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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 177 Page 3 108 PAGES 15 CENTS TELEPHONE 20944 No. 43,933 FIRST PUBUSHED 1831 LATE EDITION PETROL AGAIN THREATENED com Fears after for Mid-East Israel shells peace Beirut 111! IlllllliiiilP wWWttHBMI Ill iiippiiiiiiiip: tIMIlliiPIIillllli US Urgent mimmmmmmimmmmmmmmi: talks: war worsens Johnny O'Keefe, rock star, dies Johnny O'Keefe, Australia's first and most enduring rock star, died in St Vincent's Hospital last night. O'Keefe, aged 43, collapsed after a heart attack on Thursday night at his home at Double Bay. He suffered brain damage after the heart attack. His condition remained critical during the day and deteriorated late in the afternoon.

His wife, Maureen, and his parents, were at his bedside. Brian Henderson, who was host to Johnny O'Keefe on many bandstand programs, said last night: "John was a pioneer and also a very determined man. "Had it not been for O'Keefe it might have taken much longer for Australian talent to be recognised. "He was a man of tremend ebanon in wmmmmm WASHINGTON, Friday. President Carter called his top aides to an early morning meeting today in the wake of the shelling of western Beirut by Israeli warships.

In New York, UN Security Council members were considering taking action on the fighting in Lebanon to prevent it widening further. i $'v 'Ufa r- Mouse, Sydney, last nignt sides 4. The US Government's main worry is that the increasing violence in Lebanon and Israel's intervention could jeopardise the Camp David summit agreements signed by Egypt and Israel last month. The Israeli ships shelled a Moslem sector of Beirut for 90 minutes last night as bitter street fighting continued between Syrian troops and Christian militia. Israel, which has given support to the Christian militia, said it was attacking a Palestinian commando base to thwart a planned operation by Fatah guerillas.

The US Secretary of State, mmmmrnnmm Princess leaves Princess Margaret left Sydney for Tokyo last night. She will spend the weekend resting in Tokyo and will resume her official engagements on Monday morning. She will leave on Wednesday morning for Los Angeles, where she will slay for a few days. Her private secretary, Lord Napier, said the Princess was "making a good recovery from her recent respiratory infection." There had been x-ray evidence of a small area of inflammation which was responding to treatment, he said. The Princess has been resting in Government House since she arrived on Monday evening.

She became ill at Tuvalu (formerly the Ellice Islands) during independence celebrations. During her four days in Sydney, she has left Government House only twice, to visit Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for chest x-rays. The Princess has received hundreds of messages of good i wishes since her stay in Syd ney. Lord Napier said the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, had telephoned the Princess on Thursday night. for Tokyo Princess Margaret at uovernment Both confident of election win Mr Vance, who has been conferring with other Foreign Ministers at United Nations headquarters in New York, was due to fly to Washington for the breakfast meeting in the White House Cabinet room at 7.30 am (9.30 pm Friday Sydney time).

Also summoned to the meeting were the Vice-President, Mr Mondale. the Defence Secretary, Mr Harold Brown, the National Security Adviser, Mr Zbigniew Brzezinski, and a top political aide, Mr Hamilton Jordan. Mr Vance is expected to return to New York tonight after the White House meeting for discussions with the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mr Moshe Dayan. Mr Dayan is due to address the UN General Assembly on Monday and then come to Washington for ministerial talks with Egypt on a peace treaty. Before the Israeli shelling of Beirut, Mr Vance said in a television interview that the United States had urged restraint in talks with Israel.

"As the fighting continues, obviously this complicates the problem, but we are going to continue to urge restraint on the part of the Israelis and all the others involved," Mr Vance said. Asked if Israeli intervention in Lebanon would endanger the peace process begun at the Camp David summit, he said: "The intervention of the Israelis obviously would vastly By PETER KENNEDY, State Political Correspondent. THERE'S nothing like hedg ing your bets on the morals issue in the election. Phil O'Neill, Labor candidate for Burwood, has issued pamphlets which say, "I am not deeply religious, but pray daily." THE demise of the Roo has come. Not your every day kangaroo, but that mysterious group of 15 people with the surname Roo who appeared in the 1977 telephone book.

This year's directory doesn't list the numbers for Bikky, Fragile, Barrel, Tony 3 and the rest. Maybe they've taken to the bush. OUR award for coolness goes to the woman seen picking lilies in someone else's garden in Wollstonc-craft on Thursday. Despite pouring rain and shouts of protest from a nearby house, she completed her task. But when she stood up to leave, her voluminous skirt didn't go with her.

Without batting an eyelid she picked the skirt from the stream running down the gutter, wriggled back into it and walked off in the downpour, lilies and all. THE memory of "Mr Eternity." the late Arthur Stacc, Sydney's footpath evangelist, lives on in the Blue Mountains. Mountain residents have something better than the brass plaque in Sydney Square the real thing. High atop a gum beside the Mitchell's Pass road at Blaxland.is a large sheet of tin bearing the immortal word "Eternity," in the hand of Mr Stace himself. A CONFERENCE on security techniques and technology is being held in Sydney next month at the Hilton.

THE inventive Polaroid Corporation, which brought the world Dr Land's self-developing prints, has now incorporated the principles of radar into its latest product, a self-focusing camera. A tiny dish on the camera bounces inaudible sound waves off the object in the viewfinder and rotates the lens to the correct focus in the same instant that it is setting the exposure and releasing the shutter. If it gets no bounce from an object when pointed at a landscape, for example the lens sets to infinity. At last a camera that even Column 8 can use. The Good Weekend: The Anzacs, by Patsy Adam-Smith, part 1.

Mark and Geoffrey, the new darlings of the fashion world, interviewed by Lcnore Nicklin. Watch out for Bctte Midler, by Ian Frjkbcrg. The treasures of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum that Australians will sec, and other Arts stories. Book reviews. Pages 11-17 Arts 15, 19 Comics, Crosswords 31 Finance 29-31 Juries S3 Lottery (627) 36 Mails 53 Radio 31 Shipping 31 Sport 50-54 Television 31 Weather 53 IsEADLRS' LETTERS: Morals issue (Mr Dennis AH-man): (Mr Allan Norton): taxes (Mr J.

C. Maddi-son, NSW Shadow Minister for Justice. Federal Aljairs and Cultural Activities Pane 10. FORT DENISON: High 1 1 .27 am 1 .6 metres). Low 5.02 am (0.4 metres); 6.00 pm (0.3 metres).

SUN: Rises 5.25, sets 6.02. MOON: Rises 8.50 am, sets 10.57 pm. Turn behind the Financial news for Personal notices: P32 ADVERTISING: 2 0944 The Premier, Mr Wran, expressed confidence yesterday that the Labor Party would win a majority in both. the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council in today's State election. ous energy.

Career, Page 2 Rain should clear today The Weather Bureau expects the rain in Sydney to continue this morning and to clear later today. The rain in Sydney yesterday caused the cancellation of last night's trotting meeting at Harold Park and the greyhound meeting at Richmond. Sydney grade cricket today has been cancelled and will be played as one-day matches next Saturday. The GPS schools' athletics championships at the Sydney Sports Ground today have been postponed, possibly to Tuesday. Voting ends at 6 pm Polling booths for today's election will be open between 8 a.m.

and 6 p.m. Voting is compulsory for all voters registered in NSW, totalling about 3,112,129. A full list of the 2.950 polling places, which will be run by 17,500 polling officers, was published in Herald classified advertising on Thursday. Applications for postal votes have closed, but people who will be away from their subdivisions today may vote absentee at any polling booth in the State. In voting for the Legislative Council, electors must number at least 10 squares.

would lose in a 3.5 per cent swing, was a hard scat to win or hold. "1 am not saying winning Fuller is beyond all doubt," he said. "But I am saying I am confident." Mr Punch said he believed people in country NSW were well aware of the benefits of electing a coalition Government. PAGE 6: Upper House voting is big uncertainty, other election reports. PAGE 10: Editorial.

about the dumping of the waste. A former RAAF worker, he helped bury the waste and first spoke out in 1976. Mr Hudson helped bury 26 lead containers when he was stationed at Maralinga with the RAAF 1960 to 1961, but he did not know then what they contained. Commonwealth Police were first sent to guard the area in December 1976 after it was confirmed that up to 800 tonnes of radiocative wastes including plutonium was buried at the former bomb testing site. Continued on Page 4 PAGE 4: Mvsteiy of buried plutonium deepens.

PAGE 10: The Mura'ingu scare. today sensitive scats will be Hurst-villc and Gosford. The effectiveness of concerted campaigning by the Opposition in country scats held by Labor ministers will also be tested. The scats are Casino, held by Mr Don Day, Murrumbridgce. held by Mr Lin Gordon, and Castlcreagh, which Mr Jack Rcnshaw has held since 1940.

Counting of Legislative Council votes should be underway by 9 pm, although it might be next week before the winner of the vital 15th scat is known. Mr Wran urged voters yesterday to take care, especially in the Upper House election, to ensure that their vote was valid. He described as "logical absurdity" suggestions that electors should vote against Labor in the Upper House to ensure that Labor did not get a majority in both Houses. Mr Coleman said he was confident because his party had produced policies. Labor had campaigned on a jingle.

Mr Coleman conceded that his scat of Fuller, which he JEssesscs The Herald today begins the first of three long extracts from TheAnzacs, by Patsy Adam-Smith, a book which puts Australia's World War I effort in a different perspective. In The Good Weekend, Page 11. The other extracts will be in the Herald on Monday and Tuesday. The Job Market Would the kibbutz system suit Australia's; unemployed? Election round-up The full election result, with expert analysis of what it means for New South Wales. TODAY'S UEATEHU Metropolitan: Generally dry.

Max temps: City 18, Liverpool 20. NSW: Showers and thunderstorms in the cast, clearing. Mod SW to SE winds. Cool to mild. Details, Page 53.

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Svdnav. 2001, la PAGE 9: Hint of military aid for Syria; Iraqi-Syrian tension eases. PAGE 10: Editorial. complicate the situation, but I do not want to make the assumption that it is going to occur." Meanwhile, President Carter has sent a message to President Hafez Al-Assad expressing deep concern over the situation in Lebanon and calling for an immediate ceasefire to stop the bloodshed. The message was sent to Moscow where President Assad arrived yesterday.

Last night, the UN Secretary-General, Dr Kurt Wald-heim, appointed Prince Sad-ruddin Aga Khan, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as a special emissary to visit Lebanon to try to bring about a cease-fire. Previous appeals for a ceasefire have been ignored, but advocates of action by the UN Security Council until now resisted by a number of Arab members believe that a council resolution demanding a cease-fire may be heeded. The Security Council President, Mr Jacques Leprette of France, has been considering whether to convene a public session of the 15-nation body to debate the conflict. Mr Leprette contacted council members yesterday and expects to continue his consultations today. Mediterranean Sea Kt BEIRUT act to halt "the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people" in Lebanon.

Right-wing Phalangist Radio reported that 60 people had been killed and 120 wounded by shelling in the past few hours. This takes the toll to more than 800 dead and 3,000 wounded since a major battle developed last weekend. Lebanese police put the number of casualties at 1,000 dead and 1,700 wounded since February. (AAP-Reuter) David Balderstone reports from Amman, Jordan: The deteriorating situation in Lebanon is being watched closely, with consideration being given to evacuating Australian Embassy staff in Beirut. There are 10 Australian officers plus two wives at the Embassy, which is headed by the charge d'affaires, Mr John Watson.

ISRAEL i US embassy hit by mortar shell He declined to forecast how many Opposition-held scats he expected the Government to win in the Assembly. "I am not a poll tipster, I am only a politician," he said. Both the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Coleman, and the Leader of the Country Party, Mr Punch, expressed confidence in a narrow coalition victory. Mr Coleman said he believed he would retain his marginal seat of Fuller, despite poll predictions that it might fall to the Labor Patty. The Labor Party has focused its 25-day campaign on Mr Wran.

The Liberal Party has attempted to develop social and economic issues where it believed the Government was vulnerable. About 3.1 million people are eligible to vote in today's historic election. It will be the first election of members to the Legislative Council by direct vote of the people. In the 99-scat Assembly, the Government holds 50 seats and the coalition 45. One scat, South Coast, is held by an Independent, Mr John nounccd on Thursday night to guard a buried lump of plu-, tonium from terrorists.

The Minister for Defence, Mr Killcn, has told Cabinet that the plutonium at Maralinga was in "a potentially recoverable form" which could be used by terrorists. Alter this was revealed by the Financial Review on Thursday Mr Killcn announced that the guard on the nuclear dump site had been strengthened. When told of this yesterday the guards at Maralinga just chuckled. At the site, alongside the airstrip, about two kilometres from the town, tlvy mount a 24-hour watch from an old-style aluminium caravan. The van is air-conditioned Hatton.

Three scats arc vacant Pittwatcr and Wollondilly held respectively by Liberals, Mr Bruce and Mr Tom Lewis in the last Parliament, and Cessnock, held by Mr George Neilly for Labor. Fifteen vacancies will be filled in the Legislative Council election. Under the recent reforms. 28 members 14 each from the Government and the Opposition will remain in the council at this election. Sensitive seats The counting of votes for the Legislative Assembly will begin soon after the polls close at 6 pm.

A clear trend should emerge by 8 pm. If the predicted swing to Labor occurs, the first Opposition scats in jeopardy will be Ncpcan, Bathurst and Cro-nulla. If there is a major swing. Opposition-held scats such as Manly and Albury, which was retained for the Liberal Party by a margin of 8.2 per cent in 1976, could change hands. Should a swing occur against Labor, the most and powered by a large dicscl generator about 20 metres away.

The caravan is about 50 metres through light scrub from the dump site. Rumours that the site is protected by highly sensitive electronic sound systems appear to be baseless. The four officers do a four-week rotating shift at the Maralinga site. They usually arc based at Woomcra to the south-cast. When asked if they knew anything about the rumoured arrest of three people in the restricted bomb site area, one of the officers said jokingly: "Sure, they're out in the desert tied up with balls and chains." "What about Army helicopters supposed to be keeping The usual four guard the plutonium BEIRUT.

Friday. In the latest fighting, the American Embassy in west Beirut came under mortar fire today and 12 people were injured. A shell exploded in the small garden of the Embassy and splinters smashed through the main door of the building. A few minutes later another shell landed about 50 metres away, close to the East German Embassy. The buildings are on the seafront about three kilometres from where Syrian troops and Christian militia are locked in a six-day-old battle in the cast side of the city.

The Moslem west side was already in a state of high tension following the surprise Israeli naval attack. The official Lebanese Radio I said three Israeli gunboats tired on a Moslem section ot Ithe beachfront high-rise and 'nightclub area called Ramlct 'Baida, but withdrew when Syrian artillery opened tire. j'n the Israeli shelling, but Lebanon Red Cross said fire was raining down on civilians and hospitals i in eastern Beirut and nothing being spared. The Lebanese Red Cross, in a statement issued in asked a television reporter. "Look for yourself," said the officer, peering skywards and grinning.

Maralinga was established in the 1950s by the Australian and British Governments as a testing ground for British atomic weapons and was the scene of nuclear bomb tests in the atmosphere in 1956 and 1957. Later, with police permission, Mr E. Dulschc, the site manager who has been overseeing the dismantling of the Maralinga township for the past five years, tool; the group of journalists to the plutonium dumping ground. On the visit was Mr A. J.

Hudson, of Balaklava, about 80 km north of Adelaide, who first "leaked" information Four Commonwealth policemen were guarding Australia's nuclear waste dump at Maralinga yesterday the usual four. When journalists flew in there was no sign of the increased security measures an- Action on Thomson The Australian Cricket Boird annouoceo esterday that it intends to prnctwJ with legal action aains Jef Thomson, who signed i contract wth World Scries Cricket last Report in Sport, back page of Section 2. tsiGcnflva, appealed to all world powerfjjJtteE United Nations and'atl Rca Cross societies to Efegss sua m) GggiB (HE) QO Arnusements: 37-4o7( 0.