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H. HURLEY, general manager Phi lip Morris (Aust.) Ltd. (Brands: Marlboro, Alpine, Viscount, Al­ bany, Philip Morris, Virginia Slims, Park Drive, Peter Jackson . . .)

And his admen: C.E. R IC H A R D ­ SON, G.M. PATON and P.C. BENNETT o f U.S.P. Needham Melbourne Pty Ltd; B.G. GAPES and B. H ARRIS o f Com pton Advertising Aust. Pty Ltd; IL HERBERT o f Walker Herbert and Associates Pty Ltd; P& J.L. CLEMENGER o f John Clemenger Adver­ tising Pty Ltd; B.A. MONAHAN and P. ADAMS o f Monahan, Dayman, Adams Pty Ltd; P.G. CLARKE and F.A. RALPH o f Mullins Clarke & Ralph Pty Ltd. R.F. WATSON and R.K. M A R ­ TIN o f Rothmans o f Pall Mall (Aust.) Pty Ltd. (Brands: R oth­ mans King Size Filters, Peter Stuyvesant, Chesterfield, Cam­ bridge, Winfield, D u n h ill. . .)

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And their admen: F.E. GRACE o f Leo Burnett Pty Ltd; M.M. W ALK ER o f Foote Cone & Belding Pty Ltd; R. H ERTZ o f Hertz Walpole Advertising Pty Ltd; H. PATON and A. ADAM SON o f Noel Paton Pty Ltd. H. WIDDUP and J. RICKARDS o f W.D.&H.O. Wills (Aust.) Ltd. (Brands: Ardath, Ascot, Benson& Hedges, Capstan, Claridge, Country Life, Craven A, Escort, Fiesta, Garrick, Garrison, Hallmark, Braddock, K ool, Pall Mall, Players, State Express, Temple Bar, Turf, Tartan, Wild W oodbine, Glendale . . .)

And their admen: K.H. COUS­ INS o f George Patterson Pty Ltd; J. Walter Thom pson Aust. Pty Ltd; S. RUBENSOHN and I. M ILLAR o f Hansen Rubensohn McCann Erick­ son Pty Ltd; T.B. W ALLACE and D. SUTHERLAND o f S.S.C. & B. Lintas.

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Richard Beckett beats up the w eek’s news

The sinister secret of what’s inside EMILE ZOLA’s J ’A ccuse, an open letter to the president o f France, was published in 1898. It accused the army, the church and the government o f fraud over the Dreyfus affair. This week the boom is lowered on the tobacco industry and its admen.

When the horrible Harry Gumboot heard o f our intentions he inveigled the drawing arm o f Leunig, burst from the confines o f his column and in his usual vile manner saw the subject o f smoking as a launching pad for a rave about the state o f the nation and the cosmic all.

And what else do we have this week?

Saturday, a confused voting public, under threat o f a $10 fine, takes itself to the polling booth to write YES YES, NO NO, YES NO or NO YES. Sifting through the babble and cant o f our leaders we discuss the issue in a special referendum spread on pages 22 and 23.

And then there’ s senator Lionel Mur­ phy’s pride and joy — the bill o f rights, soon to be tabled in the house o f reps.

Sydney barrister Dean Letcher (p.7) puts the act under the lawyer’s microscope to find if we have any rights at all or whether it’ s just another useless piece of paper.

Last week our centre spread paid homage to undeveloped Australia. This week Syd Shelton took his camera to Sydney’ s inner suburbs and photographed the people and streets o f Newtown. He will follow up in a later issue with a coverage o f trendy Double Bay. While the communards o f Nimbin disagree over the venture, people in the cities are getting together and setting up their own small villages close to the big smoke, to use technology while the sun shines. Such an experiment is being carried out near Melbourne where several families are working in with architecture students in building a commune. Ross MacPherson reports (p. 6).

Nepotism is an hereditary disease. Jill Neville (p.9) gives an account o f how she was burned by her solicitor, how she stewed over it and finally got her own back. Revenge, says Jill, is the ultimate catharsis.

STOP PRESS: As the machine starts rolling we hear from Tasmania that drummer Buddy Rich’s drug bust (see Beckett) has caused some blank looks in the courtroom. It seems that Tasmania has two drug laws and one cancels out the other. In disarray, the case was adjourned and the magistrate has run off to seek legal opinion. Could it be that the apple isle will turn into a drug haven?

(See you next tuesday.)

'OW TO KEEP PROTESTANT < ■.]BRATS OUT OF THE RULING g g CLASSES: Amid all the screams and jgg cries over the federal government’s gjg educational aid program, and while politicians on both sides went through •jig: their carefully rehearsed double disgjg solution ' comedy routine, it was jjjjjjj: learned that a catholic parent groups called the Australian Parents Council had lobbied the former Liberalgjjjjj Country party government in an effort gjgj to force state schools to charge fees to •gig pupils. Such action would have enijijig abled catholic schools to get even igg: more money than they are about to be gijiji granted (God and the senate willing) gig: by that swinish mob o f red raggers at gijiji present in control in Canberra. Such gjg action would no doubt have aided in igg the training o f an Australian pope. It igg would also ensure that protestants jijijij: filled their proper educational places gig and spent the rest o f their lives as car jijijij assembly line workers and cess pit :j:j:j: cleaners. Interestingly enough it apijijiji peared that not even the elitist Liberal jjjjjjj party could cop this one. Popes and jijijij paid legions will have to be slightly jijijij: more subtle in their approach in :j:j:j: future.

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he la s t o f th e g r e a t DECISIONMAKERS: Letting igig the entire education uproar pass him gig: by, the leader o f the federal Country jijijij: party, Mr Doug Anthony, whose jijijij: statesman like quality and flashes of :jg:j:j quiet brilliance are no doubt a tribute ijijijij o f sorts to his education, at one o f gijiji* Australia’ s most exclusive establishijgg ments, the Kings school, Parramatta, gig: cleared the hay out o f his mouth jijijij: and said the party’ s name would be jijijij: changed. The new name would be the gig: National Country Party o f Australia, gjg “ It is a good name. It is strong and it ijigi reinforces the word ‘country’ to mean igig Australia as a whole,” he said. He then ijijijij sat back and waited for the applause igig which, strangely enough, never came.

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If D ISS OFF WHITEY: Papua New ijijiji MT Guinea last sunday became the ijijiji world’ s newest self-governing country. :g:g Due to a three day ban on the sale o f ijigij booze, it achieved this status with g g almost total restraint and a lack o f igjg bloodshed, which managed to enrage g:g: about a thousand and one expense gig: account journalists sent there at great jijijij: cost to witness a revenge bloodbath, jijijij: While they waited hopefully for ijijijij another Congo, the people o f Papua ijijijij New Guinea, to use the words o f chief gig minister Michael Somare, went about ggg life much as before. “ Some will fish, gjiji others will build roads, a few will gjiji catch up on office work during the gig weekend.” Try selling that to Paris g:j:j Match for $1000.

ELL, WE ARE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY: Soviet poet Yevgjgjigeny Yevtushenko, said on leaving us igg: that Australia was a “ hot Siberia” and gjg that he had been asked crassly gjg ignorant questions about his homeland gg; by so called Australian intellectuals, gig So saying, he added to the blight o f gig information about the Soviet Union jijijij here by refusing to answer any gig political questions.

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E MISSED THE BLOODY W POET BUT WE GOT THE DRUMMER: Fiftysix year old Buddy Rich, one o f the world’s leading jazz drummers, was arrested at Wrest Point casino in Tasmania where he was performing and charged by drug squad detectives for being in possession o f marijuana. They also hit his secretary Michael Deocco, for being in posses­ sion o f LSD. That will teach foreign bastards how to behave in this country.

UT WE CAN’T CATCH THOSE DAMNED FIJIANS: Relaxation o f immigration laws has created an underground black market in Fijian servants in the homes o f the idle rich.

Italian migrants will no doubt be glad to learn that because o f this they have automatically risen one rung up the kicking ladder.

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h e l o c a l b la c k s a r e t o o SICK ANYWAY: The Common­ wealth Commission o f Inquiry into Poverty in Australia has been told by the Australian Council for Social Service that aboriginal health services are amongst the worst in the world despite the general affluence level o f this country. Worse still, the types of diseases and infestations suffered by aboriginals — such as ringworms, head lice, worm infestations and infected ears tended to be medically unimportant but socially alienating and cause them {o be rejected by the white community at large who didnt want them inside their houses.

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The Living Daylights is published every Tuesday by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne, Victoria. Y ou can write to us C/- PO Box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03) 329.0700, Telex A A 3 2 4 0 3 . EDIT­ O R IA L: Terence Maher, Michael Morris, Richard Neville, Laurel Olszewski. PERFECT MASTER: Barry Watts.

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IPING THE SMILE OFF ONE’S FACE: Half-happy thoughts about the new Greek regime quickly disappeared after it was learned that one o f the most powerful generals who took part in the coup was none other than our old friend colonel Dimitrius Ioannides, commander o f the Greek military police which is noted and admired by courageous police forces throughout the world for his particu­ larly brutal methods o f obtaining voluntary statements. The only bright note is that the regime doesnt like the United States much.

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ONTINUING INDICATIONS THAT THE UNITED STATES IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN: Albert De Salvo, more generally known as the Boston Strangler, has been found stabbed to death in his prison cell and Californian governor Ronald Reagan has been sent to Australia on an American export drive.

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e w a r e , y o u r s in s s h a l l FIND YOU OUT: In a biography o f prime minister Gough Whitlam, author journalist Laurie Oakes (who obviously fancies our glorious leader) writes: “ Adjectives such as ‘lovely’ , and ‘ sensitive’ are not often applied to the adult Whitlam.

But they are not inappropriate when one is seeking to describe Whitlam the child. Lovely he was in the dictionary sense. Tall, willowy with rosy cheeks, a clear complexion, wavy hair and large blue grey eyes.” Let the Australia’s Perfect Master win an election after that little boost.

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C T U A L L Y , w e are all m urder­ ers. B ecause o f th e prevailing social values, w e are all con d em n ed to kill th e things w e love. T h e co w a rd d o e s it w ith a kiss; the businessm an w ith oversell.

T h e fr o n t page is n o t a sancti­ m on iou s casting o f th e first stone b y th e ston ed. A ll o f us are guilty o f co m p lic ity . B ut isnt it tim e fo r the Strassburg geese t o th row u p ?

E specially as th e salesmen keep kickin g d o w n th e d o o rs o f p ercep ­ tion .

Instead o f retreating in th e face o f overw h elm in g ‘ h o r r o r ’ eviden ce, the t o b a c c o com p a n ies b e co m e m ore intrusive, insistent and cal­ lous. Instead o f w inding d o w n with d ign ity, th ey advan ce like Dracula.

C igarettes kill and sales soar m ore th an ever. T h e governm ent fights b a ck w ith a six w ord senten ce d elivered w ith a lim p ­ ness th at w ou ld send m ost p eop le t o sleep, even if it was announcing th e end o f th e w orld . M eanwhile, th e sm ok e gets in o u r lungs.

Perhaps we are all relying t o o heavily o n th e in ep t paternalism o f governm ents t o solve ou r problem s.

T h e adm en and n icotin e marketers are tam pering w ith ou r lib id os. A s crushed con su m ers, let us hit back.

Sure, sure, if p e o p le wanna sm ok e, let ’ em. S o m e o f us d on t m in d p u ffin g aw ay at that o le slow death . W e're in n o hurry. But it’s tim e f o r the ca n cer creators to c o m e o u t o f the closet. T h at is w h y w e ro ll call their nam es (o n the c o v e r). A n d o n page 5 , the secret o f their selling success is revealed.

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d eligh tfu l con seq u en ce o f ' “ ' t h e energy freak o u t is that it’ s slow ing d o w n th e hum an race. T he spark plugs are goin g o u t all over the w orld and w e m a y n o t see them lit again un til th ere’ s a rapid rejuggling o f globa l alliances.

D esp ite th e business, burp, as usual attitude o f h appy g o lu ck y Australia, the rest o f the w orld is reeling in a gon y u nder th e arab em bargos.

B oth C hile and G reece have su ffered m on strou s c o u p s and the

wars con tin u e in A sia and th e M iddle East, t o nam e o n ly th e m ost n o to rio u s o f t o d a y ’ s b lo o d y c o n ­ flicts. E th iop ia w rith es w ith fam in e, the K oreans lo a d u p and th e K G B closes in o n Sahkarov.

T o cap it, th e rulers o f the w o r ld ’ s m ost p o w e rfu l n ation shat­ ter their con sen su s and behave like cheap C agney h o o d s , trippin g over tape record ers. It is t o o late n o w f o r even im plau sible explan ation s.

T h e A m e rica n w a y has lost its nerve.

In Britain, E n o c h P ow ell asks is E dw ard H eath m ad, and conserva­ tive com m e n ta to rs adm it that th e curren t crisis is th e m o s t serious faced b y Britain sin ce the war.

A d d itio n a lly , it “ lo o k s lik e th e beginning o f th e last stage o f the b re a k d o w n o f n ation al m orale, th e frightening o u tlin e o f w h ich has b e e n visible fo r m a n y years” (S p e c ta to r , n o v e m b e r 2 4 , w h ich also p ose d th e th reat o f civil w ar).

E u rop e and A m e rica are m utual­ ly pissed o f f . N ix o n ’ s cra zy M id East alert was co n sid e re d bad m anners. W ithin th e M arket, Britain and F ran ce p o n c e t o th e arabs w h ile th e D u tch q u eu e u p ou tsid e th e h ou se o f A n n e Frank t o rem ind them selves o f th e last tim e th ey s to o d b y th e jew s. W hile co m p le te ­ ly capitulating t o th e o il squeeze, Japan is also caught b e tw e e n th e U S-E uropean cro ssfire ; k n ow in g w h ich ever o f th e t w o she accep ts “ partnership” w ith th ere w ill b e u n requ ited a n im osity fr o m th e oth er.

A m id st this d ip lo m a tic blizzard, co m e s K a h o u te k , th e c o s m ic Christ­ mas present fr o m o u ta space. T h e co m e t th at w ill stretch 4 2 full m o o n s across th e sk y, w ith an in can descen t tail o f u n sp e cifie d p la sticity ; the space o d d ity w h ich is already causing an e p id e m ic o f religious tu b th u m pin g. A t th e tim e o f N iu gin i’ s in d e p e n d e n ce , th e cargo cu lt co m e s true. C om ets are h istorically associated w ith th e crashing o f orien tal dyn asties and rarely leave th e p lan et w ith o u t a vivid m e m e n to o f th eir visit.

W hile th e w o rld shudders th rough co ld tu rk ey, th e speed ­ om eters o f progress are being w o u n d b ack . T y p ica lly , industry siphons o f f th e b u lk o f available oil, w h ile m ost p e o p le shiver. T h e dream fa cto rie s m ust co n tin u e to ch u m o u t th e ca n d y , fo r it is p ro fit

b e fo r e p e o p le and if co n s u m p tio n eb bs th e n th e b lo o d flo w s in Wall street.

As usual, it is things b e fo r e y o u and m e. W h ich brings us b a ck to cigarettes, t o p ollu tan ts, m otives and e x p lo ita tio n . A n d th e w h o le death ly c y c le o f a cq u isition , status and w hat-are-w e-searching-for.

This so cie ty is h ig h ly punitive.

P e o p le are im prison ed f o r vagrancy, self-d erelict io n , fo r fra u d , sh op liftin g , drunkenness, b u g gery , p ro s ­ titu tio n and vandalising telep h on e

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b o x e s. Others, w h o d o infinite dam age t o individuals, b u t acqu ire an impressive inven tory o f things, are a d ored , em ulated and aw arded prizes fo r selling glam orou s lies.

C on tribu tin g t o th e can cer to ll is a h igh ly paid p rofession .

B ut so lon g as th e nam e o f the gam e is overk ill, w ith oversell, t o make us ju n k ies at th e fe e t o f m a m m on , then, w h en the g o o d o il runs d ry, pan ic erupts in th e streets.

F o r th e first tim e sin ce th e war, p e o p le are talking o f large reces­ sions and depressions. M arxists dream o f th e final co n tra d ictio n o f capitalism and th e C hildren o f G o d b o w b e fo r e the e x p e cte d a p o c ­ alypse. N o o n e points o u t th at th e road accidents are dropping.

T e n years ago, the p ro v o s o f H olland called fo r th e ou tlaw in g o f cars and th e free d istrib u tion o f w h ite b icycles. T h e vision has since co m e h om e t o roost. H ollan d is being blissed o u t b y th e d ays o f f fro m p ollu tan ts . . .

S peed kills. T h e message o f to d a y ’ s headlines is that it’ s tim e to slow d o w n and lo o k at the scenery.

A s th e ads say: “ It’ s b etter t o be late than t o arrive dead o n tim e .”

E specially if y o u d o n t k n o w w here y o u are going.

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y ou th fu l slenderness these days by sm ok in g Luckies. T h e smartest and loveliest w o m e n o f the m od ern stage take this m eans o f k eepin g slender . . . w h en others n ib ble fattening sweets, they light a Lucky!

L u ck y Strike is a delightful blen d o f the w o r ld ’ s finest tob accos. T hese tob a ccos are toasted— a costly extra process w h ich d evelops and im ­ p roves the flavor. T h a t’ s w h y Luckies are a d e ­ lightful alternative for fattening sweets. T h a t’ s w h y there’ s real health in Lucky Strike. T h a t’ s w h y folk s say: “ It’ s good to sm ok e L u ckies.”

For years this has been no secret to those men who keep fit and trim. They k n o w that Luckies steady their nerves and do not harm their p h ysi­ cal condition. They know that L u cky Strike is the favorite cigarette of many prominent athletes, who must keep in good shape. They respect the opinions o f 2 0,6 7 9 physicians who maintain that Luckies are less irritating to the throat than other cigarettes.

A reasonable proportion of sugar in the diet is recommended, but the authorities are over­ whelming that too many fattening sweets are

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“REACH FOR A LUCKY INSTEAD OF A SWEET.”

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Reach for a L u ck y instead o f a sucel.

-F YOU'RE aged between 20 and 30 ask ycur mother about this ad. It changed her lifestyle, increased the likelihood of her developing emphysema.

And much more . . .

In 1925 the profits of the American Tobacco Co. (the mak­ ers of Lucky Strike) were $21 million. The advertisement Reach for a Lucky instead o f a sweet was launched in America in 1929. In 1931, principally because of this one advertisement, the profits of the American Tobacco Co had increased to $46 million.

This ad created more women smokers than any other single marketing strategy in this century.

In 1929 emphysema in women was virtually unknown . . . In 1973 emphysema is widespread.

THE ULTIMATE DIRECTION OF MASTURBATION ALWAYS HAS TO BE INSANITY (Norman Mailer, The prisoner o f sex).

In 1954 the combination of tobacco/paper etc that carried the name Marlboro was not a filter cigarette. It came in a choice of ivory tip and “ beauty tip” to “ keep the paper from your lips” and Marlboro was looked upon as a cigarette “ for women and so­ phisticates” ; for the latter read: “ dudes” or “ fags” . Bad news!

Consequently, in 1954, the market share o f Marlboro was less than one-quarter o f one percent.

And now, let’s hear the rest o f the story from the man who gave his name to an ad agency and his imprimatur to the concept for Mother: 1955.

smoking is its evil connotations. says a Burnett So, anything that serves to in­ account executive, “ the Readers digest thing hit us” . crease that evil is good (for cig­ This “ thing” was the first docu­ arette sales). Warnings (Medical mentation o f how dangerous cig­ authorities warn . . .) are in fact arettes were and furthermore that dangerous to the health o f the filters were largely irrelevant in anti-smoking campaign. In the first 12 months after the same "filtering” . thing happened in the United And the facts reported in “ the Readers digest thing” are as fol­ States, Marlboro, the most mas­ culine, evil brand jumped its sales lows: Of every 1000 men between by 17 percen t.

25 and 65 who are non-smokers, "T o conclude, cigarettes are 223 will have died by their 65th not really that important in the birthday. scheme o f things, but the anti­ Of every 1000 men between 25 and 65 who smoke one pack a smoking warnings as they now appear are a waste o f money.” day: 387 will have died by their With the approach o f banning 65 birthday. cigarette advertising in Australia, O f every 1000 men between 25 the tobacco lobby is launching, and 65 who smoke two packs a VERY SUCCESSFULLY, new day: 460 will have died by their cigarettes with very high tar and 65th birthday. nicotine content.

Not to worry. In 1962 the Leo Burnett agency purchased the THE ACTIONS o f the tobacco rights to Elmer Bernstein’s score lobby at this time seem to re­ for The magnificent seven and inforce one o f the crucial and someone thought up the phrase largely misunderstood principles “ Marlboro Country” . o f “ Playpowerism” . And that is In 1967, Marlboro became the this: whereas the Hard Left argue second most popular cigarette in that the only legitimate and valid the US. Business as usual. response to what you perceive as FANTASIES OF POWER TAKE an Evil is direct confrontation, the OVER AND DISTURB ALL Soft Left bases responses around a SLEEP (NM, Prisoner). thought expressed by William Please do not smoke has been Sargant in Battle for the mind —• the moral maypole over the past he who feels threatened, insulted 12 months, along with Medical and abused, does not change his authorities warn . . . You agree ways, but digs his heels in. So, the with the intentions; has anything tobacco lobby feels threatened . . . and release more high tar and been achieved?

Here’s one opinion, from an nicotine cigarettes. Take that.

Australian adman whose parent You bastard.

So, the prospects at the mo­ company has been refusing to handle tobacco accounts for over ment seem to be: a decade, ever since the appear­ • Cigarette smoking will in­ ance o f the US Surgeon General’s crease. And, today, the rate o f Report: consumption is equivalent to two “ The only good thing about cigarettes being smoked by every

Someone should walk into the American lobaccoCo.and beat them over the head with a malignant lung.

The man is Leo Burnett, his agency’s Australian offices cur­ rently push out concepts for Brit­ ish Paints (ie. Rolf Harris) and Levis (do you want me or want me for m y Levis). “ We thought” , says Burnett, “ if filters were regarded on the sissy side and Marlboro was re­ garded on the sissy side, the na­ tural thing to do was to look for a masculine image. “ We looked for men who were tough but could eat at the Wal­ dorf. It was the name: distinguish­ ed — probably associated with the duke o f Marlborough — contrasted with the cowboy and the fliptop package too. Well, it all added up. “ IT SPELLED . . . MOTHER” In 1955, the first ad appeared with a 12 month budget o f $3.5 million. In 1955, sales jumped from nought to 6.4 billion Marl­ boro cigarettes. In 1956, sales jumped to 14.3 billion. In 1957, another salesup to 19.3 billion.

From nought to nearly 20 billion in three years!

But smooth sailing for Marl­ boro stopped in 1958. “ In 1958” ,

The ow n e r o f this lung coughed b lo o d f o r m onths b e fo re he fou n d o u t what was w rong.

N ow he’s in M arlboro C oun try.

Just like som e 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 other A m ericans w h o died last year.

They died fr o m lung cancer.

C oronary artery disease. Pulm onary em physem a. C hronic bronch itis.

In their w ake, the A m erican T o b a c c o Co. has the au da city to publish an ad in th e N .Y . Tim es calling anticigarette eviden ce a “ bu m rap” .

They say that there is no c o n ­ clusive p ro o f that cigarettes cause disease.

That there are statistics link­ ing lung cancer t o d ivorce and lack o f sleep.

Conclusive p ro o f. Bull.

If y o u ’re a sm oker, y o u r lungs are rotting out.

M ore than 2 0 0 0 studies d on e in the last tw en ty years, in m any countries, using many d ifferen t techniques, all incriminate the same culprit.

Can th e y all be m istaken?

W hy have 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 d o cto r s quit sm oking?

W hy d o n ’t th ey wait f o r c o n ­ clusive p r o o f? Like their ow n auto psies.

T hey have seen what it ’s like.

H ow th e patient coughs and struggles to breathe. In m ore pain than any kn ow n n a rcotic can sm other.

W hy was it that u p until 1 9 3 0 (around th e tim e that w o m e n “ w on their rights” ) they sh ow ed alm ost no in cid en ce o f lung cancer?

Why is it that since 1 9 3 0 , the in cid en ce o f lung cancer in w om en has risen p rop ortion ally to the am oun t th ey sm ok e?

Is it also incidental that em physem a, o n c e virtually unheard o f m w om en , is n ow w idespread?

Y eah, y o u ’ve com e a long w ay ba b y .

T he A m erican T o b a c c o C o. says that after fifte e n years o f trying, n o b o d y has in d u ced lung cancer in animals w ith cigarette sm oke.

R em em ber th e T halidom ide night­ mare?

When T halid om id e was tested on animals, there were no abnorm alities.

W hy d o n ’t th e cigarette manu­ facturers stop playing gam es?

E veryon e know s that if y o u spend enou gh tim e, y o u can find a legal w ay o u t o f first degree murder.

There isn’t a person involved in th e procigarette fight w h o d oesn ’t k n ow the dangers o f cig­ arettes.

We think it is a national d is­ grace that som e p eop le in ou r cou n try w orsh ip th e B itch G oddess Success so fanatically that t h e y ’d rather slaughter their neigh bor than lose a buck.

We realize it takes a big man to adm it w h en h e’s w rong.

But w e are asking the A m erican T o b a c c o C o. to print a retraction o f their o b sc e n e ad.

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man, woman and child on earth, smoking, and sky-diving have in common?” every day.

All, suggests Gordon, all let in: • Concerned and highly sincere “ A thoughtless, contentless ex­ people in the media will say ‘ 'boo, Hiss". (For example two weeks perience . . . the moment (how­ ever fleeting) that is pure being ago both Four corners and Nation re v iew carried anti-smoking and timeless.”

This is Marlboro country. items.)

He goes on: “ We are obsessed THE SIGNPOSTS WHICH PRE­ by the desire to live in the TEND TO EXIST ARE ALWAYS thoughtless, unified state (which BEING REVERSED (NM, Prisonmight be called orgasm) even if er).

Government circles at the mo­ only for a nanosecond.” So, Gor­ ment have plans for a Freedom o f don argues, we will pursue any IT even if we know it means death, Information Act. This act might but not because o f a death wish, allow the appearance o f “ informa­ but because o f circumstances tion” like the 1968 American ad reproduced below. At the m o­ largely beyond our control, we are only familiar with a limited range ment, all media are legally “ free” o f unificatory experiences. to refuse ads like this.

Although Gordon’s book is So, if your style is Moral In­ primarily about masturbation he dignation rather than Criticism makes the suggestion that hetero­ . . . go hunting for baddies. The sexual intercourse is the real IT: field is wide open: The American “ . . . procreation is the creation o f Tobacco Co, The media, Stuart life itself and therefore the unifi­ Wagstaff, Tony Barber, Paul Ho­ cation experience par excellence. " gan, Braddock. How’s the hunt Like a breath o f fresh air. going in '73?

Whereas smoking and mastur­ WHY DO PEOPLE SMOKE? bation: “ While key unification ex­ The only way that increasing periences in that they unite man tobacco consumption will be with himself (“ Kent has got it all curbed is through an understand­ together” ) do not unite him with ing o f what in fact smoking has others." going for it. It seems that “ Evil­ If you would like to empirical­ ness” is part o f the surface appeal. ly assess the argument in this But that won’ t fully explain the article try this test. Keep in your phenomenon. mind a picture o f a man who * * * seeks, as we all do, unification but Why do people smoke? Perhaps has been led to the conclusion some answers lie in David Cole that real unification is private.

Gordon’s Self love.

Now ask yourself these media Any discussion about mastur­ questions: bation (or any sexual topic) either Why does the Marlboro man collides or interlocks with the only ever have dogs and horses for works o f Sigmund Freud. And a company? problem immediately arises. The Why do you never hear any unfortunate thing about Sigmund conversation in the ads for: StuyFreud is that like McLuhan he vesant, Escort, Chesterfield? wrote much and became trendy Why did “ anyhow” result in quickly. Consequently, everyone Winfield selling 10 million cigar­ scooped up their basic Freud and ettes per day? tucked the basics away in the Why are the ads for Benson & ideas department. But, out of Hedges centred (and highly suc­ every 1000 people who know the cessfully) around absurdity? words: id, ego, superego and the Have you considered the pos­ phrases: oedipus complex and sibility that the government spon­ death wish; precious few know o f sored health warning tag can func­ either Freud’s total schema or tion as a quite logical prefix for all what it implies. But. . . the cigarette commercials you see, for example: WHAT IF FREUD IS WRONG? Medical authorities warn that David Cole Gordon is a repre­ smoking is a health hazard . . . sentative o f the “ third movement “ anyhow, have a Winfield” . No psychologists” who base much o f small wonder that the total mes­ their exploration on the work o f sage conveyed by the Benson & Maslow. To attempt a complete Hedges ads has to be highly effect­ description o f Maslow’s thought is ive: absurd situation starring cigar­ an excellent idea, but beyond the ettes as the goody followed by a limitations o f this article. But, if compounding o f the absurdity the metaphysical assumptions o f starring cigarettes as the baddy Maslow (and followers like Gor­ (Medical authorities warn . . .) don) are more accurate in explain­ If the metaphysical drift o f ing the human psyche than the David Cole Gordon's Self love is assumptions o f Freud . . . we will reasonable then we can see that, have to change our thinking. rather than condemn cigarette About: higher-plane yearnings, in­ smoking, the tactic should be a dustrial relations . . . and “ cigar­ celebration o f what cigarette ette smoking and masturbation” . smoking is a part of: in the 60s Some words from Gordon: they were called peak experiences. “ Our basic drive is to be one in And, if “ only the best will (really) mind and body, to be one with the do” then we find that the “ smok­ world, to be one with others and ing question” takes on dimensions to resolve the subject-object bi­ far beyond discussions of tactics furcation that divides us since o f how to beat the tobacco lobby birth.” ’ Fair enough, reply the on its own terms. yogis and mystics, we know and If Gordon is on the right track counteract accordingly. But such in placing tobacco consumption mystical elitism won’t do for Gor­ within a group o f activities rather don: than isolating it, and if actions “ What does sex, climbing a against the tobacco lobby only mountain, running a race, watch­ increase the appeal o f their pro­ ing a football game, eating a good duct, then guidelines for a tactic meal, having a few drinks before must start to emerge. dinner, making money, getting high on alcohol (or whatever), PAUL COMRI-THOMSON LJ T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , decem ber 4-10, 1973 -

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HE OPTIONS available to those dissatisfied with the lifestyle demanded by this con­ sumptive society seem to be limit­ ed.

The breakdown o f commun­ al groups is said to be a mat­ ter o f experience rather than in­ dicative o f failure; since break­ downs are frequent and the nuclear family alternative is not an alternative at all, such an attitude is essential. Communal groups may collapse if they fail to satisfy the aspirations, expecta­ tions and ideals o f members - a certainty if the group’s goals and ideals are insufficiently articulated at the outset.

A group o f Melbourne people have attempted to express these problems o f communal living in the process o f planning for their own kind o f “ expanded family” .

Implicit in their planning is a desire for a more enduring com­ munal group and the approach they have taken broadly reflects this goal - they not only wish to find a satisfactory alternative to suit themselves, but also want others to benefit from this experi­ ence. They presented their ideas to a seminar on Alternatives in architecture at Melbourne uni­ versity last week.

The group consist o f three nuclear families o f eight indivi­ duals. The youngest is two, the oldest 59. Colin Moore is a doctor, his wife Susie a housewife.

David Griffiths is a researcher for a city welfare agency; his wife Sue is also a housewife. The Moores have two children; the parents o f Sue Griffiths complete the group.

According to David, they met as a group concerned about the autho­ ritarian society. Believing that change rests with individuals, they wished to provide an environment where adults care and where children see caring as an integral part o f their lives.

The project is not only notable as another attempt at alternative lifestyles. The group believes that basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing and transport have be­ come the prerogative and province o f experts. Experts perpetuate the myth that they know best, so that a particular area o f expertise be­ comes one o f those things that doesnt belong to the people, but belongs to the expert. It’s a consequence o f specialisatioa The group were confronted with this problem in working out the design implications o f com­ bining three urban nuclear fam­ ilies into one expanded rural family. They felt that architecture could facilitate their lives, and sought an architect with a non­ elitist, non-competitive attitude, with skills he was prepared to share. The help o f the university’s faculty o f architecture was enlist­ ed to find such an architect; eventually the group found itself part o f an unusual design team with five final year students interested in the same sort o f goals.

So the design stage came to focus on a new relationship between the “ client” and “ archi­ tect” whereby all aspects o f the project are developed by a group effort.

The architects acknowledged that concern for immediate re­ quirements (such as designing a house) had to be considered within the wider context, if they were to avoid contributing to a system orientated towards the nuclear family. In the client group, they found people “ who had arrived at similar conclusions, who shared the same concern for the present and future conditions o f mankind, and who were pre­ pared to put their thoughts into action” .

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between members o f the client group, the use o f building materi­ als, the environmental effects o f buildings, the effects o f climatic factors on design and alternatives in independent energy systems such as solar power, wind power and methane gas. The team agree that they managed to achieve a group-leaming situation.

The second notable aspect o f the project centres around the goals o f the client group. While an alternative lifestyle where three families will live within the same

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They each concede middle class backgrounds and acknowledge the powerful effects o f such an upbringing.

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For the children they seek a communal lifestyle as being most advantageous: Susie Moore felt the kids would have more adults to relate to, both vertically in relation to grandparents, and laterally in relation to other adults and children in the expanded family. The group want more open schooling for the children, or possibly no schooling at all.

A third aspect o f the project is a deliberate new approach to the problem o f power supply, where­ by the environmental impact o f the generation and consumption of such power is lowered by the installation o f independent means of supply. This approach involves such concepts as the recycling o f waste and the use o f natural energy sources.

The team discovered that to depend entirely upon solar energy would cost in the vicinity o f $20,000 per kilowatt. The sound­ ness o f using a wind device will depend upon their ongoing study o f wind velocities over a period o f months; such a device (once known as a windmill!) would be connected to a simple mechanical generator. To depend entirely upon wind power seems at the outset to have drawbacks. Anoth­ er possibility considered seriously is energy derived from the re­ cycling o f waste.

Examination o f the latter op­ tion showed that the group’s needs could be met by processing the effluent from some 600 pigs into methane gas. The gas could be used for household needs, farm needs and powering vehicular transport. The group conducted an economic management study o f a pig-producing enterprise, which in turn raised the problem of ultimate effluent disposal.

These problems are exacerbated by doping country, and the inability o f particular soils to absorb large amounts o f effluent without affecting underground streams.

The group are not discouraged by these problems; it is likely that a combination o f systems will be used. All o f them will be looked at again in relation to the particular area o f land finally purchased by the client group.

A final facet o f this project is worth emphasising. That is, the willingness o f the client group to share their experience and acquir­ ed knowledge with anyone who wishes to use it.

Their intention is to rationalise the experience in a kind o f “ kit” form: when the project is com­ pleted they will detail the entire process from the initial architect.

Inquiries may be directed to Colin (Melbourne 49.3350) or to David (347.8884). * * *

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THE APPROACH taken by this group may be open to criticism on several levels. Some may argue that designing a commune from scratch is elitist in its use o f professional skills, or bourgeois in its capitalisation on the system’s technology.

But the client group rejects the notion that all technology is bad.

And they regard their course o f action as personally more valid (if they are to continue to press for change) than if they were to “ opt out” in the manner o f the Nimbin school. The latter course o f action, they say, is one that presents no satisfactory alterna­ tive if one wishes to come to terms with urban industrial soci­ ety.

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MURPHY’S HUMAN RIGHTS BILL 1973 ENATOR Lionel Murphy’s pro­ posed bill o f rights is mainly a S statement o f what limited freedoms al­

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ready exist in our lucky country. Some people feel that to set out the situation clearly is educational and valuable, while others feel that to do so may restrict a citizen exercising the rights stated in the bill.

If new situations arise in which new rights may seem important, the very existence of the bill could prevent those rights being accepted as legitimate free­ doms. The right to refuse military service on religious grounds for a long time proved to be a bar to atheists and humanists with conscientious objections not articulated by biblical utterances.

You might also say that if someone can point to the bill as a guarantee o f civil liberties then people will be less likely to insist on the actual exercise o f those liberties in “ difficult" cases as a matter o f principle to “ prove” that the liberties really exist.

For instance, very few respectable businessmen have their rights trampled on by others . . . because the establishment agrees with their values. But an illiterate black (the Stuart case in SA), a penniless psychiatric pensioner (Corbishley in NSW), a cheeky “ smutpeddler” (OZ, Thorunka and Ribald) or racist recessionists (Croats and the Rhodesia information centre) have all been “ difficult” cases because o f public bias against the people involved.

So Murphy believes that an updated restatement is a good idea: “ . . . . freedom o f expression is what remains after one takes account o f the laws relating to defamation, contempt of court, censorship, obscenity, offensive behavior, sedition, official secrecy and the like. Freedom o f assembly is restrict­ ed by the scarcity o f places in which people who wish to express a particular point o f view can assemble without o f­ ficial permission from some authority or other. The protection o f the habeas corpus act is whittled away by the exten­ sive powers o f arrest given to police and the powers to detain those who are thought to be mentally ill. “ The democratic concept that each person shall be entitled to a free and equal vote is denied by the operation o f our electoral distribution laws. That a person is to be presumed innocent o f a criminal offence until he is proved guilty is overshadowed by the inequities o f our criminal justice system, and especially by the inadequacy o f legal aid in Australia. “ The press is supposed to be a guard­ ian o f our liberties. It is often muzzled by the laws that circumscribe freedom o f expression or by its ownership being concentrated in the hands o f vested in­ terests.”

Murphy’ s Human Rights Bill 1973 (ie. his proposed human rights act) ratifies a United Nations covenant on civil and political rights o f — would you believe — 1966 which was ignored by the past Liberal governments.

The bill sets out the classical freedoms o f thought, conscience, religion, express­ ion, free assembly, travel, due process o f law etc. But look at the real freedom o f expression given by the bill and it’s a bit less than you might think: “ 11. (1) Everyone shall have the famation A ct passed largely to satisfy the right to hold opinions without interfer­ family o f the publisher o f Truth, John ence [No thought control in OUR so­ Norton.] ciety. ] (b) are reasonably necessary for (2) Everyone shall have the right to the protection o f national security or freedom o f expression, including freedom public health; to seek, receive and impart information [ “Security” has been the excuse for and ideas o f all kinds, regardless of suppressing details o f Petrov, Watergate, frontiers, either orally, in writing or in lord Lampton's bedtime rambles and our print, in the form o f art, or through any US bases. “ Health” can cover anything other media o f his choice [TOO MUCH! from a case for the legalisation o f pot or Free at last, free at last. Great God I'm butter-margarine blends to an ideology . . . wait for i t . . . ] which might disturb the public’s “ mental (3) The exercise o f the rights referred stability. J to in sub-section (2) may be subject only (c) constitute reasonable regula­ to such limitations as are prescribed by tions as to time, place and manner; law and (a) are reasonably necessary for [Any eager lawyer could drive a truck through that loophole.] respect o f the reputations o f others; (d) are reasonably necessary to [In other words subject to the current protect persons from involuntary ex­ defamation laws, including the NSW De­

reasonable or necessary. ] (5) Nothing in this section affects the operation o f a law relating to defamation or limiting the right o f a juvenile person to access to any matter o f the kind referred to in paragraph (3) (d).

[This touching concern for the tiny tots is already reflected in state laws the original London OZ convictions and the police anxiety to prove distribution o f Thorunka dangerous to impressionable young minds. ] The other freedoms are limited in much the same way; that is, legal restric­ tions reasonably necessary in the interests o f national security, public safety and health plus regulation o f time, place and manner.

So, what is given with one hand is taken away with the other. Before you rejoice in the new freedoms make sure you know what is ripped o ff in the small print.

What the Bill and most o f the unctuous United Nations guff ignores is that the exercise o f a freedom by one citizen (expression) almost inevitably re­ duces the absolute freedom o f another (eg. privacy or protection o f reputation, freedom from shock and change).

Maybe some important rights have escaped the senator’s attention. How about the right to offend, to change your community’s values, to reveal a nasty truth, to unveil a new way o f living and relating? In The greening o f America, William A. Reich takes a look at the American bill o f rights and ends up proposing a freedom o f consciousness which really would have to be extensive, change-promoting and burgher-shocking.

If we look at the American experience with a bill o f rights that has more constitutional authority than ours, then we see the ideal in great contrast to the reality. What comfort does the Nixon/ Reagan/Watergate/George Ja ckson/ITT/ Ellsburg society take in its bill o f rights?

Many Americans have concluded that authority will do anything it can get away with, and a piece o f paper won’t stop it.

Paper doesnt give power.

I dont want to appear too cynical about the bill or about Murphy’s inten­ tions in putting something in the statute books. Admittedly, he’s the man who sent the police into the Croatian dawn raids and he’s the man who issued a defamation writ against OZ. But lawyers are going to be quoting the new printed freedoms at courts from now on as they have never been able to do before.

However, the federal government doesnt have power to legislate extensive freedoms to bind conservative states which choose to resist federal power.

Frankly I can’t see the bill having a great immediate effect on the lives o f your local queen, drunk, black, nazi, hangloose dropout or pregnant comptometrist no matter what it says about rights o f expression, privacy, culture or life. The struggle for expression o f alternatives and deviant ways o f life will go on against the same inertia and intolerance.

The same legalisms which restrict street theatre (“ obstruction” ), the Cairns Craft Centre (“ council zoning” ), Guriganya school (“ public health” ), neighbor­ hood lawyer schemes (“ solicitors touting prohibitions” ) and demos (“ traffic regula­ posure to any matter that might reason­ tions” ) can be used to cut down the bill's ably be regarded as offensive in the freedoms. community in which they live.

I dont think that the provisions in­ [This protects the present state inde­ tended to prevent rip-offs can be preven­ cency laws which apply and saves the ted from perpetuating rights rip-offs in honest burghers being shocked or affront­ our present legal system. The bill can be ed by something which does no identi­ seen as an attempt to put the spirit o f the fiable harm. If a magistrate believes they law back into a more prominent place would be offended, that's IT. That's the than the letter o f the law which often community you live in whether you like overwhelms it. it or not. ] There’s a commissioner to enforce the (4) The burden o f proving that a rights and a council to recommend action limitation referred to in sub-section (3) is to the government under the bill, but reasonably necessary or constitutes a their effectiveness depends on the willing­ reasonable regulation as mentioned in ness o f the government to accept their that sub-section lies upon the person advice. Paper will never make power, asserting that the limitation is so neces­ power can print useless paper. It’s a sary or constitutes such a regulation. useful piece o f paper.

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RANG the doorbell o f the fashion­ able solicitor’ s office in the West End o f London. In mid-afternoon, it was already dark and misty. I wasnt worried about how much it was going to cost me.

The important thing was to see the man and get some help. However, I had been assured that the solicitor was very good and that a normal consultation fee was never more than ten pounds.

An electric buzzer screeched. But stop­ ped before I had the wit to push open the buzzer-controlled double doors. For a few seconds I pushed vainly against them trying to make them open.

It was a pity that I didnt take that as a sign from the gods and walk away down the street to cope with my marital prob­ lems myself. In those split seconds I could have saved myself 125 pounds, plus years o f festering indignation, which was only assuaged finally by an Act o f ReRevenge.

But I didnt walk away. I stayed and pressed the bell again. This time the buzzer continued for a very long time as if to give even a moron enough time to get the posh plate glass doors open.

The whole office was like that, plush and modern. Business was obviously good. People were getting divorces all the time. And love life always ended in a room full o f sobbing women and a solicitor.

Mr G greeted me urbanely. He wore an old Etonian tie. Its green stripe was the only one o f these English totems that I recognised. It had been pointed out to me by some gangling Julian or Jonathan soon after I arrived over from Australia, young, eager, and not very bright, as you can see.

Mr G gestured towards the black leath­ er chair where I was to sit. Somehow there was something faintly Mediterran­ ean about him.

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He then settled in his chair, turned his head sideways while I told him my sob-story. He avoided looking into my eyes, like a tactful gynecologist o f the emotions.

I wondered if he was bored. He must have heard the same old story too often before. A man on the run with another woman. But what gave this tale a nice bizarre touch was that the wife was hugely pregnant.

He nodded sagely as I talked. I won­ dered if he was falling asleep. But sudden­ ly he braced up as an idea came to him: “ We could always sue the other woman for enticement,” he said.

I giggled. The word enticement I thought only existed on chocolate box ads. I told him I’d have to think it over and handed him some incriminating docu­ ments. I wasnt, at this stage, trying to get the bloke back, just a bit o f money out o f him for the next three harrowing months, because I couldnt earn any myself.

I got up to go. My stomach swelled vastly before me, turning me into a Sacred Cow, so I thought.

But Mr G thought otherwise. He too had a paunch, I noticed, as he turned at last to confront me. And very bright licorice eyes.

I looked over his head out at the window. It was black night already at five in the afternoon.

"You're very nubile you know,” he said. “ I need a mistress,” he said. “ Would tuesdays and fridays d o,” he said.

I grinned as one does in a crisis. But there was no stopping him. He lunged.

Our two fatnesses met. He was very strong. Close up I noticed he had pock marks. How had he got smallpox at Eton I wondered. Could he have spent a first few shameful years in a back street in Cairo? Why was this highly respected solicitor raping a vastly pregnant house­ wife? The struggle continued.

After a while I became crafty. “ My flat? Or yours?” “ I am married, so it will have to be yours.” I held his paw and said that I was feeling faint. He made an appointment to come and see me on tuesday to finish the job. “ I’ll kiss your bruises better,” he said. His old Etonian tie by now was undone. Unfortunately I had been unable to strangle him with it. “ Till tuesday,” I said, smiling but leaving.

AT HOME I licked my wounds. I wrote him a crisp letter terminating negotiations and asking for the return o f my docu­ ments. They were irreplaceable evidence I needed for the divorce case.

A wheedling reply came back saying I was in a confused condition and he would hold on to the papers until he saw me again.

I wrote back and said I wasnt going to see him again and would he please return my stuff.

Again he refused. And so it went on.

Eventually I wrote a wrathful letter, demanding fair play.

He wrote a pained old-school-tie letter denying all, implying that no one would believe a hysterical, lactating female, which, by this time, I was; as, o f course the legal machine grinds extremely slow.

Finally I received a summons to pay the bill, or else three months inside. I had to fork out 125 pounds which meant selling some clothes. Thus I ate the stale crusts o f humiliation. And I could not share my indignation with anyone. Nobody quite believed me, as they saw my looney baffled eyes, listening to the stream o f abuse pouring from my contentious lips. I was in the schizoid-making position o f knowing I was right.

For five long years I boiled with rage, diminished by defeat. How often I wished I had strangled him with his old school tie.

Eventually I told this unsavory tale to a friend — a gay queen in fact, who loved the outrageous in every form. “ My dear you must take your revenge.

Let me make an anonymous phone call to his wife and tell all.” “ You can’ t d o that. Poor woman.

Nothing to d o with her.”

Then he had a better idea. He sent a telegram by telephone to the solicitor’s wife which consisted o f an entire chapter out o f Spinoza, beginning: “ An existential judgment — or a prop­ osition o f value, what the Germans call a Werthurtheil or what we may if we like denominate a spiritual judgment. . . ” This kind o f thing went on for some thousands o f words. He gave the address o f the sender as the solicitor himself, using, this time, Mr G ’s office address and phone number so that the astronomic phone bill would go to him.

I felt a distinct lightening o f pressure as if one o f my demons had left me. That old rankling grievance had been cleansed away. “ Thank you! Now I can forget the whole nasty incident,” I said. “ I feel cleansed! Cleansed!” “ Lovie that’ s nothing. I got a divine revenge on an old bitch who stole two of my boyfriends and then he boasted about it to everyone. So I asked a chum who works in the ministry to get me some No. 10 Downing street writing paper. I typed an invitation to the bitch asking him to lunch with the prime minister. Formal wear. Then I stationed myself on the corner o f Downing street and saw the old buffoon strut up in his top hat and knock at the famous No 10. Naturally he was thrown out on to the pavement. It was checkmate to me dont you think sweetie?”

Ever since I have followed my friend’s advice. Consequently whenever I’m put down I dont fester any more. The boil gets lanced immediately. But curiously, after adopting this new eye-for-an-eye philosophy, I have noticed that fewer people try to gouge mine out. Perhaps I no longer have the victim’s slouch, which invites blows.

But alas, revenge is out o f fashion. It is, after all, the cause o f all the atrocities in the world which make peace o f mind impossible unless you wear blinkers. It is what makes jews kill arabs and arabs jews. It is what made Charlie Manson kill Mrs Polanski; and in nearly every case the object o f the act o f revenge is the wrong victim - it is children or old ladies or an innocent bystander, like in the recent IRA explosion on Euston station in England

when all the Irish succeeded in blowing up were two Japanese tourists.

I think, however, that there is a case for small domestic revenges, practised adroitly and with absolute judaic justice The God o f the Old Testament was definitely more just than the old Greek gods. True he does threaten boils and hail and frogs in the oven if you go a-whoring after other gods, but he can be appealed to occasionally see reason. He was about to destroy Abimelech for attempting to make it with Sarah. “ Behold, thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken, she is a man’ s wife,” he thundered.

However when Abimelech explained clearly to God that Sarah’ s husband had tricked him by telling him Sarah was his sister - then God saw reason and said thoughtfully: “ Yes I know that thou didst this in the integrity o f thy heart.”

It was unfortunate for Oedipus that he did not have such a judicious God. For although he had no idea that his wife was his mother, he all the same had to have his country ravished by plagues and droughts and he had to cut out his two eyes. The Greeks were very hot on revenge. They even had commandos o f revenge — the Eumenides with Bloody Claws who followed a wrong-doer to the grave and beyond.

Not that the Judaic God is a soft liberal or anything like that. He threatens to “ make mine arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh” and to “ smite them with consumption and with fever and with an inflammation and with an extreme burning and with the sword and with blasting and with mildew and they shall pursue thee until thee perish” .

A good revenge should be delivered swiftly, so that the evil-doer knows exact­ ly what he is being avenged for and can taste the full bitterness o f remorse. How­ ever, if one waits for 20 years one just might be in the satisfactory position of being able to ruin the man’s life. “ No dont let’ s give him the job - there’s something about him I dont quite like.”

I disapprove o f this method, because the longer you wait the more you fester.

And you may be dead yourself of stomach cancer before then. The Corsi­ cans and Sicilians as everyone knows, simply reach for their rifles and thus perish entire families. Perhaps that’s going a bit far.

I advocate gentler and more domesti­ cated methods. But revenge all the same.

Because revenge is a laxative; you will feel better afterwards for “ the Lord cannot be cleansed o f the blood that is shed therein but by the blood o f him that shed it” . The operative word is “ cleansed” .

One thing is certain, one cannot for­ give a serious wrong, unless the villain of the piece goes out into the market place and covers his hair in ashes and begs forgiveness. They must acknowledge what they’ve done. They must write a 20 page letter explaining all and begging forgive­ ness with passion. They must not let guilt make them bundle the whole incident out o f sight. Thus friendships break and wither.

If you are one o f those rare types who are not a moral coward you just might be able to save yourself a lot o f trouble, grievance and broken friendships. Before you embark upon the labyrinthine paths o f revenge and hate - challenge the villain, tell your anger. Blake put it neatly in his poem The Poison Tree.

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was angry with my friend told my wrath, m y wrath did end. was angry with my foe told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole, When the night had veil’d the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

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The telephone. Magic Melvin grabs the receiver with an evil chuckle: “ Hi. Danny Genuine o f Reel Life Productions here. We are going to control the world.

And whoever controls the world controls the cunt. Right? It’s hookers and dope from here on in. This is the BIGTIME!” When the Rolling Stones gave a concert in nearby Zurich, it still felt that night like Basel was where the real action was. The start o f the Yom Kippur war received only our peripheral atten­ tion. Watergate not much more.

The junta coup in Chile passed by leaving few ripples. We were the centre o f the world.

Genuine’s fantasies are invari­ ably fascinating and tempting to fall into. We were falling. The most sane relation to reality was maintained by Max Von Sydow, who knows how to turn fantasy off and on and where it ends. He is a family man, rock solid. There is some embarrassment, as with the Steppenwolf, about his bourgeois tendencies but he is proud o f his work. He is proud o f being Swedish. Passing his con­ sulate, he points: “ That’s my flag.”

He was depressed when it look­ ed like socialist Olaf Palme would lose an election. He took time out to read the results. First things first. His son visited him, his wife.

He spent his time with them, not with us. We missed him. Dignity is missed. Von Sydow is not a star. He’s an actor who trains like an athlete. He does his homework.

He does not get lost on the set He never complains. When Fred Haines apologised for working him so hard - ten hours a day, six day weeks, Max in every shot he smiled the soft reply: “ There is no need to apologise. I’m being well paid for it.” During a scene

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The film is soon to be released; directed by Fred Haines, it stars Max von Sydow as Harry Heller, Dominique Sanda as Hermine and Pierre Clementi as Pablo. Fishman was producer.

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involving a group o f elderly extras standing around between takes, he suggested: “ Somebody should get a bench for those elderly extras.”

I wish I could think o f some­ thing nasty to write about Von Sydow, scandalous at least. Sin­ cerity makes boring copy. Dignity does not sell newspapers. Classy actors do not necessarily make movie stars in the BIGTIME. We were shooting a scene on location above an art cinema which happened to be running Citizen Kane and thought it was a good portent.

I took some air on a break, thinking o f last night’s rushes - a scene where the Steppenwolf has been trapped into a dinner party with an aryan pack. He handles it poorly. Drinking too much too fast, saying wrong things, trembling with paranoia. Max had transmitted the soul o f the Step­ penwolf . . . hunted, haunted, wounded, dangerous.

But here coming down the Marketplatz is just liberal niceguy Max; clean and eager in a cord jacket, towering above the swarm o f Swiss shoppers, taking the air too. We lean against a sunny comer and talk. He tells me about a ceremonial dinner he had been to the night before, while I was watching his rushes. The story is difficult for him to phrase. He makes a few false starts. He is afraid o f implied racist connota­ tions. It is the closest I ever heard him come to disapproval. He is careful to repeat several times that the guests seemed like nice peo­ ple. However, table talk had been so terribly banal . . . about the high cost and low quality o f ser­ vants these days, about fashion­ able ski stations and where to dock the yacht After we part, I wonder if it had been Max Von Sydow dining or the Steppenwolf. The two din­ ner parties meld in my head. I decide that even though he may have felt like a Steppenwolf, such an actor would have put on a convincing performance as Max Von Sydow.

Max lets you in only so far.

Kindly and even lovingly in, but only so far. Insights come hard and slowly. Seeking keys, I asked Fishman if he thought I should turn Max on. He answered for organ ic casting: “ No. Let Clementi do that.”

After serving 17 months in a Roman jail on a drug charge, Pierre Clementi was declared inno­ cent by the Italian supreme court.

However, Clementi looks like he must be guilty o f something. Re­ member that savage decadence from Bunuel’s Belle de Jour. Here he is Pablo, the jazz musician who turns Harry Haller on to “ chance as destiny” . You get the feeling Clementi is just, but just, under control, that whatever depend­ ability he has - and it was total as far as work was concerned - has been cultivated at some cost . . .

Probably something like 17 months hard time.

Lean, intense, sensual, every­ thing is with a flourish. He bought a gold earring and a tenor saxo­ phone his first day in Basel, start­ ling staid Swiss clerks by banging exuberantly on counters: “ BONJOUR MADAME . . . ” Clementi is the type who goes out for a pack o f cigarettes and is not seen again for three days, as empirical as Von Sydow is rationalist. Eerie reflections.

PABLO Oh, you know, you know more about it than me. I just play it. It’s all the same to me.

HARRY It isnt all the same, is it? You can’ t put Mozart on the same level with the latest foxtrot or whatever, can you?

PABLO I dont put nothing on any level at all. I just play whatever comes to me.

m in iq u e Sanda, 22 , the D onew Garbo some say. Star quality is a mysterious and fragile asset; one which, without experi­ ence, training or confidence to go with it, can vanish fast. What is it I have that is worth a hundred thousand dollars a picture? There are so many others who have worked so hard and failed. Why me? Do I have any talent? Perhaps this time everyone will see through me. Who am I? Stardom was thrust on her, dropped at least. She was a suc­ cessful model at 16 and Robert Bresson put her in her first star­ ring role at 18. She has not paid dues. She is not, one feels, pre­ pared to. Everyday - every hour — she opens up and then retreats.

She has a child out o f wedlock.

She lives a secluded life with a painter in the countryside west o f Paris. She wears a mink coat over jeans. She does not blossom in cities. Once she fixes her eyes on you you never forget it and there were times when she had me feeling like a puppy on a leash.

Harry Haller is convicted o f “ stabbing the reflection o f a girl with the reflection o f a knife” .

Steppenwolf is all reflections . . . ourselves, our times, our fantasies.

Mirrors. Around the camera where we have come to expect some heavy egoplay there was nothing but serious work. The creative wildness was to be found in that normally solid grey slate o f hardnoses. Production. Mirrors on mir­ rors.

'T h e following appeared about Bobby Riggs in Time magazine at the time: “ . . . Riggs is an extra­ terrestrial peculiarity . . . a gar­ rulous, demonic elf, a promoter who has finally found a way to gratify his gargantuan appetite for both action and attention . . .

Riggs is a person constantly re­ inventing himself. It is arguable whether anybody has ever really known him . . . ” The article quotes Riggs: “ ‘ What I live for is the matching o f wits, the game.’ ” Substitute “ hulk” for “ elf” and you pretty much have Fishman, the key to this game, a garrulous hulk in perpetual reinvention who views stirring up trouble as a legitimate function o f the pro­ ducer. “ I feel like getting into trouble today. Come on Mike, let’ s get

HARRY Tell me Pablo, why is it you dont care to discuss music with me?

Scenes from the forthcoming film

into some trouble.” Acid head games at first class hotels. Danny Genuine grabs the telephone, dials Frankfurt: “ Dr Unseld please.”

Just like that, grabs it and dials Ziggers. N obody calls Dr Sigfried Unseld Ziggers except Genuine, and even he not to his face. You dont fuck around with Dr Sigfried Unseld.

Years ago, writing his thesis, Ziggers found a mistake o f logic in Hesse’s masterpiece, the Glass bead game, a majestically logical book which won Hesse the Nobel prize. Hesse was impressed and laid Ziggers on his publisher Suhrkamp Verlag. He now runs the place. Ziggers sold Genuine the rights. Ziggers hates Genuine.

Suhrkamp also publishes Brecht, Beckett and Joyce. Theirs is a heavy office, “ serious” , dedicated to that sinister teutonic word for work, “ arbeit” . It is an office Harry Haller would despise. “ Hi Dr Unseld. This is Melvin Fishman calling from Basel . . . " Alias Danny Genuine, progeny o f Lenny Bruce crossed with a Jerry Lewis twang and Timothy Leary syntax, decorated with “ likes” and “ wow” and “ you know” .

Boy! How Unseld hates Gen­ uine: “ Hello Mr Fishman. What can I do for you today?”

"N o, no Dr Unseld. The ques­ tion is what can I do for you? I am going to offer you one million Swiss francs for the rights to Narcissus and Goldmund. . . " “ A million what?” Unseld knows perfectly well a million anything hard is ridiculous for one o f Hesse’ s minor novels. But he has been burned once. He plays for time. “ Uh . . . a million Deutsch marks . . . ” A million Deutsch marks is more than a million Swiss francs. Who cares, a million what? “ There must be something wrong with my hearing, Mr Fish­ man. I could have sworn you said a million Swiss francs. In any case, I already have an offer o f a million dollars for Narcissus and Gold­ mund.” Dr Unseld laughs; that was a good one. But he is uneasy.

He is on the defensive. He is reacting again. Genuine has the initiative. He flashes on some nasty deja vu. Genuine appearing out o f nowhere asking the impos­ sible, the right to film Steppen­ wolf which Hesse expressly for­ bade in his will. But through some ill-employed loophole Ziggers granted them, an appalling error o f judgment. Greed masquerading as smart business.

Get the down payment. Fish­ man - poor schmuck that he obviously was - would certainly default on the next one and then Ziggers could sell the rights again, pocket 30 grand or so in the process and if the film would be made at all it would be by a righteous maker, a German. How had it com e to pass that Ziggers is just another character in Danny Genuine’s fantasy?

Genuine thinks fast. He’s got old Ziggers now: “ Oh. Well, then how about a million POUNDS?” The question will not be ans­ wered. No answer is necessary. It is only the question which has any importance. The question will ruin Zigger’ s day, it will inject a psychedelic spike into the German work ethic. That is all Genuine needs to know. One last blast: “ Oh by the way Dr Unseld . . . how would you like us to send you a Steppenwolf tee' shirt?”

This is all really a duet between Unseld and Genuine. We are mere accompaniment. Unseld groans.

Steppenwolf tee shirts?! While above you can hear old Herman

breaking up. We are all in his Magic theatre now, bumping into each other walking in and out o f the doors.

OFFMAN-La Roche, the drug people who discovered LSD, have built a futuristic video studio in Basel. They would like to produce some Steppenwolf ef­ fects. They show us their hard­ ware and invite us to lunch in an executive diningroom. An execu­ tive makes small talk with Danny Genuine: “ You know, I’m a film fan.” “ That’s nice” , says Genuine, “ I’m a drug fan.” They send him cartons o f vitamins.

Confusion. Fluster. Communi­ cation breakdowns. We would be in high gear now were it not for Danny Genuine. Genuine has this theory o f incompetence. That is, he likes people who are com ­ petent in some other area doing a job they are not experienced in.

Me handling publicity is a good example. Fred Haines never di­ rected a movie before. Peter Sprague never bankrolled one.

Genuine himself is incompetent.

Incompetents produce the kind o f unpredictability Genuine feeds on. He was pulling our strings, we were his puppets. Haines was only making a film within the film.

Sprague actually thought Genuine was working for him. Sprague fired Genuine; he said he was charming and delightful but a troublemaker. Genuine closed a distribution deal for France.

Sprague said it was a “ Mickey Mouse deal” . He fired Genuine again.

Genuine arranged a press con­ ference at the Frankfurt Intercon­ tinental during the Book Fair, officially announcing the shooting o f Steppenwolf. He booked a pri­ vate sleeper car to take us all up from Basel and back again, four hours each way. Sprague threw a telephone at him. He hired a dixieland band to play for us in the car. There was a “ midnight breakfast” after the press confer­ ence. Genuine had a hard time selling the catering chief o f the Intercontinental the midnight breakfast concept.

"In Germany that would be considered out o f line,” the chief frowned. “ That’s exactly where I want to be,” replied Genuine. “ Out o f line.”

People said not only was our midnight breakfast the party o f the year, but it had been a stroke of genius to announce the filming of a literary classic at a book fair.

During the evening, Ziggers grew increasingly glazed and around 2.30 he tried to walk through a plate glass window.

It’ s over now. Steppenwolf is in the can. I’m in London on my own fantasies once more. Nothing left to do but write the story. It is impossible not to write it. I will never be free o f Fishman unless I write it. I must write him off, shake myself o ff his arm. This is not easy to do. Maybe if I make him famous he will leave me alone. I have written 80 pages, o f which this has been a trimmed version. Now I am through with Danny Genuine. The mindfucker.

The telephone: “ Hi fellah. Like . . . I just finished reading what you wrote. You know. It’ s great.

Listen fellah. You want to go to New York? I think we should hustle Esquire for a Steppenwolf issue. Wouldnt vou like to be a whole issue o f Esquire?”

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the desert colon map o f australia pause a skin stretched on a frame comma knots o f hair pause the zones underlined the fertile crescent underlined pause quote australia underlined colon let me in underlined unquote pause Sydney the port open bracket hole query close bracket Pause Open bracket quote o my America comma new found land unquote close bracket pause pause his hand was romping in the haystack his hand was romping underlined in the haystack climax colon his hand was romping in the haystack all underlined pause pause photo o f Sydney Harbour blown up comma on frame colon a fist smashes through it fullstop

one kiss too many “ One kiss to many/ And kisses lose their meaning” Diane Wakoski Let me, this once and without condemnation, be churlish and openly maledictory (my poetry might be a poetry o f revenge but having the last word is often pyrrhic): I wish for you the loneliness you have given me. I mean by loneliness not that common state o f being alone in a crowd, but something else, more awful.

This is not nice o f me.

I’m supposed to hug my grief and grievances to m yself and like some extraordinarily benevolent peasant woman wish you a long life, many offspring and a multiplicity o f happinesses. I should care for you and keep the thought o f you (you as yourself I loved) precious no matter where you go what you do no matter where I go what I do.

Loving you has made me bitter and not courteous or gracious or kind.

I did not learn about tenderness, warmth and mystic moments o f burning worlds and carnal satisfactions ( o f which I’ve read in other people’s poetry), although in my fantasies I know o f such things well and tried to offer you a tentative self.

I cannot suffer fools gladly and all men are fools (like the feminist in Miss Macintosh. Mv Darling I’ll die with forty trunks filled with bridal dresses.)

I continue a petulant virago and wish in my heart o f hearts that you will be weak, your ambitions thwarted, and that you will be smitten with boils until we know you not. And unlike Job, you will not have the integrity or wit to say how long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words.

I fear my words and meanings are too simple, my motives too transparent.

I will be fettered imaginatively and emotionally if I cannot be more involved with matters other than love has died, friendship has faded.

But because I loved you gladly because we in a manner o f speaking blew it baby because I no longer like you because I despise and curse you and because I am lonely I want to protest. I mean love’s a myth isn’t it?

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A Poetical Observation, Making use o f a Singularly Weak Verba] Quibble or Pun, upon the Notable Antagonism between the Democratic Common­ wealth o f Australia, as Exemplified in the Terminal Figure o f the Ferry Port o f the City o f Sydney with its Constant and Classless Traffic and its General Tastelessness, and the Ancient Mother Continent o f Europe, as Exemplified by Allusion to a Line o f One o f Her Fine Poets o f Comparat­ ive Antiquity.

my circular quay demolishes thus her round tower.

An Observation, in Meteorological Figures, upon the Remarkable Resurgence o f Japan, Supplimentarily Intended as a Tribute to that Flower o f her Nation’ s Culture, Miss Y oko Ono, Who, in Pursuit and Demonstration o f Her Art, Recently Sat Upon a Public Stage in Paris, London or New York, I Forget Which, No Matter, and Invited the Audience to Cut O ff Her Clothes with the Aid o f a Pair o f Scissors, Which in all Humility They Did.

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SIIAAIISIIS From ANGELO QUATTROCCHI in Rome

Our dashing cavalier thanks the arabs for raising the quality o f Italian life and rediscovers some faithful freaks from bygone com­ munes . . .

culture project that he thought worthwhile.

Now he has come back as a distributor, and they call him the counterculture accountant. He looks very efficient, working with three young guys. He distributes our papers, pamphlets, books to a couple o f hundred bookshops (outlets). People in the media will understand that this is a small miracle.

LIKE writing for the Living daylights. There’s something 19th century about writing for you people and committing it to an envelope, during a postal strike (here) that will make my message just as fast as if it were going to be delivered by a steamship.

We’ve never managed to be heard efficiently because o f cen­ sorship and economic strangula­ tion at distribution level. The pat­ tern has been the same, in San F ra n cisco, Copenhagen and Sydney.

There’ s something sane about it, and it cleanses my mind to have to write, trying to sum up what’ s been happening in Italy and trying to make it interesting, entertaining, and possibly instruc­ tive. Look, even the choice o f words is nineteenth century.

From the particular, from my friend Umberto, to the general.

We, through our publishing im­ print Fallo! are going to publish, and distribute books, in an Italy which is entering a winter with little gas, rising prices, and a con­ fused Left.

I told you in TLD 2 that we werent going to be hit by the fuel shortage. Well, I was dead wrong.

All Europe is being hit. In Holland they can’ t drive on Sundays. Lon­ don is cold, and dim, and very miserable. Italy is shutting thea­ Fallo! is going to have its first tres, moviehouses and all places o f love party, for a book about public entertainment (except jealousy: 50 real guerilla freaks bars) at ten o’clock at night. No The 67 commume, 50 or so big underground, for real. The Milan with the most militant groups in together. A lot o f energy, and petrol sold on Saturdays and Sun­ days, and less street lights. Rome tents where people were sleeping head cop knew him, and had him the unions, from time to time vibes, as they say. Keep in touch. won’t feel it much, but Milan, and at the outskirts o f Milan, was checked periodically, and he was helping out with some » a J * * A A A A A A A A 4 the north will. I think it’ll do us a lynched by the media, which was periodically thrown out o f jobs. counterlot o f good. There’ll be a lot more then much more racist than now. He tried, only half successfully, to fucking for a start and, a lot more After three months o f heroic sur­ melt away, in the red people entertaining each other. vival, with middle class people outskirts o f Thank the arabs for bringing us going to visit the freaks on sun- Milan, working a bit o f ecological sanity, and for davs llookinq for naked tits and at shopfloor smashing the middle class myth­ orgies) it was burned down, level ology o f technological comfort literally burned down by the cops. that is reducing us all to slaves o f The story now sounds so old this system. that we really must have com e a long way since them Umberto got I went to the north o f Italy for six months jail. From time to time the past two weeks. Renewing I still meet people contacts with counterculture who were part heavies, media freaks, alternative culture politicos, trendies and im­ o f that commume; presarios. It’s no different from they were real ly the first, the London or the Amsterdam legendary freaks scene, there are a lot o f fakes. not even It looks as if the underground, freaks, just beats. or counterculture, or whatever (Think o f j a statement you call it has by now become a the beats as P en ta ^ d i e h a r d NbconVjd mere subculture. I’ve seen this in existentialists, ■ n cide arms Pen d e c la r in g that ^ e ,on the San Francisco (where I spent the in a “ Two men, carry” Lhended by dec summer), in London, and now in forfeited his mental break, basically hostile and * Italy. Apart from a few com­ of sever nQ longer be ^ I j/iA S H lN G T O N J X j d“ M a„< bombs, were ^ f ^ t s i d e a *grounds environment, and security here senagro munes, a few free clinics, and a down’ , and c ° ^ ander in chief. in * ‘S id S , £ new gigantic record market we’ve freaks as more or regarded as c - that the arrn® t0r E d w a rd Ken bets 0{ his r The statement sa less conscious ^ under been left with nothing but our carriers o f forces of the USJ ® epresident of own idea o f a new lifestyle. a new culture, the command o ^ Albert.

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(104) Begin to rotate y o u r hand in a counterclockwise m o tio n. (105) A t the end o f the ro ta tin g m ovem ent, start to form a fist and retract yo u r arm.

(96) Rotate yo u r le ft hand in a clockwise m o tio n . (97) Make a fis t and begin to return yo u r arm to yo u r side.

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(108) Staring fro m the centerline, fo rm a palm-up block. (109) Extend your arm thrpp Quarters

(102) Execute a sideward palm strike w ith y o u r right hand. (103) T urn yo u r palm tow ard the ceiling to fo rm a palm-up block.

(110) W ith o u t bending yo u r arm, change to a low block [goang sao) by tu rn in g yo u r palm tow ard the flo o r, straightening yo u r arm, and lowering your hand to waist level. ( I l l ) R eturn y o u r arm to the palm-up block.

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(112) Rotate yo u r hand clockwise, (113) stopping y o u r hand when it is in the side palm strike position.

(120) T u rn the palm dow nw ard, lowering yo u r arm as you fu lly extend it to fo rm a lo w block. (121) R eturn y o u r arm to the palm-up block.

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(122) W ith o u t moving yo u r elbow , rotate y o u r hand counterclockwise. (123) Begin a sideward palm strike.

(114) T urn y o u r hand to the palm-up position and (115) continue to rotate your hand clockwise.

(124) F u lly extend y o u r arm to com plete the sideward palm strike. (125) Form yo u r hand in to a fist and begin to retract it to y o u r chest.

(116) Begin to fo rm a fist and tu rn the palm upw ard. (117) R etract y o u r hand to y o u r chest w ith the palm up.

(126) S top y o u r fis t on the righ t side o f yo u r chest in the basic sil lim tao position. (127) Begin the elbow -up block (bong sao) by raising yo u r elbow u n til yo u r forearm is parallel to the flo o r. This is the only block in w hich your elbow is raised.

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(118) Assume the basic sil lim tao position. (119) Extend y o u r rig h t arm three quarters to form the palm-up block.

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finish Sil Lim Tao (sigh!) and get stuck into the Straight Punch and Finger Jab T H IS supplem ent is extracted fro m the book Wing Chun Kung Fu by J. Y im m Lee, Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, C alifornia. The book is available in some c ity bookshops!

FROM STEAM STEREO TO FOUR WW MIND FUCK ERIC ROBBIE talks technology and tells how to fight it HERE IS an unhealthy trend in current music bus­ iness thinking away from live music and towards people living their entire music life within the confined comforts o f their own homes. Just witness the huge in­ crease in the number o f ‘ live’ albums now on sale - neat, pack­ aged concerts ready to be switch­ ed on and o ff from the armchair.

It’s not that I’m against a better reproduced sound mind you, but what I want to see is a clearer distinction between acknowledgedly recorded and reproduced sound, and attempts to re-create the original performance.

This swing away from live per­ formances is partly due to the now highly developed art o f live recording — millions of mikes leading to the mobile recording van parked behind the stage. But mostly it’s due to the hifi system explosion on the record buying market Without hifi, live albums just wouldnt be possible. It was the classical music fans - the staid, stay at home, electrical en­ gineering types — who pioneered stereophonies, and now, with the ‘ new, 4-channel, surround-sound quadrophonic system’, they’re again breaking new ground.

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The original idea behind the development o f quadrophonics was the recreation of the am­ biance o f the concert hall - the little bit o f echo and reverberation from the back o f the hall. It’s this that creates the feeling o f pre­ sence, the feeling o f actually being there, and the best way, it was decided, to get this out o f a hifi was to have two more speakers at the back o f a room.

O f course it doesnt really work: any room has its own size and echo and what concert hall quad tries to do is dwarf the effect o f that with the recorded am­

biance. On the other hand, if you’re not just committed to re­ creation but to creation o f a new and possibly devastating effect, the potential o f quad is exciting.

Just as stereo, in the hands o f innovative rock musicians, moved from being merely an attempt to re-create the Albert Hall to ex­ ploring sound separation, so too could quadrophonics be used to open up new fields.

But does - as the numerous blurbs in the sound magazines claim - the quadrophonic system render the stereo obsolete? Or is it really just an excuse to sell more gear; a bit o f technical gadgetry to turn the ‘ fi’ in hifi into ‘ finance’ rather than ‘ fidelity’? For quadro­ phonic sound sure doesnt come cheap - roughly speaking it’ s double the price o f a stereo.

There are essentially four parts to any reproducing system: the program source (tape, disc or tun­ er), the control unit or pre-ampli­ fier which controls and adjusts the signal from the source and feeds it into the power amplifier so that it is strong enough to work the speakers.

With quadrophonic, however, you need not just two o f everything as for stereo, but four - four channel program sources, four channel pre-amps, four pow­ er amps and four speakers.

In addition, as it’s extremely difficult to store four channels o f sound on a record, quadrophonic also needs a decoder. At the mo­ ment there are three main systems o f decoding being plugged by three separate groups o f compan­ ies. Two o f them work by repro­ ducing signals contained in the existing stereo groove a little outof-phase. Out-of-phase is a bit like fucking with somebody you dont know too well — occasionally you're pushing and they’re pull­ ing, or they’ re pushing and you’re pulling. Either way you’re out o f rhythm. Normally on a stereo when one o f the speakers is al­ ternately going whoosh while the other is going woof, you miss a lot o f sound. But with a phase shift system, the decoder uses the fact that the signals are deliberately recorded out-of-phase to generate another signal, or pair o f signals, to be fed to the rear loudspeakers. r1 /E x istin g left front Isp e a k e r

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The third system - the CD-4 is more complicated. Stereo hap­ pens because each side o f a record groove has a different wiggle and the stylus tracks in two different directions giving two signals. What the CD-4 system does is to put two signals on each side o f the record groove. This is done by using the same process as is used to put two signals into stereo radio: the front and rear signals are added together, making the main wiggles; then the front is subtracted from the rear and slot­ ted into the groove, but at twice the frequency. This system uses a multiple decoder - not the same as an SQ or QS decoder - which takes the two signals and then mixes them to the following re­ cipe: added signal (L+R) plus sub­ tracted signal (L-R) which means the two Rs cancel out to give L (at twice the strength); added signal (L+R) plus subtracted signal ‘ reversed positive to negative’ (-L+R) which means the two can­ cel out to give R (at twice the strength). Phew!!

Does hifi equal hi finance?

But all three systems have their faults. The biggest trouble with the phase shift systems occurs when a quadrophonic record is played on a stereo or mono sys­ tem; phase shift has a habit o f occasionally losing an instrument or a voice altogether. Discrete (CD-4) is fine on this score, but what you ’re asking1o f black plastic and stylii is that they

Quad­ rophonics just a four way con? cope with wiggles three times as fast as the present limit (20,000 wiggles per second). If you think o f how quickly records get worn and how quickly delicate wiggles - the top notes - get knocked off, you’ll realise that a record which has 60,000 per second isnt going to last too long. But there’ s an even bigger problem with CD-4; as the decoder unit is the equivalent o f two separate radio tuners, there’s a lot more circuitry to pay for.

And on top o f all this, as there’ s still a battle over which company’s product will become standard, the serious seeker after quadrophony will have to go for the whole rotten deal and buy equipment, especially a decoder, which can cope with all three systems.

If you already have a stereo system and you want to go the whole way, you’ll need another stereo amp as well as the extra speakers. I’d recommend the Sony SQA 200 combined decoder and second stereo amp ($99), or the smaller SQ A100 (about $75).

There is another way to get a four channel program source, and it’ s probably the one which will win in the end. Tape, which doesnt need a decoder as it’s possible to record all four tracks on one place, will replace black plastic. In fact many current tape machines already have what their manufacturers call ‘four track cap­ ability’ . This means that, for a small sum, they’ll whip out the existing ‘ four track’ head (which actually plays two tracks one way and, when turned over, two tracks the other way) and replace it with a tape head that records and plays back four tracks at once.

Likewise with cassettes. But a word o f caution about cartridges: forget them. The endless loop they work on means they’re mechanically sloppy and, no mat­ ter how easy they are to convert to four-track-head operation, their frequency response will always be bad.

And something else for the future. About seven years ago when I was the only one around who had a stereo and there were rows three deep in front o f Sgt Pepper I said without thinking too seriously: “ That’ s nothing. The logical extension o f this is not four tracks but eight tracks - one at each vertice o f the room .” It’s still only a dream and this new fangled quadrophonic is still only two dimensional (there’s no up and down in it, no vertical in­ formation).

Meanwhile, you can still achieve an ambient effect without buying a quadrophonic decoder, or a second amplifier. All you need is a second pair o f speakers, some wire and a close look at the diagram at left. This idea is the brainchild o f David Hafler and it works because, even with ordinary stereo records there is always a little out-of-phase information.

You dont hear it because it isnt as loud as the main signal, unless it’s

deliberately accentuated on tracks like Saucerful o f secrets and A day in the life to give that weird sucked- ou t-in to- the-space-between-the-speakers effect.

If you wire up the two extra speakers as shown, they’ll pick up all the out-of-phase sound which is mostly either the ambient signal o f the concert hall if it's live classical music, or, if it’ s rock, the kind o f out-of-phase notes you get out of a synthesiser. Furthermore, since the quadrophonic records on the Pye QS and CBS/EMI SQ system are, by definition, packed with out-of-phase information, you’ll get all that coming from the rear speakers too. The only differ­ ence is that the rear sound won’t be spread out in so much detail as the front.

Finally, as the rear speakers won’t actually draw nearly as much signal as the front, you need not pay as much for them.

So there you have it for the price o f two extra speakers. That means more money to spend on records and less inclination to spend all your time in your lonely room because you won’t feel so beholden to your system. You could even get out there and help bring back real live music.

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Who’s looking at the Mod Squad

ROBERT KING QUADROPHENIA: The Who (Track Records, two records).

HE 60 s was a time o f great turbulence, especially by comparison with the 50s. It was a time o f revolt against established values and ideas. Songs like the Kinks Well respected man and the Yardbirds I can’ t make your way com e readily to mind as examples o f complete contempt for the values o f the elder generation.

It was also a time when teen­ agers for the first time found that they had an abundance o f money, and that money, when used prop­ erly, meant power. In the caise o f a number o f bands this meant pow­ er to lead their followers, al­ though where to they were not quite sure. The whole question o f power in the hands o f men in their early 20s seemed slightly ludicrous and many treated it as a joke . . . or a liability. Bands like the Byrds could not resist the temptation to parody their own predicament and So you want to be a rock and roll star emerged from the knowledge that the whole situation was somewhat out o f control.

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the emergence o f teenage power was that artists began to break free o f traditional management ties. The rise to popularity o f outspoken, hairy, drug taking rock and roll bands was a bit much for the older promoters and agents to handle. Many made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with the new phenomenon, and that the sooner it went away the better. The result was the emergence o f a new type o f man­ ager, much more in sympathy with the lifestyle o f the artist, and much more willing to let bands handle things their own way.

One o f the unexpected con­ sequences o f this development was the breaking down o f class barriers in the realm o f popular entertainment Working class musicians could communicate directly with their audience and get away with telling them just about anything. The lid had come o ff half a century o f repression. * * *

THE WHO’S latest album, Quad­ rophenia, is an excursion back to the 60s. The Who is very much an archetypal 60s band. Of impec­ cable London working class back­ ground, they rose to fame on the

basis o f an assertive anti establish­ ment single, My generation. They were the culture heroes o f a phenomenon which tore through London in 1965 and 1966, the mods.

Australia only slightly felt the influence o f the mods. News­ papers carried stories of the fights which raged between mods and rockers on the sands o f Margate and other near London beaches.

Our kids affected mod hairstyles and mod clothes, but we missed out on the polarisation which divided English teenagers and drove them to the critical decision o f identity - mod or rocker.

Superficially, the whole issue seems somewhat trivial. However, a more careful examination o f the choice will reveal that it was to demarcate some o f the main changes by which we now charac­ terise the 60s.

The rockers wore studded leather jackets and brushed back greasy hair, they rode motorcycles - not the candy colored Japanese machines we see today, but big black hogs. The mods preferred a dandy style o f dress and rode motorscooters, especially Vespa 90s, which they decorated with multiple headlamps, mirrors, aeri­ als and anything else which would add to the overall impression o f superfluity. The rockers played agro and the mods passive. The rocker would admit to no weak­ ness, the mod made weakness a strength.

The mod display o f insecurity, femininity, sexual ambivalence, uni-sex or whatever, was reflected in most o f The Who’s early singles - Substitute, I'm a boy, Pictures o f Lily.

The fundamental insecurity o f The Who’ s songs was disguised to some extent by the pulsating rhythms and brash textures o f the music. The Who were not taken seriously by rock critics until they spelt out what they were up to in Tommy. However, their greatest impact was undoubtedly during their two years as a mod band. So,

it’ s not surprising that they use the “ rock-opera” techniques o f Tommy, to re-examine the mod era.

Quadrophenia is the story o f a young mod, a working class lad who lives at home with his pa­ rents, whose bedroom is decorat­ ed with nude pin-ups, and whose pride and joy is his Vespa 90.

Needless to say his favorite band is The Who, and the action starts with his decision to check out a Who concert.

Like Tommy, Quadrophenia seeks to probe the psychology o f an individual and a movement.

Furthermore it is a self-conscious attempt on the part o f Pete Townshend to come to terms with the identity o f The Who as a band. Quadrophenia, he explains in the notes which accompany the records, is like four way schizo­ phrenia. It’ s therefore a word to describe the consciousness and identity o f the four members o f The Who. Part o f the album package is a superb booklet o f photographs, which in the same way as the photographs in Berlin provide visual support for the ideas ex­ plored on the record. It is very much a concept album — a history of the mod era o f the 60s, an examination o f the delicate struc­ ture on which identity forms and an assertion by Townshend o f the importance o f the mod era in shaping the consciousness o f to­ day.

The concept album inevitably seems to arouse suspicion, the feeling that rock should not be concerning itself with such broad questions, but should confine it­ self to entertainment. Whether or not this album constitutes enter­ tainment is an issue which can only be resolved by the individual, and will depend on taste or lack thereof for The Who’s well estab­ lished musical style. But, as a concept album, there is no doubt that it represents a considerable advance in techniques and ideas over the now legendary i— i Tommy.

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A song in the Folk-idiom, based on a faint memory o f a snatch from an old miners’ song.

O’Rourke’s Living Songbook HIS song was sent in by Mr B. Fern o f Port Pirie, SA, and comes from an operetta which he has under way, called either "Give me a hand with me pitboots, mother” , or "The hippy pioneer” , which is about Burra, an old copper-mining town in the mid north o f South Australia.

Burra was evidently owned and run mainly by the South Austral­ ian Mining Co, called “ Sammy” for short.

As those o f you who are famil­ iar with English folkmusic will realise, the song is loosely based on an English song o f the same name, which has a different set o f words and a different tune. Mr Fern wanted to include a version o f this song in his work but was unable to find it, and so wrote his own version. The tune is one to which his father used to dance a slow, shuffling step-dance.

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written out by Mr Fern. He ad­ mits that the rhythm is odd, and I cannot help but agree. A little shifting around o f the bars will give a more usual 2/2 time, so I suppose you should feel free to do this if you find the song impos­ sible to sing as it is. It is orches­ trated for gumleaf, harmonica and lagerphone. The gumleaf carries the melody and the harmonica provides the harmony. Any fur­ ther extensions o f the Australian tradition will be enthusiastically welcomed.

Remember that music is a eucalypt and song is its gumleaf.

Take that, Morris!

M. O’ROURKE "WITH ME PIT-BOOTS ON” B. Fern The nightshift starts, In half an hour or more.

I've just got time To knock on N ancy’s door.

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The time is wasting, I soon must go below For sixteen hours To slog like billy-O! While over there above the sheets Her throat is like a swan.

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But YES, fixed prices and rising incomes is a fo o l’s fantasy. NO, we dont believe inflation is containable in one country alone, so the present referendum is meaningless, especial­ ly in the present context o f world disarray. YES, a referendum in principle is one sweet courtesy o f democracy, although it loses its charm through compulsion. In this country, it’ s a crime not to vote.

NO, we dont think governments should be acceded any more power, which plonks us in with the Liberals, who urge a NO, NO, along with the maoists, trotskyists and the DLP while the government and

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In other words, no one knows a bloody thing. Do you? The mean­ ing and mechanisms o f inflation are beyond everyone’ s grasp. The politicians bluff. Every economist has a different cure and still the cabinet ministers quake before the rising cost o f keeping alive. Remem­ ber, governments dont control inflation; they cause it. This refer­ endum turns the voter into a scapegoat.

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Melbourne. Experienced, gentle, country, professional man, in mid-40s, wishes to m eet uninvolv­

Melbourne. I see you as an attrac­ tive woman, 25 to 30, educated, intelligent, independent with a

Sydney. Sensuous male, 34, tall, slim, cultured, seeks daytime dal­ liance with mature lady. Absolute discretion assured. Replies an­ swered. INC box 7258.

Sydney. Very lonely young camp guy is desperate to have letter in mailbox instead o f spiders. Will jump at chance to communicate with anyone anywhere. INC box 726 2.

Sydney. Intelligent, attractive girl, 28, interested books, music, out­ doors and living, seeking intel­ ligent, attractive guy to 40 for continuing, loving relationship to brighten summer days and nights.

No Bazzas or one night stands.

INC box 7259.

Sydney. Guy like to meet others who are interested in kinky leath­ ers, D. jeans, P.S., S.H. boots. I’m open for suggestions. Only gen­ uine please. Phone number appre­ ciated for quick reply. INC box 7260.

Melbourne. Joum o-writer (male) impossibly dreams o f female crit­ ic/collaborator. Also, “ different” , socially rebellious, idealistic, sen­ sitive, sensual, sentimental, sin­ cere, loyal, ambitious, travelled, feminine. INC box 6125.

Sydney. Middleaged businessman, fit, experienced, nudist, own penthouse, sunroof, seeks decent, masculine, young guy. Any na­ tionality OK. If you are honest,

New Guinea. Well hung, muscular, blond male w ho wants unusual holiday, sought by straight lo o k ­ ing, camp thinking guy. Please send p h oto. Fee refunded. Genunine inquiries to INC b o x 7256.

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Sydney. Genuine guy, mid-30s, varied interests, straight looking, medium build, looks, flat Dover Heights area, seeks similar non­ effeminate guy, 20s-30s as poten­ tial mate, dalliance etc. INC box 7263.

Sydney. Virile body-builder, 28, wants similar fit footballer for genuine, uninhibited friendship.

No effeminates. Own pad. INC box 7264.

Sydney. Lonely young Asian pro­ fessional, slim, well endow ed, g ood looking, bi, seeks dalliance unful­ filled ladies or mature well hung gentlemen, 50s and above prefer­ red, or threesome with broad­ minded couples. INC box 7265.

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S ydn ey. Well educated, attractive, healthy, quiet male, 22, seeks presentable, unattached female, preferably 18-25, fo r experience and friendship. INC b o x 7267.

S ydn ey. W here is there a slim, intelligent, sensitive, very discreet man, 35 -4 5 , to dally with female, d itto, occasionally. She happily m arried b u t needing to get m ore ou t o f life. INC b o x 7268.________ S y dn ey. Straight lookin g, slim, cam p guy, m id-30s, seeks youn ger cam p friend fo r c ity lunchtim e m eetings.

V ie w : sym pathetic friendship and perhaps evenings to satisfy desperate hunger fo r affectio n and sensitivity. INC b o x 7269. _______________________ S y dn ey. Girls! I’ve beaten the system and n o longer have to paw n all m y beautiful golden h ou rs o f day m erely t o live. I’ ll help y o u t o o , if y o u will help me e n joy m y diesel k etch , w aterfront w eekender and 35 fo o t cruiser.

Free h olid ay s o ffe re d also inter­ state t o com p atible op en air types. N ew Australians especially w e lc o m e . INC b o x 6 2 1 4 .

S y d n ey . E ducated, English, un­ m arried c o u p le , 30 , child, seek heterosexual girl, m oth er or single, in b elief that three can attain greater happiness and c o n ­ tentm ent than tw o. Permanent relationship envisaged. INC b o x 6 2 02.

Ballina-Lismore. Male, active 60s, likes to sun soak, sw im , fish in nude, wants m ate, any age, any sex, fo r c o m p a n y . INC b o x 7270.

Bathurst. S y d n e y e x -loca l seeks cam p co n ta c ts fo r Christmas visit.

D alliance y o u r place. A ll inquiries answered. INC b o x 7271.

road, M arrickville, 22 04. S ydn ey 55 .628 4.

M elbourne gay liberation dance, friday d e ce m b e r 7th at 8 .3 0 pm .

T rop h y hall, M elbourne un iver­ sity. $ 1 .5 0 . B .Y .O .

C .A .M .P .’ s Christmas dance will be the B IG G E ST Y E T — gaiety and the usual garish gaggle at Balm ain tow n hall, friday d ecem b er 14 th at 8 p m . $ 2 .0 0 . ($ 1 .5 0 m em bers).

P O R Y J p lays the m uzik.

S ydn ey. A re y o u cam p and lack­ ing in c o n fid e n c e as a h o m o ­ sexual? I f y o u are interested in join in g a small group to learn ways o f b e co m in g m ore c o n fi­ dent, co n ta c t A ndrea Russell, p sych ologist, 6 6 0 .0 3 5 1 ., ext.

2017. Free.

Deployment West H ead sc h o o l (T errey Hills) student centred ed u ca tion at the secondary leveL T eaching p ositio n fo r 1974. C urrent annual salary $ 7 0 0 0 . A p plication s in writing stating qualifications, experien ce (m aths/scien ce preferred ) and in­ terests to the secretary, 246 Warr im o o avenue, St Ives, 20 75, (S y d n ey 4 4 9 .1 9 5 0 ) b y d ecem b er 7th.

A p o tte r w anted t o teach begin­ n er fem ale in return fo r free self con tain ed fla t B eautiful cou n try organic garden. B ox 20 0, Warburton, V ictoria.

Tasmania. R eturn fares and happy living o ffe re d fo r evening m eal preparation, d ecem ber/jan u ary.

R ep ly direct to 6 6 C ecilia street, S t Helens, Tasmania, 7216. Press.

University o f N ew S ou th Wales Students U nion. Cultural A ffairs O fficer. Salary $ 2 5 0 0 p e r annum plus expenses. W ritten applica­ tions stating qu alifications and experience togeth er w ith ideas fo r the op eration o f the cultural of­ fice should b e subm itted b y Fri­ day, d ecem b er 7th to : T he presi­ dent, University o f N ew S ou th Wales Students U nion , PO b o x 1, Kensington, NSW, 20 33. Inquiries 6 6 3 .1 9 1 1 o r 6 6 3 .3 7 0 4 .

M e lb o u r n e (c o u n tr y areas).

Y o u n g guy, 21 years, g o o d lo o k ­ ing, beaut b o d y , wants parttim e w ork. M odellin g o r p h o t o w ork — anything con sid ered though. INC b o x 6216.

Dwellings Adelaide. Persons (t w o ) to share house.

Own large furnished room s. $ 1 0 .0 0 p e r w eek includes gas, electricity. Nehr C hannel 2.

Phone 4 4 .7 9 0 0 .

Brisbane. R o o m available in house fo r p eacefu l person. N o T V . $ 1 1 .0 0 .

P hon e Bill, 8 5 .7 4 4 4 (w ork ) o r 7 W ilston road, N ew ­ m arket.

Dealings Fresh goats m ilk cheap. Phone S ydn ey 4 4 .3 0 5 5 .

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T ry b e fo re b u y in g ; $ 1 .0 0 fo r sample and catalogue. T he man­ ager, PO b o x 1 3 , E d gecliff. NSW 00 0 *7

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S y d n ey . Aquarius-N im bin land, 1 0 0 0 acres, adjoining vast state forest and sanctuary. Y o u r share in u to p ia o n ly $ 2 0 0 . Send SAE fo r details to C o o rd in a tio n C o ­ operative L im ited, 76 Darling street, Balm ain, 2041.

M ale nu de drawings. Send y o u r requirem ents fo r an original c o m ­ m ission ed w ork to C hristopher W ilde, PO b o x 50, Terrey Hills.

NSW, 2084.

Departures G irl/g u y , 20s, seek ride to Darwin o r part w ay, end o f february.

Share ex p e n se s R ing B ob, Syd­ n e y 4 2 .1 6 4 0 .

S ydn ey. G u y , straight looking, heading n o rth b y car over holiday p eriod , seeks m asculine guy, 20 -35 years fo r trip. Phone S y d n ey , 3 5 7 .1 5 4 2 .

Brisbane.

L o n g haired h o m o ­ sexual fe llo w w o u ld like to re­ ceive transport tow ards V ictoria, en d o f feb ru ary(?) with nice gentle person. Share expense. INC b o x 7226.

Dumgs S y d n ey . E n cou n ter group week­ en d on third w eekend in january.

E xperience jo y . D iscover yourself and others. Call G o r d o n Meggs on 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 or write PO b o x 229, C oog ee, 2034.

Naturalists. E volve village, bush1and-river, 28 m iles GPO. Crafts, media, thinktank, idealism. “ Fam­ ilies” preferred. S edentary; n o ­ m adic. D o m e , hut, cave. Sites $ 2 5 .0 0 p er year. 516 Illawarra

Brisbane. R e n t to com p atible, broadm in ded c o u p le c o m p letely selfcon tain ed half-house, three bed room s, lounge, b a th room , kitchen. O w n entrance. $ 3 5 .0 0 per w eek including electricity.

B ond. PO b o x 169, W ynnum , 4178.

Brisbane. G u y, 21, urgently re­ quires a cco m m o d a tion , share h ou se/fla t with oth er cam p guys, same o r similar age. R e p ly 17 Olivia street, Northgate.

M elbourne. G u y to share furn­ ished N orth F itzroy house. $ 1 2 .0 0 p e r week. O w n room .

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M elbourne.

L iv in g H aw thorn house needs girl to com e and live with Martin, R ose, Bill, Clive, Keith, Angie, Mike and Sim one.

D rop in this w eekend at 71 Lisson grove.

M elbourne. H um an being w anted to share house w ith tw o others.

R en t $ 1 0 .0 0 plus fo o d . Prefer vegetarian. 5 1 6 H igh street, Prahran.

N orth Carlton. H ou se op en s d oors to friendly, gentle, preferably vegetarian p eop le. O w n r o o m ;u s e o f facilities. $ 8 .0 0 . B ond . Phone 3 4 7 .1 9 0 8 (A H ).

S ydney. D om esticated guy, aged 25, fleeing reaction ary sexist, anti-dope atm osphere o f cou n try tow n, seeks congenial a c c o m m o ­ dation for six or m ore weeks from d ecem ber 14th. IN C b o x 7225.

S ydney. Person required fo r Bal­ main terrace. $ 1 0 .0 0 . L em on s, 52 Palmer street. Garden w indow s, Staircases stone. Have y ou g ot a stereo? Saturday and Sunday or whenever.

Sydn ey. Y o u n g bi-guy to share com fortable, m o d e m , sp acious hom e, fully furnished. Garden, parking, close bus. G enuine. O w n room . $ 2 0 .0 0 .

Lane C ove, 42 8.1 1 8 2 .

ACCESS HORT on reading matter?

Nice new bookshelf but nothing with which to stack it?

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“ WHEN IS a meteorite not a mete­ orite? When it’s a black hole,” accord­ ing to Drs A. A. Jackson and Michael Ryan o f the University o f Texas. They suggest that the famous Siberian “ meteorite” which levelled forest over hundreds o f square kilometers in 1908 was in fact a black hole with the mass o f an asteroid but only a few angstroms in diameter, which drilled riqht through the earth.”

This little gem com es from the N ew Scientist, an English weekly on science and technology. Many years ago I learnt a lot about US politics from Time magazine (time for a sneer, groovers). I am about to do the same with science by a self-administered weekly dose o f the New scientist — hardly a pure source but much more enjoyable than textbooks.

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ID A 21 Alfred cres., North Fitzroy, Victoria. * * *

THERE are a number o f ways an Australian newspaper gets hold o f its daily and weekly news. One o f the most com m on is the wire news service.

You are n o doubt familiar with the sight o f AAP, UPI and Reuters appear­ ing at the end o f many a news item.

Now, I suppose these news services do a good jo b but their power frightens me a little.

So, it’ s g o o d to see alternative news services in operation. One o f the best known o f these is the Liberation News Service. It’s left biased, twice weekly, com ing ou t o f New York. It probably did m ore to disclose the truth behind the dirty tricks in the Vietnam war than any other wire service in America.

A subscription to the LNS is far too expensive for an individual. According to the list o f subscribers I have just received, n ot one newspaper or organ­ isation in Australia subscribes to it.

H opefully it is a little out o f date (1 4 /1 1 /7 3 ). Their latest list details

1000 or so newspapers, organisations, switchboards, and other news services.

For the determined information freak it’s a useful list. Most o f the long standing underground and alternative newspapers o f the US and Europe are listed, along with full addresses. I f you would like a co p y send $A1 to LNS, 160 Claremont avenue, New Y ork N.Y. 10027. Ask for the 10th edition. Send more than $1 if you can afford it as they are a non profit group. *

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IF YOU havent heard o f the Womens Electoral Lobby, you are in the envi­ able position o f living in an air-tight mass media vacuum. I suspect that most people have heard o f WEL but are unable to contact them. The best method o f keeping in touch with their activities, meetings, disclosures etc. is a subscription to the WEL newsletter.

The NSW newsletter w on ’t be appear­ ing in january, so b y sending o ff now you ’ll receive their double december issue. Three dollars entitles you to membership and the m onthly news­ letter in NSW; tw o bucks fifty will do the same in Victoria for the Southern edition. WEL, P.O. b ox 24 Neutral Bay 2089; WEL, P.O. b ox 442 Camberwell, Victoria 3124.

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A guide to w hat’s on in the w eek ahead : Nov 4th-10th.

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ROCK Dingoes: Station hotel, Prahran.

FO LK Peter Parkhill: Frank Tray­ nors, 100 Little Lonsdale street

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Hot City Bump Band: Prospect Hill hotel, Kew.

THEATRES “ Waltzing Matilda” , a national pantomime with tom ato sauce: Pram Fac­ to r y , 325 Drummond street, Carlton, 8.30. “ A Flea in her Ear” , Pump­ kin Players: 314 Church street Richm ond, 8.15.

F IL M S Marx Bros, “ A Night at the Opera” and W. C. Fields, “ The Old Fashioned Way” : M e lb o u r n e university.

Union theatre. 8.00.

M E E T IN G S Public Citizen and PIRG open meeting to encourage new members. Melb. Union Undergraduate Lounge, 8

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‘ Die Valkyrie” , A R , 7.30.

Wagner:

TV ‘ B la c k S le e p ” , Bela L u g o s i, Lon Chaney: HSV7, 10 pm. “ W arm ” , C leo Laine: ABV 2, 11.25 pm.

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Fahm: Whitehorse hoteL Kush: C roxton Park hoteL U oo: Sundowner hoteL

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Billy Thorpe and Fair Chequers.

and Aztecs Dinkum:

F O L K , JA Z Z BLUES Folk at Em bryo, 7.00 pm.

Jeff Bull: Stage D oor Tav­ ern.

A bbey Jazz Band: Lord Dudley hoteL Paddington.

Eclipse Alley Five: Vanity Fair hoteL Merv Acheson Trio: Bistro, 123 Avoca street, Randwick.

Don De Silva’ s Jazz Band: Old Push.

Dick Hughes, S olo Piano: French’ s Tavern, Darlinghurst.

THEATRE

“ King Richard II” : Opera House. “ Tales from Noonameena’ — Marionette theatre of Aust. Dream time show for kids: Opera House, 11 am.

F IL M S “ Citizen Kane” , “ Battle­ ship Potemkin” : Opera House, 7.30 pm.

N.F.T. Surrealism Series — “ Nazarin” , “ Belle De Jour” : Aust. G o v t Centre, 7.30 pm. “ Keep on R ocking” — Chuck Berry, Little R ich­ ard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley: Academ y theatre, P a d d in g to n .

D e ta ils 33.4453. “ Fillmore, Concert for Bftngla Desh” : Manly Silver Screen. “ Hendrix” : Village Twin, 2 pm, 5.15, 7.45 pm.

EVENTS

MONITOR: Chris & Eva 51.9563 or 51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7 Irving Ave, Windsor, 3181.

West Head Free school, meeting re city extentions: Call 449.1950 for details.

Lunch hour ferry cruise: A ll weekdays, details 27.5276.

JBiennale o f Sydney: Paint­

ing Matilda.

Mike O ’Rourke, Frank Traynors.

Frank Traynors: Beaumaris hoteL Bushwhackers and Bullockies: Polaris Inn, Carl-

F IL M S

“ Vanishing Point” and “ The Helstrom Chronicle” : John Crowle: Frank Tray­ see thursday. nors. “ M onkey Business” and V a r io u s artists: Dan ROCK “ Horse Feathers” , Marx O’ Connell hoteL Carlton. Mississippi: International Bros: M elbourne univer­ Ken McMaster, Mike Gal­ hoteL sity, Union. lagher: Tankerville Arms Sid Rum po, ArieL Isaac “ Psycho” : Late, Trak. tonJA ZZ hoteL Carlton.

Aaron: Prahran tow n halL Skylights: Prospect Hill JA ZZ Big Push: Whitehorse ho­ hoteL Dave Rankin Jazz Band: teL Alma hoteL Chapel st, John THEATRES Rupert and The “ Waltzing Matilda: See Prahran.

Henchmen: C roxton Park ROCK w Owen Yeatman: Prospect hoteL tuesday.

Mississippi: Matthew Flin­ “ A Flea in her Ear: See Hill hoteL Panther: Penthouse hoteL ders hoteL 2-6 pm. tuesday.

E X P E R IM E N T A L Sid R um po: St Christo­ S k y h o o k s , Mississippi: “ It’s Your Move” : Moth Melbourne New Music En­ pher’ s hall, R oberts road, Teasers.

Players, Back theatre. Pram semble: Com m une C offee A irport W est Sid R um po, MississippL Factory, 8.30.

Lounge, 580 Victoria st. H om e: Station hoteL Prah­ Fat A lroy: Chelsea city North Melbourne. ran.

F IL M S halL Mighty Kong: Teasers.

THEATRES “ Never Give a Sucker an Buster Brown: Our Lady’ s Even Break” and “ Tillie “ Waltzing Matilda” : see church hall, N icholson st.

FO LK ’n ’ Gus” : Melbourne uni­ tuesday.

Phil Day: Tankerville Arms East Brunswick. “ A Flea in Her Ear” : see hoteL versity, Union theatre.

Sid R um po: Station hoteL W ednesday.

Bushwhackers and Bul- Prahran, 2-5.

M E E T IN G S “ The Bald Primadonna” : lockies: Polaris Inn hoteL H e n c h m e n , P la y g irls : Discussion on Play Groups: C larem ojit theatre, 14 R ic h a r d Leitch, John Whitehorse hoteL Diamond Valley Learning Claremont st. South Yarra. Crowle, etc: Frank Tray- Big Push: C roxton Park ho­ Centre, 435.9060. “ It’ s Y our M ove” : see Wed­ teL norsJA ZZ nesday.

Panther: Penthouse hoteL OUTDOORS Storyville Jazz Band: Man­ H om e: Matthew Flinders F IL M S “ Hello Hawaii” : Treasury “ Vanishing Point” and or house hoteL hoteL gardens, 12.10 and 1.10.

Dave Rankin Jazz Band: FO LK “ Just Slightly Swinging” : “ The Helstrom Chronicle” , Railway Club hoteL Pt Mike Deany and Steve Flagstaff gardens, 12.10 Carlton Cinema, Faraday Melbourne. street Ellis: Commune. and 1.10. “ My Little Chickadee” , W. R ed Onions Jazz Band: Marcie Puffin and Fusion R A D IO C. Fields and Mae West, Prospect Hill hoteL (jazz): Joanna’ s. “ Sarah Vaughan” : Region­ and “ It’ s a G ift” : Mel­ Glen Tom asetti etc: out­ THEATRES al ABC, 9.15. bourne university. Union post Inn. “ Waltzing Matilda” : see cinema, 8.0.

Various Artists: University TV tuesday.

M E E T IN G S “ A Flea in Her Ear” : see hoteL Carlton. “ Leningrad Kirov ballet” : Peter Parkhill and friends: “ The Irradiant Contempla­ Wednesday.

HSV7, 7.30. tions” : Buddhist Society, “ Bones” , a surrealist ex­ Dan O’ Connell hoteL 3 Ruskin st, Elwood. perience, by R oger Pulvers: pmJA ZZ La Mama, 205 Faraday st, Dave Rankin: L em on Tree, POETRY Brunswick W orkshop: Sax­ Carlton, 9 pm.

Carlton, arvo. on hall, Saxon street, “ Happy Birthday Wanda The Plant: Polaris Inn. ROCK Myriad: Matthew Flinders Brunswick, behind town June” : Actors theatre, cnr V ictorian Jazz Club: Man­ Church s t and Cameron s t or House. hoteL halL 7.30.

Richm ond, 8.30.

Mississippi: St Albans h o­ Skylight, arvo; Yarra Yarra R A D IO teL Salzburg Festival: A R , 8 “ Showbiz *73” , a review: Jazz Band, night: Prospect Tait theatre, 107 Leicester Hill.

Mackenzie Theory: Station pm. j V st, Carlton, 8.15. hoteL THEATRES “ Never on Sunday” : “ The Bald Primadonna” : “ Waltzing Matilda” : see Kush: Whitehorse hoteL see thursday.

Upp, H ot City Bump A T V O ,9 pm. tuesday.

Band: C roxton Park. “ M onty Python’ s Flying “ It’ s Y our Move” : see Wed­ “ A Flea in Her Ear” : see nesday.

Tank, C olored Balls: Waltz­ Circus” : A B V -2, 11.05.

Wednesday.

FO LK

fratiirdaia

TV

“ Leningrad Kirov ballet” : “ Fellini’ s 8Va” : Channel 7, Channel 7, 7.30.

9.00 pm. “ The Tingler” , Spookies Special — “ The Blue Collar with V incent Price: Chan­ Trap” , a life on the as­ nel 9, 10.00 pm. sembly line: Channel 7, 11 pm. “ Caravan on Highway One” , travel documentary on Australian east coast: ROCK ^ Channel 10, 7.30 pm.

Fair Dinkum: Chequers.

Nitro: Oceanic hoteL W atchdog: Brighton hoteL 69ers: Black Bull Wine Bar, Haber fie Id.

TV Turn o f f the tube and d o something usefuL

EVENTS

Biennale: see tuesday.

Radical Feminist, Lesbian L ib e r a t io n Conference: FrL sat, sun. Info 61.7325.

TV

“ The enforcer” , Humphrey Bogart: Channel 9, 11.00 ROCK Billy Thorpe, Fair Dink­ pm. um: Taren Point Youth Centre.

La De Das: Chequers.

Flake: Manly Vale hotel ROCK W Tepois: Oceanic hoteL Billy Thorpe: Curl Curl A bem ack: Brighton hotel.

Y outh Club.

Hush: Ukranian hall, CabLa De Das, Hush: Revesby ramatta.

Dizzey and The Heroes: YMCA. Fair Dinkum: Dennison Black Bull Wine bar.

ROCK * hotel, Bondi (arvo).

Fair Dinkum: Chequers. f o l k .j a z z b l u e s f o l k ,j a z z b l u e s Tepois: Oceanic hoteL Francis Butler’ s 69ers: Blue Grass and Traditional White Company: Village Abem ack: Brighton hoteL Oceanic hoteL Hush: Engadine senior citi­ church, 8.00 pm.

Agnes Banks: Brighton Folk: Red Lion hoteL Port Jackson Jazz Band: Pact Folk: YWCA, Liver­ zens. hoteL Stage D oor Tavern. p o o l st.

F O L K ,J A Z Z B L U E S F O L K ,J A Z Z B L U E S Unity Jazz Band: Old Sydney Folk Song Club: Push.

White Com pany: Village Elizabeth hoteL Traditional Folk: Elizabeth Cellar Folk Club: Liver­ church, 8.00 pm.

C L A S S IC A L hoteL A1 Head, Meadow Band, p o o l st.

Port Jackson Trio: Stage Family o f String Instru­ Com edy Music: Embryo, Ann Hissink, and others: ments: Opera House, 2 pm, D oor Tavern.

The Shack, info 9 3 9 .“ 869.

7.10.

M erv A ch eson Trio: 50 cents.

Messiah, Wil­ A ll Night R ock ’ n’ Roll: Pact Folk: YMCA, Liver­ Bellevue hoteL Paddington. Handel’s p o o l st.

Embryo.

Sym phony D ick Hughes Quartet: l o u g h b y Orchestra: Concert hall, Dick Hughes T rio: Stage Sydney Folk Song Club: Stage D oor Tavern.

Elizabeth hoteL ] D oor tavern.

Jeff Bull’ s Band: Old Push. W illoughby civic centre, F olk: EdinD oc Willis and The Dukes- Traditional info. 412.4838. brough Castle hoteL men: Albury hotel, DarC L A S S IC A L THEATRE The Colonials: Stage D oor linghurst.

Block, Kreisler, Chopin, ] S c u lth o r p e : Conserva- “ King Richard II” : See Jeff Bull: Unity Hall hotel, tavern, 211.0411. tuesday.

Merv Acheson T rio: Belle­ Balmain. torium, 1.10-1.50 pm, vue hotel (arvo). “ T a le s fr o m Noona­ FREE. C L A S S IC A L D oc Willis: Albury hotel, Schubert Evening: Con- m eena” : see tuesday films.

H a n d e l’ s “ M e ssia h ’ ’ , Darlinghurst (arvo).

1 “ Charlie Chaplin, Short servatorium, 8.15 pm.

Sydney Sym phony Orch: Unity Jazz Band: Old Films” : Art Gallery o f Opera House, 8 pm.

Push.

THEATRE NSW, 12.10, 1.10, 6.10pm .

Jeff Bull: Unity Hall hoteL “ King Richard II” : See “ N . F . T .

S u r r e a lis m D oc Willis: Beresford ho­ Series” : See tuesday. tuesday.

THEATRE “ T a le s fr o m N oona­ “ Keep on R ocking” : See “ King Richard II” : see tel, Surry Hills. tuesday. meena” : See tuesday. tuesday.

C L A S S IC A L “ Keep on R ocking” : See “ Crystal Voyager” : See “ T a le s fr o m Noona­ “ Messiah” : see friday.

Wednesday tuesday. meena” : see tuesday. “ Crystal Voyager” , prem­ “ Hendrix” : Village Twin. “ Wick in Wickedness” : Pil­ ier o f David Elfick and “ China — The R ed Sons” , grim theatre, 264 Pitt st, THEATRE 8.30 pm.

Albie Falzon’ s new surfing Myra R oper China films: film: Opera House, 7.30. Filmmakers C o-op, 8.15 “ Keep on R ocking” : Films, “ The /Threepenny Opera” : “ P e r f oim ance” : Village pm. see tuesday.

Opera House.

Twin. “ M ASH ’ ’ , plus “ Car­ “ T a le s fr o m N oona­ EVENTS “ Hendrix” : Village Twin. toon s” : Manly Silver meena” : see tuesday.

Biennale: See tuesday “ My Aunt the U nicom ”: Screen, late night speciaL EVENTS Theatre Workshop: Old 11.30.

Studio 228, in fo 587.3358.

Architecture in Finland: Church, open to all, 7.30, “ Crystal Voyager” : see “ Kaspar” : Nimrod theatre.

Art Gallery o f NSW. _ _ info. 31.6270.

W ednesday. “ The Sound o f People” :* Biennace: See tuesd; “ Hendrix” : Village Twin. “ Chinese Films” : Film­ makers C oop , see thursday.

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M E E T IN G S

K ID S

“ George % and Dragon 1 ” : Claremont theatre, 14 Claremont street. South Y arra, 2 pm.

“ The future predicted” ; J. R. Farquharson: Theosophieal Society, Athen­ aeum, Collins sL

Sanday

Ariel live: 3X Y , 8 pm , then progressive albums.

R A D IO

, ROCK

tfenday

Mississippi, Sid Rum po: South Melbourne Cricket FO LK’ ground, afternoon.

Fantasy: C roxton Park ho­ Phil Day: Frank Traynors. teL JAZZ Bourke & Wills: Icelands. Ted Vining Trio: Prospect H om e: Teasers.

Hill hoteL

FO LK

OTHERS

Margaret Roadknight, Mike P oor T om ’ s Poetry Band: O’ Rourke: O utpost Commune.

Danny Spooner and G or­ don McIntyre: Frank Tray- NLAGGRA: La Mama. f il m s norsJA ZZ Brian Brown Quartet: “ Paint Y our Wagon” Commune.

Fusion: Joanna’ s.

OTHERS

Metaphysical Magic the­ atre, three hours o f dance and music, festival o f hu­ man rights: Monts&lvat, Eltham.

R A D IO

Colin Wilson: AR , 10 pm.

THEATRE “ Waltzing Matilda” : see tuesday. “ Happy Birthday Wanda June” : see friday.

listings are free. Copy closes Thursday before publication.

MONITOR: Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. 0 . Box 23, Surry Hills.

Readings: Old ings and sculpture, Austra­ P o e tr y lian and overseas artists: Church, 8.00 pm, informa­ O p e ra H ou se, 10.30 tion 31.6270. am-7.30 pm.

T V , R A D IO

Happy Birthday Wanda “ Showbiz ’ 73” : see friaay. “ The Bald Primadonna” : June” : see friday. “ Showbiz ’ 73” : see friday. see thursday.

"T h e Bald Primadonna” : “ Bones” : see friday. see thursday.

F IL M S Bones” : see friday.

It’ s Y our Move” : see wed- “ The Producers” and “ The Gay Deceivers” : Dendy, Brighton. nesday' F IL M S Point” and “ Duck Soup” , Marx Bros, “ Vanishing “ H e ls tr o m Chronicle” : and “ The Man on the Fly­ ing Trapeze” : Melbourne Carlton cinema, see thurs­ day. university. Union. “ Vanishing Point” and Films by Australian Wo­ “ Helstrom Chronicle” : see men: see Saturday. thursday.

OUTDO ORS Films by Australian Wo­ “ Christmas in Brass” , Myer m en : Melbourne Film Music BowL 3 pm.

C oop , 2 Napier st, Fitzroy.

Satwfbui

Pact poetry, poetry/music workshop, 264 Pitt st, 8.30 pm. “ The Dolls Shop” : AMP theatre, 2.00 pm. Infc 30.4254. “ Tiny Alice” , Albee play: The Old church. Palmer st, Darlinghurst, 8.15 pm.

F IL M S “ Keep on R ocking” : see tuesday. “ Fantastic Voyage” : Child­ ren’ s matinee. Manly Silver Screen, 2 pm. “ Hendrix” : Village Twin. “ China the Red Sons” : see thursday (plus 6.00 show-

ing)’ E V E N T S Village Bazaar, every Satur­ day m orn ing: Village church, Paddington.

Biennale: See tuesday.

Victoria street comm unity market — veggies, crafts, cloth es, furniture etc.

Starts 10.30, helpers need­ ed.

The Referendum: Free choice via compulsory vo­ ting. yy “ Forty Guns to Apache Pass” , Audie Murphy, western: Channel 7, 8.30 pm. “ Cave People o f the Philip­ pines” : Channel 7, 10.30 pm. “ Diamond Head” , Charl­ ton Heston in civies: Chan­ nel 10, 8.30.

Sunday ROCK

Omnibus: Glebe road. Glebe.

Point

C L A S S IC A L

Sydney Sym phony Orches­ tra: Sydney town hall, 8 pm, FREE.

THEATRE

“ Tiny A lice” : see Saturday.

F IL M S

‘ ‘ N FT ’ ’ 30s musicals, “ G old Diggers o f 1933” , “ T op Hat” : Opera House, 7.15 pm. “ Keep on R ocking” : see tuesday. “ Fillmore” plus “ Surfing” : Manly Silver Screen. “ Hendrix” : Village Twin, 5 pm, 7.45 pm.

S p e c ia l E x p e r im e n ta l Films: Filmmakers cinema, 8.30.

Chinese Films: Filmmakers C oop, 6.00 pm.

Bush V ideo Theatre: Fuetron building, 31 Bay street, Glebe, 8 pm. ] Parramatta Girls Home dem o, “ S top the Bash­ ings” : Fleet st, Parramatta, 2.30 pm.

Biennale: see tuesday.

F ilm m aking W orkshop: Old church, info 31.6270, 1.00 pm.

tfenday C L A S S IC A L

Sleeping Beauty: See fri­ day.

THEATRE Kids Pantomime (Pact)” : Pilgrim theatre, 264 Pitt street, FREE.

Buffalo, Country Radio, F IL M S ^ Thorpe and Aztecs, Sher­ bet, Glen Cardier, Mighty “ Les Enfants Du Paradis” ,^ C am e: Opera Kong, Hush: Liverpool M a rcel ^ ] Speedway, starts 12 noon, House, 7.30, $ 1.70. “ Keep on R ocking” : SeeJ $ 2. 0 0 . tuesday.

F O L K ,J A Z Z B L U E S “ Hendrix” : Village Twin.

Pierre St Just, Steve WilEVENTS cox, John Curry, A l fr e d /Biennace: See tuesday.

Alexander, Jan Carter:' Y °8 a: Village Church, PadKirk gallery, 8 pm. ^dington, 5.30, 7.30 pm.

Kewis in Concert: Operas House, 8 pm.

LETTERS & Parents Anonymous THOUGHT your day could be brighter with the knowledge that a Melbourne based group called “ Parents Anony­ mous” are providing a phone service and fortnightly meetings for child abusers.

We are a non-professional self-help group whose members have the oppor­ tunity to discuss their problem with someone else w ho has experienced the same traumatic emotional situation be­ fore, during and after abusing their child. By helping each other we repair our ow n emotional condition and also increase our self confidence which is impaired by the situation we find ourselves in.

We are parents fo r whom parent­ hood has not been what it's cracked up to be and w e find it difficult to project the media’ s Madonna-Vogue type im­ age when weighed dow n with the sight o f yards o f dirty nappies, gallons o f formula, and fears o f the child’s early demise due to our inadequacy.

Most members feel that had they been properly prepared for parent­ h ood their abuse problem would not exist. Our aims are to provide adequate and realistic education in schools. T o better prepare the medical w orld to cop e with child abusers and to thus avoid our children walking into this problem.

Although w e have only been in existence for four months, members are already enjoying a significant im­ provement in their relationships with their ch ildrea "D AL E ", President, Parents Anonymous.

Phone: 03-231.3043.

most people — an illiterate mug who knows nothing about political phi­ losophy. Therefore it is quite futile to try to refute your attack on me in the space o f this letters column.

However, I will briefly deal with your point concerning why, in a capitalist society, one should want to be a revolutionary — or, at least, that is how I interpreted your question o f “ how really revolutionary one can be if born, bred, and dependent on a capitalist society . . . ” Well, it is simply a matter o f whether one is interested in political affairs — as every person with brains should be — and intelligent enough to realise that capitalism must be replaced by socialism if human society is to progressively advance. Thus every true intellectual must be a revolutionary socialist — o f course, I have my own idea o f what a socialist society should be, which is obviously different from Frans Timmerman — in order to avoid persecution by the dominant capitalist niggers like Rich Greenup.

LEONARD AMOS, Wynnum, Qld

THINGS The thirst for blood

Knowledgeable O’Rourke AT THE risk o f seeming to play the “ I ’ m -m o r e -e n lig h te n e d -th a n -y o u ” game, I’d like to thank Michael O’Rourke for his brilliant article on DLM and the Knowledge (TLD 7), and to assure him that m y feelings on first coming into contact with the Mission were very similar.

D AV ID LOVEJOY, General Secretary, Divine Light Mission Australia.

Poor old Harry THE SARDONIC Mr G um boot tends to alarming splenitic ire in last week’s panegyric on the benefits o f solitude; ban the bores by all means, but dont confuse “ congenital boringness" with com m on bigotry. “ Marxist” , “ dop e” , and “ music” hores having their respective hobby­ horses is perhaps innocent enough, at least motivationally. “ Conversational paraplegia” may indeed be symptomatic o f mind-malaise, yet its wide observa­ tion hardly justifies the pessimistic and dour conclusion “ people are afraid . . .

What o f? Perhaps the tedium o f their ow n com pany.”

In accusing bandwaggon-hoppers — a perennial social quantity — o f mindless “ group thinking” , the Whittington b o o t still uses their ow n falsifying generalised cant: “ Mental confusion which pervades the twilight o f the youth movement.”

People arent naturally petty, mental­ ly lethargic, hooked on delusion and enormously arrogant simply because they have fears and anxieties! Perhaps people need to learn o f aloneness — Hail! Hermits Lib — but even more drastically to accept “ the burden o f thinking originally and individually” if it remains the only means to freedom.

LEIGH VAN-EYCK, Balmain, NSW

Illiterate mug WITH all due respect, Robert van Krieken (Letters and things, TLD 6), I can only conclude that you are — like

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By HERBIE VAUGH IPED carnivores prowl the planet, knife and fork in hand, carving up docile herbi­ vores. These bipeds have travel­ led far from the ways o f their early kind. They show a growing disregard for the laws o f nature and o f life itself. They thirst for blood and their shit stinks.

Of these beasts, the Australians top the pops in the meat eating charts. Chuck steak blesses their cultural tabernacle, lamb chops fill their fridges and roast beef builds their cities. The Australians are known for their strength, their vigor and . . . their violence.

Nicholas Tinbergen — a Dutchbom zoologist and joint winner o f this year’s Nobel prize for medi­ cine believes aggressiveness

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evolved as an inheritable instinct when man gave up his vegetarian existence and became a hunter.

Humans then evolved behavior patterns characteristic o f wolves and developed fierce group loyal­ ties which are manifested when nations embark upon WAR. But, he points out that most animals seem reluctant to kill their own kind if confronted with gestures and demonstrations of peacable intent.

Meat is big business, it’s ex­ pensive (in Japan its popularity has risen with affluence and adoption o f western ways, and can cost up to 20 dollars a pound for the finer cuts) and if eaten in excess, unhealthy. It forms uric acid, which accumulates in the

blood, and there’s no part o f the body which is not affected. The digestive organs are subject to constipation, nausea, heartburn, cramps in the gut and bowels.

Nervous disorders may arise: deaf­ ness, depression, headache, irrita­ bility, loss o f memory, morbid feelings, sleeplessness, swelling and distension o f the blood ves­ sels. The skin is prone to erup­ tions o f eczema, boils and many other complaints. Like most pleas­ ures o f the flesh, it’s not good for you.

The east observes Ahimsa — harmlessness to all living beings.

This is an integral part o f the religion o f hindus, buddhists, jains and early Christians. With the de­ velopment o f the Christian church such ideas faded and now an operation is being developed in which the internal plumbing o f the b od y is altered so wealthy gastronomes and gluttons may in­ dulge in all forms o f culinary excess without becoming gross.

But, oh no, it’s not only bloat­ ed businessmen who get their kicks from sucking blood vessels; the counterculture cruise for burg­ ers and enjoin all to the way o f peace and love . . . joint in one hand, pie in the other.

We’re not much chop, are we?

A letter to Judge Stabey and Mr Justice Burt MY LORDS, I am sorry, but I do not understand. You, Sir, sent two people to prison for three years, with a non-parole period o f six months, and discharged two others to the care o f a parole officer. And you, my Lord, sent two people to prison for four years, with a non-parole period o f

18 months.

The first four beat a woman to death, over a period o f two weeks.

The second pair imported 11 pounds o f marihuana.

In the first case, a remarkable tenderness was shown to the ac­ cused by Judge Stabey. “ You expounded your views, which many respectable members o f our community would agree with and applaud. You spoke against the use o f drugs and promiscuity.

Unfortunately, one o f your prac­ tices to cleanse people o f lustful thoughts was interrogation . . . ” In the event, interrogation in­ cluded repeated beating forceful enough to cause brain haemmorrhage and death. But two o f this group were "mild and gentle people who would suffer harm if sent to prison” . Not only were they mild and gentle, but in the words o f learned counsel “ there was something noble in their way o f life” .

What world do you inhabit, my Lords? What world is it, where manslaughter in the proscription o f ‘lust’ is become the lesser crime, and the importation o f marihuana in the pursuit o f pleas­ ure, the greater? Is it really the case that ‘ many respectable mem­ bers o f our community’ applaud a morality which finds its culmina­ tion in death by orgiastic torture?

I suggest to you that, as you grow older, as you shrivel in your iron respectability, you look at the people on the street. Some o f them are lustful. Some are even using drugs other than those which you prefer. Can you im­ agine their unspeakable pleasures?

The skin, the thighs, the parted lips? Imagine how shameless they are, and how they would despise you.. .

Are you not a little jealous, my Lords, that they are alive and you are dead?

SIMON HASLETON, Deniston West, NSW.

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MORAL LEPER RAPES VIRGIN S C H O O LG H

WO teachers suspended — school morals scandal. Blar­ ing fr o n t page headlines in the Sydney Daily mirror several weeks ago.

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■ ■ G I V E S BIRTH TO I VILE SCANDAL! After reading halfway through the story, you discover that the two male teachers in their 20s have succumbed to the “ immoral” temptation o f taking out two 18 year old female students o f the school.

Buried somewhere in the story was the admission by the right­ eous inspector (somehow giving schoolteachers the title o f “ in­ spector” makes them think they’re Sherlock Holmes) that the “ misconduct” between the teach­ ers and the students had taken place outside school hours and off school premises. In other words, the fucking Education Depart­ ment (how’s that for an oxy­ moron) is interfering in the teach­ ers private lives.

What can you expect from a department that drops into the lap of each new teacher a thick, bound volume called the Teachers handbook containing hundreds of rules and regulations? This ex­ ample o f the teacher being treated like a child is carried right through the system. Any teacher who has been bawled out in front o f his class by an over zealous adminis­ trator will attest to this fact.

This incident is not an isolated example o f the department’s need to show how moral its teachers should be. At another school in the western suburbs, an area in­ spector was sent to warn two male teachers in their 20s about their “ overfamiliarity” with students.

He was mainly concerned about the teachers drinking down at the pub with students. He also mentioned that two other teach­ ers had been suspended by the department for similar offences.

When the inspector was asked by one o f the teachers who had dobbed them in, he replied, “ a friend” . Pardon me, education de­ partment, but your Gestapo tac­ tics are showing.

Another example o f the de­ partment’ s intrusion into teacher's private lives took place earlier this year in a country area o f New South Wales. Two young teachers, one male and one female, decided to live together for financial rea­ sons and perhaps a little natural dalliance. Since small country towns are hard places to keep a secret in, the two teachers were discovered “ living in sin” .

School administrators said no, area inspectors said no; and need­ less to say, the two teachers were transferred to separate districts to prevent any further dalliance. A veteran female teacher corrobora­ ted this story by saying that in several o f her former schools, the principal would transfer a teacher if he or she were found to be having a romance with another member o f staff.

The education department tries to pretend it is concerned with the morals o f its students and teachers, but it seems more wor­ ried about adverse publicity. One principal’s favorite warning to his teachers about watching their be­ havior is: “ Just think o f what the Daily mirror would do with this story” . The prevailing attitude seems to be: do it with teachers or

By TOM K R A U SE , teacher Cabramatta High, Sydney students in the science lab or the local creek or. the staffroom, but dont get caught.

Several administrators whom I’ve talking to about teacherstudent relationships are extreme­ ly afraid o f them. They seem to have this paranoid belief that par­ ents are out to get them. They make mountains out o f molehills and have a copious backlog of stories to prove their point: the girl who cried “ rape” when talk­ ing to a male teacher in an empty classroom, how the friendly teach­ er lost the respect o f his students, etc. They stress the necessity for “ distance” between the teacher and the student, and they usually create that same distance between

the administrator and the teach­ ers.

In the year 1973 it seems incredible that such attitudes would have predominance in the NSW education department, but they do. Modern education theory suggests that closer relationships should exist between teacher and student. It does not suggest that a teacher should attempt to sink the sausage into every nubile student or vice versa, but if a teacher wishes to date an adult student, then he should certainly be able to do so.

I can see some administrators shaking their heads and saying, “ The student will brag about it to

his or her friends, what will the parents say, the students will say the teacher is guilty o f favoritism, etc.” But a mature teacher should be able to handle this, and he won’t stand for the department of education’ s meddling into his private life.

Somehow it seems as if no forward thinking person has a chance o f movinq into the higher echelons o f the education depart­ ment. These petty bureaucrats at the top think it’s immoral for teachers to get on with students because they have trouble getting on with people. A young educa­ tion officer told me that those running the NSW education de­ partment are embarrassing to

watch at social functions because o f their utter lack o f warmth or knowledge o f people.

This reminds me o f some in­ teresting proposals made by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their book Teaching as a sub­ versive activity: "Require all teachers to undergo some form of psychotherapy as part o f their in-service training .. . Require each teacher to provide some sort o f evidence that he or she has had a loving relationship with at least one other human being” .

I think that if these two pro­ posals were adopted, the teaching profession might have people who were more concerned with educa­ tion o f children than "morals” .

P rin te d b y R ic h a rd N e v ille a t 1 7 4 Peel s tr e e t, N o r t h M e lb o u r n e f o r in c o r p o r a te d N e w s a g e n c ie s C o m p a n y P ty L t d , th e p u b lis h e r a n d d is t r ib u t o r , 1 1 3 R o s s ly n s tr e e t, M e lb o u r n e . T h e s e c re t o f b e in g m is e ra b le is to have le is u re t o b o t h e r a b o u t w h e th e r y o u a re h a p p y o r n o t.