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J. Tht Sydney Morning Her.ld, WJ, June 4, 1980 I WORIJNEWST1 A proud grandmother watch Close Sth Africa Hi kept on facin evel five volcanoes MANILA, Tuesday. This stretches along the wet. watching closely, amid signs Aeutian, t0 Asia, down Of renewed activity, five Of through Japan, the Philippine of sabotage and the Moluccas and on to JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. The spectacular bomb attack on South Africa's industry marks a new stage in black guerilla warfare in the country and is part of a co-ordinated plan by the African National Congress, according to the national intelligence chief, Dr Nfel Barnard.

300 sent to keep refugees in order WASHINGTON, Tuesday; About '300 soldiers were ordered into Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, after rioting on Sunday by Cuban refugees who were upset at long delays in processing. The Governor of Arkansas said up to 2,000 National Guardsmen would be available to maintain calm. In the series of demonstrations by about 300 refugees, soldiers and police were pelted with stones. The insurrection left 40 persons, most of them Cubans, injured and four buildings burnt to the ground. Thirty-five persons are now under arrest.

Governor Bill Clinton laid the disturbances on "a few serious agitators" and said the authorities were prepared to round up troublemakers and take them to Federal detention facilities outside the State. The processing of refugees stopped yesterday, although the base was calm. Dozens of Cuban exiles who had come to the camp from Tampa, New Orleans, Miami, and elsewhere, waited in vain to retrieve relatives they thought had been cleared. Federal officials promised that, when the processing resumed, it would be speeded up to between 300 and 500 persons a day. The Sunday night attack on New Zealand.

The most active of the volcanoes is Mount Mayon in the coconut-growing Bicol region in central Philippines, fringing the Pacific Ocean. It erupted last in 1978, spewing red hot lava down its slope and forcing the evacuation of thousands of villages. The 2460-metre Mayon also erupted violently 10 years earlier though there were no reports of casualties. Its most violent eruption on record was in 1814 when it buried several villages and killed 1200 people. The Vulcanology Commission, which conducts studies of all volcanoes here in the hope of predicting eruptions, has established several observatories the Sasol I oil-from-coal plant and a refinery at Sasolburg in the Orange Free State turned giant storage tanks into infernos and cost the country an estimated $7 million.

J4 I 1 i f'" "tl I' Dr Barnard said he could not Mr Le Grange laid hut night that the exiled white South African Joe Slovo, who fled from the country in 1962. was now in Mozambique where be was co-ordinating ANC guerilla operations. Slovo was in easy reach of those who entered the country secretly on spy millions and had to leave it in order to. make reports, Mr Le Grange said. Slovo was there to co-ordinate and plan action.

Mr Le Grange warned African States that allowed gue disclose how the raid fitted into New oil increases feared as OPEC to meet LONDON, Tuesday. OPEC oil minister! meet In Algiers next Monday to talk about the price of oil, lese than a month after a new round of increases added $US20 billion (nearly $A18 billion to consumer nations' 1980 import biHs. In recent statements, OPEC ministers have generally declined to predict whether the Algiers session on June 9 will result in yet higher rates, although Saudi Arabia's Sheikh Yamani has said that the world's biggest oil exporter does not intend to go above its present $US28 for a barrel of Arabian light crude. Saudi Arabia, according to Western oil industry executives, is struggling to reassert a dominant role within the 13-member Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and others will not necessarily follow its lead at the Algiers session. But oil industry sources sea little scope for new increases at present.

The Saudi argument Is that, if soaring oil prices trigger a catastrophic recession in the West, OPEC members will also suffer. But OPEC price "hawks." such as Iran, Libya and Algeria, and to some extent Kuwait, argue that the cost of oil is only a modest contributor to Western inflation. Kuwait is among the OPEC exporters to have cut production this year, underpinning the high price and taking the view that oil in the ground is a better investment than an abundance of petrodollars. Total OPEC output has now fallen to around 27.S million barrels per day (BPD) corn-light crude, sells at around $US4 more for a barrel. (AAP-Reuter) an overall onslaught against white-ruled South Africa.

But he warned they would not be isolated. The unpredictable nature of the attacks made them more effective, he said. near Mayon, Taal, Carlaon and Bombs that exploded simultaneously at Sasol II. another oil- hidok Hibok. Volcano just above sea-level In these observatories are Instruments lo detect earthquakes, from-coal complex in the Eastern Transvaal, did not cause the Philippines 13 volcanoes which for years have threatened inhabitants of this sprawling archipelago.

Some of them have caused death and destruction in various parti of the country. But they are only a few of dozens of big and small volcanic craters that dot about 116.000 squares miles (300.000 square kilometres) of Philippines territory. The latest to show new signs of "eruptive activity" is Can-laon Volcano, which two weeks ago registered 150 tremors in one day alone. Vulcanologiits said the volcano, 520km southeast of Manila, was in a "restless stage" which meant there was an impending activity. They said a similar upsurge of quakes occurred before it belched ash on June 27, 1978.

Canlaon, in the heart of sugar-rich Negro Island, also erupted on October 10, 1969, but there were no casualties. Its continuous stream of ashes and steam is a constant threat to several towns in the area. Another volcano being watched is Taal. one of more than 7.100 islands, which lies in the middle of a picturesque lake only 100 km south of Manila. In 1977 it shot ash-laden clouds and steam hich into the sky though with little actual volcanic ash.

The Philippines is volcanic in nature. Some geologists believe the Islands surfaced from ocean depths because of submarine volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago. This contrasts with a more common belief that the Philippines was formerly part of the Asia mainland. But the submarine volcanic eruption theory is supported by the fact that the islands are situated on the circum-Pacific "belt of harmonic tremors, ground til ling ana neat changes. taal Volcano, only two metres above sea level, erupted in 1970 without casualties.

But in 1965. after beine Hnmum for 54 years, it spewed tons of rillas to launch attacks on South Africa from their territory to realise the risks attached to such action. Yesterday's raids followed an increasing number of incidents since the beginning of the year, which the ANC had earlier declared a year of action. They also followed renewed agitation among black and coloured (mixed race) schoolchildren against inequality in education. Outside Cape Town yesterday almost 20.000 people, many flashing black power salutes, marched in a funeral procession for two mixed-race youths shot by police last week in a disturbance growing out of the nationwide protests against inferior education for non-whites.

Riot police kept close watch on the funeral but did not interfere. (AAP-Reuter) miia ana asnes hundreds of metres into the air, killing serious damage and no one was hurt, the authorities said. Three more bombs were found as Sasol recruiting offices at Springs, near Johannesburg. Plastic explosives attached to a timing device discovered on a windowsill were defused by an explosives expert, the' Police-Minister, Louis Le Grange," said. By yesterday the fires at Sasolburg had been brought under control.

ANC officials in London claimed responsibility yesterday for the bombings, which are regarded in South Africa as the most daring and damaging attacks yet by black nationalists in more than 20 years' active opposition to the Government. aDoiu i3u people. AAP-AP HWIIW tlcturt The Indian Prime Minister, Mrs Gandhi, took time off from celebrating the Indian State election returns yesterday to present her. infant grandson, Varun Gandhi, son of Sanjay Gandhi, to receive the blessings of 90-year-old Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a contemporary of the late Mohandas Gandhi. Mrs Gandhi's Congress (I) Party crushed the Opposition in eight of nine States contested, bringing India's Government machinery under the almost total control of herself and Sanjay.

Hibok Hibok on Camiguin Island, off the coast of Mindanao, erupted last in 1953, killing some 500 people and burying under tons of lava millions ot dollars worth of crops and prupeny. (NYT) Gas release urged from reactor WASHINGTON, Tuesday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommended yesterday that radioactive gases be released over a two-month period from the crippled reactor at Three Mile Island, Pennsylva. nia, damaged in an accident more than a year ago. The commission said its studies showed that releasing the radioactive krypton gas in this way would have little effect on the health of residents living around the plant.

If no action were taken, there could be a further equipment breakdown inside the reactor leading to another dangerous buildup of radioactivity. (AAP-Reuter) umer active volcanoes are Bulosan in the Bicol region Crimes, talks in Iran wnicn cjectea ainy wnite steam on July 30, 1978, after being dormant for 56 years. The TEHRAN, Tuesday. Ths Stab at the jugular Iranian President, Dr Bani- steam ejection was acconv panied by rumbling sounds. Sadr.

opened a "Crimes of More than half a dozen America" conference yesterday Kennedy faces his last hurrah LOS ANGELES, Tuesday. Edward Kennedy faces the oiners have erupted inter with a tirade against America. mittently this century. and a former US Attorney- (Keuter) could ever delegate to a single person President or Prime Minister the power to risk killing many people half a world away in a foreign country," Clark told a Western interviewer. About 100 non-governmental delegations from SO countries are attending the conference, called by Dr Bani-Sadr following the aborted US rescue mission.

(AAP-AP) Ovmw nwt tit id Harald la tup-plltd bv Hrald eorrMpondtnts and bv Australian Associated Prcaa (AAP), which calif on resource of Kouttrf, Tho Tlmta. th Press Asaoclatlon (PA), The Naw York Timet (NYT), the Asia, elated Press (AP) and Aaenca Franca. Pretse (AFP). General, Mr Ramsay Clark, one of the participants, condemned the aborted US mission to rescue the hostages as "lawless and contrary to Constitutional Government." Conference on use of sealanes biggest test of his political career today as millions of 'It is inconceivable that Worldview, Page 13 Constitutional Government Americans vote in the final round of the 1980 Presidential ducing wastage of manoower. Under the scheme, known as election primaries.

Productivity of Manpower In When the first three Sasols are in full production they will be producing almost half South Africa's total fuel needs and, with rationing would suffice to keep the nation on a war footing in a conventional war situation if all outside fuel resources were cut off. It has now been demonstrated that this vital internal oil supply is highly vulnerable. The Deputy Minister of Defence, Mr Kobie Coetzee, said last night that the defence force would take "certain steps" in the wake of the sabotage. He declined to elaborate, but there is very little doubt the defence force is going to be called in to protect strategic installations. This means that South Africa will be moving on to a war footing in what will no longer be merely a guardianship of her border.

centive Scheme, a civil servant From PETER YOUNGHUSBAND CAPE TOWN, Tuesday. South Africans were in a state of shock today following the successful attacks on the giant oil-from-coal plants at Sasolburg. They were a stab at the very jugular of the South African economy. Threatened as she is by a world oil embargo which obliges high-priced purchases on the undefendable spot market. South Africa is constructing oil-from-coal plants at an urgent pace.

The first, Sasol went into production in 1955. Sasol II began producing in March this year and Sasol III is in course of construction. Plans are in the making for a Sasol IV. The plants rely for their intake from South Africa's enormously rich coalfields in the Eastern Transvaal. The First Annigoni who submits a proposal which results in a reduction of em ployees will be raid a cash rew- ward equivalent to six months' salary of the post deleted.

UK Cabinet accepts EEC deal LONDON, Tuesday. The British Cabinet de "PROMISE is directly aimed at achieving manpower savings ana is in line with liovern ments present efforts to achieve higher productivity." Ministry of Finance statement cided yesterday it would accept the plan worked out KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. A traffic separation scheme for the Straits of Malacca one of the busiest sea-lanes in the world will be discussed at a seminar opening here on Thursday. The three-day seminar organised by the South-East Asia Agency for Regional Tranport and Communications (SEATAC) will also discuss the problems of navigation in South-East Asian waters and the development of navigation aids for the region's sealanes, a SEATAC spokesman said.

The meeting will also discuss the hazards of navigation in the waters off East Malaysia and Kalimantan in Borneo, Sumatra, and passages between thousands of Indonesian islands in the Sulu and Philippine seas. Delegates from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines. Singapore and Thailand will attend. (Renter) Cash incentive SINGAPORE. Tuesday.

The Singapore Government has introduced an incentive scheme for civil servants aimed at re said. (Reuter) Gold found KUALA LUMPUR. Tues in Brussels last week to solve the dispute over British Mr Kennedy must win the California and New Jersey State primaries and do well in six others if he is to retain any chance of preventing President Carter from achieving the Democratic Party's presidential nomination unopposed. There was no element of drama in the Republican side, where the conservative Ronald Reagan already stands unopposed for his party's nomination and today will merely be going through the motions. But aides of neither Mr Kennedy nor President Carter were prepared to predict the results of the Democratic contests in New Jersey and California, the nation's most populous State.

Kennedy aides conceded that President Carter was virtually certain to win in Ohio, the third biggest State, in today's elections. The five smaller contests are in Rhode Island, South Dakota. Montana. New Mexico and West Virginia. Senator Kennedy says he will Cosmonauts' return near payments to the European Common Market budget, officials said.

day. Large gold deposits Leonid Popov and Valcry RyU' It tnnk tha Cabinet lust 61 minutes to decide it have been found in the Ulu Ke- min. who have been in space lantan area, adjoining southern 'would accept the deal, which cuts British payments: Thailand, and this could make to the Budget by about two-thirds. Kclantan State one of the rich est in Malavsia, the New Straits aboard the Salyut 6 since April 9. Kubasov and Farkas Iiiked niln Jhe Salyut craft by flying up to the orbiting station in the Soytiz-36 Thev will return Officials said that Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet, after listening to a report by the Foreign Secretary.

Lord Carrington, decided that the package as a whole was Times reported. MOSCOW, Tuesday. The Soviet-Hungarian cosmonaut team that went aboard the orbiting Salyut 6-space station last Tuesday is making preparations to return to Earth, Tass reported yesterday. Valcry Kubasov, the 45-year-old vcleran of Soviet space flight. 30-year-old Hungarian Air Force pilot Bertalan Farkas have been circling the globe for six days now with cosmonauts But there was no immediate official confirmation.

although an adequate settlement in political, economic, industrial and agricultural terms. Britain, during 18 months of bitter controversy, previously officials said a Can to Earth on Soyuz-35, the craft that carried Popov and Ryumin adian survey mission last vcar found traces of gold, uranium fought against its estimated 1980 contribution of into space. (AAP-AP) and other metals. (AAP-AP) 1.2 billion (SA2.4 billion) to the nine-nation com munity's Budget. regard the outcome in Califor nia and New Jersey, especially, as a referendum on whether Mrs Thatcher insisted that the payments be slashed Democratic Party voters want Israel invites the Pope JERUSALEM, Tuesday.

The Prime Minister, Mr Begin, invited Pope John Paul yesterday to pay him to carry his battle to the Aiioust convention, where he would try to persuade Carter LEVEL 49 MLC CENTRE SYDNEY delegates that the President's economic policies were dis an official visit to Israel. because Britain had the third lowest gross domestic product after Ireland and Italy, but was being called on to make the second-largest contribution after West Germany. The officials said that under the formula hammered out at a dawn meeting on Friday of Common Market foreign ministers in Brussels, Britain would now pay only 380 million (SA771 million) during 1980 and 456 million (SA925 million) in 1981. (AAP-Reuter.) astrous and that he may lose Mr Begin told the Knesset he had extended the invitation after learning from French Jewish leaders that the Pope had expressed a readiness to come to LEVEL 29 to Mr Reagan in the general CITY MUTUAL BLDG LEVEL 36 MLC CENTRE SYONEY election. AAP-Reuter) Israel during his visit to trance, wnicn ended jester MELBOURNE day.

i PAGE 13: Taxpayers Revolt (AAP-Reuter) faces loss at the polls. Peking Man is still in hiding LEVEL 23 FREE FOR ALL MUSIC OPENING SOON IN BRISBANE CITY MUTUAL BLDG MELBOURNE 35 copies only of his mostfamous sketch signed and numbered individually by Annigoni The most celebrated Royal painting of our age Is that of Her Majesty the Queen, painted by Pietro Annigoni just after her Coronation. Familiar to countless millions around the world, and an international sensation when it was unveiled in 195.4, the painting is destined to remain one of the best known portraits of all time. Now, Annigoni has agreed to publish for the first time ths original sketch on which he based his famous painting. The sketch, made at his sittings with the Queen In the magnificent Yellow Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, is of the greatest historical and artistic interesuthe very first study of the Queen by Annigoni.

To capture In a sketch the quality of a final great work Is the hallmark of a master. Here is that same extraordinary radiance, that romantic majesty, which gave the finished painting its unique distinction. Here is a sketch which foretells the splendour of the final portrait, but which is also in its own right a brilliant, delicate work of art. For Annigoni, the sketch Is still remarkably evocattvet "the essence of the final portrait." As he says, "It is very personal, for it is to me the Queen as I first saw her, so young and I think romantic. Although the sketch is issued in the form of a limited edition, it is restricted, because of its special importance, to 850 fine-art examples only each individually signed and numbered by Annigoni himself.

It is the first time the sketch has been available. It is also ths last: the limited edition is thus the only opportunity there can ever be to own an original fine-art print of this historic sketch. Signed and numbered individually by Annigoni in his studio In Florence, the sketch which measures S0.5cm S8cm has been published in this historic edition exclusively by Blenheim Fine. Arts of London. The International Historical Foundation is fortunate to havs the final 35 copies of this exceptional limited edition.

They are available for immediate delivery and are priced at iust $195.00 each. Once these 35 copies have been sold, the sketch will never be available anywhere in the world. Should your order be received after the edition Is dosed your payment will be refunded immediately. LOVERS mm at--, jrav.au Bar. Australia's finest serviced offices for the one or two man business, profession or branch off ice for less than the cost of a typist! was in 1941 when he was packed into two boxes to be transported to America under an agreement between the Kuo-m in tang and the US for safe custody of the priceless remains.

The boxes were to be given to departing US Marines to take back to America, but it is here the story becomes confused. According to one version, the boxes were loaded on board the US ship. President Harrison, which ran aground in the Yangtze in December, 1941. Another version has it that the boxes got no further than a Marine base at Tianjin, a coastal city close to Peking. Still another version has it that ths boxes were on board a Japanese ship, the Awa Maru which was sunk in the South China Sea by an American submarine in 1945.

The Chinese are salvaging the ship, but there have been no reports of discoveries. It has also been rumoured that US Marines buried the remains near Peking's Legation quarter before fleeing from the city in 1941. Mr Janus pursued all these leads and many more without success. PEKING. Tuesday.

Peking Man, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances during the war, may still be in Peking. A retired American businessman who has conducted a fruitless seven year search for the fossilised remains, believes so, Mr Christopher Janus, wealthy retired investment banker, visited the Chinese capital recently to tell officials at the Museum of Natural History that his long search had drawn a blank for the skull and bundle of bones of Peking Man, thought to represent the earliest link between apes and man. Peking Man. so-called because the fossils were discovered about' 40 km north-west of Peking, mysteriously disappeared during the war. The Chinese have since claimed the remains were stolen by departing Americans.

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TOKYO. Tuesday, The Slate-run Japanese National Railways has announced disciplinary actions against 98.255 members of its five labour unions for walking out on six occasions in 1978 and this year. JNR workers, like other Government enterprise workers such as postmen, are banned from participating in strikes. JNR headquarters said 304 workers were suspended from work and 1,491 others had their wages reduced, while the others received admonitions. OR, I prefer to pay by Bankcard the sum of Name: a Address: 496 according to ths head- RECIPROCAL RIGHTS BETWEEN CITIES passengers, quarters.

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