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rv-i LATE EDITION SWIMMING POOLS A flerald guide 1 No. 43,803 TELEPHONE 20944 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 161977 1631 H' '3 CENTS -v 24 PAGES U-" 'f ,1 U' XT first flushed Anthony: Election 'could be the only way of resolving the issue' Hawke: 'We want the Australian people to make up their mind' i ml (DOTS MASSIVE HUNT FOR i DIPLOMAT'S ATTACKER Inoido today By the Industrial Editor The ACTU Congress called yesterday for a national referendum on uranium mining and exporting to follow a 12-month debate. The Federal Government at once rejected the idea. Instead, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony raised the possibility of an election if the ACTU challenged the authority of the Government. (See below).

The president of the ACTU, Mr Hawke, said in Sydney after the congress debated and voted for the referendum call: "The whole point is not to have the trade-unions impose their will. We don't want that. We want the whole of the Australian people to make up their mind." Mr Anthony, in a television interview, said: "If anyone starts threatening us, we won't run away from going to the people and getting a people's verdict." The ACTU decision to call for the referendum was expected, but an addition to the executive's proposal contained more precise conditions for the organi- sation and financing of the referendum debate. The congress gave the Government two months to agree to hold the referendum. If the Government persists in its rejection of the plan, the ACTU executive is expected to organise secret ballots of those unionists directly involved in the handling and transportation of uranium to endorse a total ban.

Result of poll binding on all The unions with members 1 (I1 l( PAGE 6: Editorial. PAGE 7: Peter Bowers: Countdown to confrontation. PAGE 4: British thumbs down on Carter's plutonhun plan. prepare to search for Colonel Singh's att acker, while homes raided ILjljJ ANOTHER force' haa appeared in the council elections. After questioa-Ing about 1,000 can-didates, the Non-Smokers' Rights Movement has endorsed 115 metropolitan council hopefuls who rap port restrictions on smoking in public premlsee, restaurants and food shops.

Column 8 has never enjoyed inhaling other people's cigarette smoke, and now wears the movement! badge when dining out. FOOTYMANIA: The deep blue doors of Parramatta Prison are now barred with gold paint, and a for victory. At Taren Point, a delivery man escaped uninjured from a St George territory cake shop, after accidentally delivering a large consignment of blue and gold doughnuts. At Wilson's cake shop. Peak-hurst, the speciality for Saints' supporters is real eel pies.

The cook is reluctant to say how many eels went into the filling, but claims there win be plenty more for the pot by about 5 pm tomorrow. THE Who's Who of tht rag trade were well into their champagne and cake at a party for the Liberty print shop when a Hyde Park possum gatecrashed the celebrations. Tm afraid it has taken quite a muttered director Norman Vivian, as he saw what the nervous beast did tn his display window comer before being evicted. VR Eugene Newman, a history lecturer at Sydney University, is breathing mora easily these days. After a five-year battle, ho has won a test case in tho Supreme Court against his rejection by the State Superannuation scheme on the ground of his asthma.

Mr Justice Sheppard overturned the Superannuation Board's decision, enabling Dr Newman to receive limited benefits. And the board will be getting a bill for court costs which he estimates at $6,000. A HARE and a fox share the winter fastness of the Snowy Mountains' Blue Lake. Column 8 spotted them separately on two trips five weeks apart, and marvels at the long, game life they have been playing out, up there in the wild, white wilderness. Arts 8 Births, Deaths, etc 16 Comics, 20 Federal Parliament 10 Finance 13, 14 Fishing 15 Gardening 12 Law Notices 10 Look! 12 Lotteries (7101, 2916) 17 Mails 14 Radio 15 Shipping 14 Snow report 14 Sport 20-22 Television 20 Weather 20 FORT DENISON: High 10.00 am (1.6 metres), 10.21 pm (1.5 metres).

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Tfear A aVBiavauaKfcl mm ti. ACT police A Photo-fit pictu.ra of the wanted man. wmmwi', iwiMtn From our Diplomatic Reporter CANBERRA. Police are searching for a -blond, bearded, young man who the Indian High Commissioner believes tried to assassinate his military attache early yesterday. Grand Final fever The experts call the odds tor tomorrow's League grand final.

Plus a who's who guide to the rival teams. Page 21-22. Strong arm of the Law? Graham Williams looks at the policies of the NSW Chief Justice. Page 7. Where travel is a serious business.

Yvonne Preston's report in Herald Travel. Page n. Tomorrow prize Lenore Nicklin heads down the competition trail tn Phona 20944 to hava lh Hmrrntd If Msiw Grand final nationwide The ABC agreed on terms with the NSW Rugby League yesterday to telecast live tomorrow'- grand final at the SCO and the match will now be carried by ATN Channel 7 and the ABC national network. PAGES 21, 22: Preview of the grand final. Lift strike off, then on again Page 3 TODAY'S Metropolitan: Cool.

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sect tralia in an attempt to defame the organisation. Ananda Marga (path of bliss) was started in India in 1955. Mr Ajmani told the Herald that he had asked the Australian Government for police protection for all Indian diplomats in Australia and for police to guard buildings and offices of major Indian organisations until the would-be assassin was caught. The incident is the latest of a number which started with picketing of the High Commission early this year by members of the Ananda Marga in protest at the jailing of their leader in India. Other incidents were: August 24: The Air India offices in Sydney were splattered with blood by a member of the Ananda Marga movement.

August 26: A pig's head was left in the office of the Indian Consul-General in Sydney. August 29: The Indian High Commission Chancery was severely damaged by a fire. Arson Squad detectives still have not established the cause of the fire which caused damage estimated at $250,000. September 2 to 11: The home of the Indian Consul-General in Sydney was pelted with stones almost nightly. Mr Ajmani did not believe the attack on Colonel Singh was a personal vendetta.

"It seems there is some unseen hand operating," he said. Colonel Singh underwent emergency surgery in the Woden Valley Hospital and late yesterday was in a satisfactory condition in the intensive care ward. Mrs Singh was treated for shock and bruises she suffered when she helped her husband overpower their abductor during the struggle in the car. Mrs Singh told reporters yesterday that she had seen the would-be assassin near their house in Endeavour Street, Red Hill, earlier this week. Armed police guards have been posted at all the homes of Indian High Commission diplomatic personnel.

KH-laaBBjBBJaBBl Ml an RAAF helicopter joins the Colonel Iqbal Singh al activity unless certain demands were met. "One letter speaks of demands for the release of a so-called leader of an organisation called Ananda Marga which has a number of followers and adherents in Australia," Mr Ajmani said. The Foreign Minister, Mr Peacock, told Parliament yesterday that he deplored the incident and that the acting secretary of his department, Mr P. G. Henderson, had expressed the Government's deep regret to the High Commissioner.

The Government had promised to do all in its power to apprehend the person re; sponsible. The manhunt for the attacker, described by police as male, blondish, bearded, medium-built, in his mid-twenties and about 154 centimetres tall, spread to NSW, Victoria and Queensland after he eluded ACT police. A team of ACT and Commonwealth Police used an RAAF helicopter and two RAAF tracker dogs in a search for the man. Commonwealth Police also raided private homes and premises used by members of the Ananda Marga, a religious sect, in Canberra but found nothing to implicate the organisation. An official of the movement, Mr Tim Anderson, denied yesterday that the Ananda Mara had any involvement in the attack on Colonel Singh.

He claimed that agents of the Indian intelligence organisation were operating in Aus- 1 in i i involved in NSW and Queensland would include the Transport Workers' Union, the Australian Railways Union and the Waterside Workers' Federation. The TWU and the ARU voted yesterday against the referendum proposal, supporting' instead a nova for a total ban on mining. -The proposed ballot would not be extended to the workers at Mary Kathleen mining the ore. If the Government changes its mind and agrees to a referendum, the ACTU wants a ban on additional mining ventures for 12 months to allow a full public debate. During time it wants the Government to ensure, through a uranium advisory council, that equal amounts of money, organisation and time will be available to the opposing camps to put their case to the public.

It proposes that the questions in the referendum be phrased in consultations between the Government, the Opposition and the ACTU. The result of the referendum would be regarded by the trade-union movement as binding on all. Three amendments moved during yesterday's debate showed, as Mr Hawke had earlier explained, the division in the union movement and even in the ACTU executive. The main opposition was sponsored by the ARU, the Building Workers' Industrial Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights' Union. They sought an indefinite ban on mining in line with ALP policy and also wanted a ban on existing contracts.

The president of the Australian Workers' Union, Mr Williams, who is an executive member, moved for mining to be continued. Another executive member, Mr John Morris, secretary of the NSW branch of the Liquor Trades Union, wanted only a six-month public debate. The Congress defeated the proposal for an indefinite ban 493-371. The two other amendments were defeated on the voices and the executive Ttsolption was carried on the voices: The executive itself was divided on the issue by 10 votes to six. Two of the executive could not be seen when the vote was taken.

CANBERRA. The, Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, warned yesterday that the Government was prepared to go to the polls on following the decision of the ACTU Congress go 'try; to force a referendum the Government. Anthony said: "If the ACTU' is going to challenge the authority, if they are 'Challenge The position of Mr C. O. Dolan, senior vice- president of the ACTU, again showed the split that exists over the uranium issue.

As a member of the executive he supported its resolution But as Federal secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, and one of its delegates, he voted against the resolution. The timetable for the debate and referendum was contained in an addendum to the executive resolution moved by the secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, Mr C. Fitzgibbon. The addendum, which was adopted, contained a clause which brought the ACTU resolution more in line with official ALP policy. The clause said that if there was a campaign, the ACTU would advocate and support the concept of a continuing ban on uranium mining and export until the community was satisfied that adequate safeguards had been developed and introduced.

The four-hour debate was for the most part quiet and orderly. Only speeches by Mr Hawke and his opponent, Mr J. Halfpenny, federal vice-president of the AMWSU brought lively responses. Mr Hawke brought joint bursts of booing and clapping from the delegates during a voice-breaking 40 minute summation. Later, tired but relaxed at a press conference, Mr Hawke said that if the Government would not allow the public to decide the issue then the rank and file, those in the front line, would have to decide whether to provide their labour.

Mr Hawke said he always had the view that the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was trying to play politics on the matter. He said the possibility of the Government using troops had "worried the life out of me." He said he believed this would occur because the ACTU had been told in 1976 that this was the Government' intention. going to cause disruption and chaos, if they are going to prevent the Australian Government honouring obligations internationally, then it could be the only way of resolving the issue by an election." He said on ABC-TVs This Day Tonight a referendum was not the correct way of deciding the issue. "It is up to the Australian people now to decide whether V'4 Mrs Singh! wife of Colonel Singh. in Red Hill, Canberra, first attacked.

Dame Peggy returns Dame Peggy van Praagh will assume her former role as artistic director of The Australian Ballet for a year from January 1. She will replace Anne Wool-liams, whose resignation was accepted by the company last month after a conflict between artistic and administrative Dame Peggy, 66, was sole artistic director of The Australian Ballet from 1962 to 1965, shared the' post with Sir Robert Helpmann from 1965 to 1974, then retired because of ill-health. says up to the Australian people. "Let them decide." Mr Anthony also issued a prepared statement rejecting the ACTU decision. He said a referendum or ban on mining and exporting would make no contribution to solving this great international issue.

"The decision today by the ACTU Congress is disturbing and irresponsible in that it The attache, Colonel Iqbal Singh, was severely wounded when an intruder broke into his house, stabbed him in the chest while he slept, and later abducted him and his wife at gunpoint. Colonel Singh grappled with and overpowered his attacker on the outskirts of Canberra after being forced to drive with a gun at his head. Bleeding from another stab wound he got during the fight, Colonel Singh staggered from his crashed car still clutching his abductor's rifle and persuaded a passing truck driver to take him to police. The attack on Colonel Singh and his wife who also was bruised in the fight in the car has shocked the diplomatic community in Canberra. The High Commissioner, Mr J.

C. Ajmani, said that if it had not been for a thick quilt on Colonel Singh's bed, which partly deflected the knife thrust, the attacker would have killed the attache. He would not speculate on who was responsible for the attack but said that it appeared to be part of a continuing campaign by a. group or some individuals, against the Indian Government. "We have strong suspicions against some strong elements who do not conceal their attempts to settle any political argument or demand by re- sort to violence and terror," Mr Ajmani said.

He said he had received letters from certain organisations threatening internation- threatens Australia's international reputation and challenges the rights and responsibilities of the democratically elected national Government. 'The Congress made its decision in the full knowledge that the decision would be rejected by the Government "If there is now to be any suggestion of confrontation, it should be clearly understood that the ACTU is initiating the confrontation." Anthony Colonel Singh's home where he was Phone book in one list CANBERRA. The Sydney telephone directory will revert to listing all subscribers in one list, A to in 1980. The Minister for Post and Telecommunications said yesterday that the change followed market research findings that subscribers preferred the old format. He said that because of the change it might be necessary to split the directory into two volumes.

For 1978 and 1979, the directory will be in two lists, private and business instead of the present surnames and other names. they accept the judgment of the Australian Government, whether they can put trust in the capacity and integrity of the Australian Government, to make the right decision," he said, Mr Anthony told the president of the ACTU, Mr Hawke, "If you are going to challenge us on the right to do that, there is only one way of resolving that, and that is to authority Religious group denies Involvement; Driver tells of sequel Page 2 in.