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HURST, Ont, (CP) —
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By “VICTOR'SIMPSON
‘ROME (AP) — A new
wave of scandals has
rupled in Italy, casting
far clouds. over the
governing - Christian
Democratic party, the
corner ,sayings bank and -
even some of ‘the country’s
adored soccer players.
“Povera Italia!" — ‘Poor

Italy!" :— sald the- banner

headline in:one newspaper.
Inthe last few w:
—Three construction ..
tycoons fled-the- country. in
‘their private jet ahead of
arrest warrants, -allegedly
leaving behind. unpaid.debts'
of 160 billion: lire ($190
million)..A cabinet minister
quit: under fire. after ad-
mitting he accepled cam-.
paign funds.-from the
builders... for the long:
dominant. Christian
Democrat party.
—Police roused 38 bank
presidents and’ businessmen’
fom their beds at dawn in.
arrests for allegedly tending”

Jewish

' gy ARIK phcHAR:

SHARM-AL-SHEIKH ©
(Reuter) — The #00- irae
who: have made: homed ‘tx
“this southern tip of the Sinai
Penlnsula will be the first
Jewish settlers to be

uprooted by the Egyptian-Is-"

raell, peace ment.
treaty gives them less than
two more years ‘here.

‘In the 13 years of Israeli
occupation, @ sniall resort

town called Gfira hap sprung :

up, and tourists flock ‘from
all over the world to enjoy
oh,  Skindiving, “‘unpolluted

ches and nude, sun:

bathing,

Amid all this, two big
Egyptian guns - remain
rusting on the beach,
symbols of the . area's
strategie importance and
two wars Israel fought to
keep the nearby Tiran
Straits open.

‘Although the settlers are
still negotiating with the
government for | com-

pensation, .ose family at,

-Ofira is hoping for-a $100,000
day.

seitlement fee on evacuation ;

‘Shitegn. of. ‘the yellow
pickerel, also called walleye,
_ are equipped with surgically

* implanted ,. radio. tran-.

technicians, -
Wayne LaFrance,

amitters ‘so that’ their .

movements can be tratked
by Ontario ministry | of

- money to friends or jatittcal-
aliies without’ obtaining:
adequate guarantees, ne

Italians are used to

political scandals. President .

. Giovanni Leone resigned in
1978 because ‘‘of.: press.
allegations: of tax evasion ©
and other: financial irre-.
guilaritiea. A former defence
minister went to jail in the

-Lockheed : payoffs: scandal. .

natural “resources
ministry: “wildlife: technician

in this area near Barrie, sald
the ministry. hopes’ to find ,

_spaiwralng.t beds to brent the ©

candals are.

ae

roc

spiel bribes. to ‘influence
the outcome of games, Two
- frorit men for a Bysdicate of

".- gamblers filed sult charging

‘the players tock-the bribes
but didn't throw thelr games.
All the players have
dectared their innocence,
although: one admitted he
accepted a cheque, ex-

plaining it was only to buy'a .’-

., gold watch. But angry and
"disillusioned faina - have
already turned on the former

“Now the charges “of ' untouchables, At a weekday

corruption have moved, out

"of the vealrh of (politics ‘and

into the game ‘of soccer, a
source of pride and passion
for Italians, from little boys ©
waiting for their heroes
outalde of the dressing rooms.

to their fathers plunking -

down 350 lire (40 cents) each
week in the hope of becoming
rich in the state-run pools.

Italy has been stunned by
allegations that 27 stars,
some of whom ‘earn more
than $220,000 a year, ‘ate

settlers
their way: back

‘otra, ‘where moat of: the
several cburidred. residents.
ole ional. army ,.of-

nee me home for
Israelis such as Benny Ben-

‘Mocha, 49, who Hired , of -

Tsraell ‘urkan life.

“The thought of hay
find a new life at my age
rifies me and.my family,” °
said, And even the thought
of peace can’t saothe the

pain of being evicted from ;

‘this place.’
“Moat of. the residents say
that being evacuated fot the

sdke- of real peace. with |
_ Egypt is worth while, :
“But there is no guarantee

that this “peace will last
loriger than
President Anwar) Sadat,”
said Ben-Mocha.
Tourist facilities continue
to operate on a normal scale,
and visitors — mainly
professional divers from
Europe — continue to pour
in. pee oped projects
ah been dropped
wspeople say ‘the state
ot Pave n-Israeli relations
at the nearby Interim border
supports thelr claim that the

(Egyptian - price.

practice: for Rome's Lazio
team, several hundred
shouted  ‘‘Thieves,'
“Shame” and other insults
at the players.

The | political-firiancidl
scandals are rooted in the
patronage system, the
abuses of which are ap-
parently ‘still tae eeoeliting de-
spite.a 1074 law provi
public financing o pailtieal

parties.
The missing builders, the

Sicilian-born Cdltagirone ©
brothers, were known to be

are on.
home |

_ peace * in ‘far from what
Israelis bad hoped,for.
Reuven Barzilgl, a. “hotel

manager, sald gypt did not
stand by its commitment to

allow tourists to cross ‘the
interim line and. visit Ras

to - Mouhamad, a favorite diving

- spot 15 kilometres, west of
Ofira,- -

“We cannot call this a
sericus
tian soldiers firmly turn us
back when we try to cross
over to Ras Mouhamad,” he

said.

“By th@algun

been’ sold for a very low

Sharm and the. nelgh-
beaches were

sandy
barren desert before the
Israell occupation.

* Oblivious’ to -political
«developments and

the un-.
certain future are hundreds
of foreign youngsters who
flock to the ‘beaches around
Sharm. Many wander:
through. the canyons naked |
and spend their time sun
bathing.

Treasure hunt yields
explorers’ artifacts.

WINNIPEG (cP) — “If °

you can ima aging being
yvelghtless, bling and in the
middle of hurricane winds,
that's what it was like.” |

That's the way A.R.
Lockery described a 1973
treasure hunt in whicti he
clung to the end of a rope
among the rushing rapids of
Otter Falls on Manitaba's
Winnipeg River.

The prize: the flotsam and
jetsam of untucky river trav-
ellers two centuries ago,

A transport canoe of the
North West Compatiy cap-
sized in the torrent, its
hapless crew drowned and
their cargo strewn along the
river bed, sometime between
1790 and 1815.

‘Its one of the places
where they could oc-
casionally run the raplds and
take a chance,” Lockery

. paid of the voyageurs, That's
why we looked there —
sometimes they lost.'*

The 160 pounds of
axeheads, chisels, musket
balls and other trading goods
‘were displayed at the recent

Featival du Voyageur and |

very versatile

are kept permanently at
Universit et Winn peg,
where {s director of
environment studies,

He said he was directed to
Giter Falls by the diary of
Nicholas Garry, which noted
that Otter Fal i had taken a
betty toll of lives and trade

gi
“I read about the fallure,

and mentioned It to an ar-.

cheologist friend that I could
probably find the artifacts,”
Lockery yaid “He told me to
put my money where my
mouth is.”

In the summers of 1971 and
1972, with no outside

financing, Lockery took

hydrological surveys of the

' river at Otter Falls using a

current meter and echo
sounder tonarrow the

a eWhat I really did was to
moke a very detailed map of
the depths and current
8 of the rapids,” he
said.-"From that I was able
to see where they were
dangerous and predict where

the artifacts might be

found.”

He was dead on: It took 45
minutes to find the first arti-
fact, and locating the rest
was easy. It was getting
them to the surface that was
arduous — involving 30
divers and 180 manhours: of
wark.

The current at Otter:Falls
ig about six knots, or the
wind equivalent of about

1,200 kilometres an hour,

New luggage is

NEW YORK (AP) — With

Je more than aver on the

go, handbag and luggage

manufacturers are coming

up with innovative ideas to
sult thelr travel needs.

Today's bag serves many

. Its a carry-all;

it's a weekender; It's an

overnighter; it’s a super-

bag. And just like other

fashions, luggage has gone

style-conscious,
“Whether it’s a vacation a

Divers, clad only in standard
wet suits and scuba gear,
lowered themselves’

e
water to the artifacts. -

“We were just lik like flags on
our eet vere lke Hoping
“Our a were Iike
in the wind.”

Taking a hard from the
line briefly, the - divers
plucked the rusty treasures
off the river’s floor and
dropped them into bags
which were buoyed and
floated to the aurface to be
picked up by boats.

The harvest was im- :

pressive — 50 axeheads, 30
chisels, seven files, 17
muskrat spears, a trap, a
padlock and two keys, a
apboard latch, anc several
thousand musket balls.
Lockery said there are
several more unexplored
sites along the river, in-
cluding Barrier Fails, Silver
Falls, and Boundary Fails.

spur-of-the-moment

eckend jaunt ot a business
ip, the consumer demands
that these travel bags look
fashionable, and the Industry

has filled this
says Erica
National
Association.

ment,’

It's a new kind of luggage
for a new kind of lifestyle,

she contends.

ica when Egyp-

‘We

i situation today;;we- have ~

into the rushing |

of the
Handbag

picker “f

The: eds. may be ‘in: ged:
-tions of river surrounded by
private land. and LaFrance
said. there is little « the.
“ministry can do to control ,
land use affecting the: beds,

“elose to the Christian

Democrats and: often’ gave. .
lavish parties for leading. -
politicians at thelr villas in
Italy. and ‘on: the French -
Riviera and at an apartment
in New York. They built up a
meeperty empire, obtaining .

HOURS
Mon.-Sat,

fea of: the

‘The program was started ©

Inst October when ministry

‘ing all Italy

funds fom the state: central an

savings Institute, Italcasse.
- Liquidation proceedings now
‘have been started against 19
companies the brothers

‘controlled and they have .

been. charged with’ fraudu-
‘Tent ‘pankrupley- :

"PRICES EFFECTIVE

Tuesday, May 20- fe
_ Monday, May 26 &

odticlate, “algea by a ‘Royal

Ontario Museum '

biologist, netted the plckera

frony th e-river,

- ‘The technicians ‘used eee

trodes” ta send electrical

current through the water,”

The fish, stunned by the

; Shock, f floated to the surface.

LaFrance said hundreds ‘of

rainbow trout apppeared and.

“many of them were.15 to 10

. Pounds,
The workera caught. 16.

, walleye, allof them between
five and six- years old, ond
surgically implanted: the

" transmiiters.

They have asked fisher-
men who may catch one of

_» the radioequipped walleye to

The Herald, Tuesday, May 20, 1960, Page, W

-down - - electronically —

“AD we ‘can do, tially, is :
work with landowners toim-.
* press: on hem the im-.
‘spawning

returt the $100. ‘transistor
- gets to the ministry.

'. “They are kind of valuable.

and: wed like them. back,”
The transmitters: emit a

signal beam that can. be -picke
‘ Tocation one day and the next

traced with a radio receiver,
Gn land, the signal may be

‘traced .a halfkilometre .
away; frdm a plane it can be -

cked .up more than a
iometre away. |.”
“During late. fall: and

Winter, ministry officials...
take--weekly réadiuge ‘to-

locate the walleye.’
“We keep

when spawning starts,”
LaFrance said:

The fish movements are

marked.on‘a map and LaF-

track of them so’.
we'll have a pretty good idea -
‘of where to look ‘for them

“ance said: the ministry is :
_ learning about the walleye" 5.
habits: 7
- “They move up and down :
the ‘river quite a bit.” We

done fish wp in. oie

day it was a mile farther

He sald the olnisiry now |

believes there is a. year-
round walleye tation in
the river’ ina addition to the
fish that’ swim up from
Georgian Bay to to spawn and
then return to the

“Monitoring the ‘tran.

After that, LaFrance said he
does not expect the ministry
will. retrieve the - tran-
amitters.

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