacted a a Nick on the 0836 number a Mobile line from a Telephone Booth in Barrow. It was the first of nine Telephone Calls that would have fit nicely judging by the descriptions Given to the court into one of the Boris and Natasha episodes of the old bullwinkle cartoons featuring Rocky the flying Squirrel. Nick tried to imitate a russian accent in his negotiations Over the acoustic tile but kept forgetting that the russian word for a a yes was a Ida a not the German nor could he pronounce the word a Moscow Quot properly. As they zeroed in on the equally inept would be spies who kept using the same Telephone Booth the police and Security service employees took photographs but forgot to remove the Lens Cap. At one Point As Price was driving Wilson away they noticed people taking fingerprints from the Booth. 5th Centenary commission that is organizing events to Mark the explorers 1492 voyage. A we will accomplish what he could Kadokawa the skipper for the Spain Caribbean and Guam Kobe legs of the trip once captained an ancient style catamaran on a 10,000-mile voyage from Tokyo to Chile. Later he travelled 1,200 Miles from the Philippines to Japan for 44 Days in an outrigger Canoe. Clavil called him Quot a very strange wonderful a the was my partner on Shogun the musical on Broadway and he a very adventurous. He likes to push himself. If its never been done before Kadokawa is the Man to do it Quot Clavil said. World running of the bulls finishes for summer 91 from wire reports Pamplona Spain a the seventh and last running of the bulls in the we Klong san Fermin festival a made famous by author Ernest Hemingway a went off sunday without a hitch with mostly minor scrapes and bruises. The six bulls and accompanying steers ran the half mile stretch from their corrals in the City sold Quarter to the 6ullring in a Quick two minutes and 15 seconds. The we Klong fiesta revolves around the hundreds of people mostly Young men who test their Mettle by running ahead of the office firebombed Frank Fult Germany a unknown assailants on sunday tossed one or More firebombs into the office of turkish airlines in downtown Frankfurt causing a Blaze and property damage police said. No one was injured. The attack occurred shortly after noon near the City a main train station. Police and fire trucks rushed to the scene to bring the fire under sailing again Dieppe France a ferry service Between Dieppe and Newhaven England resumed saturday after a monthlong shutdown stemming from planned economic measures to compete with the Channel Tunnel. The ferry Versailles steamed across the English Channel with 105 passengers and 20 vehicles aboard said its owner the society National de la armament trans Manche. Its sister ship the champs Elysee made the crossing later in the Day. Bumbling British agents foil would be spies fumbling plan
