European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Monday november 28,1994 sub design shows Fin Esse Cambridge mass. A As engineers began casting around for a More efficient Means of driving submarines they looked to nature for help. After three years of research scientists have create Dan unmanned sub shaped like a fish. A Bluffin tuna to be precise. They Call it  sixty million years of evolution have made this the epitome of High Speed motion said David s. Barrett a graduate student in Ocean engineering who is devel Oping the robot fish. The 4-foot-Tong prototype Dubbe Charlie made its Maiden voyage july 4. The projected Cost of such vessels is $50,000  research has thus far been partly underwritten by the Navy. The sub has 41 polystyrene ribs compared with the 48 ribs in a real tuna. Its tendons Are made of stain less steel aircraft cables and its skin of Latex foam and Lycra in a sort of Neon Blue California Beach design that makes it easier to see during testing. It moves gracefully Down a 110-foot testing tank its Tail oscillating and its body bending to Cut Down on drag exactly like a living  kind of startles me at times Barrett said. It s amazingly  accomplish this designers camped out at the new England aquarium s tuna research tank. The scale Model they built hangs by its Tail in the lab. They use Pool in the Massachusetts Institute of technology s department of Ocean engineering where models of most . Navy and Many America s cup boat designs have been tested. Rob tuna however far exceeds the efficiency. Of sails or  we re trying to do is achieve maximum Watts of thrust going out for Watts coming in Barrett said. Unmanned submarines used for research have a restricted Range because of their limited Power Supply. One solution is to improve the Supply but nobody likes the idea of a totally autonomous sub with a nuclear Generator Barrett said. What if it washed up on Hampton Beach so the option is better  within five years engineers believe they can construct 15-foot, fully autonomous tuna shaped submarines to carry sonar navigational equipment and testing instruments to map the Ocean floor and find the sources of underwater pollution. The subs May even collect specimens through their Mouths and store them in their stomachs we could throw it off the Dock in Charlestown and Tell it to find out what s out there and come Back i three months Barrett said. For now the experimental sub is connected to a Carriage that supplies its Power. Its movements still Are being studied from the Bridge of the testing tank where one computer Monitor is labelled with the word tuna scrawled on a piece of masking tape. Whether people Ever would be Able to travel in tuna styled submarines is another question. The major obstacle is figuring out How to pressurize the flexible  " ". In the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 28,1984 five armed so malian dissidents were granted Asylum by their country s bitter foe Ethiopia after freeing 103 hostages held since nov. 24 on a hijacked Jet liner. 20 years ago nov. 28,1974 commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspended new York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner from baseball for two years As a result of Steinbrenner s conviction for making illegal political Campaign contributions. 30 years ago nov. 28,1964 the massacred bodies of 28 More Whites were found in a Church by White Mercena Ries who drove rebel forces from the left Bank of the Congo River in Stanleyville belgian Congo. 40 years ago nov. 28,1954 sen. William f. Knowland r-calif., proposed that the United states Clamp a tight blockade on communist China if that nation refused immediately to release 13 americans jailed As spies. " 50 years ago nov. 28,1944-president Roosevelt nominated Edward r. Stettinius or. As acting Secretary of state succeeding Cordell Hull who resigned because of ill health. World War ii 50 years ago today nov. 28 French tank units push to the Erstein area near Strasbourg in Alsace. American troops gain ground in the Inden River and Hort Gen Forest sectors on the Belgium Germany Frontier. In Italy British soldiers reach Casola Halsenio on the Western Side of the front but bad weather bogs Down the allies in the East. Japanese troops press the americans hard on Leyte in the Philippines. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world Warll Bison books corp., 1981 a Susan Smith. Accused Stepdad of molesting her . Mother alleged abuse paper reports Colum Blai . A a Mother charged with sending her two Small sons to drown in a murky Lake had accused her Stepfather of molesting her when she was 16, a newspaper said saturday. Susan Smith told a High school guid Ance Counselor in 1988 that she had been molested by her Stepfather of 10 years the Columbia state reported. The coun Selor alerted authorities former Union county sheriff William Jolly told the newspaper. Jolly said the investigation was dropped in Early 1989 because Smith did not want to press charges. We investigated and weren t Able to pursue it said Jolly now an investigator with the state Law enforcement division. Without a witness there was no Case he said. Beverly Russell the Stepfather and Smith s Mother Linda did not return Telephone Calls saturday to the associated press. The newspaper said they re fused to comment on the allegation. Russell a stockbroker and tax Consul Tant is a state Republican executive com Mittee member and a member of the advisory Board of the Christian coalition. Smith 23, faces murder charges in the deaths of her sons. She has confessed to killing 3-year-old Michael and 14-month old Alex on oct. 25 when she rolled her car into a Lake with the boys strapped into safety seats. Court documents filed last week said Smith tried to kill herself by overdosing on aspirin twice while a teen Ager. Smith s father committed suicide when she was 6 years old. Won let 26 cents go to Gay group by Maura Lerner Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune like every other student Khalid Kader has to pay $139.48 in student fees every Quarter he attends the University or Minnesota. But he s drawing the line Over 26 cents. Kader a Muslim is refusing to pay the tiny portion of the fee that is Seaside for the University s Gay and lesbian student association. He contend that would violate his religious beliefs Kader 24, made his declaration in an open letter to president Nils has Selmo in wednesday s edition of the student newspaper the Minnesota daily. He acknowledged that it s a trivial amount of Money but he said he s willing to go to court to make his Point. The Gay student group is one of 35organizations that receive Money from the mandatory student fee which is paid by All students enrolling in More than one class per Quarter. At a rate of 26 cents per student the association of Gay lesbian by transgender student organization gets an Esti mated $22,800 per Quarter. Kader a student in the Institute of technology wants the University to drop the Gay student group from theist completely or at least make its share optional. In his letter he wrote my inability to pay Sterns from my religious convictions which teach me that homosexual conduct is wrong and that if i sup port it in any form i commit sin. 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