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J2THE AGE, Monday 30 1984 7 TV REVIEW WORLD Straight is for Sunday best vide information on the expelled Soviet diplomat Valeriy Ivanov and his relationship with Mr David Combe. Page 1 The father of the Chappell brothers Australia's most famous cricketers died at the weekend. Mr Martin Chappell was prominent in Adelaide cricket circles. Page 25 Radioactive equipment had been dumped at up to 20 locations in the Maralinga region following secret atomic tests in the early 1960s, according to a former RAF technician. Page 1 THE STATE Massage parlor legislation proposed by the State Government is being challenged by the South Melbourne Council which is planning to revoke' permits for two massage parlors.

Page 3 damien mmmfi) About 1M well-dressed people attended Sir Garfield Barwick's "garage sale" in Sydney on Saturday, where items being auctioned ranged from a Sir Sidney Nolan painting to a iawnmower. Page 3 A million early retirement scheme for Victoria's railways has caused staff shortages, forcing the Government to hire 123 extra railway workers in recent weeks.Page 3 China has censored President Rea-r for the second time in two days, provoking an incident which threat- ens to overshadow his six-day visit. h- pe 1 if A' Jaguar being built on a two-fifths s-scale for Prince William's second birthday, is going to cost more than the real thing. Page 7 Jritish police believe they have -identified the killer of the polices-woman Yvonne Fletcher through the Use of highly sophisticated eavesdropping devices aimed from the Libyan People's Bureau in London. Page 8 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is still publicly hailed as "the leader" of Libya, but there are signs that his regime faces potentially serious trouble.

Page 8 Vietnam and the Soviet Union joined in air exercises, which ob- -servers believe were a "show of strength" to the two nations' ies. Page Wall Street trading recoiled on Fri-i Jay after news that the US trade had blown out to. a record i 5US10.3 billion the third consecu-5 five monthly record deficit giving 5 rise to fears 1984 could be the year on record for US trading. Page 22 Short-burning cigarettes may reduce the number of fire-related deaths in Australia. Cigarettes are said to be the leading cause of fire-related deaths and casualties.Page 3 Fun times with the family cockatoo WHILE Sunday morning television is in the grip of God, Saturday morning belongs to animated idiots and super-heroes.

Weekly my children sit transfixed, gazing silently at their weekend icons. For once (once only) I joined the vigil, just in time to catch the end of The Flint-stones' (Channel 7 at 8am). As usual, the dreadful Fred was displaying his insensitive Cro-Magnetic personality. "Wil-maaaaaaaaaaaaa, open this door?" he cried, forever outwitted by his crafty dinosaur. Not long after this came 'He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'.

In terms of bombastic self-indulgence, He-Man rivals only Fred Flintstone. "I am the power!" he intoned at maybe 200 decibels, pausing only to save the world and poke his pectorals into another planet's business. Leaving such Hanna-Barbarity behind. I turned to the saner world populated by Heckle and Jeckle, those two long-nosed, animated magpies (Channel 9 at 8.30). "We don't need money, old friend," said Heckle to Jeckle (or was it Jeckle to "After all, this is a cartoon." Truer words have seldom been spoken, especially by a celluloid magpie who looks like a cross between a nun and Concorde.

By now, my children had forsaken Heckle and Jeckle to play with our real-life cockatoo. I remained, trance-like, in front of another cartoon, 'Superfriends' (Channel 10 at 8.30), in which Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and the Invisible Man fought for truth, justice, and survival between the commercial breaks and promos. Finally, I turned to The Gary Coleman Show' back on Nine. That did it here was the cartoon version of the dreaded Arnold, of 'Diffrent Strokes'. This time, however, he is twice as obnoxious, five times as cute in the guise of an angel doing good on Earth.

"Gee Wow! Huh Heyyyyy! Uh-oh," said Angel Arnold, by way of communication. I joined the children and the cockatoo. MICHAEL SHMITH PHALLOCRYPTS are a must on tourists' shopping lists in Papua New Guinea. This is a polite anthropological word for the penis gourds fetching about $2.25 each in Port Moresby tourist traps. They come from the Telefomin district in the West Sepik province on the PNG-Irian Jaya border.

They are made by cutting the top of a gourd, removing the seeds and letting it dry close to a fire. The locals wear the long straight penis gourds during traditional dancing-sings-ing, and the curly one is used for everyday wear. Melbourne-born Terry Tralnor, who has worked in PNG as a teacher and public servant for more decades than he cares to remember, is now based at Van-imo on the north-west coast. He recently took a friend from Rabaul to Telefomin to try on the local culture. However, the Tolai were slightly embarrassed about posing with the accoutrement, so Mr Trainor, wishing to lend some moral support, stripped off and strapped on.

As the camera never lies, the resulting photograph of the duo presented some problems. Development at Lae, Madang or Port Moresby was out (Mr Trainor considered himself too well known). So too was his former "tokplace" of Melbourne, so he sent his film to Kodak in Sydney. It was returned with a letter from a former Lae missionary in PNG now processing for Kodak in Sydney which began: "Dear Terry, so pleased to see you embracing local customs at last Rascals at large PAPUA New Guinea is a police reporter's paradise. The local newspapers are filled each day with stories of rape and robbery, and the first thing a visitor to Port Moresby notices are the "boy fences" to keep the "rascals" at bay, the guard dogs and hire cars with burglar alarms.

A rundown of a police blotter in newspapers over the past few days goes like this: A woman was raped by a gang at Port Moresby while her husband was porting an upsurge in trading with people beginning to return to the still-threatened town (there was a deal of seismic activity over Easter and an earthquake measuring 5.4 on a Richter scale on Friday). Trading companies such as Burns Philp, Steamships and Foodland have all reported slight improvements, but Burns Philp, branch manager Len Osborne says he does not see a return to normal business until June. Thy name is mud EVERY photographer worth his or her salt is hoping to get a picture of Pope John Paul II with the mudmen of Gor-oka, where the pontiff will say Mass for an expected 500,000 people at Mount Ha-gen on Tuesday week. But the credit card company, MasterCard, went to Central Casting in Sydney for the mudmen who feature in its television commercials across Australia. Rather than travel to the PNG highlands, the company shot the commercial in the wilds of the Channel 9 parking lot in Sydney.

The mudmen were recruited from local Fijians, Indians and Aborigines. MasterCard says it is more widely accepted around the world than any other credit card. Except in Goroka Back to business WHERE business goes, banks are sure to follow and Westpac and the Papua New Guinea Banking Corporation, both of which evacuated staff to Port Moresby and Lae some time ago, plan to send them back to Rabaul next month. With all attention focused on the possibility of an eruption at Rabaul, a volcano on Nanam Island off the PNG north coast between Wewak and Madang has been narrowly blowing its top for some time. Third-level airline operators have been taking tourists on charter flights over the island at sunset to see the molten lava and belching smoke.

The Federal Public Service Board wants a 13 per cent pay rise for heads of Government departments to give them parity with private sector salaries for business executives. Page 4 Money from the $2590 million Bicentennial Roads program should be diverted to areas of greater social need, a Left-wing Government backbencher said yesterday. Page 4 in Port Moresby held at bay by a man holding an axe. A chairman of the National Broadcasting Commission, Mr Austin Sapias and his family barricaded themselves inside, their Port Moresby home while "rascals" threw stones and bottles. The men had been disturbed by security men while trying to break in, and after a brief fist-fight, guards were routed by a horde of rascals.

It was the fourth break-in in 12 months for the Sapias household. Five men were charged with stealing a car last Thursday. It happened to have a registration number 'MP 23' and is the official car of the Minister for Religion, Women, Youth and Recreation, Mr Awasa. Two men were shot in a gunfight outside Lae last week. Moses Wulipa and a relative, Kal Kamang, were admitted to the local hospital where the medical superintendent, Dr Manase Saott, said Wulipa was complaining of "severe abdominal pain" caused by the gunfire.

Relief for Rabaul THESE have been dark days for Rabaul in East New Britain. The volcano-threatened town has been on a stage-two emergency since October. In that time, it has endured the mass exodus of "expats" (Europeans), the evacuation of thousands of nationals and a scandal over the Government's handling of the emergency. But the lights are starting to come back in Rabaul. Business houses are re Three fatal accidents at the weekend have boosted the State's road toll to 218 seven more than at the same time last year.

Page 5 TODAY'S EVENTS THE NATION The cost of road crashes to Australia is at least $3000 million annually or 2 per cent of GNP figures released by the Office of Road Safety show. Page 5 POLITICS: Federal Cabinet meets tomorrow in Canberra. LAUNCH: The State Youth. Sport and Recreation Minister, Mr Trezise. will launch a new fitness complex at the Display Centre at the State Bank Centre on the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets at 1 pm.

EXHIBITION: The Lord Mayor of Sydney and the Lord Mayor of Wellington in New Zealand will open a photographic exhibition of the 1984 Festival of Sydney and OTC House in Sydney at 11.15 am. INQUIRY: The Jackson inquiry continues on the 4th floor of the Slate Bank building. 1 Oxford Street, Sydney at 10 am. SPORT: The TAB covers harness racing at Moonee Valley and greyhounds at Olympic Park. The Attorney-General, Senator Ev-? 'arts, said yesterday it was "perfectly '-proper" for Mr Justice Murphy to i his views on the need to pro-7 j'ect personal privacy.

Page 1 An important Soviet defector made a secret visit to Australia last year to i brief ASIO on the KGB and to pro The Government may move to control cut-price health packages if they lure enough people to force up contribution rates under other schemes. Page 15 A CRITICAL GUIDE TO TODAY'S PElGEUtf3S Channel 7 Channel 2 Channel 9 Channel 10 jjONWCoT' MORNMQ MOfttBNG THE AGE PRICES Racommtnd' ana" Maximum only MONDAY TO FRIDAY Victoria and Sttm. NSW by road South-Eattam SA by road Brokan Hill by road ACT. Taamania. King and Flindara la.

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19.N Linus The Lion Hearted (R). 1940 Fat Cat And Friends. 11.99 Good Morning Melbourne AFTERNOON 1199 Movie: Angel Face (PGR) (R). 2.00 The FBI (PGR) (R). 3.99 Mission Impossible (PGR) (R).

4.N Simon Town-send's Wonder World (R). 5.00 The Brady Bunch (R). 549 The Perfect Match Clarify 12.00 Four Corners (R). 12.45 Weekend Magazine (R). 1.00 News.

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(AO) 9.39 Willesee 7.30 First Contact Documentary recording the reactions of New Guinea stone-age Highlanders when they met the first Europeans to enter their domain. COO Six Of The Best 6.30 Doctor Who (R) 6.54 Take 5 7.00 News, Sport And Weather 7.30 A Fine Romance. Slow but occasionally amusing British comedy about a mismatched pair of middle-aged lovers. In tonight's episode Laura's parents visit them. (PGR) 7.55 To The Manor Born (R) 8.30 Nationwide A simple test win show how It could help you FREE OFFER CaH, write, phone or post coupon tor your tree replica (non-operating model), and booklet of me Amazing Slip-in Hearing Capsule.

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Entertaining American Tonight J.R. employs a private detective to uncover the spy organisation. (PGR) 8.39 Movie: Dr No, the 1963 adventure in which British secret agent James Bond investigates a series of murders in Jamaica, and discovers a nuclear base established to divert rockets from Cape Canaveral. It stars Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. (PGR) (R) 19.35 Kung Fu (PGR) (R) 11.49 Nightmoves (AO) AM 1.15 Keep It In The Family (R) 1.45 Close 19.99 Tonight With Bert New Sick and tired of conrouter corrroanies talk ahnut 9.00 Special Pensioner Concession.

Cly i ton. Talk-and-vanety show that is struggling for the appropriate format. More changes are planned for tonight Name anj Address TOP QUALITY FROM THAILAND THAILAND TRADE DISPLAY (FOR TRADE ONLY) World Trade Centre, Melbourne 8-10 May 1984, 12 noon-5 pm daily From Thailand comes a varied selection of products that could become good sellers for trade buyers and agents. Silverplated tableware. Stainless steel kitchenware.

Split system air-conditioners. Rubber products. Teak tiles. Teak picture frames. Wooden occasional furniture.

Childrens-wear. Dehydrated tropical fruit. Canned vegetables and fruit. Come and see how they can boost your turnover. INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Concourse Level, Customs House, 8.39 Cop Shop.

Weary Australian police drama serial. Tonight a member of a bi-kie gang terrorises a young Riverside couple. (PGR) 19.39 Newsworld 11.95 Falcon Crest American soapie based on the California wine-growing industry. Tonight Julia begins psychiatric treatment in the hope that therapy will expediate her release from prison. (PGR) AM 12.05 Teacher's Only (PGR) 12.35 Close Minder.

Witty British comedy-drama starring George Cole and Dennis Waterman as his Tonight Terry is driving for an ex-criminal when jewellery owned by the man's mistress is (S) 11.09 Hawaii Five-0 (PGR) (R) AM 12.99 Movie: Project (PGR) EH1GU5 (R) US Movie: Sangaree (PGR) (R) 3.49 Movie: The Astonished Heart (PGR) (R) 5.19 Big Valley (PGR) (R) 9.50 News And Weather 10.00 Soccer 11.00 Close rnfiTct solutions for your business? Well, now you can see the solutions in action. Over 20 independent software and hardware vendors are putting their solutions where others only put their mouths. Where you can see them working. All under one roof at Solution Showcase 84. Application areas on show include financial modelling, relational database management, manufacturing, graphics, project control, mining and exploration and data encryption.

Also on show will be the Data General Office Automation package. As part of the Showcase, two days of seminars will be held with the theme Towards Future Solutions'. Eleven noted authorities will conduct sessions on a wide range of subjects including auditing, CAD, robotics and the advanced new programming language, ADA. For a seminar programme, just telephone Data General on (03) 831 3219. Admittance is free but please Ok UUUItSl Oats UULLinadl.

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5.39 Everybody Here. British children's series. Melbourne, victona 3005. JM Phone (03)611 3555 1978 American drama about a group of Norwegian peasant farmers who settled in the United States in 1915 and established the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota. It stars Robert Behling and Susan Lynch.

ries based on the book by Jack London. (Italian) 7.09 International Sports Magazine. The Senior National Judo Titles and the Sydney Triathlon from Narrabeen lakes. 7.39 News with George Donikian. 8.00 Issues '84.

Series of public affairs programs, hosted by Margaret Throsby. 840 Movie: Northern Lights a vat, register now to ensure you get a seat. Our TV stars, as selected by 'The Age' TV writer, Brian Courtis, rate as follows: Worth considering Excellent Not to be missed 3 EVENING DATA GENERAL SOLUTION SHOWCA SF 19.19 News And Weather 19.15 The Young And The Old. E'84. Moan I I V) W0RLD TRADE CENTRE, MELBOURNE MAY 1ST.2ND 3RD 6.90 Rock Around The World 6.39 Martin Eden.

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