The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 1

Saturday, December 9, 1972 FORECASTS (for today): CITY: Sunny periods developing. Max temps: City 22 (72), L'pool 23 (73). NSW: Storms and rain in north-east sector. Showers on coast. (Details, page 18.) SUN: Today rises 3.37.

sets 7.58. MOON: Rises 8.10 am sets 10.34 pm. TIDES (Fort Denison): High. 11.10 am (1.7m, 5.5(1). 11.55 pm (1.2m, 3.9ft); Low, 4.39 am (0.5m.

1.6ft), 5.54 pm (0.3m, 0.9ft). No. 42,116 Telephone 20944 First published 1831 120 PAGES 7c LATE EDITION lie jljkif THE RHODESIA LETTER ARRIVES NOT AS ADVERTISED COLUMN Askin is I Builder to pay home owner $7,650 angry at Mg heads9 "Once these people get to Canberra they get big heads and big the Premier, Sir Robert Askin, told a news conference yesterday. He was reacting angrily to a statement from, official Canberra sources that the Federal Government had sent him a letter with orders to close the Rhodesia Information Service in Sydney. The statement was reported in the "Herald" Sir Robert first Whitlam nor anybody else is going to give orders to this State." Sir Robert Askin yesterday after the report was published.

A text arrived by telex from Canberra. He accused the Mr Whitlam, of saying neither Mr body else is going Hijack six die in air battle this State and revealed that the letter did not order him to close the Rhodesia office. sale to The Namoi Cotton Co-operative has made what it believes to be the first sale of Australian cotton to China. The contract worth $1.25 million is for 8,000 bales of high quality cotton from next year's crop. The cotton is expected 'RUN FOR COVER' He said Mr Whitlam had run for cover.

The letter was simply a deregister the business name Rhodesia information Centre." Derecistration will Rhodesia office out of business. It will withdraw exclusive right to the name, and remove any suggestion that the office operates under official Australian approval. Bank pay rise But Sir Robert has will do even this. "It was an extremely brave act by Dr Hilsinger to throw the grenad away and probably saved many people from injury "The next two and half minutes were an ab solute nightmare. Bullets were flying everywhere as the hijackers fought it out with the security men.

"The plane was full of smoke and, when the grenade exploded, the plane dropped like stone and we thought that this was the end. "But the pilot managed to get control again and we landed safely at Addis Ababa a few minutes later. It was a fine bit of piloting and the Ethiopian security guards did a marvellous job of work." (AAP-Reuter) In Canberra yesterday, Mr Whitlam made clear that the Commonwealth Government is nomy class and the man was standing right beside us," Dr Wylie said. "No sooner had he said it was a hijacking when one of the security guards opened fire and wounded the man. "He staggered, but managed to pull the pin from the grenade, which he dropped right at the feet of Dr Hilsinger, who had the, aisle seat.

"Dr Hilsinger immediately picked up the grenade and threw it into the opposite corner, where the seats were unoccupied. "It exploded there, tearing a great hole in the plane's side. Dr Hilsinger took most of the force of the explosion, receiving shrapnel wounds in the face, shoulders and ankles. Pilots' intent on shutting down ITS NOT really the Opposition ruling in Canberra, but some confusion has been understandable this week. Both the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, and hb deputy, Mr Barnard, are using the offices they occupied in Opposition, and plan to continue there until the full Labor ministry takes over.

Mr Whitlam has an extra room to accommodate his press staff a room formerly, occupied by two Labor backbenchers. NO WONDER perfume expensive. A Sydney woman, presented with bottle of the precious stuff yesterday, discovered that it had been "imported from France" in a box made in Italy and packaged and sealed in England. THE APOLLO 17 astronauts now beading for the moon will not have to worry if afflicted by an itching nose while wearing their fishbowl space helmets. Each helmet is fitted with a small tuft of sticky cloth to serve as a nose scratcher.

ONE PUTATIVE Labor Government minister phoned the department for which he hopes to take responsibility and asked for himself just to check on general efficiency. And what happened? 'They appeared to know where I could be, found," he said later. YDRA, the West Ger-. man entry, will begin the. One Ton Cup yachting series on Sydney Har-i bour today with a deep-, dent on its starboard side at deck level.

The dent shows the point of impact between the yacht and another Instead of having the. hull repaired the crew; has simply classified the scar by painting "Cowes '72" across it. SEEN at Narrabrl: An, electrician's Kombi van'n bearing the sign, "Volts-l wagon." IN A city department store a pretty girl demon-' strating cuff-links, an-j nounced very seriously, over the public address t.Y i system: unu mat cuii- links are being worn, more and more, especi- any wun long inin. sleeves KIOU JALAYER, Iranian former Olympic! marathon runner, has-been given a traffic of-', fence ticket in Lake-Tahoc, California, for running against a red-light during training. NO DOUBT everybody will now be watching Mr.

Whitlam like a Hawke. INSIDE Arts 16; Books 22-24 Churches 14 1 Comics 1.8 Crossword 18 Finance 35-38 Gardens 15 Juries 39. Lottery (556) ..59. Magazine 20, 21 Mails 39 Radio 18-; Real tstate if Shipping 38 Sport 31-34 Television 19 Weather 18 CUSJIMO ADVHMINB INDEX, fog 2S tOU TtttPHONt ADVtlTS. DIM 1 044 has to pass special legislation.

He hoped its activities would be stopped without need for this. The Foreign Affairs saw the letter Prime Minister, gross discourtesy, Whitlam nor any to give orders to request for NSW to not, it seems, put the not yet agreed that he the office, even if it Department had listed to UN resolutions of said prohibited UN afternoon that NSW would not bow to Commonwealth orders. He extended his attack on Mr Whitlam, accusing him of "gross discourtesy" for allowing a public statement about the centre before communicating officially with him. Sir Robert added: Once these people get to Canberra they get big heads and big feet. The telex did not contain an order to the NSW Government to close the centre but a request that the business name, "Rhodesia Information Centre," be deregistered Continued 8 possible Commonwealth actions.

These included cutting off telephones, ending mail deliveries, and stopping literature coming in from Rhodesia. A Sydney man who claimed his new home had 43 building defects was awarded $7,650 damages in the Supreme Court yesterday. The verdict, against the builder, Windsor Homes (Builders) Pty Ltd, of Castlereagh Street, Sydney, was made by the Chief Judge in Common Law, Mr Jus tice McCIemens. Earlier the judge had been told that the house might have to be rebuilt Mr George of Pasley Road, Georges Hall, sought damages against the builders for alleged breach of contract. He claimed that 43 defects had been found in an $11,200 house they had built at Bankstown.

The timber frame of the building was unstable, the walls and ceilings needed aliening, most walls, ceil ings and door jambs were not level or square and the brick piers were not bonded into the walls in accordance with standard practice. Other complaints refer-ed to drainage, waterproofing and fixtures. Mr Justice McCIemens aid: "Clark has already paid the purchase price of $11,200 to the1 builders. "He is now faced with paying out more than $6,000 to have the house rendered fit for habitation, and substan tial demolishing and re building will have to take place. 'These are se matters." Mr Clark, a father of two.

said after the hear- We put our life savings into the house. "It is very disappoint ing to move into derelict home after working seven days a week for years and putting off naving a lamuy iu get n. a heavy demand for seats on other interstate trans port services by many of the estimated 6,500 people who would nor mally have flown out of Svdnev vesterdav. The NSW Public Transport Commission is adding extra carriages to all trains travelling interstate. Pioneer Coaches, which ran extra services to Canberra yesterday, will operate three extra services to Canberra to day and one extra service to Brisbane.

A spokesman for East West Airlines, which is not affected by the strike, said many passengers who had seats booked yesterday failed to board their flights because they thought all airline services were shut down. Air charter operators in Sydney reported a big demand for scats on interstate flights by businessmen who had to keep urgent appointments. If the strike continues, letters from Sydney will take one extra day to get to Brisbane and Mel bourne, two extra days to get to Adelaide, and up to three extra days to get to Perth or Hobart. tenance workers were remaining on the job, The strikers, who were out yesterday, will return to work on Monday. Thev will meet again if there is no wage offer by Thursday.

is a Mr Whitlam referred 1968 and 1970 which he members from aiding the illegal Rhodcsian Government in any way. Australia has voted for a UN General Assembly resolution calling for the total rupture of rail, sea, air, postal and radio communications with Rhodesia. (Report, page 3.) DAY 4: WHat the Govt did CANBERRA, Friday. The Labor Federal Government on its fourth day in office today: Lifted the sales tax on alt contraceptives from today. Announced that the Syd ney Airport jet curfew would be strictly enforced.

Announced that racially selected sporting teams would be excluded from Australia. Asked the Afghanistan Government to bring to trial or release an Adelaide journalist jailed there since Oc tober 2. Announced that Mr I Whitlam may visit New Zealand next Released the film "Port-nov's Complaint" un- censored with an certificate. In addition, the likely Treasurer, Mr Frank Crean, said funds would be made available as fast as possible to implement expansion plans ny ter nary cuuuauuu uuuna. The critics choose On page 22 today, a panel of "Herald" book re viewers nominate the books they most enjoyed reading during the year, in "Critics' Choice." The book review section is a bumper three-page leature, containing re views of a selection of books suitable for Christmas Holiday guide A four-page guide In the "Herald" on Monday will tell you what to do and what to see in and around Sydney during the holidays.

It includes a Christmas food and drink Tilde. LATE NEWS Govt forces hit to' BHKUT. Friday. Lebanese Government lnri.es were atlnikinc cueiilla in the eastern sector of I south Lebanon, an Ann I guerilla spoki-man said todav. He naiil the atlack had bcjnn ol 8 am and was conlinuini! this aflcrnou'U has international responsibilities strike may where the question of this information office is concerned and the Government is determined to honour them," he said.

More than 55,000 bank officers throughout Australia will receive a 9 per cent salary increase 5 per cent from January 1 and a further 4 per cent from June 1. The new agreement, between representatives of the Australian Bankers' Association and the Bank Officials' Association, will run for 15 months. The current one- The Lodge CANBERRA, Friday. The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, will move into the Lodge early next week. Pledge on CANBERRA, Friday.

Australia would soon sign the two international covenants on human rights as a first step towards ratification of the United Nations racial discrimination convention, the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, said today. In a statement issued to mark Human Rights last until Monday SOVEREIGN STATE "neither Mr cotton China to be shipped to Shang- nai in ipru or may. The sale was negoti ated in Hong Kong by the general manager of the co-operative, Mr John Howes. Mr Howes said yester day he expected to visit Peking about the time of the first shipment to arrange further trade deals. year award expires at the end of this year.

Bank managers opera' ting under the highest award provisions win have their salaries raised by $457 a year to $9,587 in January and by $361 to $9,952 a year in June. The increases apply to all bank officers, ex cept those in the Com' monwealth Bank. vacated The former Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, notified Mr Whitlam today that he had moved out. racism Day on Sunday, Mr Whitlam said: "My Government attaches great importance to Aus' tralia becoming a party to these international instruments. "Racism and racial discrimination are reprehensible and we shall take all necessary steps prohibit discrimination on grounds of race.

The men had 5 hours left in their sleep period. Computer battle, P5, Mr Dawie de Villiers, the former Springbok Rugby captain and now an MP for the ruling National Party, said: "I would basically not feel that from our side the first step should be to cancel sporting teams coming to South Africa. Of course, the general public might eventually feel that Australian teams are not welcome here." Gary Player, South Africa's world-class golfer, said: "He (Mr Whitlam) has only just been elected Prime Minister, and already he professes to know about everything that happens in South Africa. "Our Springbok teams have always been chosen ADDIS ABABA, Friday. Six hijackers, including a woman, were killed by security guards aboard an Ethiopian airliner today in a mid-air gun battle.

A seventh hijacker was wounded and seven passengers and two stewardesses on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 707 were also injured, some of them from shrapnel by a grenade blast which blew a big hole in the plane's side. One of the passengers injured, an American university professor, Dr Roderick Hilsinger, 40, probably saved the lives of many passengers by grabbing the grenade and throwing it into an unoccupied corner of the plane after a wounded hijacker pulled the pin and dropped it in the aisle. The blast shook the plane, carrying about 100 people, soon after it took off from Addis Ababa for Paris. The aircraft began to plunge but the pilot managed to regain control and landed the plane safely at Addis Ababa a few minutes later. The seven hijackers were all understood to be Ethiopians from the rebel-populated northern province of Eritrea.

The plane was 10 minutes out of Addis Ababa when a man ap peared at the division be tween the first class and the economy seats with a pistol and a grenade. According to Dr Richard Wylie, 30, who was accompanying Dr Hil- sinecr, the man said "This is a hijack. Stay in your scats." "Dr Hilsinger and I were sitting in the most forward seats of the eco teams on merit. We also have mixed trials here. Mr Whitlam is not aware of this, but it is a fact." The Government's apartheid policy affects only sports in which players actually mix on the field and play as team rather than indivi duals.

Such sports as golf and athletics are permit' ted to have multi-racial teams, and presumably would not be affected by anv ban. Mr Plaver said: 'Tell him (Mr Whitlam) there is not one country on earth where more non-whites take part in golf tournaments than in South Africa." (AAP-Reuter) A long way to go The pilots' strike will ground Australia's major domestic airlines again today and they may stay grounded un til Monday. Negotiations between the pilots and the airlines Ansett and TAA broke down last night. The 1,200 pilots employed the two companies went on strike at midnight on Thursday and agreed yesterday to stay on strike until their claims for a wage increase were met. Ansett is believed to be considering an approach to the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, to intervene.

Spokesmen for both Ansett and TAA said last night that the strike was costing them each about $500,000 a day in revenue. About 20.000 people travel by either Ansett or TAA each day. Among those stranded are about 1,500 schoolchildren, due to fly home to New Guinea this weekend for their Christmas holidays. They are the children of Australians living in Papua New Guinea and have been at boarding bans Sth African By JOHN O'HARA State Political Correspondent Sir Robert Askin de-. scribed the Whitlam Government yesterday morning as "a bunch of novices" and "political troglodytes." He was commenting on a news report that the federal Uovernment had sent him a letter, ordering his Government to close the Rhodesia Information Centre.

"NSW is a sovereign State and nobody gives us orders," he said. After receiving a telex of the letter's contents. Sir Robert reaffirmed at a press conference in the Aust CANBERRA, Fri day. Racially selected sporting teams would be excluded from Australia, the Prime Minister, Mr ine aouin Aintan Government has informed of the cision. Mr Whitlam said the Government also would prevent sporting teams Delected on a racial basis from passing through Australia.

"The Australian Government's position on such visits is now quite clear," he said. Shipping and airline companies operating international services to Australia are being informed of the decision. Mr Justice Coldham schools in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. "There is npthing we can do about them," an Ansett official said last night. "They will just have to stay put until this is resolved." The Australian Federation of Air Pilots and representatives of the two companies met for several hours yesterday.

They appeared before the Flight Crew Officers' Industrial Tribunal, Mr Justice Coldham, but he adjourned the hearing after a few minutes' discussion and told them to continue with private negotiations. In Sydney, pilots voted 88-9 in favour of continuing the strike indefinitely. The strike resulted in secretary, Mr John Glebe, said yesterday that the board had decided not to stand-down 9,000 construction workers. Because of this, the union's 3,000 main- At 8 o'clock last night Apollo 17 was 124,010 miles from earth, heading for the moon at 3,262 With the Government insistent that South African teams shall not be chosen on merit across racial lines, at least where Rugby and cricket are concerned, the new Australian policy must mean the end of one of the remaining outlets abroad for South Africa teams. Dr Danie Craven, the president of the South African Rugby Board, who fought in vain for mixed race trials for next year's Rugby tour of New Zealand, reacted angrily: "Mr Whitlam must understand that if our teams are not allowed into Australia, his teams will not come to us." -J WATER ON DESPITE THE STRIKE Gary Player Mr Whitlam said he was confident the Government would get the co-operation of the companies.

JOHANNES BURG, Friday. South African sportsmen and officials expressed anger and disappointment at the Australian decision. The strike for higher pay by 1,200 salary division members of the Water Board Employees' Union is unlikely to affect water and sewerage services in Sydney. The union's general nMrm. ki SO.

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