European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 15, 1993 world the stars and stripes Pago 11 ferry capsizes 52 feared dead it Gen Germany apr a polish Friy capsized and Sank in the storm whipped Baltic sea Between Poland and Denmark of thursday and German television said 52 people were believed to have died. Fourteen people were rescued according to Rescue workers. The polish ferry Sank in the icy Waters about 21 Miles East of the German Island of Frigen according to a statement from police in the Northern German City of Stralsund. Estimates of the number of people on Board ranged from 60 to 68, Germany Sard television said 52 people were believed to have died. Helmut Meier a spokesman for the German Navy Fleet command in the Northern coastal town of Glicksburg said Quot we be got 14  he said there was the Chance of finding another survivor in a Lifeboat but that was unlikely. A a it a too cold a Meier said Public radio in Denmark said Many of the passengers were polish bit swedes Danes and hungarians also were believed on Board. The danish Navy a operative come which was taking part in the Rescue Mission could not confirm the report. Utter Maque supervising doctor at the Rescue Center in Stralsund said survivors were being taken to a local Hospital for treatment. Rescue operations were continuing but some Rescue workers also were being brought Back to Stralsund because they were suffering from hypothermia he said Many passengers were forced to jump into the ice cold Waters to save themselves officials said. 1 German and danish Rescue helicopters and ships were searching for survivors. The 412-foot vessel the Jan he Welusz was carrying 29 Crew members and 39 passengers from swing Ujcic Poland to the swedish port of Ystad according to Wlodzimierz Matuszwski. Ahe is the director of the polish company that owns the vessel anti spoke on polish television. However initial reports from police and other officials said there were 60 people on Board and that the ferry was heading in the opposite direction the danish Navy a operative come said the first distress signal was monitored at 4 48 am. By the Danes who alerted German authorities in Bremen. A danish helicopter was sent to the site followed by two danish Rescue ships. A Storni packing winds of 90 Niph was raging across Northern Germany and the Baltic at the time and apparently capsized the ship. Police in Northern Germany reported Trees uprooted in Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein state with emergency Crews working through the night to Clear  Rule the Roost in France Germany firemen use a Small boat wednesday to evacuate a woman and some of her belongings in Louvigny France after heavy Rains caused the Oral River to overflow. Hundreds of Homes were flooded. Suffering a similar plight in Germany a restaurant near Bonn languishes in deep water after the Rhine River burst its Banka. Soviets first a bomb copied american plans says builder by the new York times Moscow a 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 proceeded 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 did not Rule out that other spies including a scientist the Kab has so far identified Only As a Perseus Quot 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 Means execution a prompted the scientists to go ahead with a Model that and 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 Quot said Khariton a participant in the soviet at bomb program from its inception. A we never abandoned our own work but Fuchs enabled us to detonate a bomb two years earlier.�?�. Khariton 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 us per 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 Center. 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 explodes 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 Quot 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  spread plague files say Tokyo apr documents found in China describe How japanese planes dropped plague carrying fleas As part of a germ Wurf arc Campaign that killed hundreds of people in Eastern China in the 1940s, a japanese teacher said wednesday. According to the documents More than 400 chinese died of the plague after fleas and other contaminated objects were dropped said Masa Taka Mori who teaches social studies in a Junior High school in Central Japan. In a Telephone interview Mori said he uncovered the documents at a government Archive in Ningpo a port about 90 Miles South of Shanghai while concluding research for a film on japanese germ warfare. Historians and former members of a japanese secret army unit have said the unit based in Northeast China injected War prisoners with typhus cholera and other diseases As part of germ warfare research. The government has never acknowledged waging germ warfare in world War 11, saying records no longer exist to confirm the reports. But Mori said one chinese document reports More than 300 chinese died of the plague in Yinwu a Small Village about 160 Miles Southwest of Shanghai in March 1942 after a japanese plane dropped plague carrying fleas. Previously Only some casualties among japanese soldiers camped nearby had been known