European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 15,1993 world the stars and stripes 8 Page 11 ferry sinks 54 feared dead Stralsund Germany a a polish ferry capsized in the Baltic sea thursday at the height of a storm that whipped up 13 foot High Waves and 90 Mph winds. German television said 54 people we re believed to have died. Nine survivors were rescued and 37 bodies were recovered said Helmut Meier spokesman of the German Fleet command in Glicksburg. He said about 17 others were missing probably still in the overturned vessel where raging Waters prevented rescuers from reaching them. He said the stricken vessel was upside Down in Waters estimated at 60 feet deep possibly on a Sandbar with Waves washing across its red Bottom As an overturned Lifeboat bobbed nearby. German police in Stralsund said the 412-foot vessel the Jan he Welusz overturned Between Poland and Sweden about 20 Miles East of the German Island of Rogen. The ferry capsized before Dawn As the storm packing near Hurricane Force winds raged across the Baltic apparently causing its cargo of heavy trucks and rail freight ears to shift. Many passengers jumped into the icy Waters bilt survival time in such water is Only a matter of minutes officials said. The missing Are a probably All inside the ship a Meier said in a Telephone interview. He said divers would probably be unable to enter the ferry until today because of the Stormy conditions. Some survivors were in critical condition from exposure to water temperatures of 36 degrees according to German Rescue workers in Stralsund a coastal town near the polish Border. A the 3,015-ton Feny was carrying 29 Crew members and 39 passengers from swing Uscie Poland to the swedish port of Ystad according to Wlodzimierz Matuszewski the ferry company a director who spoke on polish television. Other reports put the number of passengers at 60 to 68. Most were said to be poles with some swedes Danes czechs austrians and hungarians. Germany s Ard television said 54 people were believed dead. Matuszewski said the Captain radioed about 2 . That the ship had developed a list of 20 degrees which increased to 70 degrees by 4 57 . 1 the danish Navy s operative command said danish authorities monitored the first distress signal at 4 48 . And immediately alerted German authorities in Bremen and sent a helicopter and two Rescue vessels. Rescuers from Germany Denmark and1 Poland had at least four helicopters four Rescue ships and three ferries in action thursday afternoon and German divers were in position to try to find any  Rule the Roost in France Germany firemen use a Small boat wednesday to evacuate a woman and some of her belong dress of Homes were flooded. Suffering a similar plight in Germany a restaurant Ings in Louvigny France after heavy Rains caused the Orne River to overflow. Hun near Bonn languishes in deep water after the Rhine River burst its Banks. Soviets first a bomb copied. Says Proby the new York time Moscow or the first soviet atomic bomb exploded in August 1949 to formally launch the cold War arms race was a copy of the first american a bomb built from plans supplied by at least one spy according to the russian who built that bomb Yuli b. Khariton said that soviet scientists were Well on their Way to making their own bomb when the americans detonated an a bomb in 1945 and needed to use them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Soon after soviet scientists received the full plans for the american bomb. Khariton credited Klaus Fuchs a Young British physicist who passed secrets to the soviets. But he Dia not Rule out that other spies including a scientist the Kab has so far identified Only As a Perseus a might also have been sources. In any Case Stalin a pressure for results a and the fear of what an unsuccessful test firing would mean in an Era when failure often meant execution a prompted the scientists to go ahead with a Model that had already been tested Khariton said. A by 1951 we detonated our own version which was twice As powerful and much lighter than the american bomb a said Khariton a participant in the soviet a bomb program from its inception. A we never abandoned our own work but Fuchs enabled us to detonate a bomb two years  is now 88, an honoured Veteran of the soviet nuclear program who still lives in Arzamas-16, the isolated former monastery in Central Russia where the super secret soviet nuclear research Center was founded after world War ii. He and a younger colleague Yuri n. Smirnov offered some recollections in an address in Moscow at the Kur Chatov Institute russians Premier nuclear research  Khariton is Adamant that soviet intelligence had no part in the development of the soviet Hydrogen bomb. The soviet scientists did get some of the initial calculations made by Edward Teller who was instrumental in developing the american a bomb but these proved to be erroneous Khariton said. The a bomb the soviets exploded on oct 12, 1953 a the first real a bomb to be detonated a was the work of Andrei d. Sakharov the physicist who became the leading critic of the soviet state and now three years after his death is held in great reverence among All russians. Americans did explode a Hydrogen device on nov. 1, 1952, the russian scientists said but this was a two Story 50-ton contraption that was not a bomb. As for the plutonium bomb a excess importance cannot be Given to intelligence materials a Khariton and Smirnov said in their address. But the importance their own testimony gives to materials supplied by Fuchs and other unnamed intelligence sources is impressive. A was is now Well known the first soviet atomic bomb was built from a relatively Complete plan supplied by Fuchs and our intelligence and descriptions of the first test of the american atomic bomb a they wrote. A russians always thought the bomb was theirs. But the truth need not be distressing. At that dramatic time it was a question of life or death of the country of millions of lives and it was necessary to act from the logic of the  Honecker greeted on arrival in Chile Santiago Chile a former East German Leader Erich Honecker arrived thursday in Chile the new and Likely final Home for the untre Icin tank communist hard liner following his release from a Berlin prison. Honecker was freed from prison on wednesday after his failing health resulted in the cancellation of his manslaughter trial for ordering Border guards to kill people attempting to flee his communist regime. Looking tired after the 20-hour flight from Frankfurt Honecker was met after descending the ramp from the brazilian jetliner by his wife Margot a chilean medical doctor Jaime Manal in and several leaders of chilean leftist political parties. A an ambulance was parked next to the plane to take Honecker to a Santiago private clinic. The 80-year-old Honecker suffers from liver cancer and doctors say he will probably die within six months. Honecker wearing a Blue suit and a Gray hat walked Down the planets ramp slowly waving to Well wishers. After warmly greeting his relatives he boarded an official Airport Van to the vip room. Holding hands with his wife he entered the room to applause from chilean leftist politicians gathered to Greet him. He embraced several of them and kissed Gladys Marin the Leader of the chilean communist party