The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 6

THE AGE, Saturday, March 4, 1978 WORLD NEWS Czechmate PNG acts to halt corruption prMBjrr 1) 3 ilk -5. 'Of From MARK BAKER PORT MORESBY, March 3. Government Ministers and senior public servants in Papua New Guinea have been given nine months to dispose of their business interests or resign. Space pair, set for new record MOSCOW. March 3 Czechoslovak cosmonaut Vladimir Remek and his Russian mission commander are expected to join two Soviet spacemen aboard the Salyut-6 station today.

Remek, a 29-year-old air force captain, was the first man from outside the Soviet Union and the United States to be launched into space. He blasted into orbit with Colonel Alexei Gubarev aboard the Soyuz-28 rocket last night. Judging by previous missions to the space station, the Soyuz-28 team should arrive today, in time to congratulate their hosts. Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko, on breaking the 84-day world space endurance record. The record is due to fall at 1.36 pm Melbourne time tomorrow when Grechko and Romanenko, who have been in space since December 10, pass the record of US astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue.

The official news agency Tass said Remek and Gubarev would, be visiting Salyut-6 and returning to Earth after a few days. Tass said last night there would be further missions to Salyut-6 this year with cosmonauts from East Germany and Poland, and that flights by spacemen from other communist countries were also planned. AAP-Reuter. 1978 Rothmans International Formula 5000 series BP drivers take four out of five places. 1 st Warwick Brown, Lola T332 Van der Straaten Racing Team (36 pts) 2nd Vern Schuppari, Elfin MR8 AnsettTeam Elfin (1 5 pts) 4th John Walker, Lola T332 Magnum Wheels Team (8 pts) 5th (Tied) Garrie Cooper, Elfin MR8 AnsettTeam Elfin (6 pts) BP fuels Warwick Brown into history.

Four firsts out of four races. Last Sunday at Oran Park, Warwick Brown blazed his way to victory in the final round of the Rothmans F5000 motor racing series. The win completed a history-making grand slam in the prestigious international series and brought Brown's championship points to a record breaking total of 36. His car was a LolaT332, powered and lubricated by BP. In a tough ultimatum to Parliament, the Prime Minister, Mr.

Somare, today announced that all senior public officials would be banned from holding commercial interests or owning more than' two houses during their time in office. He-also foreshadowed a scheme under which political parties will-be barred from: commercial activity in the future, be funded by the Government. Mr. Somare said he had evidence that corruption was already appearing in PNG and some senior officials were abusing their position of privilege. "I tell you there are many foreign operators, salesmen of consultants and the like, who are all too ready.

to make friends with national leaders and offer them many benefits," he told the Parliament. "Let me assure you, it is not because of his management ability, his financial resources, or his personal charm the payoff will come later. see, that we are now standing on the edge of disaster for our people." The' hew measures could lead to a number of resignations from the eminent. Some senior Ministers have extensive' property and business holdings. Results subject to official confirmation.

Czech cosmonaut Vladimir Remek, left, shakes hands with' his space partner Alexei Gubarev at the Gagarin cosmonaut training centre. UP! picture. Carter aims to reform civil service From CREIGHTON BURNS WASHINGTON, March 3. President Carter today announced a major reform of the American civil service to make it easier to fire incompetent bureaucrats, end automatic pay rises for senior officials, reward merit and abolish preference for returned servicemen. Announcing the reforms at the National Press Club, Mr.

Carter said: "We want a Government that can.be trusted, not feared that will be efficient, not mired in its own red tape. "Our proposals will men less job security for incompetent Federal ployees, but conscientious civil servants will benefit from the change that recognises and rewards good employment," the President said. Mr. Carter said much of the criticism of civil servants was unfair. But he added: "It is easier to promote or transfer incompetent (Government) employees than it is to get rid of them.

"You can't run a farm that way. You can't run a factory that way. And you can't run a Government that way," he He proposed legislation which would create a senior, elite civil service made up of the highest paid executives who would, in future, be paid bonuses for performance. Middle grade bureaucrats will also receive pay increases on the basis of merit. And the proposed reforms will make it easier to dismiss incompetent civil servants.

"There is not enough merit in the merit system," President Carter said. "There is inadequate motivation because we have too few rewards for excellence and too few penalties for Shock Police puzzled over Chaplin grave theft From AAP-REUTER Already the Minister for Education, Mr. Tammur, who is involved in a community school in East New Britain, has said he will consider stepping down if forced to dissociate himself from the school. The announcement, prepared over the past fortnight by Mr. Somare and a few close associates, including the Minister for Decentralisation, the Rev.

John Momis, shocked many leaders. The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Chan, was only notified two hours before the release to Parliament. About 200 Ministers and senior public servants, and their families, will be affected by the regulations. The leaders have three months to declare whether they will resign from their positions or dispose of.

their assets. Any business or property outside the two-house limit must be sold in the following six months. which meant that several hours passed before the theft was discovered. The family spokesman at the 18-room, 19th-century Chaplin mansion said Lady Chaplin, 51, was "very shocked." Lady Chaplin daughter of the late American playwright; Eugene O'Neill, Hves in the mansion with the two youngest Chaplin children, Christopher, 15, and Annette, 18. 4 Flowers GENEVA, March 3.

Thieves who stole Charlie Chaplin's body from its village grave here have left his family and the police bewildered. Both the family and police said they had received no message from the grave robbers by early this morning and had no idea of the motive for yesterday's theft. "We are just wondering why why this should happen to a man who-has given so much to the world," a spokesman for the family said last night. A police official said: "We dont know whether this is a macabre kidnapping or the work of madmen." Chaplin, the bowler-hatted, i baggy-trousered film star considered one of the great comic geniuses of this cen'- tury, died at his home here last Christmas Day at the age of 88. The man who dug his grave, Etienne Buenzod, found it empty when he arrived for work at 2 pm.

He said the grave had been' visited almost daily by his widow, Lady Chaplin. He said it could just as easily have been Lady Chaplin who found the grave empty. Police believed the coffin and body were stolen early yesterday morning, unsatisfactory wore. The comedian's empty grave was covered over by police last night and a 'dozen clusters of flowers were replaced on top. Police took away the grave's small wooden cross, with the simple inscription "Charlie Chaplin," for fingerprint examination.

Police sources said the difficulty of the task tended to -rule out-the sibility that it was carried out by madmen. Police sources said they were inclining towards the theory of ransom for the dead. Kidnappers get amnesty offer MANILA, March 3. The Philippines Government has offered amnesty to Moslem rebel kidnappers if they release French official Mr. Pierre Huguet unharmed.

Military sources said to day that the rebels would first have to give up their demand of a $132,000 ransom for the 59-year-old official of the Culture Minis try in Paris who was kid napped on Sunday. amnesty offer was carried to the kidnappers' maeout on iiasiian island near Zamboanga City yesterday. The army was still awaiting the return of the emissary. A note, written in English and believed to have been dictated to Mr. Hu guet by the kidnappers, was nanaea to his wife Nicole in Manila yesterday.

It said: "Please send the money immediately." The kidnappers, Moslem rebels seeking an autono mous region in the south We designed our kitchens to look beautihu in 10 years time. II II certificate holders The Micle reputation is based upon practical place to be in. Peninsular units ern Philippines, have given him three days to find the money but made no specific threats, Mr. Huguet said. Consulting A military spokesman said the southern Philippines military commander, Rear-Admiral Espaldon, was consulting the French Ambassador, Mr.

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