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12 HOME NEWS Mafia? cakh Young 'not problem wrsis3iw'-'ff hi 7 Herring's remarks Hactless' inquiry drugs' on runs into trouble! Victoria's drug problem was not young narcotic addicts but middle-aged barbiturate abusers, the chairman of the Mental Health Authority (Dr. Alan Stoller) said yesterday. "Young drug-users create the most emotion in the community but not the biggest English is their objective CANBERRA. More than 30,000 migrant children in Australia are learning English under the Commonwealth Government's child migrant education programme. The programme, which started in April, 1970, already costs more than twice the initial annual estimates.

The Minister for Education and Science (Mr. Fraser) said yesterday that in 1971-72, the programme cost the Commonwealth $3.26 million, compared with $1.85 million in the previous financial year. "It seems clear the programme will again expand in the next 12 Mr. Fraser said. "The Commonwealth recognised the special problems of migrant children and decided to help them overcome those arising from language difficulties." Mr.

Frasersaid there were now more than 800 special teachers more than one-third of them in Victoria at State and independent schools throughout Australia teaching the children English. The Commonwealth paid their salaries and paid for equipment; "Last December the Commonwealth acknowledged the State Governments' special problem of primary and secondary school building and provided S20 million to help." Mr. Fraser said the amount would be greatly expanded next July so that $167 million would be provided over a five-year period. "This will enable new schools to be built in the rapidly developing areas and old schools to be replaced in the inner suburbs of our great cities," Mr. Fraser said.

CANBERRA. The Treasurer (Mr. Sned-den) expects to receive within a few days a Treasury-Reserve Bank report about possible investment In Australia of Mafia money from overseas. A The Treasury and Reserve Bank officials are having great difficulty in tracing the extent of this investment, which Commonwealth police believe is taking place. that he had carried out a An inter department survey of club operations mittee including represen- msw The Acting State Opposition Leader (Mr.

Wilkes) yesterday criticised the Lieutenant Governor (Sir Edmund Herring) for statements he made in opening the Victorian RSL's annual conference. Sir Edmund said: "There are a lot of people opposed to all sorts of things which they don't seem to know anything about. "But that doesn't seem to stop them getting on with their protest. "People who throw stones at Americans should stop and think where we would have been if it wasn't for the Americans in 1942. "We have got to try to help young people to understand that these wars were fought for them." Sir Edmund praised the role of Australian soldiers in Vietnam.

'They've done a great job, the boys who have gone to Vietnam. I'm sure they, will do a good job in the RSL." Mr. Wilkes said it was "untactful" of Sir Edmund as a representative of the Crown to make political pronounce ments. "Members of the Liberal Government and the acting Premier (Mr. Hamer) have said from time to time that people have the right to protest peacefully," Mr.

Wilkes said. "There are peaceful protests all over the world today. The only way people can show disagreement or disenchantment is by protest." Mr. Wilkes said it was not approprl-' ate for the Acting Governer "to want to discourage peaceful protest in a democratic society." tatives of the Prime There was no hint of problem, he said. Dr.

Stoller recently returned from a three-month world tour, during which he studied the problems of drug abuse in Britain and the United States. "The drug problem here is tiny compared to London or New York," he said. He said the authority was at present carrying out a survey on the number of people addicted to narcotics. He also said he did not thing Melbourne needed a methadone programme such as Sydney's for the treatment of heroin addicts. "There is just not the need here," he said.

"We already treat hard addict cases with this drug. "But the problem is you are replacing one addictive drug with another." Methadone is a synthetic analgesic used extensively in Britain and the United States to help people get over hard-drug addiction. but it is also addictive. (In Monday's "Age" it was reported 30 people were on methadone treatment in Sydney.) Dr. Stoller said the authority had used methadone in many cases to ease heroin withdrawal symptoms, but in only one case as a continuing treatment.

He said of an estimated 250 people in Victoria on narcotics, only a small number would be hard-drug addicts. "But by the end of the year we will have facilities to treat drug dependants." He said the State Government was spending $250,000 on a centre for alcoholics and drug abusers at the Pleasant View Hospital, Preston. "This will be an out-. Eatient clinic and 14-bed ospital," he said. "Apart from the we will also be treating the middle-aged barbiturate abusers," he said.

1V Suzanne Dudley's lovely smile is a smile of success. She has just landed her first professional stage role as Fiona in the SL Martin's Theatre production of the musical "Salad Days" which opens next Wednesday. Suzanne, 21, of South Yarra, was a student at the St. Martin's Theatre School last and has played in amateur productions for two years. organised crime and scandal in NSW: clubs.

He collected his information on the NSW setup through the Australian general manager for Bally, he said. He has discussed his company with senior police and NSW Government officials. He intended to hand over company records to NSW authorities. "Our. company is publicly owned by 8000 people in the United States with a 550 million-a-year business and we can't stand by and listen to these innuendoes," he said.

"As a United States Investigator for 10 years, I know who the Mafia ts and I know where they are." Asked if he knew whether the Mafia was in Sydney, Mr. Tomlinson said it had been and gone, but its influence could have stayed. BOOM DAYS OVER FOR BScs Minister's Department, the Attorney-General's Department and the Treasury has also been examining the problem. Government officials believe the main interest of Mafia or Mafia-type foreign operators is in such fields as poker machines and organised club entertainment, fn NSW. If the present inquiry can establish what' money is coming into Australia from these sources the Government will have to decide what steps to take to stem it.

The use of exchange controls would be one method, but this could be difficult to apply in. practice because police invests gations so far suggest that the money is entering the country for apparently lawful purposes. The U.S.-based Bally Poker Machine Corporation flew one of its top lawyers to Sydney this week to deny charges that the company was Mafia-controlled. The lawyer, Mr. William Tomlinson, 35, said yesterday: "I am definitely not the man from Mafia." Mr.

Tomlinson is a former chief attorney for the U.S. Justice Department and headed Government investigation into organised crime and racketeering for 10 years. He joined the Bally Corporation last July as general counsel. "I am here to tell everyone that the company is not Mafla-controlled," he said. "I gave evidence before the New York State commission into gambling last November.

My company welcomes control of gambling. "In fact, we believe that the legislation and control of gambling in NSW is the best in the world." Mr. Tomlinson told the commission in New York THKKK'S UW TO till AT XTOItES! BEDROOi.1 ELEGANCE IN SUPERB FRENCH VM1UT FIN! The time when science and engineering graduates could choose from a wide variety of jobs ihas ended, a university professor said yesterday. The professor of physical metallurgy at Melbourne University (Professor M. E.

Hargreaves) told a student forum that the boom days that began in the late 1950s and created an enormous demand for science and engineering graduates had eased. "The -supply and demand in engineering has iust about equalised," he said. "However, among the scientists there may he some people who will have difficulty in finding the sort of job that ey imagined they were going to get." There was a lot of nonsense being talked about doctors of philosophy being unemployed. "They are only unemp'oy-abie if they make themselves so," he said. "Some think that because they have been given specialist training in a narrow field the world owes them a living to go on with that speciality." Drowning figures 'inaccurate' A swimming pool manuface turer said yesterday that figures quoted in th Coroner's Court on drownings in pools were grossly inaccurate.

It was said in the court recently that the Govern-, ment Statistician's figures showed that of 48 drownings in Victoria this year, about half were in backyard pools. The manager of Mutual Pools (Mr. Geoff Sweetnam) said yesterday there had been 51 drownings so far this year and only eight were in backyard pools. Mr. Sweetman said his firm made below-ground pools and only two drownings had occurred in this type of pool.

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Spassky employed the aggressive Sicilian Defence and showed a willingness to play an attacking game. A marked contrast to his passive play in the first and third game. The champion surprised Fischer with a new opening move, 13 P-QR4, which sacrificed a pawn but gave him two bishops, open lines on Fischer's king and an attack which endured for 20 moves. The challenger defended skilfully, seeking to exchange Spassky's aggressive pieces. He succeeded at the cost of his extra pawn.

And. finally, both players were left with insufficient pieces to force a win. However, just before the exchange of the queens, Spassky missed the chance of a win. With a faulty 29th move he let Fischer escape from a weak position. With a slight transposition of moves, Spassky could have maintained his attack.

Yesterday's moves: P-QB4. 2. P.Q3. 3. P-Q4, PxP.

4. KtxP, Kt-KB3. 5. Kt-QB3, Kt-B3. 6.

B-QB4, P-K3. 7. B-K13, B-K2. 8. B-K3, 0-0.

9. 0-0, P-QR3. 10. P-B4, Kt-Kt. 11.

BxKt, P-QKt4. 12. P-QR3, B-KI2. 13. Q-Q3, P-QR4.

Spassky goes on the attack, threatening P-Kt5 which would drive the white knight from the defence of the KP, and holds B-QR3 in reserve. 14. P-K5, PxP. 15. PxP, Kt-Q2.

16. KtxP, Kt-B4; 17. BxKt. This time Fischer concedes Spassky the bishop pair. The space they control, and the threats they generate, arc well worth the sacrificed pawn.

18. Q-Kt4. 19. QR-Q1, Meeting the double threat of mate and the attack on his KP. 19.

QR-Q1, 20. QR-Q1, RxR. 21. RxR, P-R4! 22. Kt-Q6, B-RI.

23. B-B4, P-R5. 24. P-R3, B-K6. 25.

Q-KI4, QxP. 26. QxRP, P-Kt4. Another fine move, intending K-K12 and R-KR1 bringing his rook into the attack. 27.

Q-Kt4, B-B4. 28. Kt-Kt5, K-Kt2. 29. Kt-Q4, R-Rl This allows Fischer to blunt the attack by exchanging pieces.

30. Kt-B3, BxKt. 31. QxB, B-Q3. 32.

Q-B3 QxQ, 33. PxQ, P-K4. 34. R-Q7, K-B3. 35.

K-Nl, BxP. 36. B-K2, B-K4. 37. K-Bl, R-QB1.

38. B-R3. With mate threatened, Spassky is forced to remove the rooks and, with opposite colored bishops, a draw is the only result. 38. R-B2.

39. RxR, BxR. 40. P-QR4, K-K2. 41.

K-K2, P-B4. 42. K-Q3, B-K4. 43. P-B4, K-Q3.

44. P-B7, B-K16. 45. P-3 Ch. Draw agreed.

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