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ilLLETTE PAR AIME, France
oneoftj)^ ^ American explorer, a former
ever rectm K* Bergere dancer and a 65-
le L told„ 1 ^businessmen are trying to
.that Hannibal did 2,197 years
-cross the Alps on elephants.
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tw asntB t , jaithe group, trying to be the
va y> speople to recreate Hannibal’s
Itws 5| - trek, ran into a problem
^dliruj jiday the Carthaginian general
ute a little'|-,’tface: a lack of pachyderms.
tVe had scheduled to rent two
,ts from an Italian zoo and
Monday, said Jack Wheeler,
lexplorer from I.as V egas. “But
we had difficulties with the Italians
and at the very last minute they were
unable to provide the elephants.
Wheeler said the elephants now
will be brought from the Turin Zoo to
a rendezvous with the Americans in
about 10 days at the Alpine village of
St. Jean de Maurienne.
“But we plan to leave in about
three days and retrace Hannibal s
route through southern France
without the elephants,” Wheeler
said.
The guide is Jacqueline Vial,
Wheeler’s fiancee. She was born and
reared in Villette Par AAme, a few
miles off Hannibal’s route.
Vial is a former star of the Folies
Bergere. She met Wheeler three
years ago while the troup was per
forming in Las Vegas. Los Angeles
businessman Sam Oschin also will be
on the trip.
It was in 218 B.C. Hannibal led
46,000 Carthaginian warriors and 37
elephants over precarious footpaths
through 8,000-foot passes to attack
the Romans.
The Greek historian Polybius
wrote that Hannibal’s invasion force
built huge rafts to float the nearly 40
elephants across the Rhone River
during their route to attack the Ro
mans.
“Hannibal’s actual route is one of
the great mysteries of history,
Wheeler said. “We have good clues
from Greek and Roman historians,
but not the exact route. I think we
can make a strong case for the route
we ll be taking.
Wheeler’s trip will lead the group
through St. Michel de Maurienne,
Modane, Chemin de la Crousta, Col
du Pont Mont Cenis and Col du
Clapier.
“This will be a way of reliving and
participating in history, Wheeler
said. “It’s going to be quite a thrill for
me. It’s been a long-time dream of
mine to retrace the steps of famous
explorers.
"But this is the first time I’ve actu
ally done it. Next year. I ni hoping to
retrace Marco Polo s trip to China.’’
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LOUIS — Diane Kerckhoff
itedout looking for $50,000 worth
silverware, porcelain, antique
Hrv and cut glass articles stolen
joher parents.
jlie found the family heirlooms —
ca lot more.
Her efforts led to a key role in an
anti-fencing effort that has recovered
$1.75 million in stolen property
since the program began more than
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Striking teachers from Oklahoma
Louisiana to Michigan and 11-
are disrupting the start of fall
giving thousands of the na-
students an extended summer
Hatkm.
Oklahoma City’s first teachers
nut ever, which is nearly a week
hundreds of teachers jeered at
ktitutes crossing picket lines for
tlitst day of classes Monday.
me 33,407 of the capital city’s
389students attended school, but
60 percent of the teachers ab-
they wandered without super
in school hallways and hung
windows watching their instruc-
B#utside.
look at the little old lady
iag to fulfill her dreams as a
r,” said one striking teacher,
ing a substitute entering a
building. “Isn’t that wonder-
k teachers are asking for a 12 to
rcent salary increase and other
ge benefits, hut school officials
j [there is no money for any in-
se above the 9 percent offered,
jstrike in Louisiana’s second
fst school district — Jefferson
Bh in suburban New Orleans —
tered to gain strength Monday,
tog up support from bus drivers
teachers.
he walkout is disrupting classes
Aout 65,000 students and — de
ling on whose figures >'ou be-
e— anywhere From the 68 to 77
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picket lines. Less than 10 percent of
the district’s buses, which serve 75
percent of the students, showed up
Monday.
Robbie Davis marched her two
children into J.C. Ellis Elementary
School past picketing teachers, but
only because they “wanted to come
to school so badly,” she said.
“Teachers have been underpaid
for years and I’m glad to see ‘em
getting angry, frustrated enough, or
whatever it is to finally do something
about it.”
In Sparta, III., 2,300 students
stayed home Tuesday on the first day
of classes. Teachers there rejected a
proposed two-year contract over the
weekend.
Teacher salary disputes elsewhere
in Illinois kept schools closed in Park
Ridge for a second day, delayed the
start of classes in Granite City and
Dupo and prompted an overwhelm
ing strike vote in Elmwood Park.
In Crown Point, Ind., the first day
of school for nearly 6,000 students
was disrupted Monday by striking
teachers.
Teachers’ strikes in two suburban
Pittsburgh school districts — Char-
tiers Valley and Bethel Park — bar
red more than 12,000 students from
their first day of classes Monday.
Nearly 1,500 teachers were on
strike in four Michigan districts —
Benton Harbor, PlymouthCanton,
Olivet and Allegan. The walkout in
Allegan disrupted the opening day of
school Monday for 100 physically
and mentaWy bandicapped ehvldreu.
Crime Statistics. Residential of
fenses accounted for 65 percent of
the total burglaries.
The St. Louis County police pro
gram is designed to eliminate the
middleman, the “fence” who is will
ing to pay burglars as little as 10 per
cent of what their loot is worth be
cause he can unload the hot property
to buyers looking for bargains.
Kerckhoff, director of public edu
cation for the program, said nearly
two-thirds of all fences are otherwise
legitimate businessmen trying to
make more money by adding a line of
stolen property.
The program, she said in an inter
view, is attacking the most vital link
in the property-crime cycle.
“The whole anti-fencing concept is
new,” she said. “Police are taking an
offensive approach, going to fences
to seek property before they know of
apartieular crime involved. Burglary
units often have their own caseload
and don’t have time to search for a
fence or recover property.
“Property crimes occur because
there is a fence to supply money for
burglars. There would be no reason
for people to steal something if a
fence wasn’t there to help them get
rid of it.”
In 1975, a few months before the
anti-fence unit was forme-
d, Kerckhoffs parents drove home
one evening just in time to see burg
lars speeding off with $50,000 worth
of their prized possessions.
She recalled “that kind of sinking
feeling you get as a crime victim and
her frustrations in trying to track
down the stolen property on her
own.
“These were family things,” she
said. “Mother wanted her grand
children to have them — she didn’t
just want the insurance money.
“At times I felt a hopeless attitude
on the part of police. They didn’t say
they had no time, but I felt that. I
kept persisting in it because I felt
that victims were entitled to more.
Embarking on a tour of antique
shops and other places dealing in
second-hand property, Kerckhoff
heard the name of one particular au
ctioneer several times. Just as she
■was about to abandon the search, she
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saw the auctioneer handling items
similar to her parents’ stolen prop
erty.
She went to the auction and found
much of the missing property.
Working with the local Crusade
Against Crime, she set up a hotline
for anonymous tips on suspected
fences. So far 550 outlets for stolen
property have been identified.
She also established an index sys
tem of stolen property and stressed
the importance of marking items
such as valuable rugs or silver that
have no serial numbers.
“Law enforcement officials had no
system for nonserialized property.
But television sets and mass-
produced things like that with serial
numbers are not the things victims
want back the most — insurance can
take care of them. They want to get
back their furs, their porcelains,
things insurance can t replace.
Detailed inventories and pub
lished lists of stolen items have
helped the public and police to work
together to break the chain of prop
erty crime.
“I had this image of law enforce- I
ment agents as all being Starsky and
Hutch, typical superheroes,” she
said. “But without detailed descrip
tions or identifiable markings made
by property owners, there is little
hope of their getting things back.
She wants to put fences out of
business by forcing them into the
open.
“No self-respecting fence is going
to tell you he knew his property was
stolen. Often the only way you can
do it is for burglars to testify agauiU
them — but why would a thief want
to expose his fence? He thrives in
people not knowing he’s dealing in
stolen property.
“We want to create a kind of
paranoia for people who are in the
business of buying and selling
second-hand goods. W r e want them |
to stop and think: Could this material
be stolen? Should I call the hotline?
Do I want to have less crime in the
community? Everybody i s a poten
tial victim."
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