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AGE Wednesday 30 April 1986 250 Spencer Melbourne. 60 0421 (Classified 604 1144) 70 Pages 132nd Year 40c KURT Melbourne's anarchists, 100 years on UOVJ TO COPE I'JITH LOSL'G Brent CrosswelFs column PAGE 40 VJALDHEIM: running or on the run? PAOC 1 1 PAGE 1 1 3 THE 7Z 7 1 I Soviets call for help Thousands evacuated for 30km around N-leak area Radiation levels 10 times higher than normal X-ray. The British Radiological Protection Board said Britain would not be affected. The Tass report of the accident said: "Measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences of the accident Aid is being given to those affected." A government inquiry had been set up, it added. The report was mentioned on Soviet television last night but did not appear in newspapers this morning.

It referred to similar accidents in other countries, claiming it was the first of its kind in the Soviet Union. Mystery still surrounds a serious accident reported in the Urals in the late fifties when hundreds were thought to have died from radiation sickness after an explosion of buried nuclear waste. America's worst nuclear accident was in 1979 at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, when radio-cative gas leaked after a partial meltdown of a reactor. About 144,000 people were evacuated. The Soviet admission took Western diplomats by surprise.

National disasters are seldom reported unless loss of life is large or foreigners are involved. PAGE 5: Fallout could ruin Ukraine's harvest. Page Ik Nicholson's view. nuclear power generation, British experts believe. The full extent of the accident is still unknown.

Soviet authorities reverted to silence today after the surprise admission that a reactor at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine; was damaged, causing casualties. But a Swedish official said after receiving the Soviet request for advice that it was clear the reactor's core had melted "in part or even The West German centre said it appeared from information given by the Soviet diplomat that a reactor had melted down and the blaze was out of control. The Soviet Union at first denied that there bad been trouble, but the news agency, Tass, later reported the accident after radiation levels six times higher than normal were reported over Scandinavia and 600 workers were evacuated from a Swedish power station. The leakage has drifted more than 1600 kilometres over Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, but experts say the only danger to health would be in the immediate area of the accident. LONDON 29 April.

Soviet of-ficals have declared the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine a "disaster" and have cleared an area within a radius of 30 kilometres around the site. Tens of thousands of people are said to have been evacuated and there were unconfirmed reports of many deaths. However, Tass news agency said that only two people had died. The Soviet Union has asked the West for help in putting out the fire at the plant. Diplomatic sources said the Soviet embassy in Stockholm had approached Sweden's nuclear inspection authority for advice on handling a burning graphite reactor core.

A Soviet diplomat also appeared at a centre run by West Germany's atomic energy industry in Bonn, seeking urgent advice on how to fight a similar fire. The nuclear power station accident, disclosed yesterday, is the most serious in the history of Scandinavian readings today showed a decline in radioactivity. The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna said it had been notified of the accident but given no details. It said it had no power to police reactors but could offer help in an emergency. Even from the scanty evidence available it is believed that the accident, involving a 1000 megawatt reactor, is of major proportions.

The BBC news service said it was almost certainly the worst in history. Mr Jim Harding, former adviser to the chairman of the Californian Energy Commission, said the leak made the Three Mile Isiand affair look like a tea party. The US presidential Chief of Staff, Mr Donald Regan, on tour with Mr Reagan, is reported to have offered American help. Ringhals nuclear power plant, Sweden, measured 100 times the normal amount of caesium 137, and high iodine counts were made in central Sweden. Radiation levels in some areas of Finland were reported to be 10 times higher than normal.

A British expert described the caesium level as alarming. Caesi mm WMm Clip, Hop, Hatter, here comes the coachbuilder Wran says he would like to see Briese sacked Radiation detected as far away as Oslo AND fit ABOUT HOUR) Llffie MATES against Mr Justice Murphy under section 72 of the Constitution based on the trial issues. In a carefully worded statement, however, the Opposition left open the possibility of such a move if the Stewart Royal Commission into the NSW police tapes produced any new material. Mr Wran called on Mr Briese to explain nine questions, including Mr Briese's relationship with the State Opposition and three investigative journalists. The attack came after the Government refused to debate a motion from the Opposition affirming full confidence in the chief magistrate and condemning the Premier for remarks Mr Wran had made about Mr Briese at the end of the Murphy case.

On Monday, Mr Wran had said that Mr Briese would be among a group of people whose position would be examined in light of the acquittal of Mr Justice Murphy. I Mf Copenhagen i 1 -ftfleqg Bernie Dingle is probably the last of Melbourne's coach-builders. Mr Dingle has never had a car, hasn't a drivers licence and isn't the least interested in getting one. Instead, Mr Dingle, bis wife Francis and their six-year-old son Edward travel about by horse and brake. An outing to the movies, for Instance, simply means parking the horse outside the cinema.

His two large brown horses, G'Reiley and Nugget, are kept in spotless stables down a laneway still bounded by the remnants of backyard stables from another era. Mr Dingle's love of horses and horsedrawn vehicles took shape if hen, at the age of 12, he discovered Bill Knight's coachbuilding factory In Caulfield. Eventually, Mr Knight took on the youngster to pass on a trade he learnt from his father in Ben-digo early this century. "He (Mr Dingle) was the best apprentice I have had," Mr Knight said. The pair built the four-horse Carlton and United Breweries wagon and used to exhibit at the Melbourne Snow in the tradesmen's delivery horse turnout but the tradejsa't'exactly booming.

"It is a-herattfal trade but it has died out in many ways," Mr Dingle said. He survives' on private work, repairing horsedrawn vehicles and wheels; he also has a superb 183ts-style carriage he built about five years ago, which he drives for weddings. Mrs Dingle drives the truck to transport the horses to distant engagements. CLAIRE MILLER By ROBERT WHITEHEAD in Sydney and MICHELLE RATTAN in Canberra The New South Wales Premier, Mr Wran, said yesterday he would like to sack the state's chief magistrate, Mr Clarrie Briese, but he did not have the power to do so. Mr Wran, in a broad attack in Parliament, said he would not be happy with the administration of justice in NSW while Mr Briese stayed.

The criticisms followed Mr Wran's comments on the acquittal of Mr Justice Lionel Murphy on Monday, when Mr Wran said Mr Briese had not enjoyed his full confidence for some time. Mr Briese was chief witness in the case against Mr Justice Murphy. In Canberra yesterday, however, the Attorney-General, Mr Bowen, put the Federal Government at odds with Mr Wran, who is also national president of the ALP, by expressing full confidence in Mr Briese. Mr Bowen was answering the Opposition Leader, Mr Howard, who referred to the "vindictive and unjustified attack" by Mr Wran. "Does he (the Attorney-General) have full confidence in Mr Briese?" Mr Howard asked.

Mr Bowen replied in one word: "Yes." Later, he declined to elaborate. At the same time, the Federal Opposition has backed away from trying to move in Parliament Moscow Site of accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant Chernobyl 5oo Kiev and against whom "unpalatable decisions" might need be taken. The NSW Bar Association's president, Mr Roger Giles, QC said yesterday it regretted Mr Wran's comments: "Magistrates can only be removed from office by the Governor upon very special and limited grounds. Any wrong impression that they are subject to control or dismissal by the Government is most unfortunate." The Magistrates Institute of NSW expressed "its confidence la Mr Briese's integrity as chief magistrate of NSW and supports aim in that Mr Briese would only say that he was seeking legal advice. In Parliament, Mr Wran said his lack of confidence did not stem from the Murphy case, or another case brought against Judge John Murray Foord, of the District Court, after a report by Mr Briese alleged he had sought to influence the outcome of a magistrate's case.

Judge Foord was acquitted. Mr Wran said he was concerned with an alleged relationship Mr Briese had with the Liberal Party, citing an admission that Mr Briese had obtained transcripts of the NSW police tapes from Liberal frontbencher, Mr Bruce Balrd. while the two men attended their church. Continued: PAGE PAGE 13: Editorial I Sweden first learned of the high radiation level when a worker at the Formark nuclear plant, about 90 kilometres north of Stockholm, set off an alarm while passing through a routine radiation check. Six hundred workers were evacuated, but tests showed there had been no leak from the plant.

Sweden asked Moscow for an extensive report, but the Soviet atomic energy authorities at first told the Swedish embassy in Moscow they were unaware of any nuclear accident that could cause a leak to reach Sweden. The Swedish Energy Minister, Mrs Birgitta Dahl, said last night that Sweden was not satisfied with Soviet behavior. "They should have notified us immediately," she said. "We must demand higher safety standards in the Soviet Union." Mrs Dahl urged that all Soviet reactors be placed under international control, although adding that there was no danger to people in Sweden from the present leak. An Energy Ministry spokesman said that the rate of "a few milli-rems an hour" was not high enough to warrant the evacuation of Forsmark.

A millirem has the same biological effect as one thousandth of a standard unit of Picture: MARK WILSON of Bali nesia, then I believe we will have a better chance of fully restoring positive and constructive relations he said. The Indonesians yesterday forced a 'New York Times' correspondent, Barbara Crossette, to leave Bali. She had flown in after being refused permission because of an article which mentioned corruption in the Suharto regime. Meanwhile, important talks between Indonesian and Australia planned for next week to discuss a seabed boundary between the two countries have been postponed. It is believed that the Government is not regarding the postponement as a rebuff.

PAGE 7: More reports. 24 33 25-29 20 10 12 19 Leften ratts VCPraW JVwVwV tcnvVy mm? Mmw nflfewM39 CtaaaMarflaetor 41 Penomal notices 94 The 0' MenteH mrtcm PAOM2 CITY: Fine apart from early morning fog and drizzle Expected top 15 (yesterday 15). TOMORROW: Mainly fine. FRIDAY: Mainly fine. Details 18 um has a half-life of more than 30 years and its presence would indicate high contamination in the area of the accident.

Mr Peter Taylor, of the political ecology research group, said the release of caesium 137 would cause long-term, serious health damage. There is speculation that a large-scale evacuation is being carried out from Chernobyl. Bus services in Kiev are reported to have been disrupted because buses have been commandeered for the emergency in Chernobyl, 130 kilometres north. The BBC says the first reports of high radiation over Scandinavia came early on Sunday afternoon, indicating that the accident probably happened on Saturday morning. A spokesman at the Danish nuclear laboratory at Riso said: "It is difficult to say exactly what happened.

We are looking at something very close to a meltdown." A Swedish nuclear inspector said the accident appeared to have been caused by the overheating of nuclear fuel. A considerable explosion would have been the result and could have led to a meltdown of the nuclear core of the reactor. in style behind O'Reiley in Caulfield. pair out Bali to cover President Reagan's meetings with President Suharto and Asean foreign ministers. A State Department spokesman said Mr Wolfowitz had been rebuffed in three earlier attempts to have the ban lifted.

The latest twist in the two-week row between Australia and Indonesia comes on the eve of a Federal Cabinet meeting which will hear a detailed submission from the Foreign Minister, Mr Hayden, on the future of the relationship. The Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, indicated in Parliament yesterday that Indonesian recognition of Australian press freedom was a precondition for a restoration of the relationship. "Once that is understood by our friends in Indo National league Western Australia is ready to join an expanded 14-side VFL competition next year. PAGE 4 Galleywood wins Galleywood wins his second Brterly Steeple on his home track at Warrnambool. PAGE 4 The audience at a performance of Waiting for Godot' by a Swedish prison theatre company was left watting yesterday when the prisoners all escaped before the show.

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The two, who are accredited with the White House press corps but were not carrying personal visas, were warned by Indonesian authorities on Monday not to proceed to Bali. An assistant White House press secretary is reported to have told Middleton: "Come aboard. Let's give it a go. You're welcome to come on." The US ambassador in Jakarta, Mr Paul Wolfowitz, last night asked Indonesian authorities to allow the reporters to remain in Vigilante attack At least five people have been killed in a new attack by well-organised vigilantes in a South African black township. PAGE It Dollar firm The Australian dollar is worth 73.80 US cents.

Stocks rose 1.8 points yesterday. PAGE 25 UlUloss MIM Holdings lost $15 million in the 1985-86 third quarter, ws PAGE 25 protest against the decision. A Foreign Affairs Department spokesman said Mr Suroso was told of Australia's and a complaint was again made of discrimination against Australian journalists in the White House press party. The two Australians were approached by uniformed Indonesian officials after disembarking with the presidential party about 10.15pm (Melbourne time) and told they would not be allowed to remain in Indonesia. A spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Department in Canberra said the Indonesian officials had rejected a last-minute plea from White House officials for the two to be allowed to remain to report Teachers caned Teachers had to accept responsibility for the poor image of the state school system, the Premier, Mr Cain, said last night PAGE 5 Terror 'link' A small number of violence-prone immigrants in Australia are linked with extremists overseas, a conference was told yesterday.

PAGE 15 Creditors meet Creditors of Frontier Homes, which collapsed last month, heard bad news and apologies yesterday. PAGE 17 'Witch-hunt' alert A leading criminologist has warned against "witch-hunts" during campaigns to combat sex abuse of children. PAGE 18 By MARK BAKER, diplomatic correspondent CANBERRA. Two ABC journalists were ordered to fly out of Bali early today after attempting to defy Indonesia's ban on the Australian press. The journalists were escorted by Indonesian officials on to a Garuda flight to Tokyo two hours after arriving in a press plane accompanying President Reagan.

The two ABC Washington correspondents, Richard Palfreyman and Jim Middleton, had been encouraged by US officials to test the Indonesian ban. In Canberra late last night, the Federal Government called in the deputy head of the Indonesian embassy, Mr Roeslaa Suroso, to I MUM I Chaos warning Industrial chaos and heavy costs would follow any attempt to merge inner-Melbourne councils, a union warned. PAGE 3 Dearer milk Milk prices will rise from tomorrow but could fall later in the year. PAGE 3 Probe challenge The terms of reference for the inquiry over the murder of antidrug campaigner Donald Mackay are being challenged. PAGE 3 Trade row The Trade Minister, Mr Dawkins.

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