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Sad lad Stephen Price is sad lad while checking snowdain aged crocuses in Burnaby municipality adjacent to Vancouver Stephen helped his motherplant the flowers last fall but his pride wilted after freak snowstorm in the Vancouver area tried to bury the flowers Monday Photo Pro test singers riding wave of nationalism MADRID tIteuterJ Protest singers from Spains north eastern region of Catalonia are riding high on wave of local nationalism and earning rich rewards from the countrys move toward democracy From humble beginnings in shady smokefilled bars through difficult years of offi cial disapproval the Catalan minstrels have reached the re spectable concert halls of Ma drid and the wavebands of statecontrolled radio The acknowledged leader of the movement known as the nova canco which means new song in the Catalan language is 36year4ild bespectacled folk singer called Raimon packed theatre with oppo sition politicians prominent in the front row recently wel comed Raimon to Madrid where he was barred from sin ing for eight years after one of his concerts touched off student riots thousand lit matches sym bolizing the flame of liberty and huge red and yellow Cata lan flags greeted the singer Opposition chants of am nesty and freedom punc tuated the applause FILLED VACLL Raimon later told reporter the nova canco had filled vac uum in Spanish music The nova canco emerged at time when in Spain there was only shoddy festive music which had no relation to realityhe said think we were the first to give dignity to the Spanish song which before was considered something subcalibre Raimons early songs were hymns of generation which had not known the 193639 civil war and which desired new Spain free from the wars stigma Taking their lead from the American folk protest move ment of the early 19605 Raimon and his followers were the first popular singers in Spain to sub jugate music to lyrics in their songs More than 13 years later their themes of home rule for Catalonian an amnesty for political prisoners and social equality reappear Another Catalan Pi de la Serra said Our stance has it ti WIN amt HAY HAYS TRAVEt SERVICE 723247306 45 Dunlop St Wu Non to theliheatrc not changed in the slightest sin ce the death of Franco What we wanted before we still want LYRICS TRANSLATEI Pi de la Serra plays the gui tar with impressive skill and fires out words like rifle shots When performing outside Cata lonia he translates his Catalan lyrics into Spanish Like Raimon Pi dc Ia Serra recently made his official debut in Madrid ending sixyear boycott by the authorities But only two weeks before his Madrid performance riot police in the northwestern town of Oviedo broke up his concert when it turned into an antigov ernment demonstration What appears paradoxical to me is that the government should seem to tend toward de mocracy and yet put so many obstacles in the way of singers wishing to perform he said Both Raimon and Pi de la Serra would like to shed their political image but fans who have made them symbols of re sistance to dictatorship clamor for their most political songs CONCERTS SELLOLT This political flourishing in Spain must not eliminate artis tic expression like songs or films or paintings which fulfil function political party never could Itaimon said But it is Spains intense politi cal life which has brought the protest singers huge com mercial reward Their concerts sell out their records are al most ccrtain chart toppers and their faces adorn newspaper stands They are also the protagonists of film The Nova Canco which has packed movie houses throughout Spain The film which intersperses the singers performances with interviews with Catalan politi cians was the first to receive authorization to be shot in the Catalan language It appears with Spanish subtitles outside the region It there in Your Future Welcome Wagon l5 planning Special Party bridestobe on Monday March 14 at the Blue Flame Room Barrie For your in vitation all the wandVitals lTD 7261454 Youll in glad you did III for Still one of seven wonders but The Barrie Examiner Wednesday March 16 1977 Famed Parthenon becoming embarrassment to Greece ATHENS CP Though still considered one of the seven wonders of the world the Var thenon is nevertheless becoming an embarrassment to modern Greece Smothered and eroded by smog and pollution the dying Parthenon now is turning an ac cusing finger on the per petraters of cultural crime of international proportions Contemporary Greeks have no illusions as to their guilt Their traditional philotimo sense of honor and duty has for once totally failed them Constantine Tripanis the dy namic Greek minister of culture and sciences shamefully admitted to the press recently that Athenian pollution has caused more damage to the 2400yearold Acropolis monuments in the last 40 years than that suffered over the previous four cen turies study by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO declared Athens the most polluted capital in Europe Athenians openly admit that their historic city has become unlivable LOST IlS SOUL Athens has lost its soul lamented Greek paper recen tly With disregard for esthetic considerations and proper city planning consecutive Greek governments have allowed Athens to grow haphazardly in to labyrinth of cemented ugliness In its reckless commercial and industrial growth the city has destroyed one of the most beautiful and historic environ ments on earth Greek authorities now admit that some of the worst damage to the Parthenon was done by Greek archeologists who in serted iron clamps to strengthen and restore the building The rusting iron ex pands and cracks the marble The plight of the Parthenon and of most Greek antiquities including the ravage of Greeces historic environment has aroused worldwide con cern European environmental groups and historic societies have rallied to the support of Greek organizations and citi zens clamoring for drastic gov ernment action Except for promises and un coordinated halfmeasures Greek authorities have done lit tle to face the crisis REJECTS SUGGESTION recent suggestion by the World Health Council that Greece create immediately an effective ministry of environ ment move supported by most Greeks was rejected by the government score of Greek ministries today have their own inef fective and often overlapping services relating to monumen ts buildings and environment ingeneral Each ministry pursues inde pendently its own spree of con structionbe it ski resorts on historic mountains lacking snow blocks of new hotels or airports factories and ship yards on some of Greeces most sacred sites This constitutes what an in dignant diplomat in Athens recently dubbed as the es thetic cannibalism of modern Greece The recent Greek appeal to UNESCO to save the Parthenon is seen by most Greeks as na tional humiliation an ultimate admission of failure and guilt We are not only guilty for failing to preserve our own heritage but 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