Prime Minister Attacked At Violent Rally In Australia
During a rally attended by about 113000 people, Prime Minister Whitlam was struck and jeered as police shielded him to the official car. Debris and eggs rained down while fights broke out and the microphone was cut. Whitlam later condemned the violence. Tonkin also faced assault as crowds raged. Authorities reported no arrests.
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Tonkin
Whitlam
Colin Jamieson
Whitham
Forrest Place
Australia
Murders At St Kilda Motel Trigger Police Roadblocks
Victorian police set up road blocks across Melbourne and on northbound highways after two men were shot dead and a woman wounded at a St Kilda motel. Police believe the gunmen fled toward Sydney after the attack.
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Melbourne
St Kilda
Polie
Gydney
Australia urges restraint on US Soviet naval build-up
Australia asked the Soviet Union and the United States to restrain naval build-up in the Indian Ocean. Prime Minister Whitlam initiated the approach as foreign affairs minister, with Patrick Shaw and embassy officials in Moscow engaging to push detente through mutual restraint. The move followed US proposals to expand air and naval facilities at Diego Garcia and aligned with debates on zones of peace for the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia.
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Soviet Union
United States
Indian Ocean
Whitlam
Sir Patrick Shaw
Moscow
Me Ingersoll
Sir Patrick
Dr Kissinger
Middle East
Diego Garcia
Washington
Patrick Shaw
Robert Ingersall
James Plimsoll
Gaylor
Pacific
Canberra
Sri Lanka
South-East Asia
Ketch Mewing Freed After Writ Withdrawn
The Ketch Mewing was released from arrest by the High Court after Associated Steamships Pty Ltd of Melbourne withdrew the writ, claims in the action having been satisfied.
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Sydney
High Court
Associated Steamships Pty Ltd
Melbourne
Row looms over oil rights in offshore struggle
The government pledges a hard line against offshore oil exploration, seeking control of all search areas and potential partnerships with companies. This clashes with a joint Commonwealth and States act and a High Court challenge over seabed sovereignty, while Senator Connor signals sovereign powers even without new legislation.
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Australian Mining Industry Council
Connor
Petroleum and Minerals Authority
High Court
Senate
North-West
Australia seeks partnership plan for offshore drilling rights
In Perth, officials outline a partnership approach for offshore exploration with experienced firms on a traditional sharing basis while retaining sovereign rights. They warn against preemptive farm-ins before relinquishments and urge strong government guidance to spur deeper, early drilling in the continental shelf excluding the Great Barrier Reef.
Guard bomb incident mars Corsica PM visit
A police guard assigned to Prime Minister Messmer in Corsica hurled a tear gas grenade at the PM’s official car. The device exploded near a minister’s vehicle, causing smoke but no injuries. The guard was captured amid claims of a low mood and prior theft of a motorcycle. Security was bolstered by 1,500 riot police over fears of autonomist action.
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Corsica
Messmer
Agence France Presse
Marseilles
Pompidou
End of an era as ACT conscription ends today
Defence and Aviation history correspondent notes Canberra will discharge the last national service conscript to serve in the city. Private Johannes Martin Leek, 22, of Cabramatta, NSW, leaves Army Headquarters as the city moves to an all volunteer force. Leek had been drafted in a birthday ballot and hoped for work as a bartender or steward with an airline after discharge. The end of conscription arrives three months after the government abolished national service on taking office.
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Canberra
Johannes Martin Leek
Cabramatta
Nsw
Army
Ite
Ofice
Leek
Russell
Jens Becaue
Parents Form Interim School Crosswalk Patrol
A group of parents volunteers to patrol McCulloch Street to escort schoolchildren across the busy road. The plan discussed at the ACT Traffic Coordination Committee includes possible street closure to through traffic and traffic rerouting. Residents urge action after two child fatalities in four years. a committee meeting to review proposals is slated within four weeks.
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McCulloch Street
Curtin
Pelwecen Uo
Eho Besara
Varius
ACT
UN report tallies decades of terrorism tolls
A new UN oriented monthly magazine reports that in the six years ending last December terrorism caused 26,000 deaths and 3,571 injuries, with ransoms totaling 21 million dollars and measurable destruction of 109 million dollars.
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United
Lner
Australia protests to Portugal over oil leases
Australia summoned Portugal's ambassador to protest a granted offshore oil mining lease off the northwest coast. The 6.07 square kilometre concession, issued to Woodside Burmah Esso and Oceanic Petroleum, was opposed amid broader disputes on maritime rights and seabed jurisdiction in the Timor Sea.
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Australia
Woodside Burmah
Esso
Portugal
Oceanic Petrolew
Portugese
Carlos Wemans
Department of Foreign Affairs
Misthalia
Portuguese Timor
Indonesia
Primor
Tima
Pimor
Ib Canberra
Koreien
Austria
Pontupal
Venenelza
Whelam
Mir Whitlam
Shine Bast
Perth
Attempts to salvage sunken freighter Strathman begins
Reported salvage operations for the freighter Strathman, sunk in the Yerra River on Saturday, commenced yesterday but experts warn it may take at least two weeks to refloat. Also noted are political and strategic items: Uganda's Amin declares a military purge after an attempted coup. Kissinger and Brezhnev discuss nuclear arms and other losses in Moscow.
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Yerra
Moscow
Kissinger
Brezhnev
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