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TELEPHONE 2 0944 PUBLISHED 32 PAGES Festival program Page 8 The Sydney Morning 43,697 13 EDITION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1978 Today's Sydney Mr Csidei Csidei named in drug case From PETER DURISCH DARWIN. Mr Bela Csidei, the prominent Sydney businessman, was alleged in the Darwin Magistrates' Court yesterday to huana in the Northern The allegations view tendered in court. TODAY Uranium time bomb Gavin Cantion, Industrial Editor, looks at the union movement's most divisive issue. Page 7. Shift of power A disturbing report on decentralisation in Papua New Guinea.

Page 7. TERROR TACTICS Mike Royko's humorous advice on ways of getting what you want. Page 7. TOMORROW The lost cause? Sara Dowse talks to Marie Knuckey on whether women are politically expendable. Plus women's opinions on the role of a women's affairs department.

Phone 2. 0944 to have the Herald delivered: It's easier. Marihuana link in NT alleged have been involved in growing mariTerritory. were made in signed records of police inter- Appearing before Mr A. McGregor, SM, were Daniel Dwight Drake, 40, who pleaded guilty using and possessing cannabis and possession of unregistered and unlicensed firearms, and Harald Franz Herbert Paech, 41, who pleaded guilty to possessing and disposing of cannabis.

Both men were jailed. The address of both men was given as Wollogorang Station, near the Queensland border, which was raided by police on December 9. Pacch was said to have told police that when he to Wollogorang Station, he was under the impression that Mr Csidci was the owner, although there was at present a dispute over its ownership. Later in the interview, Paech said he believed Mr Csidci had visited a marihuana plantation on the property three times. He said in another interview that marihuana seeds had been given to him by Mr Csidei.

Drake was said to' have told police that Mr Csidci had told him he needed $30,000 quickly, and wanted load rushed to Sydney. Station searched Mr Csidei, 45, of Parriwi Road, Mosman, has been a principal Crown witness in the uncompleted case in which Alexander and Thomas Barton are accused of conspiracy. He spent more than 20 days in the witness box. Mr J. J.

Gajewicz, prosecuting, told the Darwin court that a number of police officers went to Wollogorang Station, three' miles from the Queensland border, on December 8, 1977. "On the morning of Friday, December 9, they conducted a further search," he said. "A light aircraft was used. About 10am, a ground search commenced." Mr Gajewicz said that at about 10.45am a Toyota utility appeared. driven by Pacch.

Drake was a passenger. After some. discussion, police followed the utility and arrived on the bank of Redbank Creek, about 20 miles from the homestead. There they saw a planted area of about 15,600 square yards about 4 acres. "The police observed that in some part of the planted area were cannabis plants in rows," said Mr Gajewicz.

"Some plants were as small as cight inches. The biggest were approximately two fect high. The approximate number of growing plants was 727." Mr Gajewiez told the court that police found bags of small cannabis seedlings, a tractor, a cultivator and about 2,000 yards of hose. Police also found a Ford Transit van and two trailers. In one trailer, they discovered a rifle and a shotgun.

"Also in the trailer was cannabis hanging from wires." he said. Police also found a bag and a drum full of cannabis. Mr Gajewicz said that Pacch admitted that he planted and cultivated the cannabis. He said that an carlier crop. in June, 1977.

produced only about one pound of low-grade cannabis from about 150 plants. Chandra spins out a dozen withered right arm of India's leg break bowling wizard, Bagwat Chandrasekhar, had Australia spinning towards defeat in the third Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday. Australia, with only two second innings wickets remaining, is still 263 runs behind after being set 387. to win. The impossible position was brought about by Chandra, the 32-year-old Bangalore bank clerk who overcame polio suffered at the age of 18l six to become a bowler feared by the world's best batsmen.

Chandra claimed six Australian first innings wickets and snatched another six yesterday, to record unfinished match figures of 12-84, his best in 48 Tests. By mid-day today, India should have won their first Test on Australian soil to trail Australia 1-2 after narrow defeats in the first two of the five-Test series. "Everything went right," From BRIAN MOSSOP in Melbourne said a happy Chandra as he accepted congratulations in the dressing room. He even grinned at the reminder of another record he created yesterday, when he was out first ball, to become the only man to have notched four pairs. "I'm not happy about I am happy about the record," he said, admitting he had turned to the Australian captain, Bob Simpson, when trapped Chandrasekhar (left) with his captain, Bishen Bedi, after yesterday's play Cabinet talks on uranium likely From IAN FRYKBERG Federal Cabinet is expected to discuss next week contingency plans to counteract any industrial action aimed at stopping the next overseas shipment of Australian uranium.

Two hundred tonnes is due to be shipped at the end of January under al contract signed in November, 1972. It will come from the uranium stockpile at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission plant at Lucas Heights in Sydney. It is scheduled to be sent to Britain from Sydney on one of two British ships the Discovery Bay on January 25, or the Endcavour Bay on January 28. The yellowcake (uranium oxide) will be processed in Britain and then shipped to the Chubu Elcetric Company in Japan for the gencration of nuclear power. The last two shipments 220 tonnes in October and "Mr Pacch obtained the seeds from a person in Sydney," said Mr Gajewicz.

"On December 7, Queensland police arrested a person in Mt Isa with approximately 140 kilograms of cannabis in metal containers. "That cannabis came from the plantation at Wollogorang Station." He said that when Drake was arrested he appeared to police to be under the influence of a drug and pupils of his eyes were the size of pinpricks. When interviewed the next day. Drake admitted that he went to Wollogorang Station and camped by the creek to grow the crop. "Do you mean the cannabis crop?" asked Mr McGregor.

"Yes," said Mr Gajewicz. He added that Drake said that he arrived in midAugust or carly September. "Drake said that he helped to dry and weigh the cannabis which was packed." he said. About 95lb of marihuana was shown in court and was estimated by Mr Gajewicz to be worth about $95,000 when divided into small amounts for sale on the streets. Appearing for Pacch and Drake was Mr John Foord, QC.

who had fiown from Sydney for the hearing. Mr Foord said that Paech was born in Berlin. and migrated to Australia in the 1950s. He said Pacch was a selfemployed gardener in the Mosman arca of Sydney, and was single. Mr Foord said that in 1976.

Pacch became friendly with "the man named SO in the records of interview." The signed records of these interviews had been tendered carlier to Mr McGregor by Mr Gajewicz. Mr Foord said that Drake had built up a successful business in Sydney collecting bottles. He said that Drake had migrated from America Continued, Page 8 Carter, Desai pledge arms reduction doms and their belief that nations, like individuals, must bear moral responsibility for their actions. The declaration was signed in a ceremony at the President's Palace by India's Prime Minister, Mr Desai, and President Carter just before he flew to Saudi Arabia on the fourth stage of his tour of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. lbw and said, "not again." The Indian captain, Bishen Bedi, was full of praise for his lean leg spinner.

"That's the best he's bowled for a long, long time." Bedi said. "When he bowls like that, he's a match winner and I'm pleased for him, because he's had a very dry spell." Chandra took only five wickets in the first two Tests in Brisbane and Perth. Brian, Mossop and Bill O'Reilly report, back page, Section Two. Four die, two hurt in road smash Four people were killed and two others injured in a three-car collision on the New England Highway eight kilometres north of Muswellbrook yesterday. Police said a car travelling north and a "car towing a caravan collided head-on.

A third car ran into the back of the caravan. In the north-bound car Leslie Mitchell, 67, of St Ives, and Francis Dever, 74, of Segenhoe, near Scone, were both killed. Stanley Montford Jones, 59, and his wife, Joan, of Dalby, Queensland, were killed in the car towing the caravan. Their son Steven, 17, a passenger in the car, is in a satisfactory condition in Muswellbrook Hospital. Janice Bowen, 35, of Ingleburn, a passenger in third car, was treated at the hospital for abrasions and allowed to leave.

The deaths brought the toll for the year to 15 11 more than in the same period last year. Rain prayers suggested Queensland Premier. Mr Bjelke-Petersen, said yesterday he would ask churches throughout the State to hold a day of prayer for rain. He would suggest Sunday, January 15, in letters to church leaders. More than one third of Queensland is reported to have applied for special Government drought relief.

Fortynine shires have been declared drought-stricken. COLUMN HE THE NSW Taxi Council and the Kingsford-Smith Airport authorities are attempting to take the heat out of the taxi struggle at the TAA and Ansett terminals. Travellers have complained that there are no obvious taxi rank signs in either Shiers Avenue or Keith Smith Avenue outside the terminals, and that the signs inside are vague. Tempers have flared over the holidays as travellers, queuing at what they presumed to be the head of the rank, saw "their" taxis taken by others. Taxi drivers a are keeping away because of the confusion.

FOOTSORE cinemagoers who Wollogorang 125 250 KILOMETRES 73 names on Arab blacklist More than 70 Australian companies and organisations appear on: a recently revealed Arab boycott list because of heir dealings with Israel. The five-page list, officially kept secret by the Central Boycott Office in Damascus and commerce departments in Arab capitals, named a of 73 Australian organisations. The list includes many wellKnown companies, including Australian Motor Industries -k1, Ford Motor Company of Australia Ltd, Ready Mixed Concrete Pty Ltd, Mayfair Hams and Bacon Co Ltd, and Ducensland Alumina Ltd. Full report, Page 3. Sir John Spicer dies aged 78 Sir John Spicer, former Chief Judge of the Australian ndustrial Court, died in Melourne last night after a short Ilness.

Sir John, who was AttorneyGeneral from 1949 to 1956 in he Menzies Government, was 8. The Deputy Prime Minister, Ar Anthony, said last night hat Sir John established a cputation for fairness and visdom, and had the respect all those who knew him or ppeared before him. Sir John had presided over umerous judicial inquiries nto maritime and aviation isasters. "All of these required great udicial skill and the quality his findings in all of these quiries illustrated the depth his experience and legal apacity," Mr Anthony said. A State funcral will leave Christ Church, South Yarra, at 10.30 am on Friday for Springvale Crema-, orium.

Obituary, Page 10 TODAY'S WEATHER Metropolitan: Showers. Max emp: City 23, Liverpool 24. NSW: Cloudy areas. Some showers. (Details, Page 18).

Late news Mrs Gandhi expelled NEW DELHI, Tuesday. -Former Indian Prime Minister. Mrs Indira Gandhi, was expelled 10. day from the Congress Party, which she led to defeat in the general elections last March. (AAP-Reuter) have had to queue for seats after buying tickets for Star Wars have asked Column 8 why.

Surely, it would be simple (and civilised) to issue tickets with numbers? Not so, said a spokesman for the Hoyts Entertainment Centre. Numbered tickets are sold for evening and weekend screenings only. a They are not sold at other times because "ushering, to reserved seats slows down the handling of The number complaints, he said, were small. We are left wondering why speed is important on weekdays but not at night and the weekend. AMERICANS can now buy 50 films on video-cassettes for home viewing from the Twentieth ur libof feature films, at $US50 each.

The range includes Bus Stop, Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing, Patton and The French Connection. The company which markets the cassettes is looking toward international distribution, SO Australians may soon be able to plug favourite movies into their television sets. A spokesman for Twentieth Century-Fox in Australia said that was one of several new home entertainment fields opening up. Fulllength Smm and 16mm movies were available for home projection. The next 12 months would probably bring to perfection a picture-and-sound LP record which played on a turntable fitted to a television set.

Wouldn't this keep people away from new movies? we asked. "We are trying to get as many people into cinemas is we can," he said. "but if people want something else it's up to us to cater for them." AUSTRALIA Post contin- likely on their members whose labour is directly involved with, the mining, handling or transport of uranium. It requested that rank-andfile members of the unions be asked to endorse previous decisions that no uranium be handled. No date was set for the result of the ballots, but at the time, the president of the ACTU, Mr Hawke, said he expected them by the end of January.

In the meantime, unions were requested not to handle uranium pending the ballot results. If the shipment on January 25 or January 28, goes ahead as scheduled, it might be before the ballot results are known and the Government is expected to consider delaying the shipment until after this. There was strong speculation in union circles yesterday that three of the major unions involved, the Waterside Workers' Federation, the Scamen's Union and the Firemen and Deckhands' Union would vote not to handle uranium. A senior Federal union official also suggested that if the Federal Government did step in to override union action, wider industrial action might follow. "If Government used troops to load the uranium on to the ship.

for instance, then would think there would be a national strike of the Waterside Workers' Federation," the official said. The shipment, the first to leave Australia after the December 10 clection, is being watched with interest by a number of overseas countries interested in buying Australian uranium. les 10 require return addresses envelopes but we doubt if mail officers are ready for this: Joseph Catanzariti, of, Bondi Junction, received a letter from a happy anarchist who wrote on the back flap: "You know who, and even if it doesn't get there, I don't want it back." Bright start for shares National share markets started the trading year on a bright note yesterday when prices moved ahead to their highest level since September, 1975. All sections of the market firmed from the outset. The all-ordinarics index tells the story fairly well.

It edged up 2.33 points to 479.43 which is getting close to the 500 mark held in September, 1975. Details, in Finance, front page section 2. NEW DELHI, Tuesday. The United States and India, in a formal declaration at the end of President Carter's visit here, pledged today to work for the progressive reduction of nuclear weapons and conventional arms stockpiles. The document stressed the faith of the two countries in the democratic form of government, their commitment to fundamental rights and free- 55 tonnes in November were made without major disruption but both union and Government officials are expecting problems with this consignment.

A Cabinet mecting has been called for January 12 in Sydney and the uranium question is one of the major issues to be discussed. It will be held against a background of threatened direct union action on the uranium question and a suggestion of wider industrial action if the Federal Government steps in. A spokesman for the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Resources. Mr Anthony, said yesterday the Government had heard unofficial talk of union action against the shipment but none of the unions involved had made any official statement. The union movement is not united on the uranium question.

Last month the ACTU executive ordered the 33 unions affected to hold a ballot of along the path towards a common goal of human development and human rights," he said. The two leaders said they were determined that disputes must be resolved without violence. especially in an age when nuclear weapons threatened total destruction. (AAP- Reuter) Page 5: Saudis firm on oil pact; Sadat demand on US; Carter withdraws comment. Tides, sun, moon (0.5 metres), 10.45 pm (0.4 metres).

SUN: Rises 5.49. sets 8.10. MOON: Rises 1.21 am, sets 2.41 pm. On other pages Births, Deaths, etc. 19 Bridge 00 Churches 8 Comics, Crossword 30 Finance 17, 18 Law Notices 30 16 Lotteries (1240, 2953) 15 Mails 29 Radio 18 Shipping 29 Sport 29-32 Television 16 Weather 18 FORT DENISON: High, 4.24 am (1.4 metres), 4.36 pm (1.3 metres).

Low, 10.42 "The spectre of war has hung over the world for too long," the declaration said. "Existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons must be reduced and eventually climinated, and the danger of proliferation of nuclear weapons must be arrested. "Further, every effort must be made to progressively reduce conventional arms and to redirect the productive forces so released to the betterment of mankind. We commit ourselves to work towards these ends." President Carter said the declaration committed to paper "what has long been written in our hearts." Whatever the differences between India and the United States in terms of history, culture and their stages of development, "we are moving Turn behind the Financial news for Personal notices: P19 Including summary of death notices Classified index: P19 DIAL 20944 FOR ADVERTISING Printed and published by John Fairfax and Sons Ltd. of Jones Street, Broadway.

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