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-3 Women runners threaten protest over an athlete who changed sex Sir Terence wanted his own bribes, court told B) RON CARTER Wbmea athletes have warned athletics officials that they will pijotest against a man who had a sex change and is competing in women's distance races. the trans-seiuat, In her late 2tk competed in the New South Wales track titles In February. It is Relieved she will soon contest a frost-country championship. fthletlcs Australia has asked International Amateur Athletic Federation In London for a ru)ing so it can deal with a pro- test Athletics Australia has no rule to cover trans-sexuals in competition and will be guided by the IAAF. The general manager of Athletics NSW, Alan Batchelsr, raised the issue with Athletics Australia.

He said last night: "We wanted to make sure we weren't caught with our pants down' when It (the protest) happens. "It has to be sorted out quickly because we dont want a lot of sniggering and finger-painting." The general manager of Athletics Australia, Nell King, said, the matter had become more complicated because the IAAF was changing its procedures for gender classification. "The IAAF has been asked to treat the matter as argent," Mr King said. Mr Batchelor said he knew the name of the runner. "I've been told who It is, which surprises me, frankly In my younger, days, I could pick out the one who wasnt female in a atrip show without question.

Von go by the knees. The person is very feminine-looking. She runs 1JW to HN metres on the track and in shorter-distance cross-country races. She would be ranked around the lop women distance runners. "It's a pity this has arisen, but it's something which will happen sooner or later and must be sorted out now." Mr Batchelor said protest could come at any time, but he had been told It would most likely be at the state cross-country titles on 2 June.

He said some of the women runners were trying to make a point. "Frankly, I think they are making a point for the sake of making a point because the person is not that good." An Australian selector, Brian Roe, who Is also a consultant to the IAAF, said the federation had only Just changed its procedure for gender classification. Until this year, every woman competing Internationally had to have gender verification card with a photo, saying she had passed the chromosome sei test used by the International Olympic Committee. Mr Roe said that under new IAAF rules a physical elimination would determine a woman's ex. No sei test Is needed for local competition.

The IAAF has been troubled recently by a case In Spain, where a woman athlete failed the chromosome sei test and was barred from competition, although In all other ways she was a woman. Her birth certificate said she was female. THE AGE, Tuesday 16 April 1991 nW' GOT AH I That REMovepr- The former Queensland police commissioner, Sir Terence Lewis, wanted to be paid bribes after being told that Mr Don Lane, the former Cabinet minister, was receiving them, It was alleged at Sir Terence's corruption trial Picture: JOHN LAMB .1 Mlfce pot or i JIM? pMile off yesterday. In his first day of evidence, Jack Reginald Herbert, a retired policeman who has admitted corruption, told the Brisbane District Court that Sir Terence appeared "annoyed" when told in December 1977 about the payments to Mr Lane. Mr Herbert said he spoke to Sir Terence at a poolside party and told the police commissioner that bribes were being paid for the protection of Illegal gaming machines.

Mr Herbert, who was working at the time for a gaming machine operator, said he told Sir Terence that Mr Lane and the then licensing commission chief, Mr Leo McQuillan, were being paid to allow the machines to operate Illegally in Queensland clubs. "When I told him about the payments and who they were being made to he mentioned that It was a police matter and he appeared to be annoyed that the payments were going to the persons I told him they were going to. "The accused said to me (that) If payments could be made to blm that he could make sure the clubs were not raided and that they could continue." Mr Herbert told the court his former superior, Tony Robinson, and a Sydney man, Jack Rooklyn, agreed to pay a total of $2000 a month for the protection of their Queensland gaming machine Interests. Sir Terence had begun receiving the money In 1978 from Mr Herbert, who received a 25 per cent commission of $500. Sir Terence has pleaded not guilty to 15 charges related to payments from 1978 until 1987 which allegedly reached $10,000 a month.

Mr Herbert also told the court he paid bribes to Mr Lane, whom he bad known when they served in the Queensland Police Force In the 1960s and early 1970s. He said he passed the bribes to Mr Lane, on behalf of Mr Robinson, on three separate occasions In the late 1970s after being picked up In Mr Lane's car. The trial Is continuing. 1 BRUCE TOBIN B) if a Music to get well by: Mrs Beth Dun, with guitar, is the first music therapist to worfc at the Royal Children's Hospital. Enjoying the nurturing rhythms were Stephen Clarke (left), Leigh Hobbs j-ond Leigh Johnston, on tamborine.

Mrs Dun, who has previously worked with children with special needs, was appointed by the University of Melbourne. Presbyterian Ladles College In Burwood. Police believe It Is possible the kidnapper stalked the streets around the school. A senior detective said the kidnapper had also taken more risks in the latest attack by taking time to spray a car at the Chan home with graffiti. Police believe the graffiti message, "payback" and "more to might be a decoy.

He said he believed Nicola Lynas was set free on her 14th birthday because the kidnapper had shown some compassion towards his victim. He said the same sense of sympathy could prompt the kidnapper to release Karmein because she was an asthmatic. The detective said that although the victims were assaulted, the kidnapper responded to their need for food and other items. "We believe It's the same man, but until Karmein turns up, we can't be 100 per cent sure." Inspector Sprague appealed to the kidnapper to release Karmein. He said she suffered from asthma and did not have her pump spray with her.

He said she could suffer a severe attack under stress. She bad recovered from a bout of glandular fever but needed periodic medication. Mrs Chan has offered to give herself up to the-kidnapper In exchange for the safety of her daughter. "Mrs Chan Is finding it very difficult like, I suppose, any mother would," Inspector Sprague said. "She's been without sleep and hasn't been eating.

She Is Just praying that her daughter will be released soon and returned to the family unit" Police are expected to ask the State Government to offer a reward for Information to help catch the kidnapper. There Is still a reward of $200,000 for Information on the Sharon and Nicola Lynas attacks. Police are searching for a man aged 25 to 35, about 168 to 177 centimetres tall, of slim to medium build, wearing grey runners, a green-grey tracksult and a balaclava. Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 865 5000. and JACQUI MACDONALO Police were almost certain last night1 that the kidnapper of a teenage Melbourne schoolgirl was the abductor of two other eastern suburbs schoolgirls and the attacker of third.

Sixteen detectives. Including mejmbers of the major crime squad and the rape squad, have forjned an unofficial taskforce to investigate the latest abduction. ITemplestowe schoolgirl, Karmein Chan, 13, was abducted froprthe family home In Serpens Roid on Saturday night She was baby-sitting her two younger sisters. The sisters, aged nine and sevpn', were locked in a cupboard in a bedroom. Detectives believe the kidnapper) also abducted Nicola Lynas, 13, of Canterbury, In July last and Sharon Wilis, 10, of Ringfrood, in December 1988, and rapjed an 11-year-old girl in her Lower Plenty home In August law.

Detective Inspector David Sprpgue said police had received information on the latest abduction and were checking possible suspects. "We have had an overwhelming response from the community," he said. t. Defectives are compiling a profile! ue kldnaPPer and nave uncovered similarities in the methods used In each assualL They have studied the kldnap-per'jf methods of torture and beljeve bis actions have become mote, vicious each time. The Intruder, wearing a balaclava or ski mask, has struck at houses In the north-eastern and eastern suburbs, and used either a large knife, a pistol or both to terrorise his victims.

Toe abduction victims lived In houses one street off a main road. The' victims had sisters, and the kidnapper freed his victims at nlgtih Both Sharon Wills and Nicola Lyna4 were bound and blindfolded while they were held and later released within five kilometres of home. Both Nicola Lynas and Karmein 'Chan were students at the Ifelecom to tackle a US giant T7TV Me(D(0lM on Rouge Homme Coonawarra Cabernet Save $48.00 a case By LEON OETTLER, V. i. i mfj communications raportsf liW'" Telecom will take on one of the biggest players In the telecommunications Indus- try when It attempts to corner a section of the United States market -It will compete with the US long-distance carrier by providing the US with the software for Its Electronic White -Pages, the data base used by Australian directory assistance operators.

The Electronic White Pages has been available to Government departments -and corporations In Australia for the past three years but the technology Is still to be Introduced In the US. 'The general manager of Telecom's National Directory Services, Mr Geoff Barkla, would not reveal how much Telecom hoped to earn from the venture, which he believed would be started in June. But he expected a reasonable return by 1993. He said the Atlanta-based Directory-Net a wholly owned subsidiary of Tele-: com, was already working with Southwestern Bell, which operates along the west coast and Texas down to the Mexican border, and finalising negotiations with two of the seven regional phone companies In the US. Mr Barkla said the venture would not be operating until DlrectoryNet covered at least 50 per cent of the US.

He said the venture could extend past the Rio Grande, as Southwestern Bell bad just bought the Mexican phone company. Mr Barkla said Telecom was also negotiating with several other countries which he would not name. Meanwhile, the managing director of Telecom Australia International, Mr Ken Loughnan, said Telecom's International division was in the early stages of negotiations to provide Its Phonecard system to Saudi Arabia In a deal that could be worth up to $20 million. Telecom Australia International also hopes to get a slice of the market in the reconstruction of Kuwait following the Gulf war. It's tough even for the liquor trade and that's whv we are offering a sensational price on a great Coonawarra Cabernet.

Bargains like this are freaks of the time and the smart wine lover will loss a few cases in the cellar. It will prove to be the gold dust of the future 9 7) 'rfl David Farmer 0m 3 1 1987 Crucial decision wage COONAWARRA CABERNET SAUVIGNON to be Imowii today Coonawarra and Cabernet Sauvignon are now locked together. This combination is pow producing Australia's greatest wines and their international acclaim can only grow. Coonawarra Cabernets should be the keystone of any cellar such is the 'blue chip' status they now hold. The price drop we offer here on the Rouge Homme Coonawarra Cabernet 1987 changes it from a special occasion wine to regular drinking.

It's a spectacular bargain. Our tasting note reads: "Deep, mulberry, fat rich 'sweet' with distinctive Coonawarra herbaceous ripeness with integrated cedary dusty oak, medium to full bodied rounded even plummy but finishing firm and spicy. The wine shows excellent structure for medium term cellaring, maturing quicker than the 1986. We recommend purchase for immediate consumption and cellaring over 3 to 5 years. Has been awarded 6 silver and 7 bronze medals.

urge you to drive to one of our shops or phone today to guarantee you don 't miss out on one of the greatest bargains we have ever offered. Price is 107.88 a dozen. "Blue chip Savings calculated off our last advanited selling price. A $3.99 bargain! 3 Sesvitw Cibenwt Shim 1988 The world's best lager for just $29.99 By LVNNE C088AR, chief Industrial raportsf Australia's seven million wage and salary earners will learn today whether they will get a pay rise this year under the wage accord mark VI, negotiated between the Federal Government and the ACTU more than a year ago. At 10 am, a full bench, of the Industrial Relations Commission will give the national wage decision, one of the most important In recent years.

The bench will determine whether Australia adopts a more decentralised approach to wage-fixing, which would pave the way for wage deals to be negotiated at an enterprise level In return for Increases In productivity or profitability. The ACTU's claim Includes a flat $12 increase from 16 May, a phased doubling of occupational superannuation, and greater flexibility for enterprise bargaining. The president of the ACTU, Mr Martin Ferguson, said yesterday that It believed It bad an electoral mandate for accord mark VI because It was negotiated with the wake of wage deals under the accord. Figures released yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics show that the growth In award wages has been easing continuously since May last year, reflecting the Impact of last year's wage-tax tradeoff. Weekly award wages for adults working full time increased by 3.9 per cent In the year to February, well below the 6.2 per cent recorded over the previous year.

Quarterly wage growth has fallen steadily from about 1.8 per cent In May last year to about OA per cent In the three months to February. Victorian workers had an Increase of 4.4 per cent In award wages for full time work In the year to February, the highest growth of all states. Queensland award rates went up by 4.3 per cent while Western Australia had a modest 2.7 per cent Increase. Females did best over the past year, their award rates rising by 4.2 per cent PAGE More than an extra few dollars In wage case decision. Government In the lead-up to last year's federal election.

Mr Ferguson said that while the union movement supported greater focus on enterprise bargaining it had to be done equitably to en-. sure that low-paid workers were protected. He said the flat $12 Increase was Important to cement the new system. But the executive director of the Confederation of Australian Industry, Mr Ian Splcer, said the economy could not sustain such a rise. "The $12 claim Is completely unacceptable If we want to keep Jobs and provide an opportunity for economic recovery." In its final submission to the bench, the CAI said a one per cent rise about $6 a week for a worker on an average weekly wage might be acceptable.

Mr Splcer said auch an Increase should be given only If workers continued to be Involved in award-restructuring. DAVID MCKENZIE reports from Canberra: Award rates of pay have risen by less than four per cent In the past year, as wage growth continues to slor In' the SEAVIEW 'Gbanna' set to resurface The 'controversy over the Kerry Packer "Goanna" allegations that rocked Australia's legal and media communities In the mid-1980s Is set to resurface. A fbrmer royal commissioner, Mr Frank Cos-, QC, Is suing the former federal Attorney-' General, Mr Lionel Bowen, over a press statement The writ alleging defamation, has been Issued In the Victorian Supreme Court Gang robs three Police believe four men armed with a hammer were responsible for three armed robberies in the St Kllda area early yesterday. The four approached a man at 1 am in Alma Road; St Kllda, produced a claw hammer and, after. being given cash, hit him In the face.

AH. 45 am, they picked up a hitch-hiker on the Nepead Highway near St Kilda Town Hall and robbed him. At 2 am, the gang demanded money from a man on Broadway, Elwood, and hit htm. Police assaulted Three police officers were assaulted by a man armed with a knife when they Investigated an assault at the Rendezvous Hotel In Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Winchester compensation The wife of the murdered Canberra police chief Colin Winchester, Mrs Gwen Winchester, has been' awarded $40,000 compensation for her husband's death In January 1989. i Appeal for Kurds The Australian Red Cross is appealing to the public for donations to aid Red Cross relief work In more than 20 Kurdish refugee camps along the Iraqi borders.

Tasmania moves to poll Tasmania yesterday moved towards a snap elec-, Hon ahead of a parliamentary vote against the -Education Minister, Mr Patmore. The Premier, Mr Field, said he had con-firmed advice that the no-confidence motion sbou'd be seen as a vote against the whole Government If It succeeded. 1988 fABFRXET-SDIRW Until the close of trade on Monday you can buy Stcinlagcr for just Don't be embarrassed by buying this wine because it is so cheap. The quality it sensational and it's not for us as wine merchants or you as wine consumers to worry why wines this good are selling so cheaply. This is a case of it's too good to be true, being true.

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