European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes world tuesday february 23,1993 i 49% would leave Britain poll says London Orpi morale is so Low in Britain that nearly half the population would like to leave according to a poll published in the daily Telegraph on monday. In a face to Fae Survey of 1,030 adults throughout the country people were asked to rate their feeling son several major institutions governing their lives and note sentiments about Britain in the 1990s. The Survey s findings arc permeated with de Spair the newspaper said. They suggest the exis tence of something approaching a crisis of National  on the Bright Side most people think houses arc warmer restaurant food is better and the country is less snobbish. But on the Down Side gloom is wide spread. Forty nine percent replied yes to the question if you were free to do so would you like to go and Settle in another country the newspaper said the figure was higher than during the Era of austerity following world War 11 and substantially above any time Between the 1950s and 1970s. Pride in the country was also Down. The poll take Between feb. 2 and feb. 8, asked people How their own Pride in Britain and British institutions had changed in recent years and How they thought other people s Pride had changed. Only 5 percent thought their Pride had increase compared with 54 percent who believed it had  what they would Tell someone from abroad nothing came to  the respondents were also shown a list of 33 thing that britons used to say about their country when abroad up to 30 years ago. The beliefs ranged from there Are lots of fogs in Britain and Britain is an unusually tolerant society to the monarchy is something to be proud  Only 26 percent in the recent Survey held the Mon Archy in High regard compared with 86 percent of respondents 30 years ago. Overall britons believed there had been a decline in standards in 27 of the 33 beliefs noted. The decline has been sharpest in crime personal behaviour and Britain s standing in the world the newspaper said. Looking ahead 36 percent of those surveyed said they thought that Over the next 10 or 20 years Britain would riot become a better country to live in. Twenty percent thought it would improve 40 percent believed it would stay the same and 4 percent did not know. One in 10 people thought the country was at ease with itself compared with 67 percent 20 to 30 years ago the paper said. Fiat officials arrested in Italy s scandal Milan Italy Atwo senior executives of the giant Industrial group Fiat were arrested monday As a spreading corruption scandal reaches Italy s highest Levels of private business As Well As poli tics and Public Industry. The Milan Stock Exchange reacted by Selling off Fiat Stock in panic. A spokesman for Fiat Italy s largest private sector Industrial group said Francesco Paolo Mattioli and Antonio Mosconi had been arrested. Mattioli is chief financial officer of Fiat and Mosconi is managing director of Bro a Sicura Zioni a Large insurance group controlled by Fiat. The spokesman would t describe the charges against the two. Court sources in Milan where the so called Mani Pulite clean hands investigation began one year ago indicated that the two executives Are suspected of hav ing violated Laws on political party financing and of complicity to corruption. Mattioli is the chairman of Coge farm Prasit Fiat s construction subsidiary which has been probed for allegedly pay ing kickbacks to politicians in Exchange for Public works construction contracts. Mosconi was an executive of the construction group before joining Toro Assi cur Zioni. On the Milan Stock Market Italy s largest Fiat shares tumbled to 5,190 lire from Friday s closing Price of 5,380 lire. The Price later settled at around 5,230 lire. Milan traders said the lira came under speculative pressure following the report arid lost some ground against the Dollar and the Mark. The corruption scandal has expose hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes paid to political parties arid has led to the arrest of hundreds of people including scores of political leaders officials run Ning Italy s Mammoth state companies and private businessmen. On sunday socialist Premier Giuliano Amato reshuffled Cabinet positions to keep his coalition going As his govern ment reeled from the resignations of three ministers linked to scandals. Israeli religious political leaders elect chief rabbis ily the new York times Jerusalem after a Campaign sullied by charges of mischief and wrong doing israeli rabbinical elders and Politi Cal leaders chose chief rabbis monday for the ashkenazic and sephardic branches of Judaism. The election May affect Israel s governing coalition because the results seem to strengthen shas a party of fervently orthodox sephardic jews. Shas the coalition s Only religious party supported both winning candidates. Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau 56, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv won the closely watched race to represent ashkenazic jews or those of Eastern and Central european origin. Several women accused him of trying to seduce them. He sued one for a libel. Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi Doron 52, of Haifa won the sephardic contest affect ing jews with Mediterranean Middle Eastern and North african backgrounds. He had his own problems affidavits charging that he once tried to bribe a Haifa City Council candidate to drop out of the race. He denied the charges. The atmosphere was so thick with accusations that at one Point the incumbent chief rabbis publicly deplored the Quality of the Campaign. Nor was the new rabbis moral authority enhanced after a former ashkenazic chief rabbi Shlomo Goren called the candidates minor leagues in scriptural scholarship. Chemical spill at German factory Kintigh itt wearing protective clothing and Gas masks mop up after several tons of  a Chemi Cal used in paints accidentally escaped from a Hoschst Plant and created a Cloud monday in Frankfurt Griesheim Germany. Fallout covered parts of the sur rounding main River area with a nov like Ponder. Chicken bowled Over by snaky assignment Singapore up residents of the Partapi senior citizens Fellowship Home need to get used to the wildlife in the toilet. There is the Chicken and therein the Snake. The Chicken tied by the leg is there to lure the Snake out of the toilet bowl. The Snake has made five appearances in the last five months according to the Home s officials. The Snake is believed by those who have seen it to Bea Python and therefore not poisonous according to a report in monday s edition of the new paper. It was Black and Gray and shiny. We guessed it Wasa Python welfare officer Zainuddin bin Ismail told the paper. He said he had appealed for help to the housing development Board the primary productions depart ment the Singapore zoo the local town Council an the police. The Public utilities Board opened the manhole Bueno one wanted to go in Zainuddin said. He said a representative from a pest control company had suggested Toi let demolition which he disregarded As too drastic. A ministry of environment spokesman told the paper that it was indeed possible for snakes to find their Way through the sewerage system into a toilet bowl. Zoo supervisor Francis Lim said pythons like water and can remain submerged for up to 15 minutes. But Lim played Down the Prospect of wide scale appearances by snakes in toilet bowls noting that a sewerage system is not their natural habitat. � meanwhile the management of the Home is shutting Down the toilet at night until the Snake has been caught the paper reported