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No 4M11 FIRST PUBUSHED J831 64 PAGES 90c Korean cars: I next wave HdRIVE MOTORING WEEKLfi Long weekend going-out guide METRO LIFTOUT ULL PREVIEWS SPORT US Mcfeigh and the conspiracy theories begin COLUMN 8 THE PRICE they pay for us Yesterday only a day after the emotional funeral service at Parkes for 26-year-old Constable David Carty killed in a car park at Fairfield pink roses bedecked a memorial plaque in Boomerang Street city At that spot on April 24 1989 Con-' stable Alan McQueen also 26 was shot trying to arrest a car thief He died 12 days later who moved to a small community in Illinois to better raise his children He teaches Sunday school Now he is ready to fight for justice in worst case of terrorism His chief opponent Stephen Jones is a feisty stetson-wearing motor-mouth who had political aspirations until he took on the legal defence of the man now regarded as the youthful face of an ancient evil By JENNIFER HEWETT in Denver A fresh-faced Timothy McVeigh faces the full might of the United States Government case against him today with the start of a trial likely to rival the JFK assassination for conspiracy theories Haunting the crowded courtroom is the idea that other unknown people were also involved in planting the bomb which killed 168 people and the West and mid-West and which has led to the formation of hundreds of armed militias Such threats have meant extraordinary security precautions around the Denver court house where the trial is being- held including concrete barriers manholes bolted shut and newly wired grates A big white van called the mobile command post supervises the dozens of police and sharpshooters and undercover agents But it also means the Government is determined to win the national public relations war as well as the trial This has extended to the choice of the Federal prosecutor Mr Joe Hartzler in an attempt to personify the virtues of middle America Mr Hartzler uses a motorised scooter after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis He is a former hot-shot Chicago lawyer injured more than 500 in Oklahoma City two years ago lawyers may even present the shocking assertion that the destruction of the government building was connected to a secret government sting operation into militia groups that went tragically out of control And underlying the whole trial is the vicious anti government feeling that now stalks much of McVeigh of PM isolated: Wik talks end in chaos The gangling McVeigh 29 has taken an intense interest in the complicated jury selection constantly jotting notes conferring with his defence team nodding hello and laughing at the small courtroom jokes But any humour will be rare from now on Mr Jones has warned darkly that evidence in the trial means that people will never be able to Continued Page 7 Defeated cancer at 103 Mr Lockett now 106 and in uniform during World War I Jack grows old but not too weary to fight By TONY STEPHENS Jack Lockett was pottering in his workshed having done his exercises prepared and eaten breakfast and cleaned some of the house in which he lives alone do some gardening he said It was an unremarkable day for Mr Lockett except that he is 106 almost certainly oldest old digger He was happy to interrupt his chores was going to have a break and listen to the wireless before he said other thing the television puts me to His surgeon having told him he would live another 10 years brought his own children along to be photographed with him He had removed Mr bowel cancer when the patient was 103 only trouble Mr Lockett said I try not to tell lies and frightened in my old age that I might be telling lies and not know Mr Kevin Lockett said his memory was better than he thought The established facts include Continued Page 4 PAGE 10: In love and war PAGE 12: Editorial PAGE 26: John Murphy unsung hero BISHOPS are not the usual speakers at Anzac Day reunions However yesterday at the HMAS Arunta lunch at the Royal Automobile Club Bishop Peter Mann CBE of Dunedin NZ gave an address on earth did an Arunta able seaman become a He served and survived as a 17-year-old AB and will lead his shipmates in march And also see in the march two Kokoda veterans Misima Lau-Uli carrier policeman and soldier and Asutomo Sipupu soldier IF YOU yet seen the film The Castle about a family refusing to move from next to an expanding airport ring the production company Working Dog in Melbourne 03 9826 4344 For 86 worth of STD you can hear the entire soundtrack while on POVERTY is with us all the time About 10 the other morning a youngish woman walked into the meal hall at the Exodus Mission at Ashfield She had just taken her children to school in the Leichhardt area she told the Rev Bill Crews but have money for their lunch Could she get some food? She had walked all the way She made cut and wrapped Vege-mite sandwiches refused anything for herself and set out on the long hot walk back IF YOU visit the new national headquarters at Manly of Pauline One Nation political party make sure you turn into the right door in an arcade on The Corso right opposite the Good Vibrations Adult Shop DOCTORS heal thyselves A dozen or so off-duty resident doctors from the Royal Hospital for Women at Paddington went to dinner on Tuesday night in The Rocks On Wednesday all had food poisoning yesterday some were still ill Good training in how sick patients can be RALPH Reader of Canberra booked his luggage on the train to Sydney leaving Canberra at 1220 pm on Tuesday then wandered off When he came back he found his watch was slow and missed it Try the bus station staff suggested He caught the 1 pm bus arriving on time at Central at 445 pm (are you ahead of us?) But the train due 15 minutes before was running late He had to wait 50 minutes for bis luggage By JAMES WOODFORD in Canberra The Prime Minister faces a deepening political crisis after failing yesterday to sell his Wik compromise to the Queensland Government and the National Party Earlier Mr Howard had pleaded unsuccessfully with Aborigines to help him break the deadlock The Queensland Premier Mr Borbidge and Aboriginal leaders emerged yesterday from meetings with the Prime Minister bitterly disappointed with Mr 10-point plan a copy of which has been obtained by the Herald Mr Borbidge said the compromise was unworkable think anyone should underestimate the degree of anger across rural Australia with die Federal he said mood out there is pretty Mr Borbidge said Mr Howard had told him that explicit extinguishment of native tide was impossible because the Senate would not pass it Mr Howard had also made a number of suggestions about legal approaches which would effectively give the Queensland Government the power to extinguish native tide he said His lawyers would examine these possibilities over the weekend before conference Mr Borbidge also criticised the performance of the National Party Leader Mr Fischer At an earlier meeting Mr Howard is understood to have pleaded with Aborigines to help him break the impasse that would effectively extinguish native title on pastoral leases The Wik High Court decision held that the granting of a pastoral lease did not necessarily extinguish native title After examining the plan for the first time yesterday the Queensland National Party president Mr David Russell said that it contained elements that discriminated against rural people favoured one race over another and would provide Aborigines with access to pastoral leasehold land before the final determination of a native title claim However he welcomed a proposed sunset clause that would prevent native title claims after a particular date and a blanket validation of leases that were incorrectly granted in the period between the passage of the Native Title Act and the Wik decision The Aboriginal leaders have welcomed a clause in Mr plan that would introduce negotiated but binding instead of litigation But they have condemned almost every other point in the plan as an erosion of their rights Stating the position of the NSW National Party on the Wik decision for the first time the State leader Mr Ian Armstrong said Mr plan gave little or no indication of how clear title for landholders and pastoral leaseholders would be achieved National position Australia-wide is quite clear on what needs to be he said in a statement position is crisp and clear: extinguishment of native title must occur on Continued Page 5 PAGE 5: The 10-point plan Mr Borbidge mood out there is pretty threatens to split the Coalition by giving more ground He is thought to have detailed the immense political pressure being applied by the National Party especially the Queensland branch and asked for more understanding from Aboriginal leaders However the leaders emerged from the meeting warning that they would not accept any restriction on their right to negotiate an element of the 10-point plan developed by Mr Howard that the leaders claim Carr acts to validate Wood inquiry warrants Echoes of Packer as signal strengthens on media policy Is this an unbeatable home loan deal? 6 Currently Australian media companies are forced to stay small aid non-competitive because artificial cross-media restraints have prevented them from taklng advantage of scale The policy priority Is promotion of forceful Australian companies which can compete against foreign conglomerates and proudly represent Australia In the Mematfonal arena 9 6 In the modem age of convergence the Idea of having cross-media prohibitions Is ridiculous There Is the belief that there Is some national benefit in having a very powerful folly Australian-based media company If you have a company that can be a flag waver of Australia then you need a very very strong domestic base 9 By BERNARD LAGAN and MARK RILEY The Premier ordered the drafting of retrospective legislation yesterday to validate Police Royal Commission search warrants because of fears that illegal warrants could jeopardise prosecutions of corrupt police and pedophiles Mr action followed Supreme Court ruling that 10 warrants obtained and executed by the commission last year were illegal because they placed no limits on what commission investigators could seize from houses and cars Mr Carr said: want to assure the people of NSW that we as a Government will prepare fallback legislation that declares search warrants to be The action drew concern last night from civil liberties and privacy groups The chairman of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties Mr John Marsden whose law firm represented those who By ANNE DAVIES in Canberra The Prime Minister has given his clearest signal yet that Mr Packer would be permitted to take over the Fairfax newspaper empire even echoing Mr view that Australian media groups need to get bigger to become global competitors In an interview on the AM program yesterday Mr Howard said there was an argument that there was in having large Australian media groups capable of tackling the international competition This is one of the main arguments being put forward by Mr Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) in favour of being permitted to own both the Nine network and Fairfax publisher of the Herald If Mr Packer were to buy Fairfax he would control the Nine Network 45 per cent of the popular magazine market 22 per cent of the major daily AL OPTIONS Look at the deal you get: No interest penalty for early payout No monthly account keeping fees Monthly fortnightly or weekly repayments owned by AMP Redraw facility Split Loan facility CALL 13 30 30 8 AM TO MIDNIGHT (EST) 7 DAYS innl: Inf ov priority one com iu Internet: http: wwwpriorityonecoinau VARIABLE RATL successfully challenged the validity of the warrants said the move was tantamount to the Government condoning illegal action by police and then using retrospective legislation so that tainted convictions could stand The chairman of the NSW Privacy Committee Mr Chris Puplick said search warrants should not allow but said he would be less concerned about the use of retrospective legislation if the Government could demonstrate that the warrants had targeted a specific matter but failed for technical reasons The justice spokesman Mr John Hannaford said Parliament must be recalled to push through the legislation to provide certainty for the prosecutions arising from royal commission evidence He said it was likely that a of legal proceedings would be launched by commission targets challenging the Continued Page 6 is phone 26 20 Editorial 92822822 20 Classified 20 132535 79 General 9282 2833 John Howard ABC radio yesterday strong domestic The Opposition communications spokesman Senator Chris Schacht said the arguments put forward by Mr Howard yesterday were remarkably similar to those advanced to him in meetings with lobbyists for PBL is an argument there but it is outweighed by arguments in favour of having as diverse a range of views as possible in a he said of convergence the idea of having cross-media prohibitions is he told ABC Radio is the belief that there is some national benefit in having a very powerful fully Australian-based media company you are to have a presence in the region and a presence around the world if you are to have a company that can be in a sense a flag-waver of Australia then you need a very very PBL the i WnmnfwfTH? newspaper circulation and 15 per cent of regional newspapers Existing cross-media laws prevent a person from controlling both television and newspapers in the same market Mr Howard said there were a number of arguments that needed to be taken into account when contemplating changes diversity argument is one of them another argument is the fact that in the modem age WEATHER TODAY Sydney showers Uveipool 12 NSW: Isolated northeast Sunrise 625 TOMORROW Sydney Fine and a INSIDE Crosswords maximum of 22 degrees Editorials NSW: Scattered showers along Amusements Metro Features the north coast Southwest to Arts 11 Law Notices southeasterly winds Business 21-25 $2 Lottery 6237 19 Opinion 12 Personal Notices 10 Sport 28 Stay in Touch 27 Television 26 World 14 to 21 Cloudy periods with chiefly early to 22 Richmond 10 to 22 showers and storms in the Some coastal showers am Sunset 521 pm vvvvvPriority One MfJEliy AN AMP COMPANY I Priority One Financial Services Limited ACN 049 778 883 Approval subject to PriorityOne's lending guidelines Call us for full details Other fees and charges apply AMPB 220VSMH DETAILS Page 19 Classified Index 36 Obituaries.