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TODAY DYE CVErOIjS sum FAME IN THE FAMILY PI IK FICTION BY EDGAR ALLAN POE bill 1 i7V Liil 1 WM IS TTLHJIE 7.1 Nazi row It's bye, bye Baden-Powell as girls turn scouting on its head TEAM MILLENNIUM I I III OLYMPIC PARTNER 11 1 15,000 new jobs science could lead the way Scientific research in Australia could create 15,000 jobs over the next five years, but entre-preneurship must be fostered in universities first, refuses to step in the Australian Research Council said. In a report that examined how universities put their research findings to commercial use, the council found many academics viewed commercialising research as NEWS 2 Dollar hits high, with more gains tipped for 2000 i i a "j.W- if Only five days after the Australian sharemarket closed at a record high, the dollar has joined the party mood on financial markets touching a three-month high yesterday. And analysts expect the dollar to ride higher in 2000, spurred on by global economic growth and commodity prices. BUSINESS I Wife's death still taking toll on tennis ace's form Beach party: Venturer Scouts from Sydney having fun in the sun at Torquay By DAVID ADAMS seeking out the perpetrators you cannot persecute the innocent." Mr Ruddock said Australia would be criticised internationally for ignoring the rule of law that a person was innocent until proven guilty or for stripping Mr Kalejs of his citizen ship without due process. Canadian and American authorities had deported Mr Kalejs fo? breaching immigration rules when he did not reveal his membership of the Arajs Kommando unit, he said, not because they had evidence of war crimes Mr Ruddock said he would not change the citizenship law to remove retrospectively Mr Kalejs' right to citizenship.

Pressure is mounting on British authorities to stop Mr Kalejs from returning to Australia to avoid prosecution. Mr Kalejs, at present living in a retirement home in Leicestershire, reportedly intends to return to Australia to be reunited with his wife. Anti-war crimes campaigners are urging the British Government to detain him because they say he will not be prosecuted in Australia, where investigators have already decided against court action because of the difficulty in getting elderly witnesses to Australia. Mr Kalejs, who fled Germany after the war, was accepted by Australia as a refugee in 1948 and granted citizenship 10 years later. He turned up in the US in 1959, was tracked down in the early 1980s by the lerusalem-based Nazi hunters of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and deported nine' years later.

He resurfaced in Canada and was again deported. The director of the Wiesenthal centre, Dr Efraim Zuroff, yesterday urged Britain to seize Mr Kalejs. "Arrest him now. This is a great opportunity for the British Government to make up for years of inaction," he said. Mr Zuroff was responding to comments in a British newspaper attributed to Mr Kalejs and claiming that he was the victim of "liars and Mr Kalejs told the Mail on Sunday.

"Once again, I am looking for a place where I can be with my wife away from these people who are hounding me. There's no peace for me here now." ustralia says Konrad Kalejs, like any other citizen, is free to return to this country. By JANINE MacDONALD CANBERRA and SIMON MANN LONDON The Federal Government yesterday refused to take further action over alleged Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs as pressure mounted on Britain to stop him fleeing to Australia to avoid possible prosecution. The Immigration Minister, Mr Philip Ruddock, and the Justice Minister, Senator Amanda Vanstone, defended Mr Kalejs' right to enter and leave Australia at will and challenged Nazi-hunters to come forward with evidence of atrocities. In London, Home Office officials said they had no power to detain Mr Kalejs, 06, an Australian citizen, unless police issued an arrest warrant.

Scotland Yard is investigating whether Mr Kalejs, who claims to have been "hounded" for past 15 years, took part in the wartime slaughter of 30,000 people, including Jews, in his native Latvia while a lieutenant in the notorious Arajs Kommando unit. British police refused to say whether they would seek to detain Mr Kalejs, whose six-month British visa is believed to expire later this week. In Adelaide, Senator Vanstone ruled out a further investigation without fresh evidence. Australia, she said, was not the "sort of country that engages in show trials for the benefit of one person in the community or a group of people in the Asked if Mr Kalejs would be welcome in Australia, Senator Vanstone said: "Would you expect a situation where any Australian citizen would not be?" Mr Ruddock said all he had heard so far on Mr Kalejs was assertion and not evidence. "People should not be dealt with or judged by allegation and assertion," Mr Ruddock said.

"In A devastated Scott Draper is strugg- ff li ling to find his Jky I hunger for tennis the death of his wife, Kellie. The Queenslanderhas admitted his mental toughness on court waned after Kellie's death from cystic fibrosis. Picture: SIMON SCHLUTER them," he said. "It's person building, that sort of stuff, isn't it?" The chief commissioner of Scouts in Victoria, Mr John Ravenhall, said: "Ultimately we're about building self-esteem and self confidence and equipping kids to deal with all the challenges of life," he said. While a few of the Venturers were braving the chill waters off Torquay yesterday, James Bohe, 16, and Joseph Walaodo, 15, were not among them.

"It's too cold," they said standing on the foreshore. Both from the Solomon Islands, they were looking forward to hiking and camping in the Australian bush. Queenslander Ben McGruer, 16, said he wanted to see some of Victoria during an alpine hike on the Bogong High Plains. "It is supposed to be a pretty beautiful area," he said. Formed in 1948, Venturer scouts were initially known as senior scouts.

The name was changed In the 1950s. Girls have been admitted since the SPORT 2 This is probably not what Robert Baden-Powell had in mind when he founded the international Scout movement in England in 1907. Residents of Torquay, on Victoria's west coast, might also want to adjust their mental images after the town was Invaded by 1500 Venturer Scouts from around Australia and the world yesterday. Venture 2000 the Venturers' version of a Jamboree has brought together girls and boys aged 14 to 17 from all Australian states, and from countries as diverse as the United States, Korea, Mongolia and JMepal. After camping last night on Torquay oval, the Venturers and 300 volunteer leaders will spread out to various locations across the state today for a week-and-a-half of outdoor activities, Including water-skiing, mountain biking, rock climbing, white-water rafting and scuba diving.

The Venture, the first to be held INDEX PAGE BUSINESS 3 The way they were: Scouts by a campfire in the 1 940s. LAW LIST ARTS BUSINESS COMICS CROSSWORDS EDITORIAL LETTERS WORLD PERSONALS CLASSIFIEDS 4,5 1-4 2 2 10 10 6-8 II 5 TODAY BUSINESS TODAY TODAY OPINION OPINION WORLD TODAY BUSINESS to gain a sense of achievement and of self-confidence. "I was looking out over this little tent city here and thinking what an amazing experience it would be for a kid from Footscray or Keilor to go on a bush walk with a kid from Kiribati, Mongolia, and, say, the US, and spend 10 days out in the bush with in Victoria In 19 years, was officially opened with a flag parade on the Torquay foreshore. Parliamentary secretary to the Premier, Mr Bruce Mildenhall, was moved to contrast the scene with the tragedy of the heroin trade in his Footscray electorate. Mr Mildenhall said the Venturer movement helped young people WEATHER Tragedy destroys the bonds of brotherhood ADELAIDE: Mostly sunny, top 24.

BRISBANE: Fine, top 28. CANBERRA: Showers, top 26. HOBART: Showers, top 18. MELBOURNE: Showers, top 19. PERTH: Unsettled, top 34.

SYDNEY: Thundery change, top 26. Details: Page 12 ODD SPOT A tiny Malaysian village is abuzz with talk of an alleged sighting of a local bigfoot known as the mawas, a report has said. Villager Liong Chong Shen claimed he saw the huge ape-like animal in his orchard. It just stared at him and walked away, Liong said. DIAMOND RINGS UNIQUE STYLE TOTALLING 0.8SCT WAS $7,500 NOW $5995 CLUSTER DESIGN WAS $2,295 NOW $1,750 ENGAGEMENT RING 0.78CT CENTRE GEM WAS $11,200 NOW $6,720 DIAMOND RINGS UNIQUE STYLE TOTALLING 0.85CT WAS $7,500 NOW $5995 CLUSTER DESIGN WAS $2,295 NOW $1,750 ENGAGEMENT RING 0.78CT CENTRE GEM WAS $11,200 NOW $6,720 OMEGA t- WEIL xHAm jthers Langer pounds Indians Australia starts its Hopman Cup defence today and Age Online takes Jamie Evans: On track you there live from I pm.

There's also falls silent, and no wonder. His big brother, suffering from kidney failure, took his own life rather than accept a kidney from him an operation both knew would have ended Jamie's riding career. Once, years ago, the two brothers had made a pact. If Jamie was ever so badly hurt in a race fall that he'd be "a then Stephen would pull the plug on him. Neither could have guessed Jamie would be the one forced to make that call.

He shakes his head and focuses on the racehorses that track riders walk around the yard In front of him, warming up before they gallop. He Is waiting to get a quiet one that needs only slow work: the first step In a comeback campaign after a shocking leg Injury suffered In a race fall six months ago. Injuries, which have kept Evans out of the saddle a total of four years out of 1 2, are part of the Jumps Jockey's lot. Onlyrodeo riders, who risk their necks on bulls and buckjumpers, do It as hard. At 31, Jamie Evans still looks boyish enough, but he By ANDREW RULE Stephen Evans should have turned 36 last Tuesday.

Instead, he's dead. Three weeks ago he slipped out the back door of the neat rented house in Ormond he shared with his girlfriend and his brother. He took a pair of stirrup leathers that his father, a saddler, had made for his brother, Jamie, Australia's finest Jumping jockey, and hanged himself. By the time the mother of his 10-week-old daughter realised he was missing, he was unconscious. When she found him, cut him down and called an ambulance, It was too late.

The ambulance officers managed to restart his heart, but his brain was Irreparably damaged. Jamie Evans was sitting in a barber's chair when he got the call. He spent most of that nightmare week at his brother's bedside at Monash Medical Centre. The neurosurgeons told him Stephen would never recover. He called in an outside surgeon for another opinion but the verdict was the same.

And so Jamie Evans, a tough little man by any measure, had to face the toughest thing a live coverage of the third Test in Sydney from 10.30am. Don't miss the live action ac theage.com.au HOME DELIVERY WAS $69.95: 'fe-. Vi I.liMiLL he's ever had to do. On Saturday 11 December he sent home his widowed mother, Joy, and his sister, Kellie. His younger brother Jason, also a Jockey, wanted to stay, but couldn't handle what was coming.

At 7.45 that evening Jamie asked for the life support system to be turned off. "At four minutes past nine he died in my arms," he recalls softly, staring into the grey dawn over Caulfield racecourse. "It's one of the most harrowing experiences I've ever had." The funeral was 13 months to the day after their father had died suddenly, at 57. This most talkative of men Justin Langer's third century of the summer put Australia In a commanding position after day two of the third cricket Test against India at the SCG. Captain Steve Waugh (57) and twin Mark (32) were reduced to bit parts as Langer clubbed his way to an unbeaten 167.

By stumps, Australia had piled on 4331 In reply to India's feeble first Innings 150. SPORT Reports Ui 1 RW UP, $5 a week Call (03) 9604 1460 THE AGE 250 Spencer St, Melbourne 3000 Founded in 1854 No. 45.185 Telephone (03)96004211 Classifieds (03)132243 A EXTRA, SJtmAiJ WIDE RANGE AVAILABLE Continued page 2.