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Press, 16 June 1982, Page 8

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Actress quizzed Actress Sophia Loren, who served 17 days in jail for income tax evasion, has been questioned by a Rome magistrate investigating whether a photograph purported to be taken of her in prison, was a fake. Judge Antonio Marini said Miss Loren told him she had not been photographed in jail. Miss Loren, besieged by photographers as she entered and left the judge's offices at the Rome tribunal, testified in private for about an hour. The judge, moved by a news-' paper article claiming a photograph published by the Kappa News Agency was a fake, warned six partners of the Rome agency they are under criminal investigation. — Rome.

Tip find sparks probe A special inter-departmen-tal committee will begin a full-scale investigation today into the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a large pile of shredded official documents under a bridge near Queanbey'an last week. Three Canberra teenagers were able to piece together United States Navy documents from the pile which should have been destroyed under Defence Department .supervision at the Canberra tip. A-department duty officer, Mr Bob Grant, said a preliminary investigation was 1 completed during the long week-end. He said a special inter-departmental committee drawing repre-

sentatives from the • Prime Minister’s department,’ his own department, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Administrative Services, would begin a full-scale investigation into how the documents went astray. t-?: Canberra. Bid to cut jobless A SNZ472O million plan to bring down unemployment by a million over the next three years is proposed in a report to be issued this week by a House of Lords committee in Britain, reports “The Times." The all-party select committee on employment will outline a package of measures aimed at creating _ London.