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Titanic Artifacts Seen on Global

TV. In a two-hour broadcast originating in Paris early Oct. 29, old

banknotes and jewelry were pulled from an assistant purser's safe and a

leather satchel that had been recovered from the wreck of the Tita nic

during a controversial expedition mounted by the French Institut e for

Research and Exploration of the Sea. The broadcast, Return to the

Titanic...Live, was beamed to 20 countries. It was hosted by U.S .

actor Telly Savalas.

The remains of the Titanic had been discovered in 1985 by the French

institute in partnership with the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic

Institute. A team from the Massachusetts institute had explored the

ship's wreckage in July 1986 but without removing any artifacts.

The French team that recovered the artifacts had explored the wreckage

in a series of 32 dives made between July 25 and Sept. 9. The

expedition had been widely criticized as desecrating the memory of the

more than 1,500 people who died in the 1912 shipwreck.