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LATE EDITION Thursday, July 6, 1972 11 FORECASTS (for 24 hours from 6 am): CITY: Cool, sunny. Max. temps: City 63, L'pool 63. NSW: Few showers Southern Highlands, dry elsewhere. Westerly winds.

(See page 17). uu a j. a 1-1 SUN: Today rises 7.01, sets 4.59. MOON: Rises 1.50 am, sets 12.28 pm. TIDES (Fort Denison): Hich 3.28 am (1.2m 3.9ft), 4.09 pm (1.6m 5.2ft).

Low, 9.25 am (0.4m 1.3ft), 10.49 pm (0.4m 1.3ft). No. 41,982 Telephone 2 0944 First published 1831 34 PAGES SEVEN CENTS MR TANAKA WINS DECISIVELY com III A. KaaA AKK Mi i Hill ALP Banzai! aids RHODESIA OFFICIALS Evonne 1 resisted fights back, wins 2-1 3 to lose Aust papers aiiii i i cJoar ge VLADIMIR PETROV is the author of a letter in the latest issue of "Problems of Communism," a bulletin published by the US Information Agency. But he's not the Vladimir Petrov who spied on Australia for Russia before defecting sensationally in .1954.

The letter-writing Petrov, who also came from Russia, is Professor of International Relations at the George Washington University, Washington, DC. He has reason to remember that other Petrov, he told our New York office. Ten years ago a Baltimore newspaper published an article on Petrov the spy, illustrated with Professor Petrov's portrait. 1 IUOV1D By a Staff Correspondent The Attorney-General, Senator Greenwood, accused the Labor Party yesterday of harbouring the draft resister Barry Johnston and concealing him from the law. He strongly rejected the ALP Federal executive's charges that the Government allowed Mr Johnston to go free for political motives.

"They are demonstrably untrue and you and your party must be aware of this," he said. The Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, said in Brisbane last night that the ALP was in a "frightful mess" over draft resisters. He told a Liberal Party dinner: "They have confirmed now that they not only want to abandon National Service but are determined to breach the law." 'Disgraceful' Japan's new Prime Minister, Mr Kakuei Tanaka, shouts "banzai" gleefully on Japan's 'new broom5 PI LONDON, Wednes day. Evonne Goolagong fought back to win the second set after losing the hrst against Chris Evert in their semi-final at Wimbledon today. She went on to take the match 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Miss Goolagong had begun shakily. Appearing to lack concentration, Miss Goolagong dropped service in the second set to trail 0-3. But in the fourth game of the second set she began to come from the baseline to volley at the net with greater assurance. She won six successive games to take the set 6-3. In a tense final set of see-sawing fortunes Miss Evert's sparkling passing shots came too sparsely.

Miss Goolagong's surer placement over long rallies and more powerful service prevailed. Full report, 11, Section 2. Nader a paid pot-stirrer, says PM BRISBANE, Wed nesday. The Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, attacked Mr Ralph Nader today as a paid "pot-stirrer." Mr McMahon, who was speaking at an impromptu press conference at the airport shortly before meeting the US consumers' advocate, said: "He has been here for 24 hours and has set himself up as judge of Australia without a proper knowledge of the country and its people. "Mr Nader will be paid the normal courtesies as a visitor, but an Australian who went to America and started the same criticisms as he has done here would not be well received." The Prime Minister said he would not be swayed by anything Mr Nader said.

Mr McMahon later met Mr Nader in his room at Lennon's Hotel. They talked for about an hour and a half. Mr McMahon would not speak to reporters after the meeting, but a member of his staff said the meeting had been harmonious and informative to both parties. Mr Nader said the plight of Australia's Aborigines had been discussed. He would issue a statement on the meeting tomorrow.

Later, Mr Nader addressed a meeting of 6,000 university students. TOKYO, Wednesday. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party elected Mr Kakuei Tanaka, 54, Prime Minister of Japan today in a break with past policies of dependence on the United States and aloofness to China. LOOK! Greer challenged Six months after Ger-maine Greer barnstormed Australia with her views on women's liberation, another Australian, Professor Coral Lansbury (above), returns home with her message for women. She disagrees with Greer and the sexual feminists and explains why.

Her views are in the LOOK! lift-out with today's "Herald." Still no start to chess REYKJAVIK (Ice land), future of the world chess championship remains in doubt. Spokesmen for the US challenger, Bobby Fis cher, said they would meet advisers of the world champion, Boris Spassky, again today. Fischer was "ready and eager to start play," they said. Spassky has demanded that Fischer be punished for breaking the rules of the match and apologise for failing to arrive for the first scheduled game on Sunday. Spassky said today that he did not plan to walk out of the match and would play "if we can just find a solution." Picture, 5 Tax-free millions? The six directors of a Sydney property development company and three other major shareholders are to receive $5.58 million cash this year and all of it is likely to be tax-free.

Details in Finance, P14, Section 2. LATE NEWS it Senator Greenwood was replying in Canberra, for the Government, to an open letter sent to the Prime Minister on Tuesday by the ALP executive. He described the letter as "deceitful and disgraceful." The text of Senator Greenwood's telegram was released late yesterday afternoon. The telegram, addressed to the ALP Federal secretary, Mr M. J.

Young, said: "I refer to your open letter concerning Mr Johnston conveyed to the Prime Minister by telegram on July 4. "This must surely be the most deceitful and disgraceful statement that has ever been made by the Australian Labor Party. "I emphatically deny your allegations. They are demonstrably untrue and you and the leaders of your party must be aware of this. "The fact is that the Government has consistently sought to apprehend Mr Johnston and others like him who appear to avoid their National Service obligations.

The Government does so not only because it upholds the law, but also because it is fair to all those who accept their responsibilities and obey the law. "You can be assured that the Government will continue to enforce the law fairly, impartially and to the limit of our capacity. "The peopie of Australia, and in particu Air Vice-Marshal Hawkins Colonel Knox Mr O'Donnell CANBERRA, Wednesday. The Federal Government has re fused to renew the passport of an Austra lian who has become the secretary of the Rhodesian Department of External Affairs. It will also refuse to renew the passports of two other Australians, who hold diplomatic posts for the Rhodesian Government, when their documents expire.

The Government's de-c i i announced tonight, follows a complaint to Australia by the Government of Ghana. Mr S. O'Donnell, the secretary of the Rhodesian Department of External Affairs, applied for renewal of his Australian passport when it expired on June 23. The Minister for Immigration, Dr Forges, said tonight it would not be renewed because Mr O'Donnell was serving a Government not recognised by Australia. The two other people involved are the former Chief of the Rhodesian Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal H.

Hawkins, now diplomatic representative of Rhodesia in South Africa, and Lieutenant Colonel W. Knox, diplomatic representative in Portugal. Both hold Australian passports. Air Vice-Marshal Hawkins's passport expires on August 13, 1973, and Lieut-Colonel Knox's on December 6 next. The decision not to renew the three pass ports was taken after talks between Dr Forbes, the Prime Minis' ter, Mr McMahon, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Bowen.

Reports in the British and Ghana's press 'over the passports also drew attention to a UN sane tion against Rhodesia which says that assis tance should not be given to people who gave comfort and sup port" to the regime. Stating that Mr O'Donnell would not receive a new Australian passport Dr Forbes said: "Two other diplomat ic representatives of Rhodesia will similarly be refused new passports if they are still serving as officers of the Government not recog nised by Australia when their current passports FIFTY cases of peanuts were scattered across a Hiirlstone Park road off the back of a truck the other day. While the truck driver struggled to clear up, about 25 halted car owneij and passengers gave him a hand by loading cases into their own cars. BUT real estate agents care for A three-bedroom bungalow on a corner block at Picnic Point was recently advertised as having "manicured gardens and "Suit truck it added, without saying why. The price: $22,850.

A WOMAN rang a Northern Suburbs police station, concerned about the welfare of her 19-year-old daughter, whom she had to leave, alone for a few days. The station sergeant reassured her that his men would keep an eye on things and entered the message on the telephone pad for notation by patrolling police. From the number of notations by eligible bachelors, says "NSW Police News," the young lady must have received more than adequate protection. A STUDENT of the uses of "orium" as a word ending has noted at Forestville a Cranium Curatorium (barber's shop) and at Epping a Petatorium (pet shop). AN Australian rival to the Loch Ness Monster, "Mannie," the Maningrida Monster, has been reported seen again.

Two fishermen said they saw the monster near the mouth of the Gudgerama Creek, about 200 miles east of Darwin in Arnhem Land. The account in the Maningrida Aboriginal Settlement newsletter, "Maningrida says the monster was dark but with some sections reflecting light like metallic scales, 60 ft long, and three-headed. It sustained a high pitch moaning noise a cross between a dingo's howl and the bellow of an elephant. INSIDE Arts 17 Comics 17 Crossword 17 Finance 14-16 Law Notices 17 Lotteries (2189, 6621) 19 Mails 17 Radio 18 Regional Radio 17 Shipping 17 Sport 11-13 Television 18 Weather 17 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING INDEX, Page 18 FOR TELEPHONE ADVERTS. DIAl 2 0944 frinttd and pubnitnd by John Fairfax and Son Uild.

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3001. Rtgittartd for potting ai a iwwipopw Cottgory B. Recommended and maid, urn price only. He beat the Foreign Minister, Mr Takeo Fuk-uda, 67, on the second ballot for the party presidency, which carries with it the Prime Ministership. The party holds a two-thirds majority in the Japanese Diet.

After his election Mr Tanaka said the time was ready for Japan to establish normal relations with China and to conclude a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. He also renewed a pledge to strengthen friendly relations with the United States. Mr Tanaka beat Mr Fukuda, a protege of the former Prime Minister, Mr Sato, by 282 votes to 190. The youngest Prime Minister since 1945 Mr Tanaka, whose three-year term will be confirmed by the Diet tomorrow, broke the long grip of establishment bureaucrats on Japan. He is a self-made millionaire who overcame poverty, a scanty education and lack of social position to fight his way to the top of Japanese politics.

His background is in sharp contrast with that of Mr Fukuda, a longtime bureaucrat born in PAGE 4: Rebuff for "Meiji men." wealth, who went to the right schools and inched upwards through the establishment. Although the electorate had no hand in the voting, popular opinion favoured Mr Tanaka as the man most likely to carry out an independent foreign policy, ease relations with the United States and seek closer ties with Peking. And while Mr Fukuda had also said he would give priority to China and US relations, his close ties to Mr Sato and his generally cautious policies worked against him. Also, in the light of bitter Chinese attacks on Mr Sato and his Government, Mr Tanaka is regarded as more acceptable to Peking. How well he succeeds will determine the fortunes of the conservatives who have governed Japan with only a brief interruption since the end of World War II.

Mr Tanaka faces a Lower House election late this year or early next year to determine whether the people sup his election yesterday. Govt resigns in France PARIS, Wednesday. the rrench Government resigned today. The Prime Minister, Mr Chaban-Delmas, who took office when President Pompidou came to power in June, 1969, has come under fire from the Opposition and from within his own ruling Gaullist Party since allegations of personal tax irregularities earlier this year. Just over a month ago, Mr Chaban-Delmas hint ed in a television speech that he might no longer hold his post after the legislative elections which are scheduled for early next year.

Mr Chaban-Delmas's accession to power was greeted warmly by many Frenchmen, who saw him as an exponent of new and dynamic ideas, But his "new society" policy ran into trouble almost immediately with the more conservative elements of his own UDR Gaullist Party. And his popularity has dwindled drastically in past months. A new Prime Minister is expected to be ap pointed later today and his Cabinet formed tomorrow. Several people are being mentioned as suc cessors to Mr Chaban-Delmas. They include the Edu cation Minister, Mr Olivier Guichard, the Minister for Overseas Territories, Mr Pierre Mesmer, and the Posts Minister, Mr Robert Galley.

(AAP-Reuter) US planes hit allies SAIGON, Wednesday. American aircraft accidentally struck at South Vietnamese troops advancing into occupied Quang Tri Province yesterday, killing and wounding at least 40 men. The US Command said today the aircraft battered the South Vietnamese position, five miles south-east of Quang Tri City. Troops ready at Quang Tri, P.5. lar the electors of Hoth-am, should clearly understand that, if Mr Johnston were to be ap prehended and sentenced for failure to undertake his obligations under the National Service Act, then under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia he would be disqualified from being chosen as member of the House of Representatives.

"I find it incredible that any party that fancies itself as an alterna tive Government should maintain the candidature of such a person, sup port his contempt of lawful processes and harbour, protect and conceal him from the law. "It will not escape the notice of the Australian people that you, and not the leader of the parlia mentary party, were the spokesman for the Australian Labor Party in this matter." SURFERS PARA DISE, Wednesday. Labor leaders are expected to prepare a reply to Senator Greenwood's telegram when the ad journed meeting of the Federal executive re sumes on Friday. The meeting was ad journed late today just as the telegram was delivered. Victorian members of the ALP revealed today that Mr Johnston's mother may contest the seat at Hotham if he is unable to do so.

Labor's mire, page 6. Mr M. Brown, of Warooma, a retired stockman who drove cattle along the route up to 1959, described the kind of country the men will be tackling, as "im possible because there is just nothing there except heat, scrub and emptiness." 1908 'race' man dies NEW YORK, Wed nesday. George Schus ter, 99, who drove a 60 hp Thomas Flyer to victory in the 1908 car race from New York across America and Siberia to Paris, died yesterday in Springville, New York. He took 169 days to cover 13,341 miles.

port continued Liberal Democratic Party rule. Mr Tanaka has been catapulted into power at a time of growing restlessness at home and widening horizons abroad. Despite growing affluence, the Japanese are becoming more and more aroused over the ballooning cost of living, the contamination of the environment and the an noyances of urban life. Internationally they feel left behind in the different world created by President Nixon's initiatives toward Peking and Moscow. Japan recognises Taiwan and trades with the communists.

There is mounting pressure foi diplomatic ties with Peking. Long, friendly ties with the United States were strained by Japan's econ omic success and the resultant flood of Japan- ese goods on the Ameri can market. With the return of Okinawa, and in the light of these tensions, most Japanese agree that Japan should now strike out more on its own rather than continuing to lean on Washington. (AAP) the Timor Trough. The Australian view is that the continental shelf ends there.

Therefore, the sea floor and subsoil is Australian property in line with the 1952 Geneva Continental Shelf Convention which gave coastal States the right to exploit adjacent seabeds to a depth ot 200 metres (about 650 feet). Indonesia maintains that the Timor Trough is only a depression and does not mark the edge of the shelf. It argues that the seabed boundary between Timor and Australia should be drawn halfway, as was agreed by both sides last Continued on 4. 'Impossible' trek bid Sea shelf talks soon? INDONESIA TO PRESS CLAIM PERTH, Wednesday. Three men who are trying to walk the Canning stock route through the Gibson Desert rejected a police appeal today to turn back.

The men were last seen pulling their handcarts into country that has been abandoned by Aboriginal tribes, kangaroos and camels because of the lack of water. The three men are Murray Rankin, 28, of Perth, John Waterfall, 27, of Cottesloe, and his brother, Peter, 26. All are experienced bushwalkers. They are trying to pull their carts loaded with 12 gallons of water and 1601b of food from Wiluna to Christmas Creek, south of Fitzroy Crossing. They think the dangers of the track are being exaggerated.

-53 killed MANILA, Wednesday, AAP-ReiUer, A band of about 100 armed moslnns mided a village on Mindanao and killed 53 christians yesterday. Earlier report, piijc 5. From our South-East Asia Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. Indonesia will press Australia to yield at least part of its claim to sovereignty over the north-west continental shelf, an area potentially rich in oil and natural gas. But the Indonesians are unlikely to take an all-or-nothing stand.

They appear confident of a compromise solution of the problem. In an interview last night, the leader of the Indonesian negotiating team, Professor Mochtar Kasumaatdja gave the first public outline of the stand his Govern- ment intends to take on the issue. Two rounds of talks have failed to settle the matter which is one of the few outstanding differences between Jakarta and Canberra. A third round was called off by the Australian Government only three days before it was due to start in June In written replies to questions, Professor Mochtar, leader of the delegation on delimitation of the disputed continental shelf, said the official talks would be resumed "in the near future," probably in Jakarta. Negotiations have stalled because of rival claims by both Governments to sovereignty over the seabed which stretches more than 300 miles from the northwest coast of Australia to the island of Timor, one half of which belongs to Indonesia and the other to Portugal.

The shallow seabed extends to within about 50 miles of Timor and then slopes abruptly into expire." r1.

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