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Th Sydney Morning Herald, Iun 2, 1969 3 GOOD NEWS CAME TOO LATE Reds ixon to have 5 iddle East WILSON DENIES SURRENDER TO UNIONS defusing talks soon WASHINGTON, Friday. President Nixon said last night that he planned to confer with the Israeli Prime Minister, Mrs Golda Meir, within a month in an attempt to defuse the Middle East crisis. LONDON, Friday. Prime Minister Harold Wilson told the nation on television last night it was tripe to say that he had surrendered to the trade-unions in dropping proposed legislation to penalise workers and unions for wildcat strikes. He told a nationally televised conference that the crisis had not shown improvement since the ceasefire in the Middle East war of June 1967.

am surprised that is all you can manage. If that is the sum total of 13 years of inactivity (the Conservatives held power for 13 years before Mr Wilson came to power), perhaps I can enlighten you." Conservatives angrily recalled Mr Wilson's pledge to stake his Government's life on strong legislation to curb strikes. Mr Wilson retorted that he had always said he would dron the penal clauses if the T.U.C. came up with an effective alternative. (A.A.P.-Reuter) MSti- vH lose 150 dead in battle SAIGON, Friday.

American and South Vietnamese troops killed about 150 Vietcong yesterday in a daylong battle in which fighting spread to the edge of the big provincial capital of Tay Ninh. Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, has been under constant pressure from the Vietcong since last year's offensives. Three Americans died and 13 were wounded yesterday. South Vietnamese casualties were light. One American and 1R Vietcong died in a 25-minute clash on the northeastern fringe of the sprawling city.

The battle was heaviest five miles south-east of Tay Ninh where 85 Vietcong bedies were counted. SAIGON FIGHT Two gunmen on motor scooters kiPed a Saigon city councillor yesterday in a wild gun battle in the heart of Saigon's Chinese quarter of Cholon. One of the gunmen, identified by police as Vietcong. was also killed as was a woman bystander. Four other bystanders were wounded.

The councillor. Van Dien Quang, was shot down in the first burst of gunfire as he stood outside a bank. Police returned the fire as the terrorists sped away. A deputy of the South Vietnamese House of Representatives today accused police and military authori ties of making illegal arrests. intimidating people held fori questioning and accepting bribes from prisoners.

The accusations were made by Mr Ngo Cong Due during a noisy session in which Ministers answered questions on the conduct of the Government's latest drive against Vietcong cadres in villages. (A.A.P.-Reuter) I SYDNEY LONDON, Friday. A nineteenth century English coaching picture from Sydney has sold for 18,500 at Sotheby's auction rooms. The painling, of the London to Manchester Royal coach, is by James Pollard (1792-1867), re- The bill had been made unnecessary, he said, by the decision of the Trades Union Congress to police defiant unions in unofficial walkouts that disrupt industry. "In view of the tripe I read in some of this morning's newspapers," he said, "let me make it clear we were utterly resolved to do this by law, no matter what the political repercussions, no matter what the opposition in mv own party or anywhere else." He praised the T.U.C.

for undertaking the job of stopping wildcat strikes, and said it would receive full Government backing. LYING CHARGE In the House of Com- mon earlier when he announced that the bill had been dumped he met wave after wave of leers and in suits from the Opposition Conservative Party benches that left him angry and shouting. One Opposition M.P, accused him of lying and twice the Speaker had to gavel the House to order. Opposition Leader Ed ward Heath, his supporters roaring approval, asked: "What will hapnen when unofficial strikers ignore the trade-union leaders and go on striking?" Mr Wilson replied, "I ART FIND garded as the greatest of coaching painters. It was the property of James Angus, of Vaucluse.

and was described by the auctioneers as the best Pollard to come on the London market for a very long time (A.A.P.) A soldier from the 3rd U.S. Battalion, 60th Infantry, is assisted by medics afler being wounded by a bonby trap near Dong Tarn in South Vietnam this week. He was the battalion's last casualty before it was informed it would be returning home in the partial withdrawal of U.S. troops. ANOTHER ISRAELI AIR RAID ALLEGED BEIRUT, Friday.

Israeli and Egyptian artillery duelled along the Suez Canal yesterday and Jordan reported a new Israeli air attack inside its territory. Israel reported that Army patrols killed eight Arab in filtrators in two clashes last night. A Cairo dispatch said the shelling along the Canal Went on intermitlently for five hours before ending at dawn. The Israeli version said the fighting lasted hours with no casualties. An Israeli spokesman refused to comment on the Jordanian claim that two Israeli jets raided villages in the southern Jordan Vallev for the second successive day, killing an Arab civilian and wounding six other persons.

On Wednesday waves of Israeli jets crossed into the valley just north of the Dead Sea in a four-hour assault on Jordanian and Iraqi artillery. The infiltrator werp killed In clashes in the Golan Heights in occupied ayria and near the Gaza Strip. There were no Israeli casualties. (A.A.P.-Reuter) New Nazis IRISH ELECTION RETURNS LYNCH U.P.I, picture nine weeks of almost daily play, criticised the exhausting face-to-face method of selecting champions and proposed that tournaments be held instead. U.N.

agrees NEW YORK. The U.N. Trusteeship Council, adopted a report on the Australian administered trust territory of New Guinea by a vote of five to one with the Soviet Union opposed. on upsurge in Germany The talks were origin ally scheduled to begin late last year but were called off following the Soviet bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia. President Nixon said that the U.S.

was pre. pared to open the talks in Vienna or Geneva but was open to any mutu ally acceptable place. At the same time, he warned that if the U.S did not deploy his pro posed safeguard anti-ballistic missile (ABM) sys tem, tne soviet Union by 1973 would be capable of endangering 87 per cent ot all present U.S. Minutemen missile installations. But he expressed con fidence that the Senate would approve his plan for the safeguard system which has been severely criticised in Congress as unworkable and on the ground that its deploy ment would jeopardise arms limitation talks with Moscow.

The President also told the conference that he expected that Administration decisions already made would begin to slow down inflation in two or three months apparently ruling out any emergency measures. (A.A.P.-Reuter) program and not around Giscard and Duhamel." This raises Mr Pompidou's third problem, formation of a Government. He wants to include inde pendent leader Valery Gis- card Estaing. a maverick Gaullist, and Jacques Du-j hamel, the centrist Unconditional Gaullists are unhappy about this opening to the centre and stress their unchallenged position in the National Assembly. From NORMAN FRASER BONN, Friday.

With three months still to go to West Germany's Federal elections, the country's neo-Nazis are already dominating the scene to an extent out of all proportion to their numbers. "I see very little defusing," he replied when asked if he had changed the opinion he expressed five months ago that the Middle East was potentially explosive. The situation was better only from the standpoint that Britain, France, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were holding talks to try to draw up recommendations for a settlement. He hoped that the Big Four talks might open communication between Israel and the Arabs and that the Russians might be able to use their good offices with Egypt to promote -a settlement.

ATOM REVIEW The President told his Press conference that the U.S. 1 hoped to begin arms reductions talks with the Soviet Union between July 31 and August 15. Secretary of State Wil-Ham Rogers had notified Moscow of American readiness but had not yet received a reply. Top level military and civilian aides were re- viewing U.S. policy toward a reduction of offensive and defensive nuclear weapons and were prepared to start talks by July 31.

Mr Pompidou's second problem is the sprawling Gaullist majority in the National Assembly and especially a sudden out-hurst from leading Left-wing Gaullist Rene Capi- tant, former Minister of Justice, who hinted that Mr Pompidou may stray too far from the General's line, particularly on social problems. "The only unity that we accept," he said, "is unity around De Gaulle and his When ATHENS. Friday. Dimitrios Melachrinos, 29, clerk, and Efstratios Kou- troumbis. 33, fishmonger, each with a wife and two children to support, were the best of friends.

Until the evening they escaped from wives and children to spend a few hours drinking ouzo in a Pompidou starts with a de Gaulle probL From RICHARD BREEZE i PARIS, Friday. Guns thundered today to salute France's new epoch but as Georges Pompidou motored through the dismal drizzle to the Elysee Palace for the Presidential power handover he was already a man with problems. $9m Chancery opened in U.S. WASHINGTON, Friday. Lord Casey today opened Australia's new $9m Chancery here in a ceremony attended by the U.S.

Secretary of State, Mr William Rogers. Lord Casey, in a prepared statement, said the opening had a special relevance for him since he came to Washington 29 years ago as Australia's first Minister to the United States. Starting with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Corclell Hull, he had found nothing but friendship in the United States. "The remarkable phenomenon in our relationship has been that Americans and Australians seem to get on well together at first sight," he said. Roy Macartney If on'tiiio 1 1 DUBLIN, Friday.

Primel Minister Jack Lynch Fianna Fail Party today swept back into power in the general election with 67 seats and need ing only five more for an overall maionty. The Opposition parties, Fine Gael with 45 and the Labour Party with 16, had no hope of catching up with only 16 seats of the 144 still to be filled. Fianna Fail seems assured of at least 72 seats. The vote confounded politicians and writers who had predicted that Lynch's party would lose its two-seat edge and would have to form a minority government or call for new elections in autumn. Argentina riot BUENOS AIRES.

Police used tear gas to break up demonstrators who built fires and barricades in Cordoba for the second successive day during a 37-hour general strike. Bomb drop BANGKOK. A live booby-trapped bomb found under a railway bridge in Bangkok's twin city of Thon-buri is to be dropped by helicopter into deep water in the Oult ot lhailand. Seeker seeking Former pop group Seeker Keith Pot-ger has plans for a new group which may include at least one member of the Seekers, says the "New Musical Express." Dismissed ATHENS. The Greek Government has dismiss ed the country's chief of Police, V.

Sakellanou and the head of the gendarmerie, P. Malouhos, usually reliable sources, said here today. Chess critic MOSCOW. Boris Spassky, who defeated Tigran Petrosyan in the world chess championship after NEW STUDY BY KINSEY INSTITUTE SAN FRANCISCO. Friday.

The organisation that drew up the Kin- sey reports on male-re- male sex relations an nounced today it was launching an intensive study of homosexuals. Investigators for the Uni versity of Indiana's Sex Research Institute founded by the late Dr Alfred Kin-sey will conduct the main study in the San Francisco area because of its large homosexual population. 'We hope this study will dispel much of the prevailing fiction about homo-' sexuality and replace it with facts," the study's field director, Mr Thomas Mauer, said today. Mr Mauer said the insti tute hoped to locate 5.000 homosexuals by posting advertisements throughout the San Francisco area. The project is scheduled friends fall out Mvtilene bar with three more than fishmongers." Although it mav snatch as few as 30 seats at the polls the extreme Right wine National Democratic Party is already setting the pattern for the electioneering tac tics of its vastly inuic powerful opponents, Mr Walter Scheel, leader of another minority party, the Free Democrats, said that he could not see how his party could form a government with the Socialists a grouping widely forecast as one of the most likelv outcomes of postelection horse trading.

That possibility had been destroyed by the emergence of the neo-Nazis. He forecast that the Socialists would lose about 2 per cent of their share of the poll in the election and the Christian Democrats 1 per cent. His own party would hold its own, but the Koutroumbis. offended, avenged his honour by knocking Melachrinos down with an uppercut. Melachrinos avenged his nonour oy rusning nome.

returning to the bar with his gun, and shooting troumbis dead. Victor Walker, PRINCE JUAN CARLOS Juan Carlos, will get the job. For nn thlno mnn. uno iiiiiik, mull archists are divided anions themselves. Some would like to see Juan Carlos on the throne but others favour the Prince's father, the 56-year-old Don Juan, who is reputed to be more liberal-minded than his son.

Then there are other undercurrents of opinion. A hard- core of regime SS N.P.D.. if it cleared the 5 per cent hurdle neces- sary to be represented in Bonn, would then have a vital 30-seat block in Parliament. This would mean that the C.D.U. and N.P.D in.

gether would have a slim majority in the Bundestag. COALITION HINT Scheel would prefer to see his party in coalition with the C.D.U. rather than allow the Right-wing extremists a chance to dictate future West German policies. At C.D.U. headquarters' the party leaders covering all bets by a new Let's-not-be beastly policy are advising its candidates to play down the neo-Nazi tag normally applied to the N.P.D.

because some of its top! men have a dubious politi- cal past. N.P.D. leader Adolf von Thadden, it says, had no Nazi links On ironic con trast to C.D.U. chief Dr Kurt Georg Kiesinger) and was an honourable man from a respected middle-class family N.P.D. policies, it says.

are not necessarily wrong or to be denied at a costs. The upshot of all this is that the Socialists are being left in a. position dangerouslv exposed on all sides GENERAL FRANCO stalwarts would prefer a Presidentialist regime of "ron i forceful leadershin i lack. ing. Underground lurks a Communist nucleus, organised in secret cadres and helped from abroad, ready to exploit whatever political turbulence may develop once General franco is no longer ruling Spain, MONTILLO CREAM SHERRY MONTILLO SWEET SHERRY MONTILLO SEMI-SWEET SHERRY MONTILLO MEDIUM DRY SHERRY MONTILLO DRY SHERRY LIKELY TO BE SPAIN'S NEXT HEAD At the Elysee Palace lie was greeted by Mr 'Alain Poher, the interim 'President, who handed over the envelope containing the secret code which can unleash France's nuclear strike force built up by General de Gaulle.

1 The General, first of President Pompidou's problems, new home yesterday after his 40-day retreat in Ireland. Even de Gauile's smallest actions are seldom de void of significance and the timing of his arrival has increased speculation about his new role. De Gaulle and Mr Pom-tpidou have not had a face to face meeting since the April 27 referendum. The General may now simply silent, which would be seen as exactly open support for his successor. PRINCE From 'RICHARD MOWRER MADRID, Friday.

General Francisco Franco is ready to designate his successor as Spain's Chief of State and will announce his choice soon, possibly this northern summer. This prediction rs being made privately by highly placed officials in frequent personal contact with the 76-year-old man who has iuled Spain for 30 years. His choice as his successor seems certain to be Prince Juan Carlos de Kourbon Bourbon, 31- year-old son of the exiled Pretender to Spain's vacant" throne, Don Juan. The Constitution promulgated by General Franco in 1967 outlines how a new Chief of State thall be chosen should he die "or his incapacity be declared" before a successor has been appointed. 1 Members of the Government, together with the Franco 'to name heir' KTYi Lindeman's other men.

The waiter brought the bill for 102 drachmas Koutroumbis pulled out his wallet. Meiacnnnos stopped him. "It's mine," he said. "Why?" "Because clerks make Prime Minister last September and General de Gaulle's resignation in April, sentiment has been running strongly in favour 9f General Franco's mov- ing now (o choose his successor. Spaniards with a vested interest in the continuity of the regime want this.

So do others who, -more than anything else, want stability. General Franco's pres- tige is such that there is no question that if he pro- poses a successor to him self now. Parliament will approve his choice. But if the succession issue is not wrapped up and settled In General Franco's lifetime, there Is no guarantee that hit known preference, Prince DRY SHERRY Council of the Realm (a 17-man advisory body) would propose to the Parliament "a person of royal blood, as a regent. Their choice would have to be approved by a two- thirds vote in the Cortes.

But the Constitution also says in Article 6 that the head of State "may at any moment" propose to the Cortes the person whom he thinks should succeed him, either as king or regent. People in a position to know, are convinced that the Caudillo, for the sake of ensuring a smooth from bin tin to the next, has made up his mind to bring this article into play. Since Dr Salazar was replaced as Portugal's IfHDEMfcNS. WINES HTY. LTD.

SYDNEY 1 PT.6FL0Z, LINDEMANS AUSTRALIA'S GREATEST PRIZEWINNERS. to take three years. (A.A.P.-Reuter).