TORONTO 2008 COMMITTEE PRESENTS MASTER PLAN TO LURE GAMES

          Toronto 2008 Olympic bid committee officials "unveiled
     their master plans yesterday with bold promises of no 'white
     elephant' stadiums and predictions of jobs, massive tax
     revenues" and C$6B in economic benefits, according to James
     Christie of the Toronto GLOBE & MAIL.  But Christie writes
     that it's the "softer human values -- an athlete-friendly
     Games, remediating polluted lands and water and complete
     access for the disabled -- that might lift Toronto's bid
     over those of a dozen other candidate cities seeking the
     2008 Olympic Games."  TO-Bid CEO John Bitove: "Any city can
     build the stadiums and pools.  This is a plan that maximizes
     community benefits."  Twenty-eight of the proposed Games
     venues are regional, "within an hour's drive of the
     athlete's village on the East Toronto waterfront."  Another
     27 venues are within the city's borders.  The price tag for
     the Olympic venues is "within" the committee's C$687M
     capital cost budget (GLOBE & MAIL, 11/10).