OTTAWA (CP) — Some of
the poorest nations in the
world have. embassies in
Ottawa but that doesn't stop
their diplomats from living
in splendor,

The tiny African nation of
Upper Volta, for example, is
given more than $40 million
of Canadian aid annually.

Yet, it. houses its am-
bassador in a six-bedroom
Ottawa residence complete
with swimming pool.
Together with its fashionable
three-story. embassy build-

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ing in the Sandy Hill section
of the city, the total value of
its property. amounts to

Upper Volia’s  Am-
’ bassador Louisa Quedraogo
makes no apology for his
country’s lavish real estate
purchases despite its annual
Pa capita income of only

“An ambassador needf ac-
commodation that ia in
keeping with his role as
representative ‘of his
government,'? said Ou-

t

‘draogo. “He does a lot of
entertaining and he cannot
receive 200 10 300 guests in an
apartment.

“Just because Upper Volta
is a poor country it does not
wean that. its envoy has to
put up with second-rate

using in the host country:"*
“PURCHASES DEFENDED.

The government of
Cameroon, ,another west
African nation with a per
capita income of about $200,
has spent more than $500,000.
buying two properties since —

Ambassador Martin Eiple set.

up a diplomati¢ mission here.

three years ago, ©
Cameroon's holdings
consist of a . six-hedroom,

splitlevel .bome with an

outdoor pool in neighboring
Nepean’ Township and a

three-storéy embassy’

“in Ottawa's Glebe
section. The residence alone
cost $390,000. OO
(Cameroon received almost
$7zmillion in.aid from the
Capadian International
Development Agency

Travelling Show “Project People”
Performers Work For Fun Of it!

— Project People.

The name has a decidedly
bureaucratic ring to It. One
might mistake It as some -
government mass
employment scheme.

As a matter of fact, one of
the current members of
Project People is in charge
of a local Canada Manpower
office.

But the  Kitchener-
Waterloo organization also
includes students, salesmen
and secretaries, a bank
teller, a metal worker, a
construction engineer and a
computer operator.

What brings the 50-odd
persons together as Project
People is a common love for
music— music of an en-

thusilastic, spiritlifting
variety.
Or, as it is expreased in a

new show which the five-
yearold organization will be
performing around the
province this year, Project
People members are
"dedicated to the proposition
that if you smile, the world
will smile with you.” ~
Paul Winkler, a local sales
executive and founding man-
ager of the organization, ex-
plained in an interview how
Project People. came into
. LIKE U.S. GROUP
“We'd had a group In this
area from 1969 to 1972 called
Sing Out  Kitchener-
Waterloo. it pretty much
emulated the U.S. to
musical organization call

England (CP)

public house as Britain's
smakeat pub, but an Aus-
trallan radio station recent

telephoned The Nutshell,

just to make sure.

“The Melbourne station
had a morning program on
pubs so the disc jockey
called to find out about The

Nutshell,” said manager

Rob Haskew, who operates
the pint-size pub, located in
this town about 160 km.
northeast of London.

He said The Nutshell had
been considered Britain's
tiniest pub ever since a 1975
investigation by the BBC
revealed that it was smaller
than its closest competitor,
The Smithy arms in God-
muster, Dorset.

Up With People. In fact, the
Sing Out program was made
up almost entirely of Up

With People songs.
“I had with Up With
People for a short while back

in '69, and for a time I was
business manager for Sing
Out. So, when it folded in '72,
nine of us got together and
each borrowed $500 with
which we launched Project
People.

“Project People was
developed using the same
concept as Up With People,
but getting away from ther
material. The main aim of
Project People is to. instil
within our audiences a sense
of enthusiasm and optim-,
iam.

Since its debut at a local
high school on 1, 1978,
Project People has given
close to 150 performances
across the province, in-
cluding appearances at
Ontario Place, at the
Canadian National: —

‘Exhibition and accom-

panying Premier William
Daves at several
Progreasive Conservative
rallies during last. year’s
provincial election cam-

. Balgn.
PERFORMS FOR PM

On this year’s schedule is a:
performance before Prime
Minister Trudeau at the
Junior Chamber of Com-
merce’s annual Young.
Canadians Awards cere-
mony in Hamilton. .

The Nutshell’s floor area
measures less than 16 feet by
10 feet. The bar, only four
feet from the entrance, lies
behind a seven-foot-long
counter.

modate 3 12 comfortably, a
reco: Pereons squeez
Into it in 1959, said askew,
when the members of two
local rugby clubs decided to
ra nee
¥ & gro m-
bridge University’ students

SCENE DESCRIBED

shoulder to shoulder. ...
Every square inch of. the
floor was occupied and there
was barely enough room to

Not For The Timid | |
_ Siberia’s Lone

Union (Reuter) — The show
gets under way at ‘the only
fashion house in the Soviet
Far East,"
plunging the temperature
an, tens of degrees
below zero, half a dozen tall,
slim models present the
creations of the Khabarovak
Design House, some based
on the traditional Eskimo-
like dress of the area.

The point is hammered
home for a group of jet:
lagged visitors from
Moscow, half a world away:
Life in Far Eastern Siberia
is not just for pioneers.

Now, with the state
pouring in millions of rubles
to open up the remote ex-
panses, rich. in natural
resources, local officials in
Khabarovak are quick to em-
phasize the attractions of
their region.

A Russian city of half a
million people located
between Manchuria and the
Pacific, Khabarovsk offers
higher than’ average
salaries, and cultural ac-
uvitles to workers willing to
move from western areas,

The town lies on the
sweeping Amur River, which
for part of ita length forms
the Soviet-Chinese border,
but local officials are
reluctant to discuss the sub-
fect of their Chinese neigh-

r only 25 miles away.

TERRITORY DISPUTED
' “We are not afraid of
them; Jet them be afraid of
us,” one local resident
commented about the
Chinese.
Another local said the Chi-
nese, who broadcast a
stream of Russian language
propaganda into the areca,
are always committing
“acta of hooliganism.”
Peking has laid claim to
thousands of square miles of
former Chinese territory in
Siberia and the Far East,

saying that prerevolutionary -

China had been cited
the Tsarist an YY

However, most Russlans

appear to dismiss the border
threat with a shrug. —

While the pub can accom- -

_ The organization currently
consists of 23 singers and
dancers, 12 musicians, a
production crew of six and a
seven-member board of
ra. .
From the start, no one
associated with Project
People had ever been paid.
This year, however, because
of an increasing number of
to perform in union-
regulated . theatres. and
auditoriums, the Project
People musicians had to
become union members, And
that means they have to be
paid union wages. a
But, said Wenkler, ‘each
musician has agreed to
return the wages in the form

of a donation to the 4.
tion

“That’s the only way we
can keep operating.”
MUST EARN $34,000 —

Project People is a non-
profit organization and
operational costs, which for.
the current season. are
budgeted at approximately
$34,000, have to be covered

' by the fees charged for

TMANCES. -

“On the average, we
charge $750 plus traveling
expenses for a 40minute
show.-This- year, we're.also
offering: some of -our
musicians aa a dance band
after the show for another
$250. u n

The organization bas figure

received a couple of Wintario

U.K.’s Smallest Pub
Really Packs ’em In

The
Guinness Book of Records
describes -The - Nutshell

_ralse a beer mug.” .
- Documents from the Bury
St. Edmunds record office
‘Indicate The Nutshell once
housed a fruit shop before
becoming a pawnshop,
which existed until the late
_ The building

framed with a brick base.
Red cloth window curtains
and narrow wooden benches -
‘outline the public area.

The walls are covered with
curies including Victorian —
cigarette packages, a lst of
19theentury . executions
ea tReOLh of a page fron
a tocopy of a page from
The Times dated Oct. 5, 1798, -
and several silk woven
pictures. To the right of the
entrance hangs a dried cat,

-believed 300 years old.

Haskew said the cat was

Fashion Ho
which has already lent some
$500 milllon for coal ex-
Ploitation in the arean . -
Khabarovsk officials
peedict that BAM will give
theregion, still the habitat of
tigers, beara and reindeer,

one ofits biggest boosts since
Russian-explorer Yerofe: .

Western analysts belleve. i -\,

strategic considerations are
a driving force behind the
priority the state is ac-
cording to the Balkal-Amur
Mainline (BAM) rallway,
now being sid over 2,-000
miles of wild terrain to link
central Siberia to the
Pacific,

OPENS TRADE ROUTE

_ BAM will create a leas vul-
nerable alternative to the old
Trans-Scberian Railway
bullt by the Tsarist govern-

the

border.
The railroad will open a
new trade route to the
Pacific basin and to Japan,

“NO APPOINTME

- Was being demolished.

SONAL AND SMALL BUSINESS
INCOME TAX PREPARATION
; Us

$10

4602 LAZELLE AVE.
TERRACE B.C. _

grants to help pay for
€quipment and costumes and
also has received small
municipal grants towards
costs for renting rehearsal
and storage space. ;
. The show, which features
about a dozen musical

numbers, many in an up- .

tempo. sing-along vain,
presented with a kindnof Las
Vegas-style razzmatazz,
changes every year and a

Most of the numbers are
famillar show tunes or past
and current popular hits,

Wherever it travels,
Project People carries about
two tons- of equipment, in-
cluding its own multi-level
stage,
cyclorama and
a own lighting and sound.

jpment. :

The members of Project
People range in age from.
late teens to early 309,
Newcomers have to go
through two or three months
of rehearsals before getting
a chance to appear in a

performance.

Said Winkler: “The only
criteria we use in selecting
Hike working vith the grou.

: 8 group.
“If they’re the kind of per-
sons who can stick it out
through that initial rehearsal

period and want to do it for

nothing except the en-

joyment of doing it, well, we
they make pretty

good members.”

discovered inside a nearby
17theéntury building that
These
animals were often walled
up inside brick fireplaces as

a charm against fire and bad =
luck. — .

hang

a. S0-by-15-foot o,Utlllion.

(CIDA) in 1976.
The ambassadors say it
common sense for their |
natlons to. purchase! real
estate rather than pay rent.
“Tt would be just throwing
money) away to lease
suitable living. and office
space
“Besides, [f..you own your
house in the Ottawa area it is

‘a sound investment.” -
- Upper Volta and.
(Cameroon are two of the

“more than 9% developing

nations of Africa, Asia, Latin
America. and. the Com-
monweaae Caribbean
mainta properties .
the national capital region
for their diplomatic
resentatives,  - .
ALL RECEIVE AID

Other nations, such. as
India and Pakistan, have
owned residences almost
from the time they set up
diplomatic posts in Ottawa
more than 25. years ago.
They have been major
recipients of Canadian eco-
nomic aid for many years.
And Indonesia, which |
takes one of the larger slices
of the Canadian foreign aid
budget-- $22.4 million last
year—houses its am-
bassador ina $425,000 home
in Ottawa's opulent Rock-
cliffe area. .

Latest figures show there
are more than 125 forelgn-
owned properties in Ot-
tawa—double the number 20
years ago—with a total:
market value of more than
" Nearly half of the %&
resident ambassadors and
high commissioners in Ot-

-tawa represent Thitd World

nations, and virtually all of
them receive 8 chunk of

*s current budget |
$1.1 biliton.

“The - external | affairs

department does not advise

Yard Glasses, once used i
drinking ‘competitions.
vessel holds 2% pints of
liquid and the object was to
drink the contenis with

spillage.

_ The cellar, larger than the [ia

main floor, 1s stacked
containing beer; ale. and

stout, When full, each tub ff

weighs about 220 pounds and
in the summer, patrons

consume about 30 tubs a-

week, said Haskew.

Khabarov arrived there in
the 17th century.
One of the toughest chal-
lenges confronting the BAM.
worker and Khabarovsk
office workers is the cold.
But cold is almost a matter
of pride to Siberians and Far
Easterners, =

NT NedessaRY” |

"and
ap.

- with stainless steel tubs we

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structible. Becaus

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In Ottawa," said Eple. zoning by

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Even if it didn't do anything; LINE-A-BED —

lomatic representatives
beg the economies of planned
ty: ASS,
Pits iy asks for prior
information on the location
of the place to be bought to
ensure that the intended we
does not conflict, with city
laws.
“It's not up tous to tell the
governments concerned how
to spend their money,” said
an external affairs official.
“That's up tothem, After all,
they have to justify their
expenditures to their
people.”

owned residences almost

_ dom the time they set up

diplomatic posts in Ottawa

British Isles B

HARRY OPENS BAR
LONDON (CP) =~ Welsh-
born: comedian and singer
Harrx Secombe opened
Harry’s Bar at a London
hotel recently and told
: “I feel that at last
T have arrived,”

SUB SEARCH PLANNED
BANGOR, Wales (CP) —
Marine explorer Sydney
Wignall is to lead a diving
team to try to locate the
wreck of Britain’s first
submarine, Resurgam, lost
in 1800 off the North Wales
coast, Wignall says he
believes phed a th abject
photogra on the sec
may be the submarine.
HAS RIGHT NAME
LONDON (CP) — The
iformer director-general of
the National Farmers’ Union
and the new head'of FMC,
Britain’s.. biggest. meat
company, has the last name
Cattell, 7 + + .

that’s virtually inde-
e it's made of the

same high-impact material you'll find in
football helmets. and golf club heads;

E-A-BED is to protect

the bed of a:hew or used pickup truck,
to enhance its appearance, to Insulate
’ the -bed when jit is used in conjunction
with a topper or recreational equipment.
With LINE-A-BED, a.pickup truck owner
can haul-heavy equipment in it, carry

strong alkali, manure, etc. without |
scratching, marring or otherwise damag-» =. ag [|

.. Distributors for
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st Countries Have Most Extravagant Embassies

ore than 25 years ago.
They have been major
recipients of Canadian eco-
nomic aid for many years.

And. Indonesia, which
takes one of the larger slices
of the Canadian foreign aid
budget— $22.4 million last

ear-—houses its
gsador in a $425,000 home
in Ottawa's opulent Rock-
diffe area.

Latest figures show there
are more than 125 forelgn--
owned properties In Ot-.
tawa—double the number 20
years ago—with a total
market value of more than

tuillion. :
Pearly half of the 92
resident, ambassadors and
high commissioners in Ot-
tawa represent Third World

REALIZES AMBITION
LEEDS, England (CP) —
At the age of 6, Neilie
Goodahip has just realized
her lifelong. ambition—te
loop-the-loop in an aircraft.
Mrs. Goodship persuaded an
instructor at a nearby air-
field to take her up in a
Bingle-angine Cessna
Aerobat. Said Mra. Good-
ship: ‘‘Now my life is
complete,”
CREW GETS LETTER
PORTSMOUTH, England
(CP) = The crew of HMS
, Who sent a con-
triton to the Tate Gallery,

a Lino-A-Bed makes!

LINE-A-BED is a molded liner/ protector

: ing “Dear there will be 40 per cent ~
Eee pies “See ee
AA GETS EXTENSION 4
CHARLBURY, England rk
(CP) — An nm oO: aN
drinking hours until mid- o
night has been granted io a ay
hotel’ in this Oxfordshire of
community for a social and ‘ aa
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to stay that way. It’s tough, easy to clean,

resists stains, and it can even be waxed, .
“One piece protects the headwall, side- :
wails and bed floor. Another slips right \
-over the tailgate. One man can install |. :
it in ten minutes or less. And the result?.. [|

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LINE-A-BED, then look at one with. _ a

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nations, and virtually all af

them receive a chunk
CIDA’s current budget of
$1.1 billion,

The external al
riment does not ad

affairs

diplomatic representatives «*:
on the economics of planned

operty purchases. .
Pein asks for prior
information on the tocation
of the place to be bought to
ensure that the intended use
doea not conflict with city
zoning bylaws.
“J¢'g not up to us
con:

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money,” said an external

faira official. “That's up to
en After all, they have to
justify their expenditures to
their people.”

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dance organized by Al- .

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MILLIONS STOP SMOKING |

LONDON (CP) — More
than seven milllon people in

Britain have given up ”

smoking in the last 15 years,

a conference of experts on ~

smoking and health was told
recently.

BRITISH LIVE LONGER :

LONDON (CF) — People
in Britain are living longer.
A report published by the
department of health

estimates that by 1986 there |

will be 20 per cent more
British people over the age of
75than there are now. By the
mid-1990s, says the report,

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