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Press, 3 August 1983, Page 10

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Lake search

The Italian police have said that they are searching a lake where an anonymous caller had said that they would find the body of a girl reportedly kidnapped to win freedom for the Turk who shot the Pope. Fifteen Carabinieri (paramilitary police) with boats, dogs and helicopters were scouring the waters and area surrounding Largo di Patria, 20m northwest of the southern coastal city of Naples. The search for the body of Emanuela Orlandi, aged 15, the daughter of a Vatican messenger, was launched after an afaony-

mous caller told a local newspaper, “Il Mattino,” that her body had been left there by her kidnappers. — Naples. 8.8. C. job An accountant, aged 49, has become the youngest head of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the voice of Britain to millions throughout the world. Stuart Young, also the first Jewish 8.8. C chairman, takes over from the stately home owner, George Howard, aged 63, who retired after holding the job since 1980. Mr Young, relatively unknown outside the 8.8. C. and the City of Lon-

don, is State-educated and a specialist in corporate finance. He has been a 8.8. C. governor since 1981. — London. Squad disbanded Scotland Yard’s crime busting Flying Squad, named after the swift horse-drawn waggons it used to chase crooks 60 years ago, has been disbanded. Forty-eight of the squad’s detectives are being reassigned to suburban London precincts to combat an increase in armed robberies. The Flying Squad was ferried in October 1918 to com Sat increasingly mobile

thieves in London. The unit was given horse-drawn waggons and buggies. - London. Lobbyists banned The Victorian Government has banned lobbyists from dealing directly with Ministers in a move thought to be the first of its kind in Australia. The state Premier, Mr John Cain, warned that lobbyists had no place in the Victorian system of government He said that the David Coornbe affair had inspired the government to make an informal public statement on its long-standing policy on lobbyists. — Melbourne.