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AGIE 140th Year, No. 43,193 48 PAGES 250. SPENCER STREET, MELBOURNE. 6004211 (Classified 6041144) TUESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 1993 70c THE computer (BECTQatHi Pictures: JOHN LAMB I Digest "ff J'iwffr YL- sport 'Peeping Tom5 pictures outrage princess ITOlFv P3WdMl fir- Socceroos lose Zelic for Cup clash The Socceroos' preparation for its World Cup decider in Argentina tomorrow week has been further undermined with the loss of Ned Zelic, who badly injured his knee while playing for his German club at the weekend. PAGE 48 THE NATION Harassment strikes women: poll Mr Kennett at a news conference yesterday: he confirmed using parliamentary resources for his business dealings, scoffed at an Opposition call to stand aside and denied any wrongdoing.

A Saulwlck Age Poll has found that while only six per cent of the population as a whole said they had been sexually harassed, 25 per cent of women aged 18 to 24 reported having been harassed. Sexual harassment is nearly three times as likely to happen to women as to men but. I Co you ve umquniry pmsJo. Id mtW3i If paradoxically, men are readier to classify certain behavior as sexual harassment. It Is nearly twice as likely to happen at work as anywhere else.

PAGE 7 THE WORLD Terrorist paid off, book claims Abu Nidal, considered by Western governments to be one of the world's most dangerous terrorists, was paid millions of dollars by the Saudis to induce him to suspend attacks before and during the Gulf War. The deal Is disclosed in 'Spider's Web', an account of how the West secretly armed the Iraqis in the 1980s. PAGE Asked why he had not used a courier or a taxi to deliver the payroll cheques to Coburg, Mr Kennett replied: "Oh, look I suppose it never even occurred to me. And why did it never occur to me? Because It never occurred to me that there was absolutely anything wrong." On 29 October, Mr Kennett denied having used Government cars for business. Asked by Nell Mitchell on 3AW if he had ever done so, he twice replied Mr Brumby later accused Mr Kennett of having repeatedly lied during the continuing row over his business affairs.

"He (Mr Kennett) misused the resources of the Parliament to further his private business interests," Mr Brumby said. "He now has no choice. There Is enough information which Is now in the public domain to show that the fine line between public office and private office has been breached. But I think just as importantly, the Premier has lied to the public of Victoria, and he has lied to the Parliament. "He said he was in the business of creating wealth.

The only wealth he was creating was for Jeff Kennett." PAGE 13: Russell Skelton's comment By TOM ORMONDE, state political correspondent The State Opposition has intensified its push for an inquiry into the business affairs of the Premier after Mr Kennett admitted yesterday he had used his parliamentary office and Government car for private commercial dealings. The Opposition Leader, Mr Brumby, claimed Mr Kennett had no choice now but to step aside and allow a judicial investigation Into the allegations that be had used his role as a politician to benefit family business interests. Mr Kennett confirmed at a news conference that he had used parliamentary resources, including his Government-supplied car and chauffeur, to conduct business dealings when he was state Opposition Leader In 1991. Mr Kennett's admission conflicts with his unequivocal denial on commercial radio on 29 October that he had ever used Government cars for private business, and prompted Mr Brumby to say that the Premier had repeatedly lied in public. But Mr Kennett scoffed at the call to stand aside and strongly denied any wrong-doing, arguing that the business at the weekend by his two former partners in Ultrafine, Mr David Powers and Mr O'Sullivan, that they held meetings in his Parliament House office to discuss company business.

Mr Kennett also confirmed that he had used his Opposition Leader's chauffeur-driven car on several occasions to travel to Seymour on company business, and to deliver staff payroll cheques from Parliament House to the Ultrafine office in Coburg. Mr Kennett denied that he misused either his office or Government car. "As to the charges that I have misused my office, I absolutely reject them," be said. "It wasn't done for profit. It was done to build.

It was done to provide jobs, and that business still remains part of Victoria's landscape," Mr Kennett said. "I put it to you that what this community needs is a lot more of the creativity and the faith that we exhibited, as opposed to the negltlvlsm of Mr Brumby and the whlmpish carping performance that he believes is the future of this state. "I'm different, maybe I'm colorful, but I actually believe In building something. A lot of our time has been taken up with trying to rebuild something that Labor, Brumby and his colleagues destroyed over 10 years." "Admitting that he had used parliamentary resources when he was a part-owner of a wool-processing business, Mr Kennett, in essence, justified his behavior by saying he did it for the benefit of Victoria. "I was building something for this state," he said.

This is a nonsense answer, as ho must well know." PAGE 13: Editorial. Mr Kennett faces possible legal action over a dispute with two of his former partners in the fine wool jumper manufacturer, Ultra fine, over what they claim is an outstanding sum of $120,000. At issue are accounting procedures used by Mr Kennett when he kept the company's books and the amount he received when he sold his shares to the company. PAGE 2: Report. venture at the centre of the row had benefited the state, and that he had derived no personal profit from it.

This statement, however, was challenged last night by a former business associate In the woollen knitting company Ultrafine, Mr John O'Sulllvan, who said Mr Kennett had made at least $4000 profit on his Investment in BUSINESS NZ poll result batters markets The New Zealand market yesterday survived dramatic falls and wild fluctuations following Saturday's uncertain election result. The negative reaction to the result, which saw the New Zealand dollar fall by two cents, adversely affected other markets. Including Australia. PAGES 8 and 37 the firm in addition to $15,000 he had made from buying and then later selling two knitting machines. After weeks of controversy over the Premier's involvement with his family advertising agency, KNF, the latest concerns his widely publicised investment in Ultrafine in 1991.

Mr Kennett confirmed disclosures By GRAHAM BARRETT, European correspondent, London, Monday The British Government is under heavy pressure to Impose new controls on Fleet Street after the publication of "peeping Tom" pictures of the Princess of Wales exercising in a gymnasium. The chairman of the press complaints commission, Lord McGregor, led a chorus of complaints against Mirror Group Newspapers from Buckingham Palace, Parliament and elsewhere last night by calling the act an outrageous and violation of her privacy. He added today that MGN had behaved as an outlaw and he described the editor of the 'Daily Mirror', Mr David Banks, as a "dishonorable The Home Secretary, Mr Michael Howard, said the publication of the' pictures was "thoroughly As newspaper editors across London cringed at the Implications of the deed, today's 'Dally Mirror defended the Sunday Mirror1 "world exclusive" yesterday by calling Lord McGregor an The real shock, It claimed in a lengthy editorial, was that the royal protection squad had failed to detect the installation of the secret remote-controlled camera that took the pictures. "Have they never heard of remote-controlled bombs?" the editorial asked. As the princess today considered the unusual step of possible legal action against MGN, as well as a formal complaint to the press commission, Lord McGregor said the 'Dally Mirror security claim was "one of the most hypocritical justifications for a breach of the code that I have ever In a statement from her solicitors today, the princess expressed her distress and deep sense of outrage over the episode.

She noted with gratitude the general condemnation of the "gross intrusion" Into her private life. The photographs that have caused yet another royal rumpus were taken by the owner of the West London gymnasium that the princess patronised, New Zealand-born Mr Bryce Taylor, and sold to MGN for a sum believed to be more than "My conscience is clear," Mr Taylor was quoted by the 'Dally Mirror' today as saying. "If I have offended you, ma'am, I am sorry. But I am not sorry for what I did. Personally, I think you are stunning one of the most beautiful women In the world.

You should be proud of the condition of your body." The gymnasium affair comes at a time when the Government is considering new criminal offences to control the long-range photography and other technological advances that have revolutionised coverage by tabloid newspapers. It Is understood that the gymnasium photographs were first offered to the 'News of the World', which turned them down. Among editors and publishers who spoke out sharply against the 'Mirror last night was the executive chairman of Mr Rupert Murdoch's News International, Mr Andrew Knight, who said: "All editors feel outraged by this flagrant breach of privacy. There is no possible excuse." Picture: SIMON ALEKNA 4S pages (including 12 pages Computer Age and 8 papas Epicure). Amusements 16 Comics, Crosswords 14 Education Age 41, 42 Letters 12 Personal Notices 42 Arts.

TV 15 Editorial 13 Law List 16 World News 8-10 Classified Index 43 A British brewery hopes to boost hospital blood supplies by encouraging new donors with a can of its best bitter. The company has stressed that donors should not drink beore giving blood. Killer may have used more than one knife More than one knife might have been used to kill seven young backpackers whose bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest, police said yesterday. An intensive search at the weekend of an area where the bodies of the German hitch-hikers Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschled were discovered last Thursday revealed that their personal property had been scattered between 40 and 70 metres from the bodies, probably by the killer or killers. Results of postmortem examinations on Mr Neugebauer, 20, and Ms Habschled, 19, due to be released tomorrow, are expected to reveal that they died of multiple stab wounds.

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A family man on the trail of a killer By GERARD RYLE Superintendent Clive Small, the man in charge of the hunt for the backpacker killer or killers, could perhaps have picked a better time to head his first murder Investigation. Nothing could have prepared him for what he found. The particularly macabre nature of the task, he admitted, was not easy for a family man. "You have to have a sort of discipline of detachment to allow you to try and do your job professionally (and not) allow your emotions to cause you to miss things," he said. While insisting that his lack of particular experience was not an issue, he said the irony of finding himself in charge of what Is probably Australia's largest homicide inquiry had not escaped him.

"The reality is that all investigations involve a number of really common characteristics, common principles, and those are the most important things," he said. "It just means perhaps that you have to be more on your toes. It also means you have to keep reviewing what you are doing a lot more frequently." Mr Small, 47, is no stranger to big tasks. In 1989 he took over the 1-f Unlike with some builders, where it's difficult to know the extent of their extension, AVjennings ofFere an iron-clad fixed-price contract. Superintendent Clive Small: his first murder investigation is probably Australia's biggest.

Now you can afford an Jennings extension without over extending. brief being prepared against the former police superintendent Harry Blackburn and ruffled more than a few feathers by being instrumental in having the charges withdrawn. He also served on the Woodward Royal Commission and on a joint Commonwealth and state taskforce investigating drug trafficking. Cast by some commentators as the new face of the NSW police force, which he has served for 30 years, he is aware of the public goodwill that success In this case would bring. "The police are doing thousands of things every day; this Victorian couple James Gibson and Deborah Everist, meant they shed precious few new clues.

Their remains bad been missed during previous police searches. "I really don't know (why I was chosen) I might just have been the only person unable to avoid it," he said. Mr Small said most of bis initial time was spent planning and extending the search "Certainly by the time we found Simone Schmidl (the fifth victim) we had a fairly high expectation that we would find at least another set of bodies," he said. Continued: PAGE 2 is just one of them. Each is important," he said.

"If we were to be successful, I'm sure there would be a tremendous amount of goodwill towards the police but this is not the eternal cup of goodwill." Mr Small came to the backpacker Investigation on 12 October knowing he was treading on ground where others had had limited success. The bodies of the first two victims, the British tourists Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters, had been found 12 months previously. The age of the remains of the second set of victims, the On top of which, our 35 years in the business have not only furnished ut with a reputation for quality but an increasing volume of work that allows us to be so much more affordable. So if you'd like to join the 10,000 other families in this state who've trusted their renovations to AVJennings, we extend an invitation for you to call us on 890 0721 for a free design consultation. Or visit our display centre which is open 7 days.

Arnnings Home Improvements 2S Ttmr Strurtmrml Gmmrmntee Black death sets off bloody brawl 52 Rutland Road, Ho least 250 Aborigines, shouting "murderers" and demanding justice, marched on police headquarters In Roma Street. Up to 500 police formed a barricade in front of the building and scuffles broke out. At least four police were injured. One had a broken nose. Five Aborigines were injured.

Central city traffic was thrown into chaos and a brawl erupted in the Transit Centre multi-level car park opposite police headquarters when white youths began heckling the Aboriginal demonstrators. Police who tried to stop the trou ble were punched. The police deputy commissioner, Mr Greg Early, said he was surprised at the level of tension and anger in the demonstration. He said the four police officers who arrested the man who died would not be suspended from duty. But they had been ordered to have no dealings with the city's Aboriginal community until the Issue was settled.

"I have no evidence that the dead youth was roughly handled by the arresting officers," Mr Early told a news conference after meeting a delegation of protesters. Aborigines and police clashed in the streets of Brisbane yesterday when an angry demonstration over the death of a young Aboriginal man in police custody turned violent. Daniel Yock, 18, who is believed to have been a dancer, collapsed soon after he was arrested and taken to the City Watchhouse after a "street Incident" involving 20 Aborigines at West End at 6 pm on Sunday, police said. Ambulance and police officers tried to revive him but he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. About midday yesterday, at He said the Investigation into the incident would be handled by the Criminal Justice Commission.

"The Aborigines have demanded an independent medical officer from Sydney be brought to Brisbane to witness the postmortem examination," Mr Early said. Mr Lionel Fogarty, the brother of the dead youth, said: "The CJC plays white men's games." He told an Aboriginal rally at the Roma Street Forum after the demonstration had broken up: "The only way to justice Is demonstrations In the streets." AAP An ABC television picture of a policeman injured in the melee. WEATHER Shower or two. Expected top 17 (yesterday 17, min. 5).

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