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_, Super spill threatens lobster
grounds in France

BREST, France (AP) --A

huge. and growing ol] slick
seeping from the wrecked
U.S,._- owned supertanker

Amoco Candiz washed up on..

Brittany shoreline Friday in

what is potentially the worst ‘
ecological disaster on this“

‘lagued coast.
The shop, which broke in
two on rocks five kilometres
off shore: early Friday,

’ carried 68 million galtons of

Middie East crude oil,
enough to create the worst
tanker spill on record. But
officials did not know how
many of its 15 tanks had
ruptured and could not
forecast the size of the spill.,
By Friday night the slick
-covered sea for several
kilom: around the wreck
and had soiled five
kilometres of beaches.
Fishes ‘were floating bell-
up off the tiny fishing port
and summer resort of
Portaall, 40 kilometres north
of here.
_. Fisherman Alain Madec in
the village of Lannilis
scopped up as many oysters
as possible and transplanted
them Inland in artificial
basing, Crews were putting
a barrage in place in an

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effort to keep the olly waters
. from prized oyster beds.

The 233,000 ton tanker lay
with {ts bow and its stern:
mounted living quarters
jutting up from the sea,
while oil oozed under water
from: rock-punctured tanks.

'“ Officials were stydying the
possibility of pumping oll

om.the ship to minimize
the spill,

Ecologists marched in
Portsal] to protest the
growing pollution. The
town's 2,000 residents feared
the spredding slick would
bring tourism to a standstill.

Politicians, in the middle
of France's two-week
national election, seized on
the accident as an issue,

The Socialist mayor of
Brest, Francis Le Ble,
blamed the centre-right
national government,
saying: “Nothing was
learned: from previous
catastrophes.” ~

Former premier Jacques.
Chirac, leader of the rightist
Gauilist party, called for a
law to keep tankers 19
kilometres from the French
coast.

The five-year-old Amoce
Cadiz, flying the Liberian

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flag and owned by a sub-
sidiary of the American Oil
Co., had been sailing nor-
thward, en route from the
Persian Gulf to the northern
French port of Le Havre.

Its steering machinery
malfunctioned as it was
navigating into the English
Channel. A tug was called bu
the tow line broke and 2%
hours later the Amoco Cadiz
was stranded on Portsall
Rocks,

Operating in darkness,
French navy : helicopters
evacnaled 41 crew members
before dawn Friday. The
captain and first officer, who
stayed aboard, were
removed later in the mor-
ning, after the 1,067 foot ship
was wrenched in two by the
waves.

The worst tanker oil spill
on record was the wreck of
the supertanker Torrey

Canyon in 1967 off the south-

by

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west coast of England, 100
miles northwest of. here.

Twenty-nine million gallons
of oil poured into the sea,
much of it washing up on the
English and-French coasts.

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The golf course at
Yellowknife, N.W.T., is
covered with sand instead of
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mustbefiled — “
March 31, 1978. -

Brace Matthews, acting
president of Argus
said today he does not an-
ticipate Power Corp. of
Canada Ltd. of Montreal will
attempt another takeover
bid for the Toronto-based
holding company.

He said in an interview
eontro] of Argus won'l
change because of the death
this weeknof chairman J.A.

Corv.,-

THE HERALD, Monday, March 20, 1978, PAGE 3

Power not to |
take-over Argus

Revelston Corp. Ltd,” he

sa eivelston is a holding
company created by Mc-
Dougald and several Argus
directors to insure control of
Argus does net change
hand.

Ravenston owns about 61
per cent of Argus voting
shares.

Matthews ssid Paul Des-
marais, cmairman of Power

situation with Ravelston-
nand "he has got all the
shares he is going to get.’

Matthews said it is highly
unlikely that the MeDougald
share will be disposed of in.
the near term,

‘McDougald owned about
24 per cent of, Ravelston.
Another 24 per cent is held by
the family of the late Col, W.
E. Phillips. Mrs. McDougald

(Bud) MeDougald.

“Control of Argus is in and Mrs. Phillips are sisters.

Corp., is aware of the

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