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The answer for Ukraine, and much of the rest of Europe, may well lie on and off the shores of Libya. The North African kingdom, the size of Germany, France, Spain, and Italy combined, has potentially vast reserves of sweet crude, easy to refine and just a short hop across the Mediterranean - a potentially priceless resource. Libya has proven reserves of more than 40 billion barrels of oil and may have as many as 100 billion. These are easily the largest reserves in Africa. Only the international embargo of the 1990s that left the country unable to develop them has stopped Libya catapulting into the Saudi league of suppliers. It is rated by many of the oil majors as the single biggest exploitation opportunity in the world. But even this may be dwarfed by the natural gas reserves thought to be lying with the oil under the surface. This is why President [Hans-Rudolf Merz] was prepared to humiliate himself by apologising for the arrest last year of one of Mr [Gaddafi]'s son's. Hannibal Gaddafi had been detained after he and his wife were accused of mistreating two domestic employees while in Geneva. * Western political A-listers were conspicuously absent from Colonel Gaddafi's knees-up, cautious of the political outcome of embracing the veteran dictator, whatever their interest in his oil. But the Libyan leader was far from friendless at the celebrations - even if those in attendance had to rub shoulders with a somewhat motley crew. The British charge d'affaires and French Minister for Co-operation will have made very sure to avoid the likes of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Sudanese President Omar Hassan el-Bashir, who, with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, formed a formidable anti-Western axis. Regional stalwarts were also out in force, with leaders from Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, and Benin; Turkey and Ukraine, both keen to bolster ties with oil-rich Libya, were also represented, by first lady Amina Erdogan and Prime Minister Julia Tymochenko respectively. Only one fly in the ointment: the Moroccan delegation, disgusted at the presence of separatist Saharan group the Polisario Front, stormed out in a huff. All in all, [Gordon Brown] will be pleased he had other plans. 'Gaddafi's regime must be kept strictly at arm's length'

John McArthur, a moulder at [Crowe]'s, was born in Scotland in 1878. His parents, William and Marguerite, immigrated to Guelph and lived on Liverpool Street. John married, and lived with his wife, Mary, on Tiffany Street. McArthur was 37 when he enlisted in October 1915. He had no previous military experience, and the social pressure on men his age to enlist wasn't nearly as great as on younger men. He might have decided to join the army out of a sense of duty. McArthur was an infantryman in the 13th Battalion when he died from wounds on Sept. 9, 1916. Bard Whetstone is the only Guelph-born man on the Crowe's list whose name is also on the city cenotaph. On his Attestation paper, filled out when he enlisted in August 1915, Whetstone gave Guelph as his birthplace, but mistakenly gave his year of birth as 1915. He named his wife, Isobel, who resided on Queen Street, as next of kin. Like the other Crowe's employees, Whetstone gave his occupation as moulder. The CEF Roll of Honour is still a work in progress, with researchers turning up names that had been long lost. But in the postwar years, when the Guelph cenotaph was still in the planning stage, someone made sure that Bard Whetstone's name was included in the list of Guelph's fallen. Perhaps it was his widow Isobel; or his former employers at Crowe's Iron Works.

Waimate's Ian Howden has stood down as captain of the South Canterbury rugby team to meet Bay of Plenty in Tauranga tomorrow in favour of the experienced second five-eighth Steve Tarrant. Teams:-- Bay of Plenty: Andre Bell or Damon Kaui, Nathan Strongman, Caleb Ralph, Willie Clarke, Kaui or Aaron Hamilton, Andy Miller, Rameka Poihipi, [Martin Jones], Dave Dillon, Mark Camp, [Ryan Wheeler] (captain), [Clayton McMillan], Josh Heke, Joe Edwards, Luke Tapara. South Canterbury: Stephen Todd, [Gareth Burgess], Tutere Williams, Steve Tarrant, Russell Smillie, Sam Jack, Brett Williamson, Koula Tukino, Bob Katene, Tim Gresham, Luke Wara, Kenny Dodds, Ngalu Ta'u, Nigel Walsh, David Hewitt. Reserves: Stu Corry, Patrick Coughlan, Grant Ryall, Anthony Etti, Sam Dale, John Ellis, Ian Howden.

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