European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes thursday june 18, 1992japan shows off propeller free ship possible to track because it uses a silent by . Reid the Washington Post Kobe Japan a a mysterious silent propulsion system reminiscent of author Tom Clancy a fictional submarine red october went to sea in real life tuesday a not at a russian naval base but in Japan a most advanced High tech shipyard. While workmen at Mitsubishi heavy industries Kobe Yard beamed with Pride the 185-ton experimental ship Yamato 1 slowed through the Choppy Harbor powered by a revolutionary no propeller water propulsion system based on recent advances in superconducting technology. American european and soviet researchers have tried since the 1960s to develop the so called a Magnet Hydro dynamic propulsion system a Mhd for Short a but tuesdays sea trial marked the worlds first actual Mhd voyage. Accordingly executives of the japanese research consortium that has poured More than $40 million into the project so far compared tuesdays trial run to the Maiden voyage of the first steamship in 1807 and to the 1955 sea trial of the . Submarine Nautilus the worlds first nuclear powered ship. Coupled with a nuclear or solar powered engine the propeller free Mhd propulsion system would produce a ship that is virtually silent As it moves the holy grail of naval submarine designers. The plot of Clancy a 1984 novel the Hunt for red october revolves around a soviet submarine that is in drive mechanism. Clancy said in a phone interview tuesday that his fictional propulsion system which he called a Caterpillar drive in the Book was mechanical a using electrical motors to drive water through the ship a and was not based on Mhd technology officials of Japan a ship and Ocean foundation said tuesday that they have no Clancy style military application in mind and in fact will not permit any country to use their Mhd technology for military purposes. A we Are proud to be the first to develop this technology and we will share it with researchers around the world a said Yohei Kasakawa chairman of the foundations research committee. A but we want to limit its use to peaceful  in addition to silent operation Mhd ships should be More fuel efficient than current propeller driven models. Theoretically they can develop much More Speed a designers Here talk of 100 knots 115 Mph or higher a because they do not have the problem of Quot cavitation a turbulence that destroys propellers at such speeds. Tuesdays successful trial reflects Japan a continued willingness to invest Large amounts of time Talent and Money into Long Range technological development where the payoff is years or decades in the future. Kasakawa said tuesday that it could be Early in the next Century before the new Marine technology becomes a marketable  wakes up to shelling mortar fire Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr heavy shelling shattered the predawn Calm of Sarajevo Early wednesday with serb gunners opening up from the Hills around the City and trading mortar fire with the towns Muslim led defenders. The rattle of machine gun fire began late tuesday around the burned out Shell of Bosnia a parliament building shattering a cease fire that had somewhat stilled attacks on Sarajevo since Early monday. Around Dawn wednesday heavy shelling thundered around the City Center. The shelling set at least five buildings ablaze Rasim Borcak a journalist for bosnian to reported from the area of the to Headquarters. Serbs from the Lukavics Barracks in the West of the City opened fire from tanks near the City a Airport kept closed for the past 2vi months by serbs who have pre vented Relief air convoys from bringing food to desperate residents. Serbs on to Crivici Hill also rained fire on the ethnically mixed suburb of Krasno. Fighting abated somewhat around 8 30 . In the serbian capital of Belgrade . Spokeswoman Barbara Shannon Boyd said the chief of . Forces in Sarajevo Gen. Lewis Mackenzie had urged both sides to Stop fighting. Work on reopening the Airport then resumed Shannon Boyd said. She said a . Convoy with 60 monitors to oversee the Airport work had arrived in Lukavics Barracks from Belgrade late tuesday but spent the night there. On tuesday an american photographer Jana Schneider was wounded in Sarajevo when a mortar Shell exploded near her. Ivo Stadeker a slovene photographer with Schneider was seriously injured and died from multiple wounds As he was being transported to the serbian held suburb of Pale for evacuation to Belgrade. Wednesdays shelling abated somewhat around 8 30 ., and residents now accustomed to fierce attack ventured out to scrounge for food. But there were More people than nourishment at the City Market. Stalls offered Only dandelion and nettle leaves with just one Vendor touting the rare prize of radishes. Trash that has piled up in City streets during the siege and now reeks in the summer heat burned in some spots As residents went about their business. Buses were running and some people even went to  fish kill a hundreds of dead Fusti have washed up onto the Banks of the Turia River this week in Valencia Spain. Officials said they suspect the fish were kilted by Industrial pollution last weekend. Kohl implies Denmark should sign up or quit Bonn Germany up a German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on wednesday told Denmark to make up its mind Over its relation to Europe but insisted that in any Case the other 11 dec members should press on with ratification of the maastricht treaty. Kohls remarks were seen by some observers As a veiled ultimatum to Denmark to find a Way of ratifying the maastricht treaty on european integration or quit the european Community. In a government declaration to parliament he also reiterated his Call for Swift expansion of the dec and said the 12-Strong Community should Start negotiations with Austria Sweden Finland and Switzerland Early next year. Kohl who has firmly defended the treaty in the face of growing criticism of the document fuelled by the june 2 Dan ish vote rejecting it said that slowing Down the integration process would be disastrous for Europe. Quot Only by firmly standing for the realization of european integration can we prevent a Fallback into the destructive nationalism of the past a he said to Strong applause by deputies. A it is obvious to us that the door to european Union must remain open for Denmark. But Denmark must Tell its partners in the dec in Good time what it wants a Kohl said. He admitted that a confirmation by Denmark that it wanted to stay out of the integration process would create Legal difficulties but added that a what is decisive at this stage is that we together with our partners have made it Clear that our political intention is to ratify and apply the maastricht  surfers sure not to be bored while Riding tasmanian Waves Canberra Australia apr surfers take note an International team of scientists has found the worlds meanest Waves and they re off the coast of Tasmania. But before packing up the Board and grabbing the first flight be aware that the big ones Are a Long Way out to sea a about 100 Miles. The team including representatives from Nasa has for the past week been flying Over vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean in search of the perfect wave. The Commonwealth scientific and Industrial research organization which is coordinating the project said the Sci lists Are investigating How wind Energy converted into Waves and currents p titular by in severe storms. They have been measuring w Heights directions and slopes As Well wave breaking patterns. The teams discoveries according Nasa investigator de Walsh enough to make any surfer turn or it with envy. Quot in be been Hunting Waves for 20 pc and never found anything like those Tasmania a Walsh said in a Statem monday