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...interlocking relationships between King and I.O.S. Fund of Funds, I.O.S.'s second largest mutual fund, has put $60 million of its $473 million of assets into King Resources or projects in which the company is involved. King Resources and the fund jointly own 22 million acres of Canadian Arctic oil leases; critics contend that the value of these lands was exaggerated...
...Arctic Issue. Some disenchantment was inevitable. More and more Canadians are beginning to learn, however, that while Trudeau occasionally behaves like a 50-year-old playboy, more often he comes on as a sober, responsible leader. Canadians thought that the Prime Minister's official house at 24 Sussex Drive might become a rendezvous for jet-set types. It is busy, all right, but as a member of Trudeau's Liberal Party describes it: "Labor leaders on Thursday. Next week businessmen. Maybe a royal commission. Hardly swinging...
...weeks ago, as the U.S. supertanker Manhattan was heading north on its second experimental Arctic voyage, Trudeau responded to Canadian concern over possible future oil pollution by extending Ottawa's jurisdiction to 100 miles northward from its shores. The measure, in effect, establishes Canadian control over shipping through the Northwest Passage. Some Canadians wanted him to assert full-fledged sovereignty over the waters rather than mere jurisdiction, but Trudeau characteristically chose the more reasonable course. "This pollution legislation," he said, "is not jingoist. It is not anti-American." Nonetheless, Washington last week sent a strong protest to Ottawa...
...Tundra study concentrates on what modern man can do to preserve the especially fragile arctic environment around Alaska's oil-rich North Slope...
Jackass Penguins. Bathed in soft blue-green light, the five-story building's cavernous interior immediately evokes images of the world of water. Its 75 exhibits represent the full range of environments-fresh and salt, from arctic to tropic. Most of the ground floor is occupied by a large freshwater pool, swarming with such fish as gars, carps, catfish and sturgeons. It also contains an open enclave where several otters frolic in and out of the water. A few steps away are the first of 70 small tanks containing such varied and intriguing species as the colorful little clownfish...