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2 THE ACE Wednesday, November 8, 1978 250 Spencer Melbourne 60 0421 (Classified 60 0611) 56 Pages 125th Year 14c Arwon turns up trumps for Nowra Quacks and their cures -a dL liOiBiVJi II MS I in A new series on the plight arid the prospects of people without work. 11 Free lift-out guide to the week's TV and radio programmes. By TONY BOURKE Jockey Harry White and trainer George Hanlon both proved a point yesterday when Arwon won the $210,000 Melbourne Cup. It was the third Cup for White and vindication for him following his sacking early this spring as stable rider for top trainer Bart Cummings. And Hanlon was able to erase the memory of Arwon's shock photo finish defeat in the Caulfield Cup.

The race was a triumph for New Zealand. Arwon was bred in New Zealand and Dandaleith. second, and Karu, "third, are both New Zealanders. The HanlonWhite triumph wasjseen bv an on-ctiurse crowd of 77,000 (about 600Q down on last year) and an estimated 3 million viewers who watched the first live telecast. Arwon raced in New Zealand as Flash Guy.

He was renamed after the NSW town of Nowra spelt backwards where his part owner Jack Watson is a local identity. Hanlon was not overly impressed with Arwon when he first took over his training. As recently as August he told owners it would be a waste of money to embark on a Cups quest. But he persevered with the -gelding, giving him plenty of swimming exercises, until the tide turned. Although Arwon's Cup will not go down as one of the greatest, it has earned its place in history as the first to be telecast live in Victoria.

Crowd down Channel 0's telecast was reportedly a huge success and did not have much effect on the attendance. Although the crowd was down, the on-course tote turnover jumped 21.8 per cent or $223,000. The TAB investments were a record $7,257,519.50 compared with $6,711,555 last year and bookmakers' holdings were around the $6 million mark. Dandaleith was ridden by 16-year-old Toby Autridge "who hardly looks big enough to ride a rock-inghorse, let alone a thoroughbred in Australia's greatest race. Even finishing second was the thrill of a lifetime for Toby and 28-year-old trainer Alan Pringle who had never brought a horse to Australia before.

The Karu connections were equally unknown which made the Cup memorable in that Bart Cummings did not feature anywhere. White has never done better since he left Cummings and became a freelance jockey but he probably would have sacrificed his place on top of the jockeys' premiership to win the Cup. Ironically, if White had still been with Cummings he would have been on one of the also-rans yesterday. Health funds plan Federal Cabinet decides to force health funds to pay full benefits to chronicallv ill contributors. 3 Indexation cloud Militant unions are becoming suspicious of pursuing pay claims through the indexation system.

Industrial action is likely. 4 Mafia claim The Mafia is alleged to be behind the drug ring in which three Australians arrested in Bangkok were said to be involved. i Attack 'forced' Labor frontbencher Mr. Eddy says he believes the Social Welfare Minister. Mr.

Dixon, was forced by backbenchers to mount an attack on him. 12 Trial aborted The trial of Edward "Jockey" Smith and two other people is aborted because of a "prejudicial" newspaper article, 15 Red tape poll Most Australians do not think they can influence government decisions, even at the lowest level. 18 ODD SPOT An armed bandit dressed in a jockey cap and checked shirt escaped with $2000 from a Sydney hank yesterday right in the middle of the broadcast of the Melbourne Cup. KARU (Warwick Robinson) 3 DANDALEITH (Toby Autridge) 2 ARWON (Harry White) 1 Somare Canberra seeks a $600 US fare deal umrvival for Business Age 22-26 Sport 28-32 I "5 1ZtxnrckAr From MARK BAKER London Diary 2 Arts 2 World News 6, 7 Letters 10 Access Age 10 Editorials 11 Weather, shipping, law list 14 1 -JK EI Comic Crossword 29 tipping triumph Classified index 33. Personal notices 28.

CULT But he is not expected to indicate whether he will unite with the Opposition or return to the Government until after tomorrow's Cabinet meeting. Meanwhile, the Opposition Leader, Mr. Okuk, called on Mr. Somare to resign, and announced that he would lead a no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister late next week. The PPP walkout was precipitated by a Cabinet reshuffle last week in which three PPP Ministers were demoted and Mr.

Chan lost the forests section of his Primary Industry portfolio. A subdued Mr. Somare tonight told reporters that the split had taken him "Maybe I am too abrupt in my way of doing things. Maybe this time it has cost me," he said. Mr.

Somare said he believed there was still a possibility of reconciliation between Pangu and PPP, but he was prepared to lose office. "I don't think it is important, me being the Prime Minister." Editorial II The Cup was memorable for "The Age' Chief Racing Writer Tony Kennedy it was the 31st he has covered He retires this week. Kennedy could hardly retire on a higher note he tipped the first five winners at Flemington, including Arwon in the Cup, which was easily the best effort of any tipster in Melbourne. More Cup news 4, 5 and 32 Tatts details 19 PORT MORESBY, Nov. 7.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Somare, tonight was fighting for political survival after the break-up of his coalition Government. Negotiations have begun on the formation of a new Government which could end Mr. Somare's 10-year domination of politics in Papua New Guinea. Mr.

Somare has called an emergency Cabinet meeting for 9.30 am tomorrow in ah to persuade the junior coalition partner, the People's Progress Party, to rejoin the Government. At an afternoon Cabinet meeting today, he refused to accept, the resignations of the eight PPP Ministers leaving the door open for reconciliation. But Mr. Somare told Parliament he was still the Prime Minister he was prepared to contemplate a minority Government. The PPP withdrew from the Go- By ROSS WARNEKE The Federal Government wants to cut the minimum return air fare to the US from $1056 to about $600, official sources said yesterday.

The plan will be submitted to a top-level meeting of Australian and US State Department officials in Canberra on Monday. vernment at 11 am leaving Mr. Somare's Pangu Party and independent supporters with only 48 seats in the 109-member Parliament. In an emotional speech to the Parliament, the deputy Prime Minister and PPP leader, Mr. Chan, accused Mr.

Somare of refusing to share power and leading PNG "into a dangerously personalised form of "We (PPP) cannot allow ourselves to be regarded merely as a group to provide the required number to keep our coalition partner in office," Mr. Chan told a stunned House. The Opposition is understood to have offered Mr. Chan the Prime Ministership in a reformed Government. Mr.

Chan told a later Press conference: "We will be prepared to talk with anyone inside or outside Parliament who shares our principles for stable CITY: Few showers. Cool south-west wind. Expected highest temperature 20. (yesterday 25.5). Details 14 SOMAKB CULT CHINESE CARPETS 100 Pure Wod Pile Hand-Made in traditional Sntdang Design- A cloud over PM's future Army kills 5 in Iran riot5 COMMENT, Mark Baker The Federal Government's fare proposal undercuts by about $100 another discount fare plan submitted by Pan Am and the International Air Transport Association.

But it is believed Australia will agree to implement the cheap fare plan only if the US backs down from its plan to allow a second American airline to compete with Qantas across the Pacific from next May. The Transport Department and Qantas want the US to withdraw its approval for Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines to operate in the Pacific or force Pan Am to surrender half its landing rights in Australia to the newcomer. Under the Australian proposal, Qantas would keep 50 per cent of the services across the Pacific and the two US carriers would share the rest. Government sources said in Canberra yesterday cheaper fares would force Qantas to the wall if it was allowed to operate only a third of the flights to the US. Air New Zealand would be forbidden to offer the discounts.

Official sources said this was in retaliation against New Zealand's action earlier this year in agreeing to the Pan Am plan for cheaper Pacific fares and its approval of Continental's plans to service the South Pacific from next May. Low fare plan snag 9 Widow is jailed for forging a will PERTH. A woman who forged a will so she would not lose war mementos belonging to her husband was sentenced in Perth district court yesterday to four years' jail. Barbara Gladys Lees. 64, will have to serve at least six months before parole.

The court was told that she had no intention of using the document for financial gain the object was to stop a relative bothering her for the mementos. Mrs. Lees, a travel consultant, of Wambro Beach Road, Warnbro, had pleaded guilty to forging a document purporting to be the last will and testament of her husband John Bain Lees on May 31 last year Her husband died on May 13. Her counsel, Mr. R.

W. Cannon, said that John Lees had no property or money when he died and the document had not been forged for any financial gain. Under the Administration Mrs Lees would have been entitled anyway to the mementos. An appeal will be lodged against the sentence Sale priced at: $50 36' 6'x9' 4324270 9'xir 5864. $540 until stocks last Political activists and hundreds of thousands of strikers want an end to martial law and are also seeking other concessions.

The new Government is expected to move swiftly today to end the crippling oil industry strike and to push demonstrators off the streets. The military imposed censorship on the local Press, radio and television. There was no censorship of outgoing news despatches. Five editors were arrested and 30 were on a wanted list, accused of inciting public unrest The Shah said: "Insecurity, revolt and vernment in a nation-wide radio address, pledged that past mistakes would not be repeated. The Shah said: Insecurity, revolt and bloodshed had reached a stage in most parts of the country such that our country's independence was But he said the 10-man militarv Government would be only temporary.

In PARIS, the exiled Shi'ite Moslem leader Ayatollah Khomeiny, denounced the formation of a military Government and called on the Iranian people to struggle on until the Shah was PORT MORESBY, Nov. 7. "I don't expect to see sunlight at dawn. It might be raining." With those words Papua New Guinea's deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Chan, today relished his new role as the most sought-after political figure in the country.

He was referring to tomorrow morning's cabinet meeting on which the future leadership of PNG hinges. The decision today by Mr. Chan's People's Progress Party to quit the six-year-old Government coalition has thrown the future of the Prime Minister, Mr. Somare, seriously in doubt. It raises a real prospect of the first "non-Somare" Government in PNG's history.

Unless Mr. Somare can provide the necessary "sunlight" to persuade Mr. Chan to return to the fojd, a new alliance of the PPP and the three Opposition groupings could be ruling PNG by the end of next week. TEHERAN, Nov. 7.

Five people were reported to have died when soldiers fired on a big crowd of demonstrators today in Hamadan, 200 kilometres south west of Teheran. Opposition political sources reported the deaths as riots followed the installation of a military Government, last night. In Teheran, one person died and two were wounded when troops dispersed rioters protesting against the Shah's rule and the appointment of the armed forces Chief of Staff, General Gholam Reza Azhari, 61, to head Iran's new Government Mobs burned and looted banks and liquor stores near Teheran University and in a town near the railway station just outside the capital. The US State Department backed the change to military rule on the grounds that the restoration of law and order was essential if the Shah was to carry out his plan to hold elections for a civilian Government. Orthodox Moslems are demanding an end to the Shah's Westernising reforms which they say are contrary to the teachings of the Koran, the Moslem holy book.

Mr. Somare faces a tough task, and Mr. Chan is playing the game with consummate skill. Today's split comes after a year of increasing ideological polarisation and political conflict between Mr. Somare's Pangu Party and the PPP.

The core issue which led to the split was the leadership code the legislation to ban business activity by leaders which identified the PPP as increasingly a party of business and saw the "emergence of an influential socialist pressure group within Pangu. Even if Mr. Somare can achieve the formidable task of healing the split, the core differences would make future fragmentation almost inevitable. 152 Bourke St Nfelh. 6634193..