The Living Daylights 2(9)

30c Vol.2No.9 March 5-11 1974

INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY march 8&9 Stomping the violent male

Brazil’s decade of murder Grovelling in Canberra What’s on in your town

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HIS week The living daylights looks at dying. When Allison Gillmore visit­ ed the offices with plans for exploring the Australian way o f death, we said sure, smilingly, and expected never again to see her. Ideas are cheap around newspaper offices, with the talkers outnumbering the executors, and while much is cast upon the waters, less is washed up b y the tide. But Allison returned, with a thick folio on death styles — including a guide on how to bury your own — which begins eccentrical­ ly on page 9.

Death doesnt stop there. It seeps into the article before, propelling the wistful Mike Zwerin to visit the grave o f Jim Morrison in Paris (p.8). And there’ s an awful lot o f coffins in Brazil, from which we have received an important report by Maxine Molyneux and Fred Halliday, who retrace 10 years o f political oppression.

Death comes not only to bodies, but to reputations, which is why a normally petty and inconsequential court case is reported this week. Why should what makes head­ lines for the poor be hushed up by the rich? . . . in cooperation with the police, magistrates and press. Murky details o f a tinpot coverup, page 6.

It is life which is our daily bread, and it goes on and on, with such hilarious inepti­ tude. The grand opening o f the Australian parliament had the lunchtime O’boozes chundering in the aisles, and we bring you a first hand account, opposite; plus a souvenir spread o f the Royal Occasion (p. 12 & 17).

A few continuing sagas this week, Victoria street, the blacks (and the buying o ff o f militants) and prisons. Incidentally, congratulations to Barry York and others o f the LaTrobe university SRC for making a staunch political gesture in support of runaways — dont be browbeaten b y side­ tracking waffle o f the “ but what if he raped your sister” variety.

The film o f the US atrocity, A ttica, has been specially rushed to Sydney to raise money to support action groups and will be shown Wednesday, march 6 at the Teachers Federation Auditorium, 7 and 9 pm and Saturday, 10 pm, at the Film­ makers cinema. Albie Thoms gives a back­ ground rave: page 6.

The above should have been in the fat new Delights lift-out, but the copy was late. Far too much material is arriving in this office over the weekend or monday, for expected inclusion on tuesday. That makes life here a misery and the paper messy.

Earlier copy please, regulars . . . Great space shortage this week, and there’ s much stuff held over, including horrible Harry G um boot, who will bounce back next tuesday.

Laurel Olszewski designed this week’ s cover, to coincide with International Womens Day(s), march 8 & 9. The day originated in New York in 1908, when women marched through the streets to demand the vote and protest sweatshop conditions. In Sydney on Saturday (march 9) there will be a rally at Victoria park (10 am) and then a march from the park down Glebe road to Bidura, a child welfare home. On Saturday afternoon there will be a forum on wom en against the Violent Society, for wom en only, at the Glebe town hall.

In Melbourne, there is a gathering in the city square on friday plus a rally and march on the Saturday (city square, 10.30 am) and other associated celebrations.

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the w eek’s news H AT’LL TEACH US TO ACT AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION: : Still totally unable to get used to the : idea that Australia is no longer ruled b y : a gaggle o f pro-American puppets, the : US deputy secretary o f state, Kenneth : Rush, complained that prime minister : Gough Whitlam had n o right to declare : that the bom bing o f Indochina from : Thailand bases was “ militarily ineffec: tive and morally m onstrous” . On top o f : this, president Nixon has so far refused : to accept the credentials o f Australia’s new ambassador to Washington, Patrick ; Shaw. Thus, the on ce proud nation staggers on its way to second childhood.

With any luck and a few more com: ments from Whitlam the US might threaten to close down its bases on our : soil, although that really is the land o f : make-believe.

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OTERS SHOULD GIVE THEIR ANSWERS IN NOT LESS THAN A THOUSAND WORDS: Unofficially opening his senate election campaign, which also suffers from the addition o f five referendums dealing with voting ages, state upper houses and the eleva­ tion o f himself to pope, prime minister Whitlam claimed that the whole busi­ ness was crucial to the survival o f dem ocracy in Australia. The refer­ endums “ represent the most thorough and fundamental attempt since federa­ tion to establish the basic democratic right o f Australians” Whitlam intoned before the Victorian ALP state council.

With all that ticking and crossing the average voter will be lucky if he escapes from the polling b o o th in under half an hour.

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h e c o n s e r v a t io n is t s m u st HAVE GIVEN HIM A NEW POLO PONY: Proving that he’s not all bad all o f the time, Phil the Greek told members o f the Australian Conservation Foundation that they should attempt to disrupt the w o o d industry conference which will set timber policy in Australia for the next 50 years and which, it appears, may be slightly unsympathetic to environmentalists. As.befits meetings o f this nature, attended by the captains o f industry, the conference is due to open on All Fools Day.

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EAT ME, WHIP ME: Federal en­ vironmental minister Moss Cass went dow n on his knees in front o f a gaggle o f Canberra students and admit­ ted that he had “ a glorious series o f failures" to his credit. He then proudly admitted that his best failure so far was the drowning o f Tasmania’s Lake Pedder and the building o f a post office tower on Canberra’ s Black Mountain.

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F YOU CUT DOWN A LL THE FORESTS, THE BLACKS WILL HAVE NOWHERE TO HIDE: As the : “ Charm to aboriginals year” continues ; to roll along, a dusty gentleman b y the

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name o f R obert Arthur John M cLeod, was fined $40 in a Canberra court and placed on a good behavior bon d for one year for daring to stand up for his peoples rights at the business end o f a .22 calibre pistol. Later it was explained that Mr M cLeod had decided to lay siege to the department o f aboriginal affairs in Canberra because the white media were, as usual, treating aboriginal protest demonstrations as a sort o f long playing com edy and he felt that if Australians continued to both laugh at and ignore aboriginal claims to equal status, violence would break out. It is pleasant to realise that we have at last managed to drive at least one member o f the gentle race into total uncontrol­ led fury.

ERVES HIM RIGHT: Finally los­ ing their tempers with old Teddy Heath for forcing them into the polls, the stout British proved they had some spirit left b y voting fo r almost everyone from Ethel the Red to Godzilla. Thus satisfied they sat back and listened to the shrill cries o f “ we w on ” emanating from the world’s oldest and most renowned kindergarten o f the year. In a local note on the farce, our own opposi­ tion leader Billy Snedden came in with one o f his more useful statements by declaring that the election, which in point o f fact gave the Labor party more seats than the Conservatives, was a “ warning” to the Australian Labor party. N o wonder the Libs have now hired ageing beauty queen Sue Gallie to tell the party members how to groom themselves and how to speak in public.

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he w h ite r th a n w h ite SEAL OF A U TH O R ITY: The Leyland m otor com pany, which you may remember wants to im port a hand­ ful o f Filipino workers into this country to screw spark plugs into its vehicles, has revealed that since its announce­ ment more than 300 true blue Austra­ lians have informed them that their cars will no longer be acceptable. Mr Peter North, managing director o f Leyland in Australia, mincing no words, said: “ We stand accused o f opening the doors to the slant eyed yellow bastards from the north.” S oon this same white lobby will demand that all boomerangs in Australia must henceforth be made b y white men only and that all goods o f asian origin be immediately returned.

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HE “ SLANT EYED BASTAR D S” ALSO LACK A SENSE OF HUMOR: The Chinese embassy in Paris has lodged an official protest with the

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French government because o f a film entitled Les Chinois a Paris, made fun o f the glorious revolutionary peoples army in the Communist party approved theatre. The spokesman for die Chinese embassy in Paris said in a rather amazing §:$: statement: “ This is a very serious affair for relations between our tw o countries.

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i r s t t h e bu sh , t h e n t h e BUILDINGS: A report to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation by Mr Ian Grant, a British architect, states not surprisingly that all Australians were happily destroying their brick and mortar heritage in every large city and that the leaders o f the pack were government departments who were “ the m ost destructive o f all bodies” . Meanwhile the Builders Laborers Federation continues to be branded as a disgruntled group o f communist malcontents, despite the fact that they are the only organisation in Australia doing anything about conservation. On a state by state basis, if y ou ’re interested in learning about the greatest villains, Queensland and Tasmania tie for first place although Western Australia believes that “ anything may be sacrificed for new roads” and runs a close second.

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ig h t a n o t h e r c a n d le f o r YOUR PARTICULAR GOD: New South Wales judge, Mr justice Street, has ruled that members o f the formidable and powerful Hare Krishna sect may continue to bang their drums and give away incense sticks in the streets o f Sydney without being molested or harassed by the forces o f the Sydney city council. In a surprisingly enlightened ruling, in which he told the city council which was attempting to get rid o f the dreadful non Christians to piss off, Mr justice Street remarked: “ If everybody dressed, looked and behaved alike, a drab m onotony would pervade the city.” a n g , b a n g , y o u ’r e d e a d : After promising an investigation over the shooting o f a 17 year old youth

by New South Wales police, New South Wales justice minister Maddison issued the police department’s rules for the use o f firearms against one’s fellow man.

The regulations in essence say that it’s quite okay to kill as long as the quarry is running away from you.

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OOKING at it through a hangover next morning, which was how everybody looked at it next morning, the opening o f the second session o f the 28th parliament o f Australia was really just another party. In fact, as parties go it was more boring than the Liberal party, more pretentious than the Australia party, more humorless than the Labor party, and more absurd than the DLP. I dont know why anyone went (yes, I d o: to fulfil every socialist’s dream o f grovelling before royalty, and for the free piss). True, we had an unusual attraction in the case o f the Mad Black Gunman, but that was six miles away, and he was all over b y the end o f afternoon tea anyway.

But where were the great performers o f yesteryear? Where was Andrew Jones chundering in a pot plant? Where was Mick Young waving aloft a bottle o f beer and announcing that it was on in the speaker's office? Where was the Liberal member w ho was sprung giving a typist a knee trembler in the senate lavatory?

Gone, all gone; we shall not look upon their like again. Or at least we didnt on thursday night, when the pompous ceremony dragged itself to a close.

It had really started some weeks before, when wellknown man o f the people, republican, nationalist and social reformer Edward Gough Whitlam made his thoughtful decision to prorogue parliament and cause everyone endless trouble and expense so that an overpaid and ageing British boiler could be seen and heard to open it again; an exercise whose futility was only outdone b y its cynicism.

The first thing that happened was a large number o f men were hired to dig up and cart away the perfectly adequate lawns around parliament house and replace them with new ones, so that the royal h o o f would have fresh grass to paw.

Then some more people unearthed the rather sinister collection o f indoor plants which grace the halls and corridors o f parliament house on these occasions and put them where people would have most

chance o f falling over them. Then about four kilometres o f red carpet were laid down in geometrical patterns so that the official party would know where to walk.

Then a lot o f cops and spooks came and peered behind all the pot plants (and no doubt under the carpets) to make sure there were no mad gunmen lying in wait.

Then all the attendants from the house o f representatives (where, incidentally, the queen was not going; she’s a senate only girl) were decked out in lovely new green uniforms. Military bands were produced, guards o f honor were conscripted.

Artillery was wheeled across the lake, planes were sent up to fly past. Many were the oohs and aahs o f anticipation as it was learnt that the parliament house catering service was moulding several life size chocolate fish fo r supper. And finally the great day dawned . . . but here we need a little flashback.

As the Charlie Perkins affair boiled over, plans fo r a large demonstration had been announced. Showing a com m en­ dable sense o f politics, not to mention a commendable sense o f humor, activists managed to give the rather gullible police the impression that some thousands o f blacks, many o f them armed to the teeth, would be surging round parliament house at the very mom ent that Herself was likely to be passing by. So what did this fervently anti racist, egalitarian, liber­ tarian government d o ? That’s right, it called in the cops, put up the barricades, and made a lot o f noises about law and order; a typically impressive performance.

It was all, o f course, com pletely unnecessary, not to say futile. If anyone had wanted to kn ock the queen o ff (surely a grotesque proposition) it would have been very easy indeed. A bout 18 different sorts o f passes were issued to anyone who was going to be going in and out o f parliament house that day, which might have shown a real T

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security if only anyone had ever asked to see them. Spectators lined the ro o f o f parliament house in a perfect position to shoot the queen; in fact, with the wind behind them, they could probably have pissed on her.

There were, eventually, a couple o f hundred demonstrators there (the noisier ones were all white) and maybe a hundred pro-queen people, with sun umbrellas and flags; one rather cynical MP remarked later that this presumably proved that Charlie Perkins was twice as popular as the queen. Also, it was very hard fo r even the most experienced stirrers to get the aboriginals going: Bobbi Sykes couldnt manage, and it was a while before the familiar strains o f “ What d o you want? Land rights! When d o you want them? N ow ! What d o you get? Fuck all!” started to waft up the steps into Kings hall.

The politicians and hangers on started to arrive; when anyone was recognised he got a cheer or a b o o , or occasionally (as in Whitlam’s case) both. The largest cheers were for the Chinese ambassador, who appeared slightly bewildered by the whole thing, and Gordon Bryant, w ho earned the title o f undisputed piss ant o f the year by turning round at the top o f the steps and smiling and waving to the demonstrators. “ We want G ordon,” they chanted: They can have Gordon.

Some politicians came out to take their own pictures of the whole schemozzle, and a man wearing a sparkling new pair o f Can’t Tear ’Ems gave the closest bit o f red carpet another going over. A pom reporter referred to the b lo o d y bolshies. The president o f the senate, sir Magnus Cormack, emerged, looking ridiculous in his wig and robes, and was whistled and booed . He was accompanied by the Usher o f the Black R od; many o f the demonstrators offered to show Magnus evidence that they were more fitted for the job . Magnus did not look amused, and nor did the speaker, Jim Cope, whose electorate includes

to mixed boos and cheers; Whitlam remarked to one o f the cops that it wasnt as good as Warragul, which was where the phosphateless farmers had threatened to toss tomatoes at him. The atmosphere was less than electric.

Finally a cavalcade o f cops led in the big black car, there was lots o f trumpeting and presenting o f arms, and Herself walked up the stairs and smiled and glittered down on the masses — the diamonds were the only bit that didnt look like plastic.

We can reveal exactly how she was dressed, because a pom m y poltroon had put out a press release on the subject the day before: evening dress o f silver tissue banded horizontally with gold tissue, diamond fringe tiara, three row diamond necklace, drop diamond earrings, the order o f the garter and family orders (these were a pink square and blue square pinned to the left tit, and looked exactly like dry cleaning tickets someone had forgotten to remove). Nigel Drury (Lib, Qld) was to remark in an awestruck whisper to Bruce Graham (Lib, NSW) some time later: “ She looks every inch a queen.” Actually, she looked like a very expensive Christmas decoration.

The demonstrators booed and chanted a bit, but when the national anthem started up, most o f the blacks died dow n: the whites tried to get them going again, but on the whole failed. The queen then went o ff with Magnus, presumably for a piss, and the action, or lack o f it, switched to the senate chamber, where the opening was to take place. Inside were the senators, many o f them in their finest array, well prepared for the big day o f their year; it’s the only time anyone comes to look at them. They appeared much as usual, even the ones whose names no one could remember. The most noticeable thing about the atmosphere was an overpowering smell o f eau de cologne, possibly emanating from the hair o f the opposition leader, senator Reg

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A new Country party senator was sworn in, and the bullshit got under way, with the queen coming in and sending Black R od out to get the bodies out o f the house o f representatives.

They came in with much grovelling, Snedden trying to keep up on level terms with Whitlam, and Lynch com fortably beating Anthony in for the position o f second most important man in the opposition. Most o f the Liberal front benchers were wearing morning suits, rather as if they expected to be instantly sworn in as a government.

Their sense o f anticipation, however, quickly gave way to jaw dropping gloom as the queen started her speech — thoroughly political (it was written by Whitlam's staff, after a long and successful fight with the queen’s staff, w ho said that sort o f thing just wasnt don e) and was full o f stuff about how the government (“ my government” ) had a mandate for change and was b loody well going to get on with it. Outside in Kings hall, where a coterie o f undistinguished guests were watching it all on color television monitors, reaction was muted, or perhaps non existent; seeing her on color television wasnt really like the real thing.

But the speech itself was enough to turn a Liberal republican. By now, o f course, Bob McLeod was doing his thing over at the department o f aboriginal affairs, but very few people realised: they were still agog as the queen went o ff with Magnus again (what’s wrong with the wom an’s bladder?) and eventually left, late, for pommyland, to appoint what her loyal subjects laughingly call a govern­ ment. The rest o f the guests wandered o ff to the senate rose garden where people were drinking tea and eating cucumber sandwiches, and where the press was aghast to discover that there was no grog.

Whitlam was informed o f the McLeod business on his way over, after farewelling Herself, and comm ented to a minister that it was a terrible thing, and that a man with a gun had taken a hostage.

Quick as a flash the minister replied, " I ’ll bet it’s A1 (Grassby)” . But it wasnt: A1 was b y now presumably on his way home to start changing for the evening, a mere four hours away. Other people left quite soon too, either in search o f a drink, or simply because they were bored shitless it was turning into that sort o f day. By sunset, it was turning into that sort o f night.

The big bunfight, described b y our friendly socialist egalitarian government as a “ royal reception” (dress: dinner jacket) was timed to kick o f f with the arrival o f Phil the Pig at 9.15, but since the bars opened at 8.30, Kings hall was already packed to the rafters b y the time the official party, including Magnus,

now with a patch over one eye (had som eone finally got to him?), clambered in with the duke w ho is a prince asking a cop outside w hy he was looking after his (Phil’s) security rather than after their (the aboriginals at the embassy over the road) security. The cop was apparently too polite to answer that it was probably that more people disliked him (Phil) than them (the abos).

They played Her song, after which the program allowed 20 minutes fo r mingling with the guests. From all corners o f the room desperate socialists and their wives flung themselves panting towards the royal arsehole, kicking and gouging for a chance to mingle. A few m ore defiant ones w ho had not worn dinner jackets (which the head o f the prime minister’s department, sir John Bunting, was heard to remark was very bad form indeed) ostentatiously moved the other way. And then people started moving towards the diningroom, where there were more ugly scenes — since most had not eaten since lunch — and many had been on the piss for several hours.

F ood was w olfed: the chocolate fish, not to mention the ice sculpture o f a swan and the candy one o f a kangaroo, were ignored in favor o f protein. More piss was consumed. And then the cardinal problem o f the evening emerged, because there was n o band, and therefore no dancing (most o f them were with their wives anyway) and therefore nothing for people to d o but talk to each other. As the enorm ity o f their plight dawned on them, people started to edge towards the exits, some even before Phil (which Bunting would n o dou bt have thought was even worse form ). A t the same time,

however, gatecrashers from the press and ministers staffs were starting to infiltrate, so the numbers stayed roughly constant, and the rate o f consumption if anything increased.

The heavies left, Gough eventually managing to drag Margaret away (“ I’ll com e when he calls me properly,” she remarked loudly to a group o f people) and the serious drinkers got on with it; but it still wasnt much o f a party, and b y midnight most o f them had turned into pumpkins.

The smart ones went home or over the road to the aboriginal embassy, w h o were also having a party, and at least they had a guitar. Enough, even o f free piss, is enough. ^^

B u y in g o f f th e a n g e r WARD McNALLY

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A ST WEEK, senator J. L. Cavanagh, minister for a b o­ riginal affairs, told the National Press Club in Canberra that a b o­ riginal affairs under Labor had been a “ disaster” .

We all knew that. He neednt have told us.

There had been a dispute when Gordon Bryant was sacked last September and Cavanagh took his place. Last week Cavanagh also announced the suspension o f the assistant secretary in the aborigin­ al affairs department, Charlie Per­ kins, for calling the Liberal and Country parties o f Western A us­ tralia racist. Most people regard the suspension as persecution o f a man who has the courage to speak out in defence o f his oppressed people.

If further p ro o f o f the sort o f state o f affairs Cavanagh has al­ low ed his portfolio to drift into was needed, it was produced last thursday when the queen and prime minister Whitlam were jeer­ ed by 1000 aboriginals outside parliament house and representing black thought from all over Aus­ tralia, and it was reinforced by the display o f militancy by a black gunman who held some staff members o f the aboriginal affairs department hostage for an hour during the queen’s visit.

Anyone who spares a construc­ tive honest thought for our black brothers and sisters would know that Cavanagh has dredged the bottom o f the bucket many times in the month he has been min­ ister. His worst example o f this was when Charlie Perkins said Cavanagh had set out since assum­ ing his aboriginal affairs portfolio to smear his, Perkins’ , character and to divide the aboriginal peopie into tw o factions, Both men were correct about certain aspects o f their claims.

Cavanagh, when he said aboriginal affairs policies designed by the Labor government had turned out failures instead o f the brave new

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me th’ boss is gone h om e,” she concept they started out to be said falteringly. under the sensitive guidance o f “ W on’t someone up there help Gordon Bryant. And Perkins was you ?” I asked nodding towards spot on when he said a serious the stairs. division o f thought has developed “ They will on monday, mister within the aboriginal community. . . . that’ s what a girl up there sez, Unlike Perkins, I dont attribute anyway. But it’s friday afternoon, this division to Cavanagh. I dont an’ th’ boss has gone home . . . the think the man’s clever enough for girl sez they dont d o nothin’ that. But I d o regard Cavanagh’s o durin’ weekends . . . ” Her voice snide criticism o f Perkins as being DC only part aboriginal as not only broke as she spoke. Tears welled into her eyes.

PN unnecessary but stupid.

I stuffed a five dollar bill into He should know, as minister her hand and mumbled something for aboriginal affairs, that most o f P about hoping the Salvation Army PQ our aboriginal population is mixed would assist her. blood. That fact doesnt detract An hour later I realised I had from their ability to think, to turned her loose with her hungry suffer pain like the rest o f us, or children when there was a haven to want better for themselves and to which I could have taken her their children . . . . . . had I known o f it then.

And to suggest, as Cavanagh By then I had tracked down did, that Perkins wasnt really in­ Denis Walker, Terry Farr and his terested in or knew enough about wife, and a group o f volunteer his race to be a good secretary in social workers, all aboriginal, ex ­ the department, was ridiculous. cept the Farrs.

Perkins was leading freedom They were operating what they rides by Sydney university stu­ proudly call the Black Commun­ dents around western NSW towns ity Christian Centre out o f pastor in 1966, accepting abuse and rot­ Brady’s old church at 48 Leich­ ten fruit in his face thrown by hardt street, behind the wealth irate people in Moree, Wee Waa and com fort o f the plush hotels and points w e s t . . . and office complexes o f Wickham I have just returned from a terrace. flying visit to Brisbane on behalf Holes in the walls and doors o f o f the Australian Broadcasting the ancient church had been filled Commission, to help with a pro­ in with opened up kerosine tins gram based on aboriginals. and roughly painted over.

I was mildly shocked by what I Two aboriginal wom en and found there. about seven children waited i Almost open hatred exists be­ anxiously while Terry phoned tween tw o factions o f blacks and various estate agents to try to find whites which only 18 months ago places for them to rent. offered a solid front o f unity “ We’ll have to get them fixed against the form er government’s up for the weekend at the Peo­ oppressive policies towards blacks. ple’ s Palace or somewhere if we I believe the division has been can’t get them a house or flat each caused by the misdirected efforts to rent,” he told me. :o f a sincere government. Cavanagh He added: “ We just dont have has com pounded the misdirec­ much m oney to help with. It’ s tions. b lood y heartbreaking . . . ” Eighteen months ago Denis "A rent you receiving m oney Walker was undisputed leader o f from the government?” black rights fighters. Volatile, “ Yes. A little.” He told me. His imaginative, gutsy, Walker wasnt. voice brittle. afraid to lead protest marches “ Paul Richards told me there’s through Brisbane, or to publicly lots o f cash around now - that denounce police for provable acts everything is fine,” I said. “ Is that o f brutality against blacks. correct?”

Then, one o f his staunchest “ His crowd are getting plenty followers was a young final year o f cash help. We’re not. We have law student named Paul Richards. to rely upon a voluntary panel o f Others were white architectural solicitors to provide help for a b o ­ student Terry Farr and his 22 riginals in need o f legal assist­ year old wife, Gwynneth. ance.”

Now Paul Richards is a non “ Why arent you, Denis and the stirrer. As solicitor to the Queens­ land Aboriginal Legal Aid Services others, working in co-operation he is on a reputed $12,000 an­ with Paul Richards’ organisa­ tion?” nually.

Farr smiled cynically and said: “ There’s no need to make a fuss any longer. There’s so much “ Didnt you know? Well Denis and money around under Labor a lot I were expelled from the thing o f the problems Denis waged war because we were supposed to be against have evaporated,” Rich­ rocking the boat. But to make sure we could be expelled the ards told me.( to hear complaints He also tbld me that pastor meeting Don Brady, a former front rank against us was shifted from Bris­ stirrer and a man capable o f evok­ bane to Cairns. We were unable to ing a lot o f sympathy in past be present. Denis was punched in years, is being paid a large annual the mouth just prior to his expul­ salary as a project officer attached sion by an aboriginal JohnnyCome-Lately w h o’s been getting a to the council for the arts.

Richards works from a reason­ lot o f good publicity lately. “ Eighteen months ago the ably com fortable set o f offices in Brisbane’ s George street. I couldnt same bloke wasnt game to stand help thinking there was an anti­ up and be counted during a pro­ septic atmosphere about the o f ­ test march for better con ditions!” fices that was out o f place with Farr said caustically. his former involvement in the humanities o f a deprived people. “ I’m going to buy a farm later on. Somewhere to go on week­ M e l b o u r n e ’ s p r o g r e s s iv e m u s i c c e n ­ ends. Probably a good way to tr e s e lls q u a l i t y r e c o r d s f r o m all retire when that time finally ar­ a r o u n d th e w o r ld at c o m p e t it iv e p r ic e s . rives,” he told me.

1 5 5 G r e v ille S t ., P r a h r a n , 3 1 8 1 Later that afternoon I called to ( o f f C h a p e l S t ., a t T o w n H a ll) see him. I was late. He had left.

But an aboriginal woman with four snotty nosed, hungry looking Two Films Every Sunday small children stood staring at the “ T h e C o m in g o f M a n " tall staircase to his office with a “ Save th e B a rrie r R e e f ' bewildered expression on her face.

Sydney Opera House I asked if I could help.

Music Room, Continuous “ We been evicted. Got no place Screening 10 am-6 pm. A d u lts $2, to go. No money. I want to see children $1, fa m ily o f 4 $ 5 . someone for help but they tole

While I talked to Terry Farr he found a house for one o f the wom en and her three children in a shoddy part o f the city, and ar­ ranged accom m odation fo r the other and her children, until m on­ day.

By eight o ’clock that evening he and Denis Walker were working ou t final details for a black the­ atre production to be staged in the old church on the Sunday night. “ We reckon this theatre idea where blacks play roles we write ourselves, and that form a chain from the present right back to the dreamtime, and inform audiences o f our love for our own people and family, and o f our aspirations, our heartbreaks as a race, could becom e a wonderful means o f communicating our message o f need fo r white understanding and opportunity for ourselves to all Australians.

The government would have to subsidise us, though," Walker said. “ Why dont you apply fo r an arts council grant or m oney from the aboriginal affairs depart­ ment?” I prompted. “ There’s almost no notice taken o f us now. Our wages are very slight, Terry’s and mine. And anyway, I’m still regarded as the anatomy o f everything wrong with Queensland blacks,” Walker said.

P roof that this was right was given to me by Gwynneth Farr.

In january last year Farr was slashed across the stomach when he answered a knock at his d oor at 1.30 am. He reeled back on to the floor beside the table where he had been playing cards with Walker and tw o other friends.

Parts o f his intestines were hang­ ing out. Rushed to hospital, he lingered between life and death fo r days.

Police rejected his story that an unknown assailant had slashed him in protest against his affilia­ tion with black rights fighters.

Instead, so Farr and his wife told me, they tried to get the Farrs to agree that Denis Walker had slashed him after a fight over Farr’ s wife. “ They put a story around that Terry came home and found Denis and me in bed together, and that after Terry hit Denis in the face Denis rushed out and grabbed a bread knife or something similar and attacked him. “ They conveniently seem to overlook the absence o f a sharp knife or blade razor, or that others were present when Terry was assaulted. Personally, I dont think the police were very inter­ ested in finding the assailant.

A fter all, Terry and I have both been insulted by police in the past fo r our association with Denis Walker and other black rights fighters. Paul Richards was insult­ ed in those days, to o ,” Gwynneth told me.

I was deeply impressed by the <eense o f personal involvement per­ vading everything that happened at the Black Community Christian Centre.

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ation to try to help those less fortunate. Walker was still clearly the pivot point upon which the whole concept worked, and Gwynneth Farr quietly observed to me during a rehearsal o f the Black Theatre group: “ Can you imagine Terry being so loyal, so devoted to Denis’ s leadership, if what the police tried to make us say had been true?"

She told me that by the time this story is being read Denis Walker will probably be in prison for a few m cnths for a hit-run accident. “ He returned after­ wards. He knew he was at fault.

He’ s accepting whatever com es manfully. He’s a much better per­ son than most people realise.”

Last thursday Denis copped three months hard labor.

There are a lot o f people in Brisbane w ho blame the depart­ ment o f aboriginal affairs for split­ ting Queensland aboriginals into tw o factions. Bobby J. told me: “ There’s some o f our people who see m oney as the whole answer.

It’s not really. N ot unless it’s used properly. Lots o f it isnt. Som e’s used to buy silence, I reckon . . . ” This man’s claim would p rob­ ably win endorsement by profes­ sor Strehlow o f Adelaide. It was exactly this argument that profes­ sor Strehlow made against the government and Dr Coom bs, head o f the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies, before he re­ signed from the institute some months ago.

T o this extent Cavanagh’s claim about Labor’s policies being disastrous are correct. But whose fault is that?

Cavanagh has held the port­ folio for five months. He should have been able to see for himself that men like Strehlow should have been retained as advisers whatever else happened.

Strehlow told m e: “ O f course a great amount o f m oney is needed to be spent to improve conditions for aboriginals, but it is useless to think that m oney will buy silence or satisfy a people many o f whom see it for what it is — a sop to try to cover up the injustices carried on over 200 years, and which' need to be healed b y genuine concern for the people. This is a com plex problem that needs handling by men and wom en who understand the philosophies o f aboriginals . . .”

A nd in Brisbane I talked to aboriginals w h o couldnt under­ stand Cavanagh for insisting that Charles Perkins must be charged with a breach o f the public service act for criticising the opposition parties. “ Hell, man” , Denis Walker said, “ Isnt Cavanagh the one-time trade union secretary w ho used to march in anti Vietnam protests, and who used to climb on to soap boxes and defend the right o f everyone to free speech? “ Isnt he the same Cavanagh who used to attack the Liberal and Country government at every opportunity for doing exactly the same thing he is doing to Charlie Perkins? Well, if he is, and I know he is, what does he think he’s doing b y publicly declaring that Small Ads in The Living Daylights $7.00.

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he wouldnt call the Liberal and Country parties racist?”

Walker went on: “ I reckon this is about the last chance I’ll have o f saying anything constructive for publication for three or fou r months, so I’d just like to add this: the whole history o f the Liberal and Country parties is racist. People o f their political inclination have worked aborigin als in the Northern Territory and Queensland for no wages. Just third grade food and cheap tobac CO.

“ Anyone who has bothered to research the barest essentials o f Australian history knows that in the outback, since white expan sion o f this country, station ow n ers and overseers have used our girls as whores, and that aboriginal men have been shot dow n at whim and worked for n o wages.

The whole history is disgust ing. . . ” Walker dismissed as “ non sense” claims by senator Neville Benner and aboriginal liaison o ffi cer, Don Davidson, that a militant group o f blacks were training in the Brisbane Valley and had mas sive stocks o f arms. “ Probably there’ s still some guns around. But I hope for the sake o f our people they’re never brought out as a threat. The men behind them would b e wiped out... “ Anyway, we dont want a rev olution o f violence. We want a revolution o f thought. We need to vet the white people leaping on to the black bandwagon now . . . you know, solicitors getting large sal aries for working a few hours daily, and never allowing them­ selves to becom e emotionally in­ volved with black problems. And I’m not referring to Paul Richards, either. “ We want a revolution o f thought that will rid the com m un­ ity - our community - o f people in official positions w h o try to put us down as a people. I include Cavanagh in that category right now, t o o . . . ” “ We need a minister w h o’ll understand our aspirations for our black theatre, too, Denis,” Terry Farr prompted.

Commented Paul Richards “ What Denis Walker and his friends d o up at the old church is their affair. I believe we here have the money we need to d o what we must do. We’re not wasting time on dreams!”

Dreams? Perhaps. But better than the present aboriginal night­ mare, surely?

Better by far than living with the thought that places like the Bornfree Club in South Brisbane, must remain a part o f Brisbane aboriginal life forever.

Each night the Bornfree Club offers a place to sleep to from 30 to 50 aboriginal men and wom en who are helped to their feet from the parklands, the back streets and lanes and transported to the club.

My view is that senator Cav­ anagh should be less interested in an attack by Perkins on racism o f a political party and more con ­ cerned for the real purposes o f his sensitive portfolio.

The angry Australians are be coming an embarrassment to Labor. Cavanagh should remove the causes for the embarrass­ ments.

He could start by remembering his original role in Labor politics - recall the days when he was a defender o f free speech and pro­ tector o f the underdog. The seri­ ous business o f properly admin­ istering a sensitive p ortfolio should be his concern. N ot waging war on a courageous public ser­ vant w ho happens to be part aboriginal and aware, through per­ sonal experience, of the injustices crying out for attention.

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A very quiet day in court

Filming the carnage

DAVID BLUE HE VICTORIAN Liberal party, has applied political muscle to suppress the story o f a car stealing gang involving the son o f a state Liberal MLC. The MP’ s son, a student o f swank Wesley college, with three o f his. schoolchums were caught stealing a car near the school in Prahran. The story o f their crimes and subsequent arrest were hush­ ed up during the state govern­ ment’s clampdown on crime news.

The four were sprung when a man went to Prahran police sta­ tion to report his car stolen. While there his wife noticed some boys tampering with another car near her residence. She rang the wal­ lopers who swarmed to the scene o f the crime and nabbed ’em.

The thieves were identified as GEOFFREY RICHARD LONG, 18, son o f Richard John Long, Liberal MLC for Gippsland and a prominent Warragul barrister. His colleagues were David Falla, 19, R obert Garnham, 19, and Paul Steven Mayfield, 18. The Prahran police went about their onerous task o f extracting confessions from the students.

But the bells o f political in­ trigue soon had them gasping.

By the end o f the night the quartet were released by police and charged by summons. (Most car thieves are arrested and have to be bailed before they are allow­ ed to leave.)

By the time the case reached Prahran court the good and true boys in blue had been leant on to release no details o f the crime to the press. Any leaks would mean either instant dismissal, demotion or very slow sinking through the rank. The policemen knew their careers stood on the line so they kept mum.

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warm day in late december. The police gave evidence that not only had the youths stolen the cars but they had also found stolen p rop ­ erty with them.

Kevin O’Connor SM, listened intently to eloquent pleas from barristers representing the sons o f the establishment. He found the charges proven and adjourned them fo r 12 months on the con ­ dition that they not offend again.

This was indeed a good result for young Long and his mates for many other youths have been jailed for similar offences under the Liberal government’s law ’n order campaign.

After all, Long faced two charges o f larceny o f a car, two o f unlicensed driving and one o f larceny o f goods worth $89. Gamham owned up to tw o charges o f larceny o f a car, one o f larceny o f goods worth $10, and one o f unlicensed driving. Mayfield wore two charges o f unlicensed driving, one o f tampering with a car, one o f larceny o f a car and one o f larceny o f goods worth $10.

Falla was landed with one charge o f larceny o f a car and one o f larceny o f goods.

When we rang Richard Long about the case it went like this: TLD: Could you confirm that it was y o u r son who recently faced charges concerning larceny?

LONG: Well break it up, now break it up. I dont confirm , deny or otherwise. There’s a lot o f Longs around this area . . .

TLD: The report we have states that you r son was part o f a group o f Wesley sch oolboys involved in la rcen y. . .

LONG: Well, all I’m telling you is that there are a lot o f Longs in this area.

TLD: But is you r son the person who was involved in the charges?

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rHEN THE French celebrate proclamation o f Liberty, Equality & Fraternity in the glorious days o f their b lo o d y rev­ olution they choose Bastille day, in m em ory o f that day when the prisons were liberated & those the state classed as criminals joined farmers & shopkeepers in their efforts to liberate Europe. It is significant that the release o f pris­ oners is celebrated as the key event in the temporary triumph o f the three revolutionary virtues.

The English found a better way to handle the agitation brewing in their prisons overcrowded with victims o f class oppression — they transported them to Australia. We celebrate the arrival o f these pris­ oners in Sydney cove as Australia day. This society in the South |Pacific was established b y felons regarded as danger as to the estab­ lished order in England.

Som ehow we seem to have forgotten those events o f 200 [years ago. The plight o f today's prisoners is not regarded as im­ portant b y those w ho seek free­ dom in their own lives. The shoot­ ing o f unarmed prisoners is regard­ ed as part o f the co n ’s lot. A fter [all, they were stupid enough to get caught in the first place.

T w o and a half years ago in Attica prison, New York, an event to o k place which drew attention to how the American state |handles its prisoners. Thirty eight unarmed prisoners were gunned Idow n in a siege o f the prison which also resulted in 200 men wounded. .M psjt.of the prisoners I were Blacks & Puerto Ricans, not surprising if one sees prisoners as [victims o f the class war, & racist American justice. It was the cap­ italist Baron R ockefeller who or[ dered the mass murder.

Over a hundred million Ameri­ cans saw those events live on their TV sets. During the three days that the prisoners had control o f their prison they allowed black cameramen to record the events inside the jail where they had established their own democratic community. Millions watched the daily press conferences as the pris-

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KEEP IN THE COOLER FOR TEN YEARS TO LIFE oners bargained for amnesty & the hostage screws bargained for their lives. An Observers Committee o f nationally prominent newsmen elected b y the prisoners also bar­ gained for their lives. And while the nation watched, the governor ordered the b lo o d y siege by state marshals who recorded their own footage o f the carnage they in­ flicted.

These are all seen in Attica, a feature-length color documentary o f the events, that has been sent to Australia b y the Attica defence fund to aid Australian prisoners in their efforts to alleviate their op­ pression. It will be shown at the Sydney Teachers Federation audi­ torium this Wednesday & then will be seen around the country in a fund-raising drive organised by the Prisoners A ction Committee.

A royal commission into the Bathurst outrage is coming up in NSW. It will, no doubt, be like the McKay Commission Hearing on

Campus hideout PIOTR OLSZEWSKI EMBERS o f Melbourne’s Prison Action Committee had quite a hectic week last week on tuesday two members who partook in recent Pentridge dem­ onstrations appeared in Coburg court charged with loitering near a prison and attempting to com ­ municate with a prisoner. The demonstrators, Barry York, PAC secretary and Thomas Griffiths were found guilty and fined $250 each.

Later in the week the LaTrobe university SRC, who are closely affiliated with the PAC (they [share offices and phones), an­ nounced that they would declare the campus a haven for escaped prisoners and asked students to shelter escapees on the university grounds.

The SRC, w ho “ believe all prisoners are political prisoners” land “ are all victims o f their socio­ econom ic positions” have harbor­ ed prisoners at LaTrobe in the |past - once in 1971 and again in 1973 - these prisoners are still |free.

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cil, said the SRC’ s proposal was meaningless because they d o not have the power to declare the campus a haven — only Hough­ ton ’s council has this power o f­ ficially, but officialdom is mostly ignored at LaTrobe.

Police chief commissioner Jackson said the situation, if true, is appalling and any students in­ volved should be expelled.

The repercussions o f the SRC’ s action seems to have caused the state government to act. On Satur­ day night premier Hamer made a surprise announcement stating that the government was moving towards the ultimate aim o f mak­ ing Pentridge obsolete. Hamer gave a brief outline o f changes to be initiated “ immediately” this year; these include weekend jail, periodic imprisonment, and work release for prisoners.

Hamer also announced that in­ vestigations had com m enced to set up a new remand section, abolish Pentridge’ s C block, and build a new high security jail.

Hamer said that alcoholics and drug offenders would be offered “ treatment and rehabilitation” in­ stead o f “ punishment and degra­ dation” .

Attica, forced b y an alarmed pub lie which had seen the events o n their TV sets. Then NY state indicted 65 o f the prisoners but not one o f the marshals who to o k part in the murderous assault, nor any o f the screws accused by the prisoners o f beatings, torture & killings.

An aware public can put pres­ sure on the NSW royal com m is­ sion to let the prisoners speak, to enable the events that led to the Bathurst jail riot to be brought out in the open, the brutality that persists in Australian prisons to be halted. N o details o f the 20 men shot at Bathurst have been made known to the public. The brutal ity that led them to destroy their jail has gone unquestioned. It is time to speak up, to come out in support o f the prisoners, to de­ mand that the royal commission is not just another Attica whitewash, Seeing the film Attica will clarify some o f the issues. The money raised by the film will be o f direct benefit to prisoners in terms o f legal & other aid. As Haywood Bums, national director o f the US National Conference o f Black Lawyers has observed: “ The Attica brothers charged & their cases are o f critical importance.

They raise some o f the m ost crucial questions concerning the true nature o f the manner in which our justice system, or penal system, &, by extension, our so­ cial system functions.” This is no less true in the case o f the Bathurst prisoners.

Cinda Firestone, the former member o f the Liberation News Service Collective, who made the film .A ttica has stated about her film : “ I would like this film to make people wonder about the whole institution o f prisons & taking that a step further, wonder about a society that can create things like Attica.” Or a society that can create Bathursts, Pen tridges & Long Bays.

Groups wishing to support Australian prisoners & raise money for them by showing A t tica should contact the Sydney Film Co-op, which is distributing the film. Write to b ox 217 PO Kings Cross 2011, or phone 31.3237. r

VICTORIA STREET WENDY BACON & TERESA BRENNAN ELBOURNE’S Liberate grass march and vigil last friday did not go as planned. The organisers, members o f the La Trobe university based Marijuana Action Group, apparently didnt “ get it together” and failed to turn up.

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onstrators gathered in the Treas­ ury gardens. Some o f these people came prepared for what they call ed “ peaceful violence” and came armed with rotten eggs to be hurled at any “ non-peaceful per­ sons” .

A huge specially prepared joint was openly circulated and smoked by those present — at one stage a lone policeman was spotted trudg­ ing across the turf towards the demonstrators. However the p ol­ iceman skirted the group, and after a short glance at the puffing dope smokers, decided to focus his attention elsewhere.

IX WEEKS ago Theeman made an agreement with the BLF to fence o f f and board up his properties in Victoria street, Sydney, and to get his “ control­ lers” o f f the street. F or their part the BLF said they would lift the green ban if residents o f the whole area endorsed a council action plan due to appear at the end o f march.

The houses stand doorless and windowless. The only signs o f life in the houses are the occasional strains o f jazz from the room o f Mick Fowler, the sole remaining tenant, and a little group o f “ con ­ trollers” w ho remain “ on guard” outside Theeman’s office. Michael Theeman (Frank’ s son ) spends most o f his days with the control­ lers. It was not surprising then that last week the BLF executive passed a m otion stating that Thee­ man had broken*-their agreement and that consequently whatever action took place in the street would be o f his own making.

The guard consists o f a mini­ mum o f two men on duty at all times o f the day and night. Allow ­ ing $ 1 0 0 for their manager, Meissner, probably an equal sum for Fred Krahe, apparently the senior man in the operation, and two dollars an hour for the others, Theeman’s bill for the services o f this team cannot be less than $850 a week. A costly overhead for a man who is said to be feeling the strain o f $10,000 a week interest payments!

We first became aware that Krahe was connected with Thee­ man when he was seen in the co m ­ pany o f Kevin Murray, Theeman’ s barrister, during the case against John C ox, a squatter. A n ex­ police detective, he started his ow n security agency a couple o f years ago. His partner is another ex-cop, Keith Kelly, w ho recently accom panied Theeman to a meet­ ing with M ick Fowler.

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to X ’ s child.

F ollow in g this suggestion, which X understood as a threat, Mark asked her if she would like to work for them in providing information. A fter a preliminary meeting with Mark in a coffee lounge in which the proposal and the “ threat” were repeated, X went to meet Meissner the follow ­ ing evening in Theeman’ s office in Victoria street. Meissner explained the sort o f inform ation they want­ ed — when meetings were on, what was decided etc. He did not directly threaten her - but men­ tioned that he did not hurt w om en and children . . . Before she left, Fred Krahe, the ex-cop, called in. He recognised X and suggested to Meissner that she could be checked out through his sources.

Following this meeting, she de­ cided not to take the job and made a full statement regarding the incident to a solicitor. A couple o f weeks later, she heard that a man, claiming to be a welfare officer, had rung her d oc­ tor. Referring to a conviction some 12 years ago, he suggested that she might not be a fit and proper mother for her child. Furi­ ous, X went to the child welfare department.

They denied all Why in the face o f the bad knowledge o f the call. publicity it has brought him, and Other incidents also involved the demands o f the BLF and the threats. For instance John Taylor, residents that he should sack these one o f the men most frequently men, does Frank Theeman keep seen in the street, was called a em ploying them? Surely a regular “ thug” by John Cox, an ex­ security firm would d o the jo b squatter. Taylor, who drives a cab, more cheaply and respectably. chased the cab in which Ruth and The answer to this question is that John C ox were travelling and the “ thugs” have other duties in made a series o f threats. the street besides the obvious one Last thursday, we bailed out a o f guarding the property. man, known as “ Chris Jenkins” to One o f their jobs has been to the squatters, out o f Long Bay strip the terrace houses (the ones jail. Chris had lived with the Frank is meant to be preserving) o f many o f their valuable fittings. squatters for several months. Orig­ inally a builders laborer from Mel­ An inspection with the BLF last bourne, he is now an invalid pen­ week revealed that 15 fireplaces are missing (five o f them stored, sioner. Just before our eviction, he moved from a flat he was temporarily at least, under a occupying on his own into one o f house), many Victorian tiles have been removed, all the cedar doors the larger houses with two other He was disappointed and w ooden shutters have been people. taken away. Information received when, on the morning o f the eviction, his plans for a siege from locals is that, according to failed when his tw o companions the controllers, every fitting is “ up fo r sale” . We know for sure deserted him. When we saw him that one fireplace was offered for several weeks later, he told us how over $100 and tiles have been badly he was missing Victoria street and the people who had sold. lived in it. Lacking the social * * * resources o f some o f us (eg. access ON St Valentine’s day, Wendy to lawyers), Chris was one o f the received an orchid spray with a more vulnerable o f the squatters. bullet in the middle o f it. The This is the story he told us: at message read, “ Have a good time about 7 am on february 14 he was but avoid barber shops” - pre­ walking up Hordern place (a pub­ sumably a reference to the Chica­ lic lane running between the go gangland murders. houses) to visit Mick Fowler. One A couple o f weeks after the o f Theeman’s “ controllers” ap­ eviction, X, an ex-resident, and an proached him. A brief conversa­ unmarried mother with a six year tion began during which Chris was old child, was having a conversa­ asked if he had anything to d o tion with two o f Theeman’s em­ with the fittings that have been ployees in the street. Following an disappearing from the houses. He argument, one, known as “ Mark” , denied it. The controller then told suggested that it would be unfor­ Chris to go with him to the office tunate if something was to happen which he did.

Inside, the first controller and another repeated the question and told him he had broken a window in the “ Stables” and that they intended to charge him with mali­ cious damage and trespass. They produced some bottles with petrol and wicks in them, a bag with syringes and sticks wrapped in paper. These Chris thought t o be a m olotov cocktail, drugs and gelig­ nite. They told him they had found these in the houses o f the squat­ ters. The first man then gave him a kicking, badly hurting his knee and ankle. They then rang the Darlinghurst police who came and arrested Chris. He was charged with malicious damage and tres­ pass at Central Court and placed on $50 cash bail. By the time Chris had managed to contact us a week later, he had spent a most uncomfortable week in the re­ mand section o f Long Bay. On the afternoon we bailed Chris out, Peter Murphy and Dal, both members o f the Victoria street RAG, were in the street taking photos o f a truck laden with furniture. A large grey suited man rushed over from the office, grabbed hold o f Peter and started banging him against an iron railing fence. In return to Peter and Dal’ s threats to have him charged with assault, he replied that he would have Peter charged with assault.

One o f the controllers then grab­ bed Peter w ho was eventually let go but only after the film had been removed from his camera.

VICTORIA street has been a rude shock to us. Brought up in the protective atmosphere o f the m id­ dle class family we were certainly naive about the amount o f vio­ lence in our society.

T o Wendy, the most frighten­ ing experience is still the mysteri­ ous disappearance o f Arthur King, almost a year ago, and his failure to tell us where he had been when he returned after three days. T o Teresa, it was the sight o f the gang o f men armed with huge sledge hammers advancing, with the ap­ proval o f the cops, on the houses on the morning o f the eviction.

The developer’s tactics are to threaten - beyond that they will probably pick on the most iso­ lated and the most vulnerable.

It is clear to us then that the other job o f the “ controllers” is to conduct an active campaign o f intimidation against the Victoria street Resident A ction Group.

Viewed from this angle, the activ­ ities o f the "controllers” could well be relevant to the future o f small but militant political m ove­ ments in this country. What we have in Victoria street is a small private army w ho presumably will offer their services to whoever will pay. If Theeman gets away with it, some other businessmen pla­ gued by political opposition may well be their next employer. | — j

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NORTING the last o f my New Y ork cocaine we nosed through clogged traffic across the Seine. We nosed, I snorted. Odile does not approve o f cocaine.

Meeting me at Orly airport, she frowned when I told her I had smuggled it. She considers cocaine house garden. a symbol o f our bisocial nature.

The more revolutionary I be­ “ Bisocial” is a term used to come the more time I seem to describe revolutionary elitists reap­ spend in penthouses. Bisocial! ing the benefits o f capitalist so­ My big taste came after I interview­ ciety. She has a point. I was in ed Eldridge Cleaver and Tim othy fact not sorry to have snorted the Leary in Algeria. Cleaver’s “ bust” last o f it. Cocaine is one more evil o f Leary there was my " s c o o p ” . I foisted on my weak side by a city immediately found myself an “ ex­ it was good to be away from. pert” on the Black Panthers. My Odile dashed across Boulevard name meant something at parties. de l’Hopital on the way to buy a I was invited on TV talk shows. I bouquet o f chrysanthemums. At traipsed around town with my bag the gate o f Pere Lachaise ceme­ o f tricks . . . a cassette o f the tery a guardian pointed out the interview, extra speaker for great­ general direction. Further direc­ er clarity, xeroxes for reading tions proved unnecessary. “ JIM along. There had even been M ORRISON” was chalked in large negotiations with a producer for a white print on the tom b o f one M. dramatic reading with me playing Duclos, follow ed by " . . . is a myself. The producer, a trotsky­ cunt” scrawled in childlike script ist, lives in a penthouse. I found and partially scratched out by other trotskyists living in pent­ another hand in blue. An arrow houses. I wanted one myself. next to it pointed straight up.

I got the shivers writing an ' “ Oh. Is that where he is?” I article for Cosmopolitan. “ What looked at the fast moving clouds. am I doing?” I asked John "N o. That's where you are.”

Gerassi, “ writing for fucking C os­ Odile should not seem bitchy. On mopolitan? Have I sold ou t?” the contrary. Although I suppose “ How much they payin’ y a ?” she could be excused; the English A veteran o f many barricades, had landed.

Gerassi’s revolutionary credentials “ The English have landed” is go back to his father, w ho was the how the French sometimes refer model for general Gomez in Jeanto menstrual cramps. While, on Paul Sartre’ s A ge o f reason. the other side, gonorrhoea has Gerassi knows Sartre, Huey New­ long been known as “ The French ton and he was a good friend o f Disease” in England. Joan o f Arc, George Jackson. Huey Newton, whom Odile resembles - at least founder o f the Black Panthers, the Jean Seberg version - still lives in a penthouse. hovers over the Channel. “ Fifteen hundred.”

She grew thoughtful then. We “ How long will it take ya to were walking straight ahead write it?”

Always practical, through the graves. “ This is fun,” Gerassi sees nothing counter­ I said. “ Tom orrow let’s go to revolutionary about penthouses C olom bey les deux Eglises and dig and cocaine. His way out also your man de G aulle. . . the bloody helps him com e to terms with his fascist.” Maybe I shouldnt have heavy gambling. These things, you said that. see, are not bourgeois per se, only Being jewish, Odile inherited their exclusivity. After the revolu­ this blind love o f de Gaulle from tion, everybody will be able to her parents. His broadcasts from afford penthouses, cocaine and a London had represented hope as gambling tab at the Playboy club. their relatives were being deported “ Three weeks.” to German camps. T o reject de “ How long can ya live on Gaulle would have been to reject that?” . „ her family, her heritage, her child­ " . . . maybe two months. hood.

I remembered h ow I had felt at the age o f ten when my mother told me Charles Lindberg liked nazis. I refused to accept that too.

If being an adult involved reject­ ing my heroes I wanted no part o f it. I needed my heroes. I held on to Charles Lindberg just like Odile clung to Charles de Gaulle.

Jim Morrison was not exactly a hero, more a symbol o f a certain kind o f hope which vanished, per­ haps coincidentally, about the time o f his death. Star o f The Doors, pop poet, romantic, a glorious crazy, he died in Paris at the close o f the 60s under mys­ terious circumstances. Some say a heart attack, others an overdose o f heroin. He is buried here in Pere Lachaise, along with Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier and Leon Blume, etc etc.

Odile was in pain. The English land particularly hard on Odile.

Okay. We were close enough b y now to walk silently together in peace. The sky grew greyer. Stone monuments big as small rooms lined both sides o f the paved path hundreds deep. “ Jim Morrison” was scrawled once more on a tomb, follow ed by another arrow, pointing left this time. The sky grew black. The wind picked up.

From behind us a perverse sun suddenly broke through over a white apartment house b y the edge o f the cemetery, gleaming o ff the tapered slate roof and its bundles o f red chimneys like a spotlight on a Paris set. A gentle­ man came out to tend his pent-

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“ Hell, man, that’ s not selling out. That’s ripping o ff the Estab­ lishment.”

Do all the revolutionaries live in penthouses, ripping o f f the Establishment? In New Y ork I had hung out with Stamp in his, or I should say hers, a blackeyed Italian lady of considerable beauty. “ Y o u ’d be surprised how easy it is to fall in love with a rich lady.” Stamp got a $20,000 ad­ vance — spent fast — to write a b o o k on the Weatherpeople un­ derground; he knows where Bernadine Dorn and Mark Rudd are right now. He interviewed them last month. He’s sorry now he sold the b o o k for so little.

Interviews with two o f the ten most wanted “ criminals” in America are marketable, in addi­ tion to good penthouse conversa­ tion. Remember selling out?

We were between richer tombs now, decorated with gaudy rings o f flowers below carved reminders o f Legions o f Honor. Odile thought hard, full mouth pursed, tongue running her lips like the first time I flashed on her gamin face haloed in blonde shining out o f a hippy jungle. The furry office o f some trippy Paris weekly,

translating “ Fritz the Cat” she was pursed in doubt even then, eyes brightly clicking like a fresh born chick just popped out o f the shell. “ People in New Y ork seem to think a lot about m on ey,” she said. Mouth pursed under stress, something new to consider once more. “ That’ s where all o f it is.” “ Oui . . . ” Pursed. " . . . Y ou ’d like to have money, wouldnt y ou ?”

The spotlight went out. The gentleman went back into his pent­ house. From penthouse to grave­ yard, underground to penthouse . . . all the penthouses with exotic brand names . . . Colombian tops at $60 an ounce, $100 a gram pure, coke, pills I cannot even spell, for a buck each. New Y ork is worth whatever you have to pay for it, or better be. Y ou cannot overpay in New York, the more you pay the more it is worth and thus the more you are worth or better be. Five o f us on only one joint . . . three immediately cack out, while the other two fall into deep trances before a color screen; “ Dynamite to grass!!” The aim is not to get high but unconscious.

Unconsciousness is worth $60 an ounce in New York.

We stopped to eavesdrop on a guide pointing out interesting tombs to her tour. “ People live in the past,” Odile said. “ It’ s all they have.”

Dont y ou want to remember after y o u ’re dead?” “ I w on ’ t care then. I want to know how to live n ow .” She switched the chrysanthemums into her other arm “ Then isnt so far away.” I took out my n otebook and jotted down the line, wondering if James Jones has a better memory than I do. It was Jones (“ From Here To Eternity” ) w h o prompted this graveyard walk in the first place last night by saying (I jotted it d ow n ): “ What sort o f generation

is this that calls lightweights like Jim Morrison poets?”

Jones just finished another 600 page novel, with a new b lock ­ buster already under way, screenrights sold, an eager publisher, paperback deal tied up. Square son o f a bitch.

Jealous. Let’s hear one for jealousy, a prime mover in bi­ socials. Jones jealous because Jim Morrison was "h ipper” than he is, me because Jones is widely pub­ lished and rich from it.

All those novels laughing at me from the wall on the other side o f Jones’ s long polished table as I carved m y personal pheasant last night with silver purchased in Leningrad for blocked Russian royalties. One com plete shelf o f his ow n novels M orocco-bound; and even this threatening after­ noon he was as he is every after­ noon banging out still more socko dialogue spoken by characters who relate, develop and certainly sell, held together through 600 pages with a beginning, middle and end by a plot you just cannot put down.

Though not exactly a pent­ house, close enough with high ceilings, a terrace and a view o f the Seine, and I . . . Fragmentman having sat on to o many stools and between them . . . terminally bisocial . . . Boss’s son in a family business, first trom­ bone player with several secondrate jazz bands, author o f miscel­ laneous pithy pieces currently wrapping fish, one record and one b ook to my credit (both out o f print), collector o f insights not thought fully through, scored with anguish (“ middle aged failure” ), jotter o f conversational bits . . . I am jealous, hell yes. I press my face to Jones’ s window, nose flat­ tened in the mist o f my pants.

This has got to stop.

This is no jealousy in a grave­ yard. We w ho stand here are the winners. Y ou can have your old Legions o f Honor. Here we find God. G od is the present tense. “ This is it.” Odile pointed to a small grave crammed between larger ones, a modest plot o f earth framed by a concrete rectangle with a hand-lettered headstone o f sheet metal: “ La plus grand poet do tous les temps . . . James Doug­ las Morrison, 1943-1971.” She placed the chrysanthemums on the earth.

I jotted dow n the graffiti on the grave and on those surround­ ing the grave o f James Douglas Morrison. “ . . . No existence necessary, Jim . . . Will meet you in the next world and we w on ’t be late . . . ” Some shrivelled flowers attached to a faded note streaked by rain: “ For my beloved Jim; Patricia,” and finally: “ May you find peace at the next gig.”

I could have used another snort. The sky had becom e a churning surge o f black waves.

Enormous drops began to fall.

Down the hill a couple draped in black, both bent almost double with age, concluded their after­ noon mourning and moved o ff to escape the downpour as fast as they could which was painfully slow. I turned towards Odile to suggest we move too.

She had produced a bottle o f what we kids used to call “ bubble stuff” . Smiling, she dipped the little wand that comes with it in the bottle and blew bubbles at me. Just then the sky dumped a solid black column o f water over the penthouse. The bubbles were all the colors o f the rainbow.

Suddenly there was no penthouse, only sky. There were no more graves, only grass and trees. A fire seemed to flame over the grave.

The elderly couple straightened up. Odile grew pregnant through one bubble. It was very beautiful bubble stuff. □

DEATH Alison Gillmore E ARE standing beside an empty grave, contemplating the catchment o f last fortnight’s rain. On either side o f it are new graves, covered with canopies.

They have only this afternoon had the rainwater pumped out; one is to be used quite shortly. As we well discover, when a funeral procession wends its way down Eastern avenue through the highly polished desert o f flat diverse monu­ ments, and comes to a halt beside one o f these graves in front o f us.

We glimpse a close-up o f the light bright w ood casket, ornamented; the floral tributes, the poster displaying the name o f the undertaker in the back window. This is a 20 car funeral in the mediterranean quarter o f Carlton ceme­ tery. Around us gleam the ebony, obsidian and jet tones o f highly polished marble set in altarlike fashion with plastic flowers and tiny, round photographs.

Within minutes a large crow d has formed; there are members o f every age group. We move to the periphery. The knotty old men wear black hats and wide-shoulder­ ed, doublebreasted suits. Their sons are dressed executive-style, and stand atten­ tive to the latin service rolling o ff the tongue o f the franciscan. Women sob under veils. Others hold babies in their arms. An old man falls over and comrades rush to his aid. Dumbfounded children stand with their parents, absorbing all dimensions o f the event, maybe wonder­ ing secretly how to react.

One detects the ghost o f an order, in that the closest relations express their feelings dramatically, without restraint, while others obviously hold it all in. The inner circle is dressed in funereal black, while the outer have come along in work clothes and slack suits. The casket is lowered b y men o f the clan - down, down on the narrow strips o f canvas. One man takes movies. The funeral director moves to the car and takes down the flowers, arranging them around the grave.

Now the casket is out o f sight, the inner circle moans as a single body. The franciscan scatters earth into the hold, and bids relatives to d o likewise, then the director covers the grave discreetly with plastic grass.

The driver o f the hearse is impatient, puffing a cigarette behind the wagon. The crowd splits; the nearest relations leave the graveside, covering faces with hands.

A young girl weeps on her friend’s shoulder. There’s mass migration back to the cars now, leaving the undertaker (pin-striped pants and morning jacket) shaking hands with the franciscan. Cars rev and back down the path as the undertaker’s assistant collects black ribbons and plastic grass from the site.

Soon there is n o one left at the site but us. It had all happened in less than ten minutes.

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Politics HE Australian Consumers Associ­ ation invited its subscribers to send them information concerning experience with funeral directors because, as no undertaker displays rates or services publicly the question was obviously raised as to whether people were being ripped-off in their time o f sorrow. Their mouthpiece, Choice, published the findings in january. Victorian consumer

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affairs minister, R afferty then ordered a large but secret inquiry into all aspects of the industry that is causing ripples of panic through the industry. Rafferty had heard that pensioners were being sold “ funeral policies” which w ould ensure that they would be able to pay for their own funerals. The cost o f these policies was approximately $600 over a few years.

This was actually a way o f selling a $600 funeral disguised as a piece o f benificence . . . if their mates had had to bury them only about $200 would have been spent.

But Ian Elliot, the young and dedicated secretary o f the Citizens A ction Federa­ tion, wants a fullscale public inquiry. He wrote to premier Hamer giving nine valid points why the funeral directing business - as he put it — stinks. Hamer has not replied.

Here I paraphrase Elliot’s points: 1. The ex ten t o f collusive tendering in the industry fo r public contracts. The government lodges tenders in the government gazette annually for burials such as state burials and paupers burials.

Destitute people w h o die w ithout known relatives are buried in a potters field free o f charge. A simple co ffin is used, there is no ceremony, and the field has n o memorials. There is a potters field in Carlton cemetery, but you can’t g o there.

Naturally the government tenders go to the cheapest bidder. In the past few years it has gone to two Victorian funeral parlors whose policy it is to bury people simply, cheaply and without pretension.

They are able to d o this because they d o not keep updating their hearses, and they use churches and chapels in the cemetery instead o f the funeral parlor for the service and the coffin used is substantial but not expensive. These two companies know that big business controls the rest o f the industry and the funeral directors o f each, Crawley and Jensen, are the only people in the industry w h o d o n ot belong to the Victorian Funeral Directors Association.

Crawley and Jensen fear the rolling rich members o f the association will undercut their tenders and put them ou t o f business.

2. Ownership o f the industry and recent changes. Smaller family firms have been infiltrated and taken over b y big business interests.

as one’ s duty to the deceased.

Undertakers know that the first cut out o f any estate goes to them - as soon as the will has been assessed - and often expect to work from a blank cheque. The flamboyant taste and affluence o f a funeral parlor speaks for itself.

6. Range o f choices available to the consumer is limited. Some companies dont stock the cheaper flatlid coffins and offer only the middle to upper range casket. Thus the customer doesnt know cheaper coffins are on the market when he is shown around the display room. The salesman makes a commission on each casket sold.

7. Financial kickbacks. Elliot claims some companies tickle the palms o f matrons o f private hospitals and old peoples homes thus cornering that section o f the market.

3. Entry into the industry. Entry into the V FD A fo r an outsider is impossible except b y way o f a com pany takeover.

In the past 4 7 years only one non V FD A director has entered the industry.

8. Price con trol Elliot says the V FD A controls its own prices. He suggests some government price control.

4. N o com petition in the industry. Each funeral director appears to have "a llot­ ted ” , b y agreement, religious or suburban territory. Rates are not publicly displayed to discourage “ shopping around” .

9. The cod e o f ethics o f the VFDA. As this association has control over the entire industry and as its objects say nothing about the general public interest at all, w ho could say what goes on?

5. Restriction o f inform ation available to the customer enables hard selling and encouragement to buy expensive caskets

Ecology REMATION has been adopted by large societies as an answer to the problem o f space (except in the old Indian barbarity o f sutee). It’s less expensive than burial, although you still have to buy a coffin which is incinerated after the metal handles have been removed and returned to the funeral director. However cremation may be dangerous to the astral b od y or what catholics call the soul, especially if the burning takes place a few days or less from the time o f death. I’m serious about this; it is an important factor to consider, just as real as any o f the others.

Cremation seems to be closer to the ideals o f ecologists; actually it is a waste o f good organic matter. One o f the points o f having a gross b od y is that it should eventually replenish the earth in a way that is useful to nature. Bodies in part metal caskets - lying in cement-lined graves, covered b y a desert o f marble superstructure — rot just as quickly as bodies lying above ground. But the access o f the earth to their potential is nil, especially if pollutants such as formalin and :osmetics are also present.

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The nearest thing to ecological burial in Australia must surely be the potters field. There, the poor have the luxury o f becoming one with nature more directly than their brothers and sisters in their plush caskets. There is enough bacteria in the earth to take care o f the normal decom position o f a human b od y; it is only where a civilisation is threatened by epidemics o f bubonic plague, typhoid, anthrax etc that precautions such as cremation should occur. If the quantity o f these organisms is great enough, they may withstand the decom position o f the host. The potters field sets no stubborn objections to nature’s recycling o f her own. It is^a burial which does not deify the ego.

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The Parsees have an ecological system for taking care o f the dead. After a certain time has elapsed for the subtle b od y to retire, the gross body is taken to an area o f wilderness set aside for this purpose. Wild animals com e down in their order, each removing what it needs.

Jackal and vulture clean the bones which are collected after 40 days and ground dow n to a fine dust which is scattered from a tower b y the “ bodybreaker” .

However, we no longer have the fauna or mentality to support or appreciate such a system. Having done away with most o f our wild brothers and sisters o f the fur, we have the last and greatest scavenger to contend with in plague proportions - the blow fly. Burial at sea pollutes the waters that are already polluted with plastic bottle caps, suntan cream tubes, aluminium cans, oil slicks, and the whole range o f human ordures.

We are basically landlubbers and are meant to melt into the soil.

The problem is not really where to put ’em when they die but it’s the old one o f . . . for zero population avoid copulation (car sticker) or having not so many o f ’em around in the first place. Life is pretty cheap in our society. If it continues in this fashion it is foreseeable that the dead will be eaten by man within 100 years or so. (Ironically that is an ecological proposition, if you could consider any meat-eating to be an ecological proposition.) The “ alternative” folk pray daily for a cataclysm that will reduce world population to a quarter o f its strength, each hoping for some individual saving grace from this phenomenon.

The answer itself has to lie in the raising o f mass-consciousness to a higher level; breaking down o f the repressions and actually experiencing the essence o f life so that consumerism and its allied trades becom e redundant. After all, what is life for?

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F THE mind, as a computer, is programmed b y society to accept one attitude or system o f beliefs, it can also be erased o f that conditioning and reconditioned to accept another system just as easily. This is the basis fo r the antipsychology o f Laing, Leary and others. Do I hear you ask yes, but w ho programs society in order fo r it to program us?

There are two main approaches to an answer: that it is programmed b y a force outside itself (the external G od theory) or - which philosophers and scientists are beginning to embrace - it is programmed by a force within itself (biological tradition). But these are not opposites; surely the cosm ic viewpoint is to acknowledge that we are programmed by our own forces working in relation with greater forces over which we have no control and these in turn are working from their own and much greater external forces o f a psychic, etheric nature.

Materialistic societies are naturally

How to bury your dead.

1. Make your own softwood coffin and stipulate in your will that you are to be buried in it. You can use it as a piece o f furniture or to keep the kids toys in for the rest of the time before you need it. The commissioner for health will give you the details of the cemeteries act.

2. If a friend dies go and pick him up yourself and keep him at your place until burial arrange­ ments are made. (Buying a plot, or arranging cremation, and making or purchasing a coffin.)

3. Read the Tibetan Book of the Dead to him quietly into one ear.

4. Take him to the crematorium or cemetery yourself in your car (on the packrackor on a trailer.)

Bring all the friends.

5. Have a service at the grave or if you feel like it, a rip-roaring party. Why not some of his favorite music too?

6. Insist that the grave you put him into is not lined.

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obsessed with the gross and final attitude to death. Dem ocracy or mass-dependency relieves a man o f his self-responsibility.

With the various industrial revolutions man has removed from him certain cosm ic realisations which he no longer refers to as “ realities” . Culture, a natural drive ensuring the continuation o f a species, in this case man, inverts and becomes destructive when the natural limits o f population have been reached.

The present western attitude to death is o f a morbid and final finishing, to which organised religions have furnished the processes o f hope and faith. These tw o processes are actually the fag ends o f a knowledge - certain and clear in every detail — as to what actually happens to the soul metamorphosed by death.

The Tibetan B ook o f the Dead contains a majestic exposition o f the subject, taking the reader through all the stages beyond death into new rebirth. It explains how the astral b od y remains with the gross b o d y fo r a number o f days after clinical death. Western psyche has retained a picture o f this in its collective subconscious: the hellfire trip. In

cultures where materialism has not bent the minds o f the living, we note an interesting phenom enon; knowledge, not faith or hope, o f reincarnation. It has been proved to have occurred.

You and I, Arjuna, have lived many lives.

I rem em ber tfiem all; y o u d o n ot remember. . . the case o f Shanti Devi can be found in Frank Edwards’ Stranger than science. She was born in Delhi in 1926.

When she was seven, she told her parents that she had been born before in a town called Muttra (Mathura). She described her life in some detail, how she had been married and had three children, she died when giving birth to the third. Her name, she said, had been Ludgi. Her parents assumed this was pure imagination. But in 1935 a man called at the house on business, and Shanti Devi stared with amazement, declaring that he. was her husband’s cousin. The man confirmed that he was from Muttra, and that he had a cousin w ho had lost his wife, named Ludgi, in childbirth ten years ago.

"L u dgi’s husband was brought to the house without telling the girl he was expected; she recognised him instantly and threw herself into his arms. Taken to Muttra, she was able to point out various people and places correctly, and converse with the relatives o f the dead Ludgi in local dialect, although Shanti Devi had been taught in hindustani. “ A scientific commission which investi­ gated the case found that she was able to direct a carriage through the town even though she was blindfolded, and recognise various landmarks. She recog­ nised her tw o eldest children, but not the one whose birth had cost her her life . . .” (from Colin Wilson, The occult).

This is not an isolated case. Ian Steven­ son, MD collected 20 examples for a volume, put out o f the Proceedings o f the American Society for Psychical Research.

Many o f his subjects had died a violent death in previous lives and this may explain the continuation o f memory.

There must be some very good reason why the majority o f us d o not have any motion o f previous lives except in flashes, deja vu or LSD trips (mescalin, psylocybin, etc.). It’s possible there is no real point o f dwelling on events in past lives.

But the knowledge of, or the experience of, these flashes can at least give someone a glimpse into the whole karmic game o f which reincarnation is a process. That we will come back again and again to experi­ ence every possible facet o f human - or animal or plant - life until it is truly experienced in view o f the perfection o f the universe. Experiencing this idea can certainly alter one’s concept o f gross, final and morbid death for - shall I say ever? But experience o f any sort, especial­ ly psychic experience, is something that has always been toned down in modern western societies.

Even Jesus believed in reincarnation and showed by his life example to the people around him that it was the spirit that controlled his b od y and not viceversa. But the inmates o f modern society d o such cruel things to each other that it is not surprising that we have struck the bottom o f the pit, spiritually speaking.

Even the churches d o not understand that the current trend o f drug-consuming is mainly due to the lack o f spiritual experience which no organised political b od y called a church has been able to allow people freely. In our society the cosmic issues o f life are not faced openly

so o f course death remains a mystery to most people until they have to d o it. It takes place behind screens in old peoples homes or in hospitals.

Modern medicine with its acute bar­ barities is a monument to our civilisa­ tion’s fear o f death. Having lost contact with the essence o f nature, how is anyone to becom e their own physician? This fact remains; that the morbid attitude to death is an underlying drain upon life and tends to make life morbid also. (Freud’s death wish idea seems to be derived from the addict’s obsession with his drug; part desire to know the truth, to fully experi­ ence it, and the remainder a fear o f loss o f the present state.) The funeral director removes the reality o f death; we d o not witness it. We witness the theatricals.

M odem medicine staves o ff death with­ out improving the spiritual quality o f life - except in a few cases.

It has becom e difficult, with the diver­ sion o f culture, to live the meditative and reflective life in which to be "alone” doesnt mean to be lonely. People who like being alone are branded anti-social.

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CAN give y ou something nice fo r $ 3 0 7 ” , he said, “ but o f course that doesnt include the cemetery plot. One o f those will cost you $113 in the Melbourne cemetery. That’s the cheapest. They’re $185 at Fawkner, in the lawn. Incidentally it's the same price for three there — so you may as well bu y three fo r the price o f on e.”

This “ bargain” merely means that the gravedigger digs to a depth o f twelve feet six inches instead o f the six feet six for a solo burial. Three coffin s can then be neatly stacked on top o f each other, allowing the legal six inches o f closely packed earth between each. “ T o buy three for the price o f one means that the other two will be reserved for you whenever you or you r relatives need them: it’s on ly $55 to reopen an old grave,” said the undertaker.

“ The $307 will be spent in this way,” he continued. “ Firstly, collection o f your friend. We use a special car and a collection b ox .

Then delivery to the cem etery; we let you have one funeral coach and a hearse. All this will cost $169.” It’s a transportation cost, even though the distances travel­ led may be less than 15 miles. A b od y that weighs more than 180 lbs in the b o x requires b y law three men to carry it, and they work on an average o f $2 an hour.

But, if collection occurs between 5.30 and midnight, they are on time and a h alf; between midnight and 6 am is double time. With a metal casket which is quite weighty, more men would be required to ship the b o d y to the cemetery. The old tradition o f friends and relatives carrying the casket seems to have been usurped, although it would

certainly cut costs. The high cost o f maintaining a hearse must also be considered. Many undertakers change hearses every three or four years for newer, flashier ones especially imported from America for a cost o f about $15,000.

"Sim ple preparation o f the b od y, and the cost o f a coffin, will cost $1 0 9 ,” said the undertaker. He was referring o f course to the flat lid, or Seddon, coffin . These are $95 at cost price. The Nelson coffin , with a single raised lid, costs $120. From then on the torso-shaped co ffin is replaced in the higher price ranges b y those tiered and dom ed lignophagiknown as caskets. They range between $245 and $1500.

The casket com es lined in velvet and has a suit o f breastings to match. Breastings are so called because they are backless gar­ ments easy to slip the deceased

From ANGELO QUATTROCCHI in Rome

1HENIGGERSOFEUROPE I

T ’S GOOD to write for you Australian people, y o u ’re so far away that I’ve got to put things in perspective — for you and for myself.

Come what comes, it’s nice to live historic times. Nothing has happened to Europe since 1968, that merry month o f may when we took over Paris and France and thought . . . Well, I knew it wasnt going to be the only revolution in my lifetime (revolutions are the orgasms o f history OK ?). And here we are, just as we said, just as we knew, something is coming. Mr Jones doesnt know and I dont know what it is myself.

In Europe at the moment, the symptoms o f revolution are right.

Econom ies are shaking, paper money waves are eroding the shores o f middle class certainties and the twin winds o f recession and inflation are blowing hard during this edgy autumn o f classic capitalism.

ENGLAND is sinking. It might mean a general strike or it might not. But it’s already a naked confrontation between capital and workers, disguised as Ted Heath versus the miners.

Whatever happens, the only country that we

thought was useless only five years ago, is now jumping like the proverbial cat on a hot tin roof.

We thoughf cups o f tea and the BBC would keep them quiet.

Stupid archaic marxist fools (or non marxist fools) we were.

The FRENCH bastards, know ­ ing history the way they d o, are trying to carve a nice niche for their very com fortable bourgeoisie and let the rest o f Europe fall.

The six million niggers o f Europe, the PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN, GREEK and TU R K ­ ISH slaves who have built the european .econom y are being sent back where they came from and y o u ’ll hear from them soon.

GERMANY, the sleepy cretin­ ous ominously efficient institu­ tion is breathing very heavily, and the rest o f Europe is listening to its grumbling, with awe.

Very polite Arab sheiks are1 dancing minuets all over european embassies, quoting Metternich to halfwit european chancellors and speedfreak Kissinger.

Back to Italy. We the funny ones, the beggars at the banquet, are the first ones to feel the pinch.

(We have got to be very fast and smart in certain things in order to

survive. It’s a very difficult jo b to know, from week to week, from year to year, which banquet has the best leftovers.) Well, w e’re in trouble too.

The government is shaking (all governments in Europe are shak­ ing, apart from the French one, and there it’s going to happen another way). I’ll stick to Italy, but the temptation o f talking more generally about all o f Europe is very strong, after all, Europe is a sinking boat with people fighting each other to play the last violins. That’s not just the view o f revolutionary crazy me, but according to at least three or fou r ministers w ho have used the elegant metaphor.

Here in Italy they will black the price o f bread, wine, oil and milk, so that p oor families with lots o f kids will survive. In case inflation creates havoc (they pre­ dict 20 percent inflation in ’ 74, and between the lines they are scared shitless). In so many gentle, subtle and delicate ways they are telling their bourgeoisie to buy property and unload paper m oney. When, and if, the worst happens, y o u ’ll have the new version, the electronic version o f

EMBALMING is not popular among Australians as they tend to I think the custom o f viewing remains is a trifle obscene. All undertaking establishments have the facilities to embalm and restore; it’s used in state funerals and fo r the wealthy. When a bod y is sent overseas it is embalmed and the cost is $100 upward. There is n o such thing as eternal preser­ vation in the m odem funeral directing industry.

The only effective method o f embalming known to the world is the ancient Egyptian royal method. This involved the soaking o f the b od y in a solution o f natron (native sesquicarbonate o f soda) for 70 days after each organ o f the b od y had been removed and embalmed separately.

On occasion the cavities were filled with bitumen which ultimately produced a black, hard mumm y; but more often they were filled with sweet spices, garlic, herbs and more natron. Bandages up to 300 cubits (about 500 feet) were then wound around the b ody, separating each toe and finger from its neighbor.

That was the age o f the zenith o f the embalmer’s a rt;to d a y ’s embal­ ming is shoddy and pretentious, by comparison.

Whereas the Egyptian mummy remained for

thousands o f years, today’s are likely to decom pose within one year.

It is surprising that embalming is persevered with in these modern times. Embalming schools are run by funeral parlors where anatomy, chemistry, etc is taught after the manner o f modern medicine, and inspectors are sent out from England to test the students. But there is no real purpose in embalming today; the Egyptians at least felt it was a life-or-death matter in the hereafter. Today it is part o f man’s stubborn refusal to let himself be recycled in a manner dictated b y nature, which he rarely acknowledges, in life as in death.

Embalming on the whole is not popular, in Australia, but there are still a large number o f people w ho want it for their relatives and are prepared to pay the $100 or so it costs. Where an expensive casket is used, embalming usually takes place, ie. where a thousand dollars has been spent on a funeral, embalming has probably been done, and the remains viewed.

First the b lood is removed by cutting a b lood vessel in the neck into which a tube is inserted. The tube is then connected to a pump.

While the b lood is being pumped out a solution is being pumped in.

This may be a mild saline solution, or formalin, depending on how long the b o d y must remain com posed. Results o f embalming are always unpredic­ table. Hot weather tends to cause quick decom position, but the saline solution will preserve a b od y for a week or so. There are patent dyes produced in America which can be added to the formalin for a rosy checked effect.

Next the intestines and some organs are removed b y inserting a trocar in a slit made into the peritoneum. Embalming fluid is once more pumped into the cavity. The eyes are closed, sometimes needing to be stuck with glue; the lips tend to shrink back from the mouth and, if our friend is to be viewed, they can be invisibly sewn from the inside to produce an aloof, mysterious smile.

the working classes on one side, and the people w ho own property, the bourgeoisie, defend­ ing the system on the other.

Really, dow n to 19th century basics. Each country according to their ow n peculiar shape, f :ze, social and sociological com posi­ tion, internal balance o f forces, and pow er . . .

Jesus, the media is going to be so important! Thank god we have all the students, because they have the army — fo r the past five years they have been quietly organising all our European armies, and training them for internal up­ heavals. T he US calvary continues to occu py us militarily, like the colon y we are. I dont want to sound apocalyptic, but reality is really overtaking me. Everything is in the melting pot again. The best way to play it is like a game.

Will England sink, or come out with a peoples government? Will we all (us Europeans) go to build television factories over the dunes o f the Sahara desert, and so survive, once again, with our centuries old patched up two-class system.

The best question. The one everybody is asking themselves with a half smile. The question that n o minister, ambassador or national newspaper dares to ask fo r real is: Have we did it? Is the fabric o f western life going to

collapse like a pack o f cards 1929 style, or worse, in a slow m otion free fall, in a steady, m onthly deterioration, in a kind o f creepy crawly way, like some good science fiction stories have told us?

Listen, there are many signs, some are a decade old. Y ou and I and every literary information pollution biped in our world knows about the ecological fuck-up, but there’s much more.

Much, much more. I know that poor, working people eat less meat, they eat more plastic shit, processed rubbish, packaged dung, canned piss; they live in paper thin houses, and you can go on from there . . .

The western econom ies are geared to planned obsolescence.

They can’t make it the way they are structured. And what d o you think is going to happen when the working people in Italy, and in the rest o f Europe, can’t take it anymore? The middleclass will cling to their property, half scared shitless and half arrogant, and will continue to say, we are producing more, so we all get more, even the poor will get the crumbs.

This is, as the politicians say, the fabric o f society, but if we get scared that next month w e’ll get less? And if we really d o get less, next month? .— Write to you soon. |_

into. Breastings is a euphemism fo r shroud, just one o f the many euphemisms used in the industry. (“ Cost o f casket” is never used by the discreet undertaker.

It’s “ amount o f investment in the service” .)

However, people can be buried in their ow n clothes, or in the nude if they say so in their will. If they dont, then the relatives decide.

In Jessica M itford’s American way o f death a street survey was taken in an American city where people were asked how they wanted to he buried. The vast majority wanted the simplest burials, pine b ox , no embalming or fuss at all. The author then asked a funeral director whether this attitude worried him It didnt. Ultimately the relatives decide, and they are easy prey to the hard sell.

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P repared by S te p h e n W a ll, w h o also acts as TLD o u tp o s t and c o p y h o s t, T u esdays to T h u rs d a y s , at 18 A r t h u r s tre e t, S u rry H ills , 6 9 8 .2 6 5 2 .

oth ers: O p era H ouse, 6 .3 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 .

THE M A G IC FLUTE — M o z a rt opera in English: O p era H ouse, 7 .3 0 pm, $1 0 .5 0 - $ 6 .5 0 .

FILM N F T A ’s o ff H o lly w o o d season — A L I C E ’S R E S ­ TAURANT and THE H IR E D H A N D : A u s t G o v t C e n tre , P h illip & H u n te r streets, 7 .1 5 pm , $ 1 .2 0 (m em b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 ) .

CLEO FROM '5 -7 (W o m e n ’s W e e k ): F ilm ­ m akers C in e m a , 1 0 .0 0 pm (m e m b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 1 .0 0 ) .

LA KERMESSE HEROIQ U E (W o m e n ’ s W e e k ): F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , 6 .0 0 pm (m e m b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 1 . 0 0 ) . 3 1 .3 2 3 7 .

I A M A D A N C E R : N u re yev , F o n te y n — O p era H ouse, 8 .3 0 pm , $ 3 .0 0 .

C L A S S IC M O V IE S : O ld C h u rc h , 1 8 4 P a lm e r s treet, 8 .0 0 pm , d o n a tio n .

JA Z Z , F O LK W O M E N ’S W E E K L Y — new supper show, produced entirely by w om en.Back theatre, Pram Factory, 325 Drum m ond St, friday to Sunday, 10.30 pm $ 1 .2 0 . (Essential to b o o k.) Opening song: Nova, Pol and th e Fairfax papers/Teach us all those fem inine gfaces/See them use our smiling faces/To keep us in our places.

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M A C K E N Z IE THEORY: In s titu te o f T e c h n o lo g y .

I C H A IN : M e lb o u rn e Uni (lu n c h ).

BLUESTO NE: C o u n cil | C lu b h o te l, Preston.

C H R IS T O P H E R R O B IN : G eorge h o tel, S t K ild a .

KUSH: C r o x to n Park I h o te l, P reston, P A N T H E R : P rospect H ill h o te l, H ig h s tre e t, K ew .

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V I O L I N R E C I T A L : Flags ta ff gardens, 1 2 .1 0 and 1 .1 0 pm .

THE H IS T O R Y OF D R A M A — by th e C aravan Players: T re as u ry gardens, 12.1 0 and 1.1 0 pm .

RADIO NEW S O C IE T Y : 3AR , 7 .1 5 pm.

E D U C A T IO N N O W : 3 A R , 7 .3 5 pm .

TV T IG E R T R A I L — nature do co : A T V - 0 , 7 .3 0 pm .

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F IL M P O R T R A IT / R E M IN IS C E N C E S O N A V IS IT T O L IT H U A N IA : N F T A , D e n ta l th e a tre , cnr G ra tta n s tre e t and F le m in g to n ro a d , C a rlto n , 7 .4 0 pm , $ 1 .2 0 , 8 0 c stu­ dents.

MEETINGS OUR P U R P O S E S — by D av id M ille r, discussion in| v ite d : E x is te n tia lis t S o­ c ie ty , 9 0 V ic to r ia street, | c n r E x h ib itio n street, C ity , 8. pm .

GROUP M E D IT A T I O N : | A n a n d a M arg a, 141 B a rk ly | street, C a rlto n .

B A L B H A G W A N J l: D L M , ring 4 1 9 . 1 1 8 4 fo r fu r th e r rev e la tio n s .

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BLU ES D U T C H T IL D E R S , H U G H M c D O N A L D : F ra n k T ra y ­ nors, C ity .

NEW MUSIC YOU: C om m une, M e lb o u rn e .

MORE MUSIC S IN G E R S : C o m m u n e c o f­ fe e lo ung e, 5 8 0 V ic to ria street, N o r th M e lb o u rn e .

PETER P A R K H IL L : F r a n k T ra y n o rs , 1 0 0 L itt le Lo n s d a le s tre e t, C ity .

M U S IC : Polaris In n h o tel, 55 1 N ic h o ls o n street.

N o r th C a rlto n .

M U S IC : Prospect H ill | h o tel, H ig h stre e t, K ew .

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ROCK H O T C IT Y B U M P B A N D : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w ading.

RED HOUSE ROLL BAND: C ro x to n Park h o tel, Preston.

B IL L Y THO RPE AND TH E AZTECS, CLOUD N IN E : Sandow n Park hotel.

D IN G O E S , S ID R U M P O , C H A IN : L a tr o b e U n i.

T R IN IT Y : L a tro b e Uni (lu n c h ).

H U S H : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G eelong.

T R I D E N T : G eorge ho tel, S t K ild a .

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FILM T H E M A N W H O H A D H IS H A IR CUT SHORT — (A n d re D e lv a u x ) and L ’ IM M O R T E L L E (A la in R o b b e -G r ille t): NFTA, D e n ta l th e a tre tte , c n r G r a t­ ta n stre e t and F le m in g to n ro a d , C a r lto n , 7 .4 0 pm , $ 1 .2 0 , 8 0 c students.

OUTDOORS V I O L I N R E C I T A L : Tre as ­ u ry gardens, 1 2 .1 0 , 1 .1 0 pm .

THE H IS T O R Y OF DRAMA: F la g s ta ff gar­ dens, 1 2.1 0 , 1 .1 0 pm .

RADIO P IC K O F T H E 3 L O , 8 .0 2 pm.

GOONS:

TV B O C C A C C IO 70 3 s to rie s , S o p h ia L o re n , A n ita E k b e rg , R o m y S c h n e id er: H S V -7 , 1 0 .5 5 pm .

FO LK BUSHW HACKERS AND B U L L O C K IE S BUSH B A N D : P olaris In n h o te l, 551 N ic h o ls o n s tre e t, N o r th C a rlto n .

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ROCK M A T T T A Y L O R : S ta tio n h o tel, P rah ra n .

RED HOUSE ROLL B A N D : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g .

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K U S H : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G eelon g.

KUSH, TANK: W a ltzin g M a tild a h o te l, S prin gvale.

T R I D E N T : G eorge h o tel, S t K ild a .

C L O U D N IN E : G ro v e d a le h o te l, G eelon g.

S H E R B E T , H O M E , P IC ­ N IC : M o e C iv ic C e n tre (o n ly 8 0 m iles a w a y ).

T R I N I T Y : M e lb o u rn e U n i (lu n c h ); M on ash U n i (even­ ing).

T A R K I O : M e lb o u rn e U n i.

BLUESTONE: E p p in g h o te l, E p p in g .

A Z T E C S : S t A lb a n s h o tel, S t A lb a n s .

F O LK M IK E O ’ R O U R K E , G R A ­ HAM DODSW O RTH, JO H N & J U A N IT A B O O T H R O Y D : D an O ’ C o n n e ll, cnr C anning and Princes streets, N o rth C a rlto n , 8 to 12 pm , $ 1. 0 0 .

P H IL DAY: T a n k e r v ille A rm s , cnr John so n and N ic h o ls o n streets, N o r th C a rlto n . 8 to 1 0 p m , 6 0 c .

JO H N CRO W LE: F ra n k T ra y n o rs , C ity , 8 0 c .

T H E N IC H O L S O N STREET REBOPPERS: P o la r is In n h o te l, Nichols-on stre e t, C a rlto n .

JA Z Z DAVE R A N K IN AND TH E E L A S T IC BAND: A lm a h o te l, 32 C hapel street, S t K ild a .

O W E N Y E A T M A N : Pros­ pect H ill h o te l, K ew .

F R A N K T R A Y N O R : Ex­ change h o te l, C h e lte n h a m .

DON DE S IL V A : M ac­ q u a rie h o te l, W o o llo o m o o lo o, 7 .3 0 -1 0 .0 0 pm .

D IC K H U G H E S : F r e n t h ’s ta ve rn , 7 .4 5 - 1 0 .0 0 pm .

T I M B R O W N : N o rth b rid g e h o te l, 7 .3 0 pm .

J O H N B U R K E : H an g T o e , 2 1 7 C o m m o n w e a lth s treet, S u rry H ills , 7 .3 0 pm , 5 0 cents.

DON M O R R IS O N : R ed R ile y w in e b a r, 2 1 1 - 3 2 4 0 , 7 .3 0 pm .

M IL E S M O O N E Y : H a r r y ’s w in e bar, 165 F lin d e rs street, D a rio , 8 .0 0 - 1 0 .0 0 pm , fre e .

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A T T I C A — A n a to m y o f a p ris o n re b e llio n : Aust p re m ie re in aid o f Prisoners a c tio n g ro u p : Tea c h e rs ’ F e d e ra tio n H ouse, 8 .0 0 pm .

D R E A M L IF E ( 1 9 7 2 ) by M . D ansereau — (W o m e n ’ s W e e k ): F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , 1 0 .0 0 pm , $ 1 .5 0 .

T H E I D I O T — D o s to ie v ­ sky: O p era H ouse, 7 .3 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 .

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N E W S O C IE T Y — E d u c a ­ P A R T IC IP A T E — P ub lic tio n N o w : 2 F C , 7 .1 5 pm . q u iltin g bee: F o y e r, O T C T H E S IN G I N G W H A L E — H ouse, M a rtin plaza Jacques C o u s te a u , w h a le (’ tw e e n P itt & C astlereagh m usic, ju s t add w a te r: s tre e ts ), m aterials and C h a n . 1 0 , 7 .3 0 pm . g u idance free . “ M Y F I R S T R E A C T IO N P O E T R Y R E A D IN G : O ld W AS T O B U Y A G U N ” — C h u rc h , 1 8 4 P alm er street, D o c o on b u rg la ry : C h a n . 2, 8 .0 0 pm , free .

8 .0 0 pm .

R O Y A L C O M M A N D PER­ TV F O R M A N C E — w ith R u d y N u re y e v , D u k e E llin g to n : B IL L Y AND PERCY — H S V 7 , 9 .0 0 pm . dram atised account of TH E M A LTESE FALCON B illy H ughes’ te rm as PM — m o v ie w ith H u m p h re y o f O Z : C han. 2, 8 .5 0 pm.

B ogart: C h a n . 1 0, 1 0 .0 0 D A Y O F T H E T R IF F ID S pm .

— m o v ie , in d o o r plants, gone w ro n g : C han.

10, 9 .0 0 pm .

CRAFT TW ENTY THOUSAND Y E A R S IN S IN G S IN G — IN S P IR A T IO N S FROM Spencer T ra c y , B ette A N C IE N T A N D E T H N IC D avis: C h a n . 2 , 1 1 .0 0 pm.

F IB R E W O R K S — ta lk by M a ry Jane L e la n d (U S ): CLASSICS T h o rb u rn galleries, 75 C la re n c e street,. 8 .0 0 pm , V E R D I ’ S NABUCCO: 50c.

O p e r a H o u s e , P A R T IC IP A T E — a p u b lic $ 1 0 .5 0 - $ 6 .5 0 , 7 .3 0 pm. q u iltin g bee: F o y e r, O T C H ouse, M a rtin plaza (’ tw e e n P itt & C astlereagh streets), 1 2 .0 0 - 2 .0 0 pm , m ate ria ls and gu idance fre e , brin g y o u r o w n cre­ a tiv ity .

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CLASSICS SYDNEY W IN D SOLO­ I S T S — p la y B ac h , M o z a r t ,

ROCK GLEN ROW AN, GEORD IE : C he q u e rs.

6 9 E R S : B rig h to n h o te l.

FO LK Red L io n F o lk C e n tre w ith R A Y and P H IL D U R H A M , P E T E R D O D D S , MAUREEN CUMUSKEY, D E R R IC K CHETW YN: Red L io n h o te l, P itt and L iv e rp o o l streets, 1st flo o r 8 .0 0 -1 0 .0 0 pm DON M O R R IS O N : Red R ile y , S u rre y H ills , 7 .3 0 pm.

H a rry 's w in e b a r, 1 6 5 F lin ­ ders s tre e t, D a rio , 8 -1 0 pm F re e .

GLEN ROW AN, GEORD IE : C hequers.

6 9 E R S : B rig h to n h o tel.

DON M O R R IS O N and B R IA N S O M E B O D Y : R ed R ile y w in e bar, 7 .3 0 pm.

E R IC D A V IS , ANDY GEO RG E, M O RAG CHETW Y N , M A R T I N D O H E R T Y , B IL L M A R GAN: H o te l E liz a b e th , E l i z a b e t h s tre e t, 8 .0 0 - 1 0 .0 0 pm , 70c .

M E R V ACHESON JAZZ T R IO : B ellevue ho tel, P addo.

C H R IS T A P P E R N A C and DAVE F U R N IS S JA ZZ: F o re s t L o d g e h o te l, 7 .3 0 1 0 .0 0 p m .

JO H N E W B A N K : H a rry ’s w in e bar, 165 Flin d ers J tre e t, D a rio , 8 .0 0 - 1 0 .0 0 pm , free .

NEW MUSIC IN V E S T IG A T IO N S OF THE N A TU R E OF A R T AND TRAVEL: Com ­ m une, N o rth M e lb o u rn e .

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N F T A ’s O ff H o lly w o o d season — V A N IS H IN G P O IN T plus IC E : Aust G ovt C e n tre , 7 .0 0 pm , $ 1 .2 0 (m e m b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 ) .

T H E L A S T S T A G E (1 9 4 9 ) — (W o m e n 's W e e k ): F ilm ­ m akers C in e m a, D arlin g hurst, 1 0 .0 0 pm , $ 1 .5 0 .

TV T E f iT C A R D A N D M U S IC : C han. 2 , 6 .3 0 am.

M U T I N Y ON THE B O U N T Y — m o v ie , C harles L a u g h to n , C la rk e G ab le: C han. 7 , 9 .0 0 pm .

FLAG WAVING M a rtin Plaza C e n o ta p h guard c e re m o n y celebrates w ar, 1 2 .3 0 pm .

FILM L U C IA — H . S olas 1 9 6 9 (W o m e n ’ s W e e k ): F ilm ­ m akers . C in e m a , D a rio $ 1 .0 0 , 1 0 .0 0 p m (m em b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 )

FO LK , ROCK Red L io n F o lk C e n tre w ith B IL L M O N IH A N , J A C K H O P K IN S , M E G A N , A N D R E W A M O T : R ed L io h h o te l, P itt & L ive rp o o l s tre e ts , 1st flo o r 8 .0 0 - 1 0 .0 0 pm .

H A IR OF DOG, BCR NARD BO LAN, LUCYl V O R S T , BOB P O M E R O Y H o t e l E l i z a b e t h 8 .0 0 - 1 0 .0 0 pm , 8 0 c .

ROCK M A Y O R , O C EA N: C hequers.

B A N D O F L I G H T : C ab ram atta W h ite E agle H a ll.

O THER ENDS A N D BUF­ F A L O : R o c kd ale M aso nic H a ll.

BLUES, JAZZ BLUES G U IT A R W IT H L A R R Y : H ang T o e , 2 1 7 C o m m o n w e a lt h s treet, S u rry H ills , 7 .3 0 pm , 5 0 c .

NOEL CROW S JA ZZ B A N D : Red N eds, C hatsw o o d , 8 .3 0 - 1 1 .3 0 pm .

DOC W IL L IS JA ZZ B A N D : A lb u r y h o te l, O x ­ fo rd stre e t, D a rio .

EAST COAST JA ZZ B A N D : U n it y H a ll h o tel, B alm a in .

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FO REDAY R ID E R S : F r e n c h ' s T a v e rn , 7 .4 5 - 1 0 .0 0 pm .

TV , RADIO JAZZ ON A F R ID A Y N IG H T — E r ic C hild in te rv ie w s H e rb E llis : A B C R a d io 1 , 7 .1 5 pm .

K IN G R A T — m o v ie re C h a n g i H .O .W .s : C h a n n e l 7 , 7 .3 0 pm .

TH E SOUND A N D THE F U R Y — D ec a d e n c e in th e s o u th : C h a n . 2 , 1 0 .0 0 pm .

IN CONCERT w ith Chubby C h e q u e r, The C oasters, Jac k ie W ilson, B o b b y R y d e ll, D io n , ,T h e C ry s ta ls : C h a n . 7 , 11 p m .

WORKSHOP S I L K S C R E E N IN G , P O T T E R Y , C A N D L E M A K IN G , 16M M F IL M M A K IN G : O ld C h u rc h , 184 P a lm e r stre e t, East S y d n e y , 8 .0 0 pm , free .

OPPRA 'OUSE M A S S E D M U S IC IA N S O F T H E N A V Y , A R M Y , A IR F O R C E , M A R IA N HEND E R S O N , D I C K HUGHES: O p era H ouse, 8 .0 0 p m , $ 5 , 5 4 , $ 3 .

CHARLES GLENN — p ia n is t plays H a y d n , P ro ­ k o fie v , B e e th o v e n , D ebus­ sy an d C h o p in : Opera H o u s e , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , stu d . $ 1 .0 0 .

THEATRE T H E H O S T A G E b y B ren­ dan B eh an : C ro n u lla A rts T h e a tr e , 5 2 3 -6 8 8 8 , 8 .1 5 pm .

EROS A N D TH A N A TO S — new A u s t e n v iro n m e n ta l m usic p la y : Pact, 2 6 4 P itt stre e t, 8 .3 0 pm , fr e e / d o n a tio n .

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P A C T F O L K : Y W C A C e l­ lar, L iv e rp o o l street (n e a r Paris c in e m a ), 8 .0 0 p m .

JAZZ, BLUES DAVE STEVENS and M ERV ACHESON: B el­ le v u e h o te l, P addo, 3 .0 0 - 6 .0 0 pm .

E C L IP S E A L L E Y F I V E : V a n it y F a ir h o te l, 4 .0 0 7 .0 0 pm .

D O N D E S I L V A : Lo u is T a v e rn , E liz a b e th s treet, P addo (a fte r n o o n ).

BLUE BAYOU: Stage D o o r T a v e rn , 7 .0 0 -1 2 .0 0 pm , $ 1 .0 0 .

D O C W I L L I S : B eresford h o te l, S u rry H ills , 7 .3 0 - 1 0 .0 0 p m .

FO R E D AY R ID E R : F r e n c h ' s T a v e rn , 7 .4 5 -1 0 .0 0 pm .

DO N DE S IL V A : M ac­ q u a rie h o te l, th e 'L o o , 7 .3 0 -1 0 .0 0 p m .

BLUES G U IT A R W IT H L A R R Y : H ang T o e , S u rry H ills , 7 .3 0 p m , 50c .

CLASSICS H A N S H O T T E R — G e r­ m an b a rito n e : Conservato r iu m , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 5 .2 0 , $ 3 .7 0 , $ 2 .2 0 .

AUNTY J A C K 'N T H E G A N G IN B L O O D Y C O N ­ C E R T : Opera H ouse, 3 .0 0 pm , 8 .0 0 pm .

ROCK S IM B A , S E B A S T IA N HARDY, BUFFALO: H o rn s b y P o lic e B oys, $ 1 .5 0 .

M A Y O R , O C E A N : C hequers.

DE CASTRO, LO TUS: B o n d i M a s o n ic H a ll.

DE C A S TR O , KAHUAS J U T E : T a r e n P o in t y o u th centre.

BUFFALO, BAND OF L I G H T : G re e n a cre Y M C A .

FO LK MEADOW B A N D , JEFF and T R IC IA , ANDY GEORGE, BERNARD B O L A N D an d T H E L A S T BUS: H o te l E liz a b e th .

8.00-10.00 pm.

FILM M O T H E R ( 1 9 2 6 ) (W o m e n ’s W e e k ): F ilm ­ m akers C in e m a , D a rlin g ­ hu rst, 3 1 - 3 2 3 7 , 6 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 (m em b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 ) .

MAEDCHEN IN U N I­ FO RM ( 1 9 3 1 ) (W o m e n ’s W e e k ): F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , D a r lin g h u r s t , 3 1 - 3 2 3 7 , 1 0 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 (m em b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 ) .

ROBERT R A Y M O N D ’S W IL D L IF E S E R IE S : O p era H o u s e , 1 0 .0 0 am c o n tin u o u s ly to 6 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , kids $ 1 .0 0 .

W R — M Y S T E R IE S O F T H E O R G A N IS M plus U P IN T H E C E L L A R : U n io n T h e a tr e , S y d n e y U n i, 7 .0 0 pm .

N F T A ’s im ages of th e m in d series: LE BON HEUR plus LA PEAU DOUCE: O p era H ouse, 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .6 0 (m em b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 ) .

A R S E N IC AND OLD L A C E and K E Y L A R G O : M e tro K in g , 3 .0 0 p m , 7 .1 5 pm , $ 2 .5 0 .

MUSIC TV, RADIO TH E W O R LD O F JA ZZ w ith E ric C h ild : 2BL, 1 0 .2 5 am .

P IC K O F T H E G O O N S : 2 B L , 1 2 .0 0 .

T H E C A P T A IN O F K O P E N IC K b y C arl Z u c k m a y e r, N a t R a d io T h e a tr e : 2 F C , 8 .3 0 pm .

T H E R A Z O R ’S E D G E — W. Som erset M a u g h a m ’ s b o o k m o v ie d : C h a n . 1 0, 9 .3 0 pm .

T H E W A R L O R D — m ovie w ith C h a rlto n H es to n : C han. 1 0, 8 .3 0 pm .

FILM T O U T V A B IE N — J .-L .

G o d a rd /J .

G o rin 1972 (W o m e n ’ s W e e k ): F ilm ­ m akers C in e m a , S t P e te r’s lane, D a rlin g h u rs t, 1 2 .0 0 m id n ig h t, $ 1 .5 0 .

A T T IC A — r. inda F ir e ­ stone: F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , S t P e te r’ s la n e , D a r lin g ­ h u rs t, 1 0 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

W OMEN AND S O C I­ A L IS M (U S , V ie tn a m , C u b a ) — (W o m e n ’s W e e k ): F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , St P e ter's la n e , D a rlin g h u rs t 3 1 . 3 2 3 7 , 6 .0 0 p m , $ 1 . 5 0 .

EROS A N D T H A N A T O S — new A u s t e n v iro n m e n ta l m usic p la y : P a c t, 2 6 4 P itt s tre e t, 8 .3 0 pm , f r e e /, d o n a tio n .

A S IN G U L A R S H O W — GRAHAM LO W NDES, BOB HUDSON, MAR­ G A R E T R O A D K N IG H T & M IK E M c C L E L L A N : G e t th e ir e a rly f o r a seat, K ir k G a lle r y , S u rry H ills , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 .

ABC PRESENTS CLAS­ S IC A L M U S IC O N T H E HOUR: O p era H ouse, 1 1 .0 0 a m , 1 2 .0 0 , 1 .0 0 , 2 .0 0 , 3 .0 0 , 4 .0 0 pm . $ 1 . 0 0 , kids 2 0 c . N o a d ­ vance b o o k in g .

BB K IN G : Blues o f course: H o r d e rn P a v illio n , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 5 .2 0 , $ 4 .2 0 .

DEMO I N T E R N A T I O N A L W O M E N ’S 5 D A Y D E M O at B idura C h ild re n s d e p o t, G leb e P o in t ro a d , G leb e.

M e et at V ic to r ia Park 1 0 .0 0 a m .

KIDS T H E P IE D P IP E R : in d e ­ p e n d e n t, N o r th S y d n e y 2 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .2 0 , kids 60c .

THE M A G IC TRAVEL B O X : N e w T h e a tre , N e w ­ to w n 5 1 9 -3 4 0 3 , 2 .1 5 p m .

THE OLD W OM AN WHO L I V E D IN A S H O E : A M P T h e a tre , $ 1 . 6 0 , kids $ 1 .0 0 .

C H I L D R E N ’S SHOW — B a tm a n , D es e rt H aw k, D aring C ircus Y o u t h : F i lm ­ m akers C in e m a , 3 1 - 3 2 3 7 , 2 .0 0 p m .

THEATRE TH E E A G LE HAS TW O H E A D S b y Jean C o c te a u : G enesians, 7 9 8 - 3 6 0 8 , 8 .1 5 pm .

THE HOSTAGE by B re n d an B eh an : C ro n u lla A rts T h e a tr e . 5 2 3 - 6 8 8 8 , 8 .1 5 p m .

T H E T A M IN G F O R C E by Paul B urns — a new p la y w ith th e Bus c o m p a n y : O ld C h u rc h , 3 1 - 9 7 2 9 , 8 . 0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , stu d . $ 1 .0 0 .

T V , RADIO T H E S T O R Y O F POP — 2 6 p a rt ro c k series heaped w ith no sta lg ia : A B C R a d io 1, 1 0 .0 0 a m .

SHE M E A N T T O T E L L H IM O N T H E IS L A N D — ra d io p la y : A B C R a d io 2 , 4 .0 0 p m .

Q U O V A D I S — m o v ie re C h ris tia n ity b ir th pangs — R o b e rt T a y lo r , D e b o ra h K e rr: C h a n . 7 , 7 .3 0 p m .

W IL D L IF E S A FA R I TO E T H IO P IA — T h e B lue N ile : C h a n . 2 , 7 .5 5 p m .

T H E P U B L IC E Y E — ra d io p la y : 2 B L , 8 .0 0 p m .

W ORLD IN A C T IO N — d o c u m e n ta r y o n T a m ic tea pickers and im p e ria lis m : C h a n . 2 , 9 .1 0 p m .

TH E W A V E D O N SEASON — ja z z special w ith C leo L a in e , D u d le y M o o re , G e o rg ie F a m e , C h ris B ar­ b e r: R a d io 1, 9 .3 0 a m .

T O P A Z — C IA - K G B m o v ie cast o f tho u s an d s : C h a n .

1 0 , 8 .3 0 p m .

T H E W IL L E S E E S H O W — p ic Humor, satire. topical in te rv ie w s : C h a n ! 1 0 , 7 .3 0

pm.

KIDS THE M A G IC BOX: N ew 5 1 9 - 3 4 0 3 , 2 .1 5

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TRAVEL T h e a tr e , pm , 70c.

C H IL D R E N ’S SHOW : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , D a r­ lin g h u rs t, 2 .0 0 pm (sea s at.).

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8 M M F IL M W O R K S H O P FO R ALL AGES: O ld C h u rc h , 1 8 4 P a lm e r stre e t.

East S y d n e y , fre e , 1 .0 0 pm .

T H E T A M IN G F O R C E by Paul B urns — a new p lay w ith th e Bus c o m p a n y : O ld C h u rc h , 3 1 - 9 7 2 9 , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , s tud. $ 1 .0 0 .

M U S IC IA N S U N I O N A N D T H E 1 7 T H B A T T A L IO N R E G I M E N T clash cym o a is a t H y d e P a rk a nd V ic to r ia P a rk , re s p e c tiv e ly , 3 -4 p m , fr e e a n d easy.

K W A ID A N — gh o s t f ilm by K o b a y a s h i: O p era HotfSe, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 . 0 0 .

M E D E A ( It a ly 1 9 6 9 ) b y P a s o lin i plus THREE S O N G S O F L E N I N (U S S R Y 9 3 4 ): U n io n T h e a tr e , S y d n e y U n i, 7 .3 0 p m , free to m e m b e rs o n ly ( 4 0 film s Per y e a r f o r $ 9 .0 0 o r $ 4 firs t te rm ).

MUSIC COL NOLAN SOUL S Y N D IC A T E , SERGE E R M O L I Q U A R T E T : C ell

A d e la id e fa e A d a y FO LK M O O N S H IN E J U G A N D S T R IN G B A N D : M o d b u r y h o te l, 6 0 c .

P O ETR Y RAGA ARTS GROUP — G in g e r W o rk s h o p , also m usic, film s e tc : 1 A r t h u r stre e t, U n le y .

FILMS L I T T L E M U R D E R S : M a tth e w F lin d e rs th e a tre , F lin d e rs U n i., 7 .3 0 pm .

50c .

DANCE B A L IN E S E DANCERS: P laza, F lin d e rs U n i., 1 .0 0 pm . Fre e.

LECTURE J A C K M U N D Y : M a tth e w F lin d e rs th e a tre . F lin d e rs U n i., 2 .1 0 p m , e x -B u ild e rs L a b o re rs F e d e ra tio n sec­ re ta ry , F lin d e rs U n i. A ls o a t 1 .0 0 p m , B arr S m ith law ns, A d e la id e U n i.

EV EN TS N A T U R A L DANCE C L A S S : C o rn e r Q u e e n and W illia m streets, N o r w o o d . $ 1. 0 0 .

THEATRE

TH E A T R E

B IE D E R M A N N A N D T H E F IR E B U G — T h e rry D ra m a tic S o c ie ty presents a m o r a lity w ith o u t a m o ra l: W illa rd h a ll, W a k e ­ fie ld s tre e t, 8 .1 5 pm .

M IC H A E L 'S M IN D L E S S S H O W : M a t t h e w F lin d e rs th e a tre . F lin d e rs U n i., 1 .0 0 pm . Free.

H A M L E T O N IC E : S h e ri­ dan th e a tre , 8 .1 5 pm .

A d u lt p a n to m im e by M ic h a e l B o d d y and R o n B la ir, M a c K in n o n parad e, N o r th A d e la id e .

B IE D E R M A N N A N D T H E F IR E B U G : See Wednes­ day.

MEETING W O M ENS S T U D IE S O R IE N T A T IO N M EET­ IN G : O ld s ta ff ro o m .

H u m a n itie s b ld g ., F lin d e rs U n i., 7 .3 0 pm . O p e n to p u b lic to discuss w o m e n s studies course.

EVENT O R IE N T A T IO N W EEK B A L L : F lin d e rs U n i., 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 single.

U N LIK ELY DELIG H TS W A T E R M E L O N E A T IN G C H A M P IO N S H IP : F lin d e rs U n i., 1 2 .3 0 pm .

W O R L D P IA N O S M A S H ­ IN G RECORD: M a th s law ns, A d e la id e U n i., 2 pm .

TV FRO ST OVER HOLLY­ W O O D — in te rv ie w s a u th o r o f " A C lo c k w o r k O ra n g e ” (A n th o n y Burgess) and stars o f th e f ilm : A B S -2 , 1 0 .3 0 pm .

ROCK

FILM W O ODSTOCK: M a tth e w F lin d e rs th e a tre , 2 .1 5 pm , 4 0 c . F lin d e rs U n i.

START THE REVOLU­ T IO N W IT H O U T ME: A d e la id e U n i. F ilm G ro u p , U n io n h a ll, 2 p m . 4 0 c .

DANCE B alinese dancers: A d e la id e U n i., 1 .3 0 pm . Free.

TV , RADIO R O O M T O M O V E — C h ris W in te r re tu rn s w ith m o re progressive ro c k : R a d io 1, 8 .0 0 pm .

WORDS BY B E C K E TT — pure m usic b ro u g h t to th e b o rd e r o f th e th e a tre : A B C R ad io 2 , 8 .4 5 pm .

M O N TY P Y T H O N ’S F L Y I N G C IR C U S : C han.

2 , 9 .2 5 pm .

S T A R S O C C E R — W o lv e r­ h a m p to n W a n d e re rs v.

M a n c h e s te r U n ite d — as th e f ir e rages, E ng land

M e rra n and J o h n , P .O . B o x 1 3 5 U p p e r

M I D N I G H T C A S E — D o ris D a y gets d ir t y p h o n e calls: N W S -9 , 1 2 n o o n .

CATACOM BS — op en n ig h t — a ll w e lc o m e to p la y : 1 H ackney road, H ackney.

PO ETRY, STAGE TH E POETS LAND — p o e try readings: N im ro d S tre e t T h e a tre , 3 3 -3 9 3 3 , 8 .3 0 pm .

T H E T A M IN G F O R C E by Paul Burns — a new p lay

w ith th e Bus c o m p a n y : O ld C h u rc h , 3 1 - 9 7 2 9 , 8 . 0 0 p m ,-$ 2 . 0 0 , s tud. $ 1 . 0 0 .

S t u r t 5 1 5 6 . P ho ne: 2 7 8 - 1 8 1 1 .

TV

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B lo c k T h e a tre , East S y d ­ ney T e c h , 8 .3 0 pm , $ 1 .2 0 , $ 1 .0 0 , 7 5 c , 5 0 c .

A (M O R E ) S IN G U L A R SHOW w ith GRAHAM LO W NDES, BOB HUD­ SO N, M A R G A R E T R O A D K N IG H T an d M IK E M cCLELLA N: U n iv e rs ity o f N S W , Science T h e a tre , 1 .0 0 pm , $ 1 .0 0 .

C O N C E R T EXTR A ­ VAGANZA — M a tth e w F lin d e rs th e a tre , F lin d e rs U n i., 1 -3 pm . S te ve F o s te r, R o b B o u c h e r and others, 20c.

S A L V A T IO N A IR F O R C E — B a r r S m ith law n s: Fre e, A d e la id e U n i.

FILM L A V I E A L ’E N V E R S and MAN WHO HAD H IS H A IR C U T S H O R T : N a­ tio n a l F ilm T h e a tr e o f A u s ­ tra lia " Im a g e s of th e M in d ” season: 7 .3 0 pm .

S ta te G ovt T h e a tr e tte , S ta te A d m in is tr a tio n bldg., V ic to r ia S q u are . M e m b ers o n ly . M e m b e rs h ip $ 3 .0 0 .

(O v e r 1 8 — jo in a t d o o r), p ro g ra m $ 1 . 2 0 , students 80c.

TV W A R A N D PEACE — BBC, serialisation o f T o ls to y 's w h o p p e r: A B S -2 , 8 .0 0 pm .

KA M AKAZE B IR D D R O P P IN G — at­ te m p ts at m an -p o w ere d flig h t fr o m U n i.f o o t b ridge: R iv e r T o rre n s o p p o s ite A d e la id e U n i., 2 p m .

ROCK RAGA ARTS GROUP presents o rig in a l A u s tra lia n m usic c o n c e rt — also A us­ tra lia n film s : B a p tis t hall, N o rw o o d , 8 pm .

BLU ES ROCK B IL L Y THO RPE AND T H E A Z T E C S — O r ie n ta ­ tio n b a ll: B arr S m ith Law n s, A d e la id e U n i., 8 .0 0 pm , $ 3 .0 0 .

BLUES S M tJ K E S T A C K L I G H T E N IN G : Eagle h o te l, 7 .3 0 pm , H in d le y street, $ 1 .0 0 .

S M O K E S T A C K L IG H T ­ E N IN G : M o a n a Beach S u rf Show , M o a n a c lu b ro o m s and beach. $ 2 .0 0 .

FO LK S T E P H E N F O S T E R : B arr ^ m it h law ns, A d e la id e U n i., 1 .0 0 pm .

FILM B U L L E T : M a tth e w F lin d ers th e a tre . F lin d e rs U n i., 2 .1 5 pm , 4 0 c .

L E T IT B E : U n io n h a ll, A d e la id e U n i., 1 2 no on, 40c.

THEATRE HAM LET ON IC E : See th u r s d a y .

B IE D E R M A N N A N D T H E F IR E B U G : See W ednes­ day.

EV EN T N IM B IN KARAVAN: F lin d e rs U n i., all day.

Y o g a , dance, in s tru m e n t m ak in g . B a tik . Peace feast a t sunset — bring fo o d .

TV T H E S T R A N G E R : O rson W elles, N W S -9 , 1 2 n o on.

D A V I D C A S S ID Y W E E K ­ END A T W EM BLEY — d o c u m e n ta ry on Cassidy's W e m b le y c o n c e rt: N W S -9 , 7 .3 d pm .

S M O K E S T A C K L IG H T ­ E N IN G : E agle h o te l, H in d ie y stre e t, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 .

THEATRE T H E I M A G I N A R Y I N V A L I D : H e r M a je s ty ’ s, 8 .1 5 pm , $ 6 . 0 0 , $ 4 . 5 0 , stu­ dents h a lf price.

T H E B R ID E O F G O S P E L P L A C E : A rts th e a tre , 8 .3 0 pm , $ 3 . 7 0 , s tu d e n ts ha lf price.

C O R A L IE LANSDO W NE SAYS NO: T h e a tr e 6 2 , B u rb rid g e ro a d , H ilto n , 8 .1 5 p m . W o rld p re m ie re of B u zo ’ s p la y b y N im ro d S tr e e t. $ 3 , s tu d e n ts h a lf price.

GERTRUDE S T E I N ’S G E R T R U D E S T E I N : S c o tt th e a tre , 8 .3 0 p m , $ 3 . 5 0 / students ha lf p ric e (b u t c h e a p e r on m o n d a y — see m o n d a y !).

HAM LET ON IC E : See th u rs d a y .

B IE D E R M A N N A N D T H E F IR E B U G : See w edn esday.

DANCE S L A S K — T h e Polish N a ­ tio n a l Song and D a n c e C o: A p p o llo s ta d iu m , 9 p m , $ 5 .5 0 t o $ 3 .5 0 .

CHILDREN TALES OF NOONAMEENA: P rince A lfr e d C o lleg e th e a tre , S pm .

M a rio n e tte s d ire c te d by Joanne P riest.

C h ild re n 6 0 c , a d u lts $ 2 , $ 1 .5 0 , stu* d e n ts h a lf price.

DOLL E X H IB IT IO N : S c o tts c h u rc h , 11 a m -8 pm , a d u lts 3 0 c , c h ild re n 15c.

MEETING GET TO GETHER OF A D E L A ID E 'S F IN A N ­ C IA L N IM B IN MEM­ B E R S : 1 W illia m street, N o r w o o d , 8 pm .

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JO H N W IL L IA M S : th e P h o to g ra p h e rs G a lle ry , 30 E b le y stre e t, B o n d i Junc­ tio n , fre e , e x p t. sun, m o n , 1 1 .0 0 am to S .0 0 pm , sat 1 1 .0 0 am to 4 .0 0 pm.

A S S O C IA T E S E X H IB I­ T IO N OF PO TTERY ’ N T H IN G S : P o tte r ’ s G a l­ le ry , 9 7 A B o u rk e street, W o o lo o m o o lo o , 1 0 .3 0 am to 5 .3 0 pm , tues-sat, free .

STO NEW ARE PO TTERY b y Janet M a n s fie ld : D ivola G a lle r ie s , B a lm a in , 8 2 7 -3 0 1 8 , th u r-fr i 1 1 .0 0 a m to 6 .0 0 pm , sat, sun 1 2 .3 0 -7 .3 0 pm .

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1 0 9 R ile y s tre e t, D arlin g h u rst, 3 1 - 2 5 5 6 , tues-sat 1 0 .0 0 am to 5 .0 0 pm .

JE W E L L E R Y AND O B J E T S D ’ A R T : L o rd o f th e R ings, 2 8 G le n m o re ro a d , P addo , 3 3 -4 6 6 4 , tues-sat 1 0 .0 0 am to 5 .0 0 pm .

JO N L E W IS E X P E R IM E N T A L PH O TO ­ G R A P H Y : B o n y th o n G a l­ le ry , tues-sat 1 1 .0 0 am to 6 .0 0 p m , closed sun, m o n , m arc h 1 -2 3 .

THEATRE CRADLE OF HERCULES by M ic k B o d d y : O p e ra H ouse, $ 5 .3 0 , $ 4 .5 0 , $ 2 .7 5 , 8 .0 0 pm , e x c e p t sun.

NO NEED FO R TW O BLANKETS: A u s tra lia n T h e a tre , N e w to w n , 8 .0 0 p m , w ed-sat.

COW ARDY CUSTARD: M a ria n S tre e t T h e a tre , 4 9 8 - 3 1 6 6 , 8 .1 5 pm .

T H E E M P IR E B U IL D E R S : N ew T h e a tre , N e w to w n , 5 1 9 - 3 4 0 3 , 8 .1 5 pm , $ 2 .0 0 , f r i, sat, sun o n ly .

J E S T E R S — b r illia n t show : N im ro d S tre e t T h e a tre , 3 3 - 3 9 3 3 , tues-sun 8 .3 0 pm , w ed-sat 5 .3 0 , 8 .4 5 pm , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 3 .0 0 .

ONE S E A S O N ’ S K IN G : Q th e a tre . L u n c h h o u r th e ­ a tr e , A M P , C irc u la r q u a y , m o n -fr i 1 .1 0 p m .

W H O ’S W H O — soph isti­ c ate d , b ra in te a s in g fa rc e :

CHILDREN

THE WAY OF THE CROSS: C h ris t c h u rc h , J e ffc o tt s tre e t. N o r th A d e ­ laide, 6 pm . A u d io -v is u a l c o n c e p ts by G u n th e r, S to p er and D av id G allasch, $ 1.

L E T ’S T A L K TO THE A N I M A L S — R IG A N I ­ M A L S : A d e la id e zo o d ire c ­ t o r in tro d u c e s c h ild re n to som e o f th e anim als in A d e la id e zo o . A B S -2 , 6 .3 0 pm .

C H E S K O O R A R E E S H O W : S c o tt th e a tre , 2 pm . P a n to m im e c lo w n fes­ tiv a l f o r c h ild re n . A d u lts $ 1 .5 0 , s tudents half price, k id s 6 0 c .

TALES OF NOONAM E E N A : See S a tu rd a y .

FLING S H IG H L A N D GAMES: A d e la id e o v a l, a ll d a y .

T ra c k a nd fie ld events, S c o ttis h c o u n tr y d a n c in g .

K E IT H M IC H E L L AT THE NEW TH E A TR E — recalls past p e rfo rm a n c e s a t th e N e w T h e a tr e , L o n ­ d o n : A B S -2 , 7 .3 0 pm .

E L V IS PRESLEY FES­ T I V A L — th e “ p e l” in “ C la m b a k e " , “ B lu e H a w a ii” , “ R o u s ta b o u t" , "P a ra d ise H a w a iia n S ty le " : N W S -9 , 9 a m t o 4 pm .

R O C K ’N ’ R O L L L IV E S — TH E ROOTS OF ROCK — h isto ry o f ro c k fe a tu rin g B. B. K in g , M u d d y W aters, Jo h n L e e H o o k e r and R ay C harles: N W S -9 , 6 pm .

RADIO P IC K O F T H E 3 C L , 1 1 .3 0 a m .

GOONS:

OTHERS A L A D Y O F F A S H IO N : G a rc le w , M o n te fio r e H ill, N o r th A d e la id e , 3 pm .

A n n e S c h o fie ld c o lle c tio n o f w o m e n ’ s fash ion s fro m 1 8 0 0 to 1 9 4 0 . A d u lts 6 0 c , c h ild re n 3 0 c .

CATACOM BS — L e s ter W a h lq v ls t, C h ris B ro w n , L a k e C o u n tr y F a ir and others: 1 H a c k n e y road, Jtjlackney, 8 .3 0 p m , 8<te.

THEATRE HAMLET ON IC E : See th u rs d a y .

GERTRUDE S T E IN 'S G E R T R U D E S T E I N : See S aturday.

DANCE P O L IS H N A T IO N A L SO N G A N D D A N C E CO: See S aturday.

FILMS

DRUG AND LEG AL P R O T E C T IO N U N IO N : C le ar L ig h t B azaar, 201 R u n d le street, 8 pm .

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H A P P E N IN G IN E L D E R P A R K : 2 pm . Free.

K A IR O S ’ 7 4 : E ld e r p a rk , 1 .3 0 pm . A lte rn a tiv e h ap­ pening in th e Jesus m ove­ m ent W R IT E R ’S W E E K O P E N ­ IN G : 4 pm , B arr S m ith lawns, A d e la id e U n i. M ic h ­ ael F r a y n speaks.

T H E I M A G I N A R Y I N V A L I D : S ee S a tu rd a y .

TH E B R I D G E OF GOSPEL PLACE: See S a tu rd a y .

C O R A L I E LA N DSD O W N E S A Y S N O : See S a tu rd a y .

G ERTRUDE S T E IN ’S G E R T R U D E S T E IN : A M P th e a tre , 1 pm , $1 — A t S c o tt th e a tre , 8 .3 0 pm , $ 3 .5 0 , students h a lf price.

A lso see S aturday.

GARGOYLES: T h e a tre 6 2 , 1 1 .1 5 pm . L a te n ig h t.

B aw dy M e d ie v a l revue, d ire c te d b y M u r r a y C o p ­ la n d . $ 2 .5 0 , $ 2 . B u rb rid g e ro a d , H ilto n .

A R E M N A N T : A M P th e ­ a tre , 8 .3 0 pm .

Jack E m e ry 's one m an show based o n life and w o rk s o f S am u el B e c k e tt. $ 2 .5 0 , students h a lf price.

MEETINGS

TV W IL D L IF E S A F A R I T O E T H IO P IA — ACROSS THE GREAT SALT D E S E R T — fe a tu rin g ani­ m als never b e fo re film e d : A B S -2 , 7 .5 5 pm .

MAN IN Q U E S T IO N — JO H N BELL: Sydney a c to r and d ire c to r J ohn B ell in te rv ie w e d . A B S -2 , 9 .2 5 pm .

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Y O U N G W R I T E R S R E A D IN G : Edm und W rig h t house, 8 .3 0 pm — J a n in e Adam s, H e le n B ansem er, A d r ia n F la v e ll, P e ter G o ld s w o rth y , P eter H ic ks , J o h n -P e te r H o rsa m , Susanna J o h n so n , S te p h e n M eas d a y , G ra h a m Row ­ lands, R o b T ille t , R ic h a rd T ip p in g . N o r th T e rra c e .

UN S O IR UN T R A IN P E R S O N A : N a tio n a l F ilm T h e a tre of A u s tra lia “ Im ages o f th e M in d " : Sea­ son. 7 .3 0 pm . R o th m a n 's T h e a tr e tte , W a y v ille show ­ grounds.

M e m b e rs o n ly , m e m b e rs h ip $ 3 (o v e r 1 8, jo in a t d o o r ).

P rogram $ 1 .2 0 , s tudents 8 0 c .

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ZAG REB CARTO O NS: S .A . G o v t. T o u r is t B ureau th e a tre tte , 1 pm , 2 .3 0 pm , 4 pm . F re e . R e a lly b r il­ lia n t!

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TH E E X P A T R IA T E W R IT E R : S ta te L ib ra ry L e c tu re th e a tre , 2 p m to 4

M O N TY P Y T H O N ’S F L Y I N G C IR C U S : A B S -2 , 1 0 .2 5 pm .

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E ns e m b le , 7 8 M c D o u g a ll street, M ilso ns P o in t, 9 2 9 - 8 8 7 7 , all w e e k 8 .0 0 pm , sat 5 .0 0 pm .

THE P H IL A N T H R O P IS T b y C h ris to p h e r H a m p t o n : In d e p e n d e n t 9 2 9 -7 3 7 7 , w ed-sat 8.1 5 pm .

WHAT IF YOU D IE D TOMORROW by D avid W illia m s o n : E liz a b e th a n T h e a tre , N e w to w n , 8 .1 5 pm , $ 4 .7 0 , $ 3 .7 0 , $ 2 .7 0 .

HOBBIES CHEQUERBOARD — MY F IR S T R E A C T IO N W A S T O B U Y A G U N — th e h o w to d o it o f b u rg la ry , fro m a p ro fe s sio n a l b u rg ­ la r: A B S -2 , 8 .5 5 pm .

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TUCKER U N I N S W 'F O O D C O -O P : F re sh , org a n ic, p o ly ­ u n sa tu ra te d Y a k shit. A lso f r u it and veg, m o n -fri 1 2 .3 0 - 2 .3 0 pm , 4 .3 0 -5 .3 0 pm , th u r 5 .0 0 - 9 .0 0 pm.

FILM HOME plus oth ers — fe a tu re film o f W o m e n ’ s W e e k : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a, D a rlin g h u rs t, 8 .0 0 pm , e x c e p t m o n , sat night fo r w o m e n o n ly , $ 1 .5 0 .

ROCK MOTHER EARTH and R E N E E G E Y E R : W h is ke y TROUPADORS: M a n ly V a le h o te l.

STEW ART A ND M cKAY: Jools, 121 C ro w n stre e t.

E ast S y d n e y , 7 .0 0 pm to 3 .0 0 a m , fre e b u t e x p e n ­ sive!

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S O V IE T SONG AND DANCE ENSEM BLE: W a rn e r, K in g W illia m stre e t, 11 am , 2 pm , 5 pm , 8 pm .

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THEATRE K IA R O S ’ 7 4 — S tre e t th e ­ a tre : A d e la id e shopping centres. A ls o m usic, arts, c rafts.

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B R U N S W IC K POETRY W O R K S H O P : S a x o n hall, Saxon s tre e t, B ru n s w ic k (b e h in d to w n h a ll).

G LEN T O M A S E T T I, HANS G EO RG , BRUCE M c N IC H O L : O u tp o s t In n , 5 2 C o llin s street, C ity , 80c .

BUSHW HACKERS AND B U L L O C K IE S BUSH B A N D : P olaris In n ho tel, C a rlto n .

J U L IE W ONG, PETER P A R K H I L L , JOHN CRO W LE: F ra n k T ra y ­ nors, C ity .

C O N S E R V A T IO N V E X ­ P L O IT A T I O N — M ic h a e l G a r re tt: F rie n d s H ouse, 6 31 O rro n g ro a d , 8 .0 0 pm .

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BOOKS AND ID E A S : 3 A R , 7 .1 5 pm .

A MERRY PROGRESS: 3 A R , 1 1 .1 0 pm .

B R IA N BROW N Q U A R ­ TET: C om m une, N o r th M e lb o u rn e .

S T O R Y V IL L E JAZZ BAND: M anor H ouse h o te l, C ity .

OTHERS C L E A R L IG H T B A Z A A R : A lt e r n a t i v e c o m m u n ic a ­ tio n s c e n tre , C ra ft c en tre , b u lk fo o d .

201 R u n d le s treet.

D O R O TH Y PLAK CREA­ T IV E CRAFT W ORK­ S H O P S : D ro p in f o r advice on all c ra fts . S t M a g ill ro a d , S t Peters.

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M A G IC ROUNDABOUT: A B V - 2 , 3 .1 0 pm .

W ORLD IN C IN E M A : A B V - 2 , 1 0 .1 5 pm .

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MUSICAL EV EN T C A R N IV A L O F T H E A N IM A L S — S a in t Saens. F e a ­ tu re s D o n D u n s ta n rec itin g a t th e A d e la id e zo o .

THEATRE N A T IO N A L THEATRE OF T H E D E A F : M a rc h 2 5 t h - 3 0 t h , H e r M a je s ty ’ s.

THREE A U S T R A L IA N O N E -A C T P L A Y S — " T h e Les D a rc y S h o w " — J ack H ib b e rd (w o rld p re m ie re ), “ A M a rrie d M a n ” — James S e a rle, “ T h e F ro g ” — P a t­ r ic k W h elan : M a tth e w F lin d e rs th e a tre . F lin d e rs U n i., m a rc h 1 4 t h - 1 7 t h and 1 9 t h - 2 0 t h , 8 .1 5 pm .

CIRCUS G R E A T M O S C O W C I R C U S : m ar ch 1 5 th -2 4 th .

OTHERS W R I T E R ’S W E E K : 10 th -1 7 th .

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D IN G O E S : P rah ra n .

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FO RTUNE A N D M E N 'S E / E S ( R ) — a b o u t prisons and s tu ff: T ra k , 445 T o o r a k road, 1 1 .4 5 , $ 2 .0 0 .

QUACKSER FORTUNE H A S A C O U S IN IN T H E BRONX (N R C ): A th e n ­ a e u m , 1 8 8 C o llin s street, 1 0 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .2 5 .

L IT T L E SUPERMAN: C a p ito l, S w a n s to n street, 1 1 .3 0 pm .

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M A C K E N Z IE THEORY, C H A IN : C helsea c ity h a ll.

FULL MOON: W in s to n C harles h o te l, T o o r a k .

B L U E S T O N E : D i M a rc o ’s, Essendon.

CLOUD N IN E : C r o x to n P a rk h o te l, Preston .

RED HOUSE ROLL B A N D : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G e e lo n g .

P H A S E 2: G e o rg e h o te l, S t K ild a .

T A N K : P rospect H ill h o te l, K ew .

S K Y L IG H T , D IN G O E S : T e a z e r, E x h ib it io n stre e t.

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K U S H : In te r n a tio n a l h o te l, B ro a d m e a d o w s .

A TLA S, A B EL LO DG E: B ro a d m e a d o w s to w n h a ll, 3 0 9 .2 3 1 1 .

H O M E , S H E R B E T : M a t­ th e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C hadstone.

HUSH: Spangles, G len fe rr ie ro a d , H a w th o r n .

S O L O M O N : P ro s p e c t H ill h o te l, K e w .

THE N A T IO N A L BAL­ L E T O F S E N E G A L : C ap i­ to l T h e a tr e , usual agencies soon, 8 .1 5 pm , $ 5 .7 0 , $ 4 . 7 0 , $ 3 .7 0 .

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POETRY

MEETINGS

H U N G A R IA N STATE SYMPHONY ORCHES­ T R A — Jan os F e re n c s ik : A p r il 3 , 4 , m a il o rd e r fo r m in S M H , c o u n te r b o oking s m arc h 1 8 .

H E R B IE MANN: O p era house, m arc h 2 1 , 2 5 , 8 .0 0 pm , $ 5 . 3 0 , $ 4 . 2 0 , $ 3 .2 0 .

T H E S C O T T IS H B A L L E T w ith F o n te y n and Ivan N agy: O p e ra H ouse, $ 10 .2 0 - $ 5 .2 0 , starts a p ril 2 2 , see new spapers fo r m ail b o o k in g s.

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FO LK PANCAKE K IT C H E N — Jam sessions and singalong up to 4 0 c cover charge: 13 G ilb e r t place, c ity .

S y d n e y T o w n H a ll, m arc h 2 0 , 2 2 , 2 4 , $ 4 . 6 0 , m ail b o o k in g B o x 2 5 2 5 , G P O S y d n e y , in fo 2 1 2 - 2 2 4 4 .

TV V IV A Z A P A T A , M a rlo n B ra n d o , A n th o n y Q u in n : H S V -7 , 1 0 .0 0 am.

IN C O N C E R T : Seals and C ro fts , C u rtis M a y fie ld and B o D id d le y : H S V - 7 , 1 0 .0 0 pm .

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ROCK D IN G O E S : M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C hadstone.

C H A IN , J O H N B R O W N R IG G 'S A P P A R IT IO N : T e a z e r, C ity .

FULL MOON: W in s to n C harles, T o o r a k .

SKYHOOKS: B eaum aris c ivic c e n tre , B eaum aris.

T A R K I O : B a rw o n Heads h o te l, N r G eelon g.

HOME: S ta tio n h o tel, G revH te stre e t, Prahran (a fte r n o o n ).

S H E R B E T , ROSS R Y A N , F O X : K e w civic c en tre , K ew .

KUSH: S o u th s id e S ix ( a fte r n o o n ) A JA X, HUSH, COLO RED B A L L S : F r a n k s to n Police and C itiz e n s Y o u t h C lu b , F ra n k s to n .

T R ID E N T : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g .

HENCHM EN: C ro x to n P ark h o te l, P reston .

RED HOUSE ROLL BAND, CLOUD N IN E , TANK: B laizes, O rm o n d H a ll, P ra h ra n .

C H A N C E , R O C K G R A N IT E , H O M E : C ano­ pus, B ox H ill .

S K Y L I G H T : P ro s p e c t H ill h o te l, K e w .

FO LK P E T E R P A R K H IL L and oth ers: D an O ’C o n n e ll, C a rlto n , 3 to 6 pm .

GORDON M c lN T Y R E , M E G A N A N D R A Y : Com ­ m une, N o r th M e lb o u rn e , 10 to 3 am .

JO HN A N D J U A N IT A , PETER P A R K H IL L , HANS GEORG, BRUCE M c N IC O L : O u tp o s t In n , C ity .

JO H N A N D J U A N IT A , D A N N Y SPOONER, GOR­ D O N M c l N T Y R E : F ra n k T ra y n o rs , C it y .

JA Z Z DAVE R A N K IN AND THE E L A S T IC BAND: Lem on T r e e h o te l, 10 G r a tta n s tre e t, C a rlto n .

THE PLANT W IT H M I F F Y : P o laris In n , h o te l, C a rlto n .

S K Y L IG H T (a fte r n o o n ), J U N C T IO N C IT Y JA ZZ B A N D (e v e n in g ): Prospect H ill h o te l, K e w .

V IC T O R IA N J A Z Z C L U B : M a n o r H o u s e h o te l. C ity .

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QUACKSER FO RTUNE H A S A C O U S IN IN T H E B R O N X: A th e n a e u m (L A T E ), C o llin s street, 1 0 .3 0 pm .

L IT T L E SUPERMAN: C a p ito l, S w a n s to n street, 1 1 .3 0 pm .

MEETINGS GROUP M E D IT A T IO N : A n a n d a M arga, 141 B a rk ly s tr e e t C a rlto n .

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S U N D A Y N IG H T R A D IO 2 : 3 A R , 7 .3 0 pm .

W H E R E IS T H IS H E R E B U I L D I N G ?

Dor H a w o rth : 3 A R , 4 .0 0 pm .

T H E P U B L IC E Y E , P eter S c h a ffe r: 3 L O , 8 .0 0 pm .

RADIO W O R L D O F J A Z Z w ith E ric C h ild : 3 L O , 1 0 .2 5 am.

JOY M U L L IG A N : 3LO , 7.1 5 pm .

A M E R IC A N TO P 40: 3 K Z , 7 to 1 0 pm .

O R A NG ES A N D LEM O NS — W illia m W a lto n : 3 A R , 7 .3 0 pm .

T H E C A P T A IN O F K O PEN IC K : 3 A R , 8 .3 0 pm .

SUNDAY W ANDONG COUNTRY M USIC F E S T IV A L : W a n d o n g S p o rts G r o u n d , 11 a m t o 6 p m .

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JO H N R U P E R T A N D T H E HENCHM EN: C ro x to n Park h o te l, Preston.

P IC N IC , HUSH: T e a z e r, C ity .

B U S T E R B R O W N : S ta tio n h o tel, P rahran.

BLUESTO NE: Prospect H ill h o tel, K e w . , M A DD ER LAKE, M A TT TAYLO R, D IN G O E S , C H A IN , RED HOUSE R O LL BAND, AZTECS: R o y a l show g ro u n d , F lem in gton .

IC E S T A T IO N ZEBRA w ith Rock Hudson: H S V - 7 , 8 .3 0 pm .

w ttda# ROCK H O M E : T e a z e r, C ity .

HUSH: Icelands, R ingwood.

M A C K E N Z IE THEO RY, SKYHOOKS, C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX, K E IT H S T E R L I N G : O rm o n d hall, P rah ran .

F A N T A S Y : C ro x to n Park h o te l, Preston.

HUSH: Icelands, R ing w ood.

S K Y L IG H T : W in s to n C harles, T o o r a k road.

K U S H : F itz r o y gardens, 3 pm .

MORE MUSIC P H IL D A Y : F ra n k T r a y ­ nors, C ity , 8 0 c .

BLUESTONE: Prospect H ill h o te l, K ew .

NEWMUSIC

F O LK

M O O M B A P R O C E S S IO N : 1 0 am , d o n t fa il to miss it.

P L A Y S PER FO R M ED E L E S S E R KNOWN GRO TUESDAY E N E M Y by R o b in V a u g h a n : M o r d ia llo c T h e ­ a tre G r o u p , A M P th e a tr ­ e tte , 5 3 5 B o u rk e street, C it y , 8 pm .

W EDNESDAY I’ M T A L K IN G ABOUT JERUSALEM b y A rn o ld W esseker: D ra m u s th e a tre , A M P th e a tre tte , C ity , 8 pm .

MR JO NAH & DONT K N O C K J O N A H — tw o m usicals p e rfo rm e d b y th e M e lb o u rn e R evival C e n tre , R ia lto th e a tre , 2 1 8 H ig h s treet, K e w , 8 pm .

N IA G G R A : La M a m a , 2 0 5 F a rad a y stre e t, C a rlto n .

THURSDAY

PO ETRY

I T ’S A T W O F O O T - S IX I N C H - A B O V E THE GROUND W ORLD by K e n in L a ffa n , presen ted b y H e id e lb e rg R ep . C o m p a n y , AMP th e a tre tte , 535 B o u rk e stre e t, C it y , 8 pm .

POOR T O M ’S P O ETR Y B A N D : C o m m u n e , N o rth M e lb o u rn e , 6 0 c ; also in A le x a n d ra gardens, 8 to 9 pm.

J U L IE W O N G and others: O u tp o s t In n , C ity .

DANNY SPOONER and GORDON M A C IN T Y R E : F r a n k T ra y n o rs , C ity , 8 0 c .

R O O M T O M O V E , C hris W in te r retu rn s fro m E u ­ ro p e : 3 L O , 8 .0 0 p m .

W ORDS BY BECKETT, new m usic based on S am ­ uel B e c k e tt’ s w ritin g s , by G iac o m o M a n z in i: 3AR , 8 .4 5 pm .

POOR T O M 'S POETRY B A N D : A le x a n d ra gardens, 8 to 9 .3 0 pm .

FILM L IT T L E SUPERM AN: C a p ito l, S w a n s to n street, C ity , 2 p m and 1 1 .3 0 pm, $ 2. 0 0 .

MEETINGS A S T R O L O G IC A L KEY T O T H E B IB L E by M r J.A. F a rq u h a rs o n : Theos ophical S o c ie ty , 1 8 8 C o l­ lins s tre e t.

T U ES D A Y , MARCH A U S T R A L IA N BALLET: M y e r M usic B o w l, 8 pm .

MEET THE W R IT E R S : M L C th e a tre tte , 8 pm .

PO P G O E S T H E P A R K starring K ush, D o u g P ark­ inson and guests. Special segm ent T H E M A R C H O F T H E R O C K — T H E B IL L H A Y L E Y S T O R Y : F itz r o y gardens, 3 pm.

MEET THE W R IT E R S : M L C th e a tre tte , 8 pm .

A U S T R A L IA N BALLET: M y e r M usic B o w l, 8 pm .

RADIO

F R ID A Y

40: A M E R IC A N TO P 3 K Z , 9 to 12 am.

W A V E N D O N JAZZ SEASON, B ritis h Jazz: 3 L O , 9 .3 0 pm .

S T O R Y O F P O P , fr o m B ill H a y le y to now, in 16 parts: 3 L O , fo r sleepless nostalgic rockers.

T R A D J A Z Z : M y e r M usic B o w l, 7 .3 0 pm .

WEDNESDAY

S A TU R D A Y T R A D J A Z Z : M y e r M usic B o w l, 7 .3 0 pm .

BRASS B A N D SP E C TA C ­ ULAR: S a lv a tio n A rm y

TH E CHESKOO RAREE SHOW : M oom ba stage, A le x a n d ra gardens, to th u rs d a y , 8 p m .

ETHNIC OCCASIONS G R E E K N A T IO N A L D A N C E S : A le x a n d r a g a r­ dens, fr id a y 8 .3 0 pm , Sun­ d a y 7 .0 0 pm .

H IG H L A N D D A N C IN G : F lin d e rs P a rk , 1 0 .0 0 am S aturday.

V E R C H O V E N A -U K R A I NI A N D A N C IN G G R O U P : M o o m b a stage, A le x a n d ra gardens, S aturday 8 .3 0 pm , m o n d a y 8 .0 0 pm .

S L O V E N IA N S IN M EL­ B O URNE D IS P L A Y : M o o m b a stage, Sunday 3 pm .

FOR CANINE LO V ER S O P E N D O G O B E D IE N C E T R I A L : F lin d e rs P a rk , S u n ­ d a y 1 pm .

AND D O N T M IS S T H E F I R E W O R K S SPEC­ T A C L E . . . and w a te r ski revue, Y a rr a R iv e r, 7 .3 0 pm . W h a t b e tte r w a y to fin is h y e t a n o th e r e v e n tfu l M oom ba Festival?

How a b o u t stay in g in bed?

A L L W EEK

F R ID A Y

RADIO

PO ETR Y

OUTDOORS

H .Q ., 8 pm .

YARRA YARRA JA ZZ BAND: O ld M e lb o u rn e M o to r In n , F le m in g to n road, N o r th M e lb o u rn e , 7 .3 0 pm , m o n d a y to saturd a y , plus Saturday a fte r ­ n o on.

PO ETR Y

MR JONAH & DONT K N O C K J O N A H , see W ed­ nesday.

O R D IN A R Y D E C E N T by Ted N ie ls o n : W a v e rle y T h e a tr e G ro u p , A M P th e ­ a tre tte , C it y , 8 pm .

SATURDAY MR JONAH & DONT K N O C K J O N A H , see W e d ­ nesday.

ROSENCRANTZ AND G IL D E N S T E R N ARE D E A D b y T o m S to p p a rd : W a rra n d y te A rts A ssoci­ a tio n , AMP t h e a tr e tte , C it y , 8 p m .

SUNDAY MR JO NAH & DONT K N O C K J O N A H , see W ed ­ n esd ay.

o v te e & KIDS TOM W I T T I N G S L O W ’S C A R N I V A L : 6 .4 5 p m , Sat­ u rd a y 1 0 .3 0 am , Sunday 1 .3 0 pm , A le x a n d r a gar­ dens & F lin d e rs P a rk .

THE PORTABLE PLA Y­ E R S : G . G . A s s o c ia tio n , F lin d e rs P a rk , 7 .3 0 p m till fr id a y , Saturday 8 , 9 pm , Sunday and m o n d a y 2 pm , 7 .3 0 pm .

D I A L -A -P O E M : 3 2 9 .6 0 3 9 .

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COURSES In te r e s tin g and varied courses are startin g this w e e k , C .A .E . 6 3 .4 2 3 1 — ask f o r b ro c h u re .

C a irn m illa r In s titu te o f h u ­ m an rela tio n s , 6 3 .9 8 7 6 — ask f o r b ro c h u re .

FLOOR SHOW C A P T A IN R O C K , m usical c o m e d ia n : appe a rin g n ig h t­ ly a t th e F ly in g T ra p e z e , 2 0 1 B ru n s w ic k s tre e t, F i t z ­ ro y , 4 1 .3 7 2 7 .

D E L S H A N N O N : D o rs e t G a rd e n s (fr id a y , Saturday o n ly ) — f o r those w h o lik e out-of-town p la c e s .

7 2 5 .6 2 1 1 .

FILM F IL M S — Th ese m ay change at a m o m e n t’ s no­ tic e , so c h e c k w ith th e cinem a to be sure.

THE S E N S U A L IS T ( R ) : T r a k , 4 4 5 T o o r a k road, n ig h tly 6 , 8 pm , Wednes­ day^ and S aturday m a tin e e , 2 .3 0 pm , Sunday 5 , 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .2 0 students.

2 4 .9 3 3 3 .

E N G L A N D M A D E M E (M ) and T R A V E L S W I T H M Y A U N T ( M ) : D e n d y , M a l­ v e rn , G le n fe r r ie ro a d , M a l­ v ern , 7 days, $ 2 .5 0 .

5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 .

T H E S A V A G E M E S S IA H ( M ) : K e n R ussell’ s f ilm and SOYLENT GREEN (M ): C a r lto n c in e m a , F a ra d a y s tre e t, C a r lto n , th u rs d a y s u n d ay , 7 .4 5 pm , 90c.

3 4 7 .5 5 2 4 .

T R IP L E E C H O ( M ) and IM A G E S ( M ) : H o y ts , M a l­ v e rn , c n r G le n fe r r ie and D a n d e n o n g roads, 8 pm , S aturday 2 , 5 p m , Sunday 5. 5 0 .3 1 9 3 .

CABARET (M ): H o y ts , C a m b e rw e ll, 8 pm , Satur­ d a y 4 .1 5 pm , Sunday 5 pm .

8 2 .1 0 0 0 .

THE H IR E L IN G : R iv o li T w in , C a m b e rw e ll J u n c ­ tio n , 7 .4 5 p m , S aturday, Sunday 4 .1 5 p m , $ 2 .2 5 , $ 1 . 0 0 s tudents. 8 2 .1 2 2 1 .

L O V E : R iv o li T w in , above address, 8 .1 5 pm , Sunday 5 pm , $ 2 . 2 5 , $ 1 . 0 0 students.

8 2 .1 2 2 1 .

CRYSTAL VOYAGER: B rig h to n to w n h a ll, m ond a y -frid a y , 8 .3 0 pm , G ee­ long P ix on Sunday.

6 3 .1 0 3 9 .

A L L W EEK THEATRES O N Y E R M A R X — Aussie M a rx B ros: P ram F a c to ry , 325 D ru m m o n d street, C a r lto n , tu e s d a y to Sun­ d a y , 8 pm , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 s tudents. 3 4 7 . 7 3 1 1 .

W O M E N S W E E K L Y : B ack th e a tre , P ram F a c to r y , ab o v e address, fr id a y , Sat­ u rd a y , 1 0 .3 0 pm , $ 1 .5 0 .

W HY BO URNEM OUTH? and T H E M IS S IN G L IN K S — b o th b y J o h n A n tro b u s : A c to r’ s th e a tre , C h u rc h s tre e t, frid a y -s u n d a y , 8 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 s tudents. 5 0 . 2 5 3 4 .

AN ELEM EN T OF D O U B T b y W illia m Bates: T a it th e a tre , 1 0 7 Leicester s tre e t, C a r lto n , frid a y -s u n d a y , 8 .1 5 pm , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 s tudents. 3 4 7 .1 5 1 5 .

THE R E M O V A L 1ST by D av id W illia m s o n : Russell S tre e t th e a tre , C it y , m o n d a y -s a tu rd a y , 8 .1 5 pm , p re -d in n e r fr id a y , 5 .1 5 pm , season tic k e ts a vailable.

6 5 4 .4 0 0 0 .

C U L T — m usical a b o u t the fu tu re , p e rfo rm e d b y stu­ dents, w r itte n and p ro ­ d u ced b y e x-s tu d en ts, Burw o o d T .C ., 2 2 1 B u rw o o d ro a d , fr id a y and S aturday o n ly , 8 .1 5 pm , $ 2 .0 0 .

THE IM A G IN A R Y IN ­ V A L ID b y M o lie re , p re ­ sented b y th e S tra tfo rd O n ta r io C o : Princess th e ­ a tre , S p rin g stre e t, C ity , u n til th u rs d a y , 8 pm .

O P T IM IS M o r T H E M IS ­ A D V E N T U R E S OF CAND ID E b y V o lt a ir e , pre se n t­ ed b y th e N a tio n a l T h e a tre o f th e D e a f o f A m e ric a : Princess th e a tre , c o m m e n c ­ ing fr id a y , n ig h tly a t 8 .1 5 pm , m a tin e e th u rs d a y and S aturday, 2 p m , $ 5 .7 0 , $ 4 .2 0 , $ 3 . 2 0 , concessions a v a ila b le to c h ild re n and pensioners.

B U T T E R F L IE S ARE FREE: K e n w o o d S tu d io Players, 572 G le n fe rrie ro a d , H a w th o r n , thu rsdays atu rd ay , 8 .1 5 pm , $ 1 .2 0 .

Synthetics will provide inspira­ tion. More in fo and offers o f help to CAFMBA, P.O. Box J73, Brickfield Hill, 2000.

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USH Dwellers o f Australia made my day last Wednes­ day. The postie layed it on me as I sat in m y grotty TLD office-cumhome, trapped by the telephone and the ‘ cup o f tea’ cycle. Bush dwellers is an upper, so to speak.

It has 131 beautiful color pics o f Oz mammals, reptiles, marsupials, birds and insects. Y ou dont sight many bush dwellers in Surry Hills; most have been booted out for trespass. So the b o o k is excellent fantasy material for ‘brick and plaster dwellers’ . If you get g ooey over animals this b o o k is for you, it’s also for teachers, kids, conservationists and, I suppose, voyeuristic buggers. The Australian government caters for all tastes; send to A.GPS P.O. Box

84, Canberra ACT, 2600. Blow $2.25.

HE CAMPAIGN Against Foreign Military Bases in Australia is holding a rock concert at Richmond, NSW, o n easter monday, april 15. It’s a dem o so bring your own rocks. Richm ond is only 20 miles from the heart o f the Sydney metropolis and the US base acts as a logistics and support center for the US military airlift command which services Hawaii, Guam, Pine Gap and North West Cape. R ock groups Kohoutek and Battersea Heroes have already offered their music, Ellis D. Fogg will provide lights, Sylvia and the

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NYONE performing in the social change circus who has not read the propaganda put out b y the Australian Assistance Plan is running the risk o f missing the gravy train. The AAP is part o f the federal government's Social Welfare Commission and has already begun to dish out a bundle o f bread for social welfare and change programs. The AAP, like so many grant givers, is hung up on ‘ professionalism’ , interim councils, comm ittees and sub­ comm ittees and all sorts o f office figureheads. The concept o f ‘ seed m on ey’ has yet to filter through to the pen pushers. The AAP Progress R eport and Discussion Paper num ber 1 both make interesting reading if you can ever imagine working through the bureaucratic barriers towards a grant fo r a com m unity action project. Send to Social Welfare

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THE N A T IO N A L BAL­ L E T O F S E N E G A L : Pal­ ais, L o w e r E splanade, S t K ild a , c o m m , tuesday, 4 0 dancers, singers, d ru m m e rs , etc, prom ises to be e x c it­ ing, $ 3 .7 0 , $ 4 .7 0 , $ 5 .7 0 , n ig h tly 8 .1 5 pm , fr id a y 6 pm , Saturday 2 .1 5 p m , reg­ u lar agencies.

O R IE N T A T IO N W EEK S B A C K to U n i this w e e k fo r M e lb o u rn e and M on ash (L a T ro b e fo llo w s n e x t w e e k ), and th e re w ill be lots happ en ing . L u n c h ­ tim e concerts, evening doings, film s , debates, or w h a t y o u w ill. M u c h o f it is f o r th e students, b u t visitors are w e lc o m e . H ere is a sele ctio n o f events th a t m ay in te re s t y o u :

TH U R S D A Y MONASH IS A A C AARON: lu n c h tim e .

H O T D O G G E R Q U E : 5 .3 0 pm .

C O N T R A C E P T I O N : fo ru m .

THURSDAY

T U ES D A Y

M ELBOURNE

MELBOURNE

GREEK s tu d e n ts ’ revue: P rince P h illip th e a tre , 8 .0 0 pm , $ 1 .0 0 .

FA N N Y OF THE FO O T­ L I G H T S : 7 .0 0 pm , b u ffe t inc, stud th e a tre .

S T O R Y V IL L E J A Z Z M E N : P rin c e P h illip th e a tre , 1 .0 0 pm .

T H A T WE S H O U L D KEEP IT C L E A N : D e b a te S oc, 2 .0 0 p m , m ix e d lo ung e.

D E S C H O O L I N G S O C IE T Y : C o p e la n d lec­ tu re th e a tre , 2 .0 0 p m .

F IL M S : “ Jenny” , “ Got A t ” , “ L ivin g T o g e th e r ” , " J o ’ s F i lm ” , w o m e n s lib , U n io n th e a tre , 1 .1 5 p m .

W IN E AND CHEESE P A R T Y f o r w in e frea k s and m ice, R e d m o n t B arrie fo re c o u rt, 4 .0 0 pm .

FRENCH F IL M S : B abel th e a tre , 2.1 5 p m .

A L P C lu b film o f th e ’7 2 election c a m p a ig n , 1 1 .0 0 - 1 2 .0 0 am , G u ild th e a tre .

R U S S IA N F I L M S : G u ild th e a tre , 2 .0 0 p m .

A N G E L IQ U E by Ib e r t, U n io n th e a tre , conservato r iu m s tudents, 6 .3 0 p m , $ 1. 0 0 .

FO LK CLUB c o n c e rt, m ix e d lo ung e, free .

T Y R R A N Y O F T E S T IN G — looks a t exam in s.

A N G E L IQ U E by Ib e rt, U n io n th e a tre , conservato r iu m students, 6 .3 0 pm $ 1. 0 0 .

WEDNESDAY MELBOURNE FO RUM ON IS R A E L : 3 .0 0 - 6 .0 0 pm .

W O M E N S L IB fo ru m and child m in d in g on la w n .

BLUES W ORKSHOP: U n io n big, a fte rn o o n .

B B Q : N o r th consort, 50c , fo llo w e d b y D a d d y C ool, Ross R y a n : W ilson H a ll, 8 .0 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 .

FREE F IL M S : all nite, fo llo w e d by b re ak fa s t (“ H a ta r i” , “ W illa r d ” , “ F is tfu l o f $s” ).

T R A V E L L I N G DJ plays in th e m ix e d lo ung e, U n io n big.

J A Z Z C L U B shows N e w ­ p o rt J azz Festival film , G u ild th e a tre , 1 .0 0 pm .

TH U R S D A Y

A N G E L IQ U E by Ib e rt, U n io n th e a tre , conservato r iu m students, 8 .1 5 pm,

S E M IN A R ON TER­ R O R IS M : D r.

K n o p fe lm acher, A lb e r t Lang er.

$ 1.0 0 .

S E X U A L I T Y AND W OMEN: W o m ens lib p u b lic le c tu re , th e a tre , O ld A rts big, 1 .0 0 pm.

FA N N Y OF THE FO O T­ L IG H T S : B u ffe t inc, 7 .0 0 pm , stud, th e a tre .

WEDNESDAY MONASH F IL M S by th e M onash A s tro n a u tic a l Soc, L e c tu re th e a tre 8, 8 .0 0 pm , free .

F O L K A N D J A Z Z nite, in te n t in fo ru m , and h o rro r film s th u rs e a rly m o rn .

R O S S R Y A N : lu n c h tim e c oncert.

C O M M U N IT Y FEAST: U n io n , 5 .0 0 pm.

Commission, P.O. Box 1, Woden, ACT, 2606. Free.

HE ALTERNATE News Service is back in operation, this time drawing on the resources of International Development A ction. “ The ANS is devoted to circulating material that people would not otherwise have access to. This includes areas where the overground press either distort or ignore inform ation — news o f alternate groups in Australia and research material.” Subscription rates (25 issues o f approximately 20 foolscap pages) are: Private (non reproduction) subscribers $10; student and other press/ media (for reproduction purposes) $30. Ask for a trial copy.

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G A LLER IES P A IN T IN G S F R O M T H E M USEUM OF MODERN A R T, NEW Y O R K : T ill m arch 1 0 , plus H U N D E R T W A S S E R E X H I B I T I O N till m arc h 17, plus C a rtie r Bresson’ s F R A N C E , 8 -1 3 m arch. A ll fo r 2 0 c .

MONASH

F R ID A Y M ELBOURNE GREEK STUDENTS’ REVUE: P rince P h illip th e a tre , 8 .0 0 pm .

J A Z Z : B e b o p , P rince P h il­ lip th e a tre , 1 .0 0 pm .

FANNY OF THE FO OT­ L IG H T S : 7 .0 0 p m , b u ffe t inc.

C O M M U N IT Y C O N T R O L O F E D U C A T IO N : m ixed lo ung e, 1 0 .0 0 a m .

S A TU R D A Y MELBOURNE GREEK STUDENTS’ REVUE: P rin c e P h illip th e a tre , 8 .0 0 p m .

questionaires were follow ed up by an anonymous visit to each bookshop to assess staff, service, layout etc. The directory contains a subject index to the 144 bookshops covered. Bookheads can send $ 125 fo ra cop y to Second Back R ow Press, 4 /8 Victoria parade, Manly, 2095. * * *

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EEDBACK: Bemie Barrett, academic researcher into Melbourne suburbia, is gathering ideas about alternative lifestyles for the middle aged. He would like to hear from men and women, over 30, w ho have successfully liberated themselves from the conventional work scene and who are willing to put their knowledge o f ways and means at the disposal of others.

Phone him on 03-20.2709 or write to him care o f the Learning Exchange, 430 Waverley road, East Malvern, Victoria, 3145. * * *

END all dem info gems, golden access nuggets to P.O. Box 8, Surry Hills, 2010 be the first on your block, how about in your city, then.

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N RIO it is not hard to see two faces o f Brazil. The huge statue o f Christ which stands on the C orcovado mountain overlooks blocks o f flats rising in the suburbs o f Ipanema and Copacabana, the fashionable areas o f town where 'nightclubs, cafes and expensive boutiques line the streets and where rich young Brazilians go to buy their authentic Viet­ nam com bat gear, complete with blood ­ stains. Traffic jams o f Volkswagens, music blaring from their radios, wind |along the strip o f land between Guanabara bay and the mountains, and bring the Avenida Vargas in the centre o f town to a rush hour standstill.

With growth rates averaging ten per­ cent for the past five years, inflation dow n to the “ manageable” rate o f 15 percent, and rapid expansion in exports, the capitalist development o f the world’s sixth largest and fifth most populous state is well under way. As prices o f primary products - coffee, sugar, soya beans - soar, Brazil is carrying out an extensive industrialisation program: in­ dustrial production rose 14 percent in 1972, an estimated 15 percent in 1973.

Manufactured goods already account for over 30 percent o f Brazil’ s exports: she produces more heavy trucks than Italy or Australia, exports watches and m otor vehicles to Europe. Volkswagen alone exported $36 million o f goods from Brazil in 1973.

This is one side o f the Brazilian “ mir­ acle” . The other is equally obvious.

Dow ntown R io is sporadically frozen as uncovered trucks, carrying 30 heavily armed military police, roar through with wailing sirens to unknown destinations.

There may be a riot in a favela (shanty

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town), a demonstration at a football | match - a directly political problem There again there may not be. Ask a I Brazilian in the street and he’ll just shrug I and smile and say nobody knows. It may | all just be a show o f strength.

In banks, armed guards in specially I plated observation boxes survey every I customer. Road blocks in out-of-town-[ districts are com m on. Military police still control all traffic, and after 10.30 pm the I area around military and naval academies is cordoned o f f and placed under heavy [ guard.

In the press muffled echoes o f violence I appear, enough to intimidate, not enough to inform. Odd accounts o f “ bandits” and unexplained “ shootings” appear on the inside pages. A story about a Spanish priest mysteriously “ assassinated” in a railway station does not say that he was | helping to organise victims o f the govern­ ment’s economic policy. A sensational | account o f the roundup o f ten teenage “ hooligans” in the centre o f Sao Paulo I does not say who they were, nor that | some o f them were killed once they were carried away.

Yet despite the facade o f careless ignorance, everyone knows.

Each Brazilian can tell you where the OBAN torture centre is in Sao Paulo or the CODI centre in Rio. Everyone knows about the Death Squadron, the off-duty police group that has murdered at least 2000 opponents in "m ysterious” condi­ tions: you cannot avoid them, because their unlicensed Cadillacs, darkened win­ dows and the monogram “ EM” and the skull and cross-bones painted on them, can be seen prowling the streets o f the main cities.

The dead are silent, but it is not hard to find the living victims o f government terror, the women paralysed b y multiple

beatings and rape; the men psychologic­ ally destroyed b y their time in the hands o f the government’s torturers. They have |had electrodes placed all over their bodies - on their hands, feet, ears, tongues and |genitals. T hey have spent hours or days tied into containers ot treezing water.

They have hung for a week or more by their knees from the pau de arara, the I parrot’s perch, and have been beaten with special clubs and given shock treatment.

Their eardrums have been pierced, they have been injected with pentathol, the “ truth drug” , they have had their jail cells filled with disorientating gas. Those who can, talk.

Thousands more, it is not known how many, have died. The government prac­ tises the policy o f the big lie. They deny it happens. International protests have apparently had little effect: foreign capi­ tal continues to flow in and the US gives b oth political and econom ic backing to the regime, as well as training its officers in the art o f repression. In may 1971 the Western Hemisphere Affairs sub-commit­ tee o f the US senate, under the chair o f senator Frank Church, held hearings which amply demonstrated the scope o f torture in Brazil. In 1973 Amnesty Inter­ national published a detailed R eport on the allegations o f torture in Brazil, listing 1081 torture victims. The government’s main response appears to have been to issue new instructions on dealing with badly marked victims: whereas before they were sometimes released, they are now to be killed. A crippled, live b od y is bad evidence.

Stretching out from the towns o f the Atlantic seaboard is the vast interior, over 60 percent o f it still forest, source o f two thirds o f the world’ s oxygen. In the Amazonian wilds and in the dry lands o f the northeast over 30 million people live in a situation equal in violence to the torturing o f the towns. Here an econom ic reality that was always brutal has accen­ tuated its pressure on its victims as the government’s "opening” o f the interior has proceeded. T w o new highways have promised wealth to the region, instead they have brought even fiercer exploita­ tion, and the guarantee o f more immedi­ ate military control.

Brazil’s econom ic development has been characterised by regional boom s and slumps which have created severe regional and structural imbalances. In the north­ east, depressed relic o f the sugar-produc­ ing slave plantations, real income has fallen in the past decade to around $200 per head, and half the population dies before the age o f 30. In the Amazonian jungles the indian population is being wiped out b y guns and disease. In this century alone 87 tribes have disappeared, and the indian population has fallen from tw o million in the last century to 80,000 today. The government is aiming to settle families along the highways. It offers them land, but no tenure, a shack but no aid. The jungle is difficult to live in, almost impossible to farm But the peas­ ants have little choice; many com e from the deserts o f the northeast and having reared their children on parched earth, are assured at least o f abundant supplies o f water in the jungles o f the Amazon.

Occasionally protests are heard about the fate o f these families or about the policy o f genocide and government ex­ propriation; or discoveries are made o f “ slave” camps in which indented labor is held b y groups o f armed guards. But the protest is more likely to be about the 15 million acres o f the region’s forest con ­ verted to pastures, or the million trees per day that are chopped down for export.

The cries o f the victims in the jungles and deserts are even more strangled than those in the towns.

Y et one group who have achieved some attention in the past two years are the posseiros, the small farmers who I migrated to the jungles from the north­ east in the 1930s and 1940s and are now

being displaced b y the speculators and large financial interests moving in from Sao Paulo. In 1972 a small guerrilla movement began to operate near the town o f Maraba in Para state, concentrat­ ing its activities along the river Araguia.

Led b y around 50 members o f the proChinese Revolutionary Communist party o f Brazil w ho had settled in the area in the mid-60s, they executed a number o f large estate owners and survived a series o f attacks by government troops and freelance heavies sent in b y land specu­ lators.'Their demands are for security o f land tenure, and for a fair price for local produce.

While isolated rural protests reflect the violence o f what’ s happening in the Bra­ zilian interior, they are unlikely to im­ pede its progress.

In 1967-68 the situation became more antagonistic: the “ dem ocratic” politicians were pushed to one side b y the military; workers angry at inflation and students protesting at military rule staged mass demonstrations. Armed urban guerrilla groups went into action. The response o f the Costa e Silva government was Institu­ tional A ct number 5, under which the president was given full powers and all constitutional guarantees. A wave o f un­ precedented violent repression then broke across Brazil.

This hardening o f the regime coincided with a radicalisation o f the left. As elsewhere in latin America, many young members o f the opposition, including church radicals, influenced b y the world prestige o f guerrilla war (Vietnam, Cuba, China) are radicalised b y the failures o f the parliamentary left up to then, believ­ ed that the regime could be overthrown through the building o f a guerrilla m ove­ ment. A number o f initial successes (cul­ minating in the kidnapping o f US ambas­ sador Burke Elbrick in September 1969) appeared to offer a viable alternative. But by the end o f 1971 the leaders o f the guerrilla movement had been killed (Marighela in 1969, Lamarca in 1971); most o f the groups had been smashed.

The guerrilla strategy failed because o f the absence o f a mass movement parallel to the guerrilla actions. This both dulled the propaganda effect o f specific actions — which appeared to the masses to com e out o f the blue — and meant that there was no “ water” in which the “ fish” could swim. The groups were condemned to a hermetic clandestinity. Whereas in Argen­ tina the guerrilla groups active in the period preceding Peron’ s return ran side-by-side with a vibrant, organised working class movement, no such move­ ment existed in Brazil and the strikes o f ,1968 which signalled deep working class discontent were not co-ordinated b y any working class organisation.

ed b y the popular and radical Chiquo | Today a number o f different, non­ Buarque de Holanda. military, forms o f opposition survive.

In the printed media theoretical marx-1 There is n o organised trade union opposi­ ist works o f no apparent practical applica­ tion, above or below ground. The existing tion (by Mandel, Althusser or Marcuse) trade union structure was virtually dis­ are translated and sold to those w ho risk | solved after the coup. Labor demands now go through the pelegos, state-control­ buying them. The stands they say are watched by police monitoring possible | led trade union officials w h o act as agitators. But no works on political strug­ organisers and informers under a system gle, and especially on armed opposition, inspired b y the corporatism o f Vargas’ are allowed. presidency. A form er trade union lawyer In the daily press, one section o f the told us over 2000 decrees concerning regime, represented b y ex-finance min­ labor have been passed giving Trade Union Law control to government bu­ ister R oberto Campos, is supported b y the weekly Politica: its main position seems j reaucrats. to be that there should be greater “ p o liti-!

Even so, last winter in Sao Paulo, cal pluralism” to correlate with the “ eco­ where at least 250,000 peasants com e to nomic pluralism” now prevailing. The find w ork each year, there was a satirical weekly Pasquin prints gossip and series o f stoppages and lightning strikes graphics that might offend the public in all the major Sao Paulo car works.

Puritanism o f the regime. More serious Isolated protests were reported among than either o f these is the weekly Opiniao construction workers in Belo Horizonte, (opinion): founded in October 1972, it the third largest town, in july and from claimed a circulation o f 30,000 and was the dockers o f Santos, the largest port, in made up o f Brazilian coverage, plus mate­ the same month. rial from the New Y ork review o f books, The most vocal critics-of the regime Washington post, Le m onde, Guardian are to be found in sections o f the media and N ew statesman. and in the church. While cinema, a mass Opiniao went to the limits permitted medium, is heavily censored, the theatre, to which only a minority o f the intelli­ in Brazil: it printed protests b y catholic gentsia generally go, is able to express a church leaders and reports on permitted greater degree o f opposition. In the cen­ “ social” problems, while its heavier criti­ cisms were reflected in articles on foreign tre o f R io, a play called Missa Lega (Lay countries - reports o f torture in Turkey, mass) is staged three times a week free of or on censorship in Vietnam, or on the charge. It is an outspoken and violent building o f socialism or guerrilla struggles. attack on the government, and relies on While at first permitted to publish, Opin­ audience participation for effect. It gets its response; the mixed audience o f stu­ iao was blocked: in april 1973 an issue dents, radical bourgeois and urban w ork­ was banned, and since then the editors ers continues to fill the large theatre — submit the material and, in order to conceal the censorship, no blank spaces | and the play is in its second year. can be included. There are, nevertheless, Another play staged in Sao Paulo in spaces o f black with the printed-out august, Um grido parado n o ar (A cry message “ Read Opiniao” . frozen in the air), portrayed b y a group The most active and widespread op­ o f sad, disillusioned intellectuals harking position is that within the catholic back to an unspecified “ tim e” when and this takesat least three things were “ better” . A scarcely conceal­ church, federation of I ed portrayal o f a torture scene, and a forms.The national bishops, the CNBB, andthe bishop o f | stream o f complaints against censorship Recife in particular, Dom Helder Camara, and dismissals, conveyed the sense o f have unflinchingly condemned torture I despair which has gripped Brazil’s intelli­ and the econom ic oppression o f the poor gentsia: the very hopelessness o f the play majority o f the country. The government [ could have saved it from banning. has responded by placing bishops under Music remains an important form o f house arrest. Lower down the hierarchy, popular protest. People still sing the radical songs o f Gilberto Gil and Caetano there have been widespread and sometimes violent opposition from priests and nuns I V eloso — the ones they wrote before w ho have worked with students, dwellers [ their imprisonment in ’68. A t a recent in shanty towns and peasants in opposiconcert Gil presented his latest numbers to a packed audience; they got a tepid p tion activities.

Outside the ranks o f the clergy are response, but the audience nearly brought radical catholics who see their religious I the house dow n when he sang his early duty in a campaign for social justice and political numbers. Gil and V eloso, after living in Europe and the US, have aban­ the end o f military rule. While many | members o f the catholic church have doned politics fo r mysticism, saying that radicalised in recent years, militants out-1 the stakes are too high; but there still side the catholic church who four years exists within the world o f music an important school o f protest culture, head­ before might have favored armed action now see work with the church as the most concrete way o f gaining contact I with the poor and enjoying a minimum | protection from the repression.

The active crushing o f opponents has I gone together with a subtle ideological campaign, designed to mobilise support and give the impression that all is well in Brazil. The most direct form o f this is the censorship. In 1973 all live radio news | broadcasts were banned.

N o medium can mention torture, arm­ ed opposition, or strikes. Nor was there any reporting o f the recent means b y I which the army selected the presidential nominee for 1974. There’s a general ban on leaving blank spaces where articles have been cut. Thus, in more positive | ways, there is a deliberate playing down o f individual government leaders, and o f | the government’s policies: all is assimilat­ ed into a gargantuan, ongoing concern Brazil, half o f latin America, and n ow the envy o f the world. Sports heroes - Pele in football, Emerson Fittipaldi in racing - are boosted by covert government policies. Many o f the Brazilian left hope

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Brazil loses international sporting events to undermine popular passivity towards I the regime. One young militant, w ho had I been tortured for several weeks told us: |“ The left here loves Jackie Stewart.”

the now muted and disorganised resent­ ment o f the population may explode.

Half o f the population o f R io and Sao Paulo live in shanty towns: they keep out o f the smart dow ntow n areas. But one day they could m ove dow n and claim their own.

Foreign control is one winner in the new econ om ic b oom . 100 percent o f the car industry, 91 percent o f the tobacco industry, 82 percent o f rubber and 54 percent o f chemicals are foreign control­ led. The only leading industrial areas with strong Brazilian representation are petro­ leum, electricity and textiles. In the mining areas o f the North East and Amazonia, enterprises established before the end o f 1974 are given tax remissions o f between ten and 15 years, provided they obtain official approval. With huge reserves o f bauxite, iron, manganese, niobium and tin, Brazil is the source o f metals essential for the future o f the US econom y. S o great is the exploitation o f the mining b o o m b y the US that as one observer put it “ Little b y little Bethlehem Steel Corp is hauling Brazilian land back to the United States” . And while exports are expected to rise from $4000m . in 1972 to $21,000m . in 1980, Brazil’s foreign debt will rise from $9500m . to $75,000m . in the same period.

And, most dangerously, Brazil’s pros­ perity depends on the continued stability o f the world market and on the b o o m in primary products. If either o f these situa­ tions changes the Brazilian econ om y will

suffer a severe recession. If not, Brazil still faces the problems o f to o great a dependence on the export sector at the expense o f the dom estic market, the labor problems created by capital inten­ sive industry in a country already plagued by under-employment, and the continued failure to bring about desperately needed reform in the agrarian sector — such is the price o f the Brazilian “ miracle” and it remains to be seen h ow long the Brazilian people will be prepared to fo o t the bill.

So far the US, which helped give birth to the military regime in 1964, is well, pleased. Washington has promised $58m. in military aid and to continue training hundreds o f Brazilian personnel at the International Police Academ y in Wash­ ington. The increased econ om ic and mili­ tary penetration o f the rest o f latin America b y Brazil fits the overall im­ perialist strategy o f decentralising power.

Brazil has a com m on border with every other South American state except Chile and Ecuador. Chile was the main continental rival before the September 11 coup, now it’s Peronist Argentina. In Paraguay, Brazil is helping to finance the Itaipu dam, which will enable them to control the Parana river which flows into Argentina. In the other intermediary state, Uruguay, Brazil openly threatened to help crush the left during the 1971 elections and now patronises the Bordaberry dictatorship. Brazilian influence helped to install Banzer in Bolivia in august 1971, and Brazilian interrogators

A favorite ploy in this "indirect” I propaganda campaign is the prom otion o f little “ messages” , which are set to music, placarded on advertising hoardings, and distributed as car stickers. “ Say N o T o Inflation” was arranged as a samba. “ Brazil Deserves Our Love” , and “ We Are All Part o f a Great Successful Enter­ prise - Brazil” are standard issue. When the Brazilian football team returned from their World Cup victory in 1970 president Medici greeted them with the phrase “ Ningum Siguro no Brasil” , “ Everyone is I on the Move in Brazil” .

If sport is the most obviously prom oted I diversion another o f even greater potency is umbanda, the religious system o f the Brazilian masses made up o f mixtures o f Catholicism and African religions brought by the slaves. In it the symbols o f Catholicism - statues, vestments, bells, candles and so on - are invested with the I significance o f African religions: like I v o o d o o in Haiti, this syncretic belief.

1centres on trance and often on sacrificing I animals, and forms both an ideological land a social system for the mass o f the I population. But these practices are not confined to the poor: the top officials o f the government are known to consult |their macumbero fortune tellers.

The catholic church complains that I the military is actually encouraging umbanda at the expense of Catholicism in I their attempt to control the population.

Workers w ho spend their days producling cars and driving buses becom e b y I night the embodiments o f Xango and lO kun. The sound o f drums, incantations land shrieking emanates from the candle lit shrines found in all working class and peasant districts: while it is no more irrational than the sound o f church bells, it’s an opium that will intensify as the misery and dislocation imposed on the masses by the econom ic “ miracle” in|creases.

The econom ic record is the rock on I which the Brazilian regime now stands.

Brazil has a relatively unified ruling group, in which a highly centralised sys­ tem is administered b y a few military and I civilians, while private capitalists, mainly from abroad, get on with their allotted Itadrs. Brazil has a double econom ic advantage: prices for its main raw materilals have risen and so has foreign investIment in manufacturing. By 1968, 69 percent o f US investment in Brazil was in Bullet ridden corpses: the handiwork o f the Death Squadron the manufacturing sector. This b oom i n . both kinds o f production has been helped b y the “ undogmatic” capitalist policies associated with econom ics minister Delfim Netto. The cruzeiro has been devalued b y small amounts around every 40 days, and wages, prices and debts have been adjusted to compensate for infla­ tion. Brazil has “ denationalised” b y en|couraging foreign investment.

The political cost o f the country’s 10 |percent growth - the thousands killed and tortured - has already been mention­ ed. On top o f this is the fact that the growth has polarised incomes: in the decade between 1960 and 1970 the rich­ est 10 percent o f the country increased their share o f total income from 39.66 percent to 47.79 percent, while the p oor­ est 10 percent’s share fell from 1.17 percent to 1.11 percent in the same i period. The inflation figures also conceal the polarisation: the price o f the staple feijoa (black bean) has risen 400 percent Indian 'jungle jack' in 1973 as a result o f the increased production o f soya beans fo r export; milk rose 120 percent and potatoes 300 per­ cent in the same period. In the shortterm this represents an econom ic problem Pikes against guns the limiting o f the domestic market be­ ca u s e o f the narrow spread o f rising incomes; in the longterm it means that Page 2 0 - T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , march 5-11, 1974

flew to Chile to help the military junta there after the coup - a Brazilian football team was flown in to play in the Santiago stadium when Russia refused to play.

In a tour o f Andean capitals in july ] 1973 foreign minister Gibson Barboza signed credit agreements with Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. Petrobras, the state oil concern, is involved, with local companies, in Ecuador, Vene­ zuela and Colombia. Across the Atlantic, Brazil is trying to strengthen its ties with African states as a means o f boosting | exports. While Brazil has the largest tim­ ber reserves in the world, timber will be I imported from the West African state o f | Gabon. N ot that politics are neglected: under the transparent banner o f solidarity | between Portuguese-speakers, the Brazil­ ian junta have invested heavily in Portu-1 gal’s African colonies as a means o f boosting a likeminded regime, and A f­ rican liberation movements claim that they I have sent troops to boost Portugal’ s'! colonial forces there.

Although firmly in command at home, the junta has been disturbed by recent I trends in world diplomacy. The guerrillas have let it be known that in a world deprived of firm Christian leadership, Brazil will be ready to assume a “ more | important” role.

General Ernesto Geisel, the man nom­ inated to becom e president this | month, appears to represent a m ore ration­ al and active style o f executive power than that o f his three predecessors: the hesitant Castello Branco (1964-1967), the manic Costa e Silva (1967-1969) and the thuggish Medici Garrastazu (1969-1974).

He is rumored to favor a slightly more nationalist econom ic policy, having been | the director o f Petrobras until his nomin­ ation. Rumors also suggest that Geisel j will encourage a slightly more liberal regime, what is termed “ political decom ­ pression” or, as one sycophantic news­ paper commentator put it, the attempt ] “ to prom ote the re-encounter o f the revolution with its democratic inspira-1 tions” . Every president so far has promis­ ed liberalisation and a return to the | constitution, and has then done nothing.

Politics within the military is opaque I but the younger officers, members o f an ] ultra-rightist faction known as the “ Indo­ nesians” , who favor intensified repres-1 sion, have in the past blocked attempts b y | higher officers favoring a slight relaxa­ tion. There is nothing in Geisel’ s own I political record to suggest that liberalis-1 ation is on the way; moreover nor is his choice o f henchmen, like vice-presidential nominee, general Adalberto Pereiraz dos Santos, a known hardliner and supporter j o f Medici’s. 1973 has not been a “ liberal” year - the Death Squadron has becom e I more active after two years o f relative obscurity; several opponents have been shot by police in mysterious circum­ stances, and the form er ch ief executioner o f the Death Squadron, commissioner Sergio Fleury, has been released from prison under pressure from within the police and army after he was arrested for | killing a suspected dope peddler.

This year the regime has shown its I confidence in an epoch o f com m odity b oom by announcing a 50 percent cut in I coffee exports and abrogating all special supply agreements in favor o f sales at the prevailing market price. It reckoned it I could not lose from this reduced but I more expensive marketing, since in 1 9 7 3 1 alone its exports had risen in value b y 5 3 1 percent. At the same time the new| president, Geisel, signalled no change in I the form o f political rule: he let it be I known that “ the confinement o f the] armed forces to activities which are strict-1 ly related to national security is absurd” . I Brazil enters its second decade of| military rule, with torture and direct [ mutilation o f political opponents and | econom ic torture o f the tens o f millions | o f oppressed.

HE SIGN on the door says “ Self Help Clinic” . You walk in and, over to one side a woman lies on her back, her legs spread apSft. She’s separating the outer lips o f her cunt with a plastic speculum. A couple o f women are intently peering up her orifice while a colleague is manipulating a mirror enabling the woman on her back to get a panoramic view o f the inside o f her own vaginal passage.

In another room a woman is having her period extracted. She's got a plastic tube, or, to use the professional jargon, a cannula up her and another woman is operat­ ing a syringe-like apparatus. It only takes a few minutes and all the menstrual fluids are sucked out. And if the menstrual extractee was pregnant, there’s now a 98-99 percent chance that she’ s not.

This processis comm only known as "menstrual extraction” .

Am ong medical circles it’s known as endometrial aspiration or menstrual induction. The sensa­ tionalist press call it “ early abor­ tion” .

There’s a lot more going on in the Self Help Clinic. Some women are looking at slides o f vaginal infections and are discussing sim­ ple “ dom estic” remedies. A R on eo machine clanks out in­ form ation o f a forthcom ing train­ ing course in birth control and introducing an abortion referral service. This printed information is later to be distributed to sub­ urban working class wom en in an attempt to illustrate to them that ignorance o f their own bodies adds to their domestic and eco­ nom ic plight and heightens their dependence on an expensive medi­ cal system.

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INCE their inception in 1971, American Self Help Clinics have flourished — there are now more than 100 such clinics in the US. O f course reactionary and conservative elements have de­ rided this development.

Op­ ponents o f the womens movement dismiss self help as just another example o f womens liberation’s obsession with technological mat­ ters and ask when women are going to stop “ mucking around” with their bodies. However self help diagnosis is receiving growing support from wom en throughout the world.

In fact American women acti­ vists have found that it’s much easier to induce women to attend self help clinics that it is to involve them in ideological dis­ cussions. Women are quite awed by what they can learn about their ow n bodies through selfexamination. It seems too that there’s quite a “ trip” in self-exam­ ination - women have made state­ ments such as, “ It’s the inner eye, the opening to the soul” , and “ It’s good to know life will never get boring. Everyone’s cervix is differ­ ent” .

Self Help Clinics were estab­ lished in America by women health activists to give women more control over their ow n b o d ­ ies and to circumvent the medical system hence lessening the ex­ ploitative powers o f male doctors.

In the US women make, on average, 25 percent more calls to doctors per year than men, con ­ sume 50 percent more pre­ scription drugs than men and are more frequently admitted to hos­ pitals. Although 70 percent o f the US health labor force is comprised o f wom en, most patients and workers are under the dominance and supervision o f male doctors (only 7 percent o f US doctors are women, the bulk o f these special­ ising in pediatrics).

The credo o f the US self help movement is “ happiness is know­ ing your own cervix” . Women are

radical physician, said that women can’t run away from doctors. She insists “ we should ask instead why we dont have more understanding, humane gynecologists - and try to d o something about it” .

Sue Reverby, womens health expert, claims that self or group examinations, even for routine in­ fections, are not accurate ways to make diagnosis. She described an example o f how she had wrongly diagnosed herself and consequen­ tly administered the wrong treat­ ment.

Arguments against self-examin­ ation itself seem fatuous women can only stand to gain from increased self-knowledge and, providing a woman has been shown how to use a speculum gently and safely, and has been made aware o f the necessity o f cleanliness (there’ s a maxim never put in your cunt what you wouldnt put in your m outh), there can be n o harmful effects.

In treating self-diagnosed ail­ ments, a certain amount o f care is necessary. If there’s any doubt check with a medically qualified person. It’s over menstrual extrac­ tion however that the big question mark hovers.

HE BASIC equipment orig­ inally used fo r menstrual extraction, a syringe and plastic tube, was unsophisticated. There was a danger that to o much uterine material could be collect­ ed and, that by pumping air into the uterus, a fatal embolism could be caused.

Self helper Lorraine Rothman has improved this basic equip­ ment. Her new kit, called Del Em, which has been designed for use in Self Help Clinics, features a b y ­ pass bottle and a valve system, and is safer and more efficient.

Rothman admits that menstrual extraction is still in the experi­ mental stage and that she and other self helpers are watching closely for long and shortterm effects such as: • Pelvic inflammatory disease which could be caused by bacteria introduced b y the cannula into the vagina.

• Perforation o f the uterus.

• Eventual cervical incompetence - the weakening o f the cervix’s potential ability to hold back baby and waters during pregnancy thus increasing the possibility o f premature births.

Du r i ng extraction severe cramping can also be a problem but, if this becom es to o painful, the process can simply be stop­ ped. Women with reflexed, anti­ flexed uteruses, serious infections, polyps, extensive scarring, en­ dometriosis and double uteruses should never undergo menstrual extraction.

Advocates o f menstrual extrac­ tion state that the participant’ s awareness o f its experimental nature is crucial to the procedure.

Groups o f US wom en who have been regularly meeting to extract each others periods have been keeping data on their findings, but this has yet to be publicly releas­ ed.

Self helper Laura Brown sums up the attitude o f menstrual ex­ traction experimenters b y de­ claring: “ We have the right to d o it as consenting adults.”

There’s another danger in menstrual extraction - it’s “ ripo ff” potential is extremely high.

American women are already complaining about doctors who are charging $50 per extraction.

An example o f such a “ d octor” is Harvey Karman, a self-taught abortion expert w ho has been aborting for more than 20 years and has been busted “ more time than he can remember” . Karman, who credits himself for all the major womens breakthroughs (in­ cluding the “ invention” o f the self helpers speculum which he claims

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shown how to, with the aid o f a plastic speculum, a lamp, and mir­ rors, open the vaginal cavity and inspect the walls and cervix for discharges, infections etc. Being adept at cervical self-examination means a woman can follow changes in the cervix during menstrual periods, be aware o f any changes due to pregnancy, recognise and treat yeast and other vaginal infections, recognise syphilis and gonorrhoea, and also to learn to extract menstrual fluids, to give themselves a “ five minute period” , and/or an early abortion, a guiltless abortion be­ cause the woman need not know if she was pregnant or not.

US self helpers also examine the possibility o f more advanced paramedical training and form ac­ tion groups to continue the repeal o f sex laws and to prom ote cheap­ er, safer abortions and contracep­ tion. Ultimately they hope the clinics can be taken beyond in­ dividual groups and challenge the current medical system.

The movement began in the US in february 1971 when Los

Angeles abortion reformist, Carol Downer, saw another w om an’s cervix during an IUD insertion.

She examined her own cervix and then demonstrated the procedure to a group o f friends. The group expanded, met regularly in a fem ­ inist b o o k shop, and then moved to the LA Womens Centre.

Predictably, all hasnt been peaceful. On September 20, 1972, LA police busted the original Womens Centre and arrested Downer and colleague Colleen Wilson for “ practising medicine without a licence” . Wilson plead­ ed guilty to one o f the 11 charges against her and received a $250 fine, 25 day suspended sentence, and tw o years probation. Downer pleaded not guilty to her one charge — diagnosing a vaginal yeast infection and applying yogurt as a cure.

Her lawyers represented the case as a domestic administration o f a family remedy, which is excluded from the medical licence law. Downer also benefited when

she proved she was out o f town on one o f the days a policewoman undercover agent allegedly receiv­ ed advice from her. The jury, eight men and four women, re­ turned a verdict o f not guilty. The trial and subsequent publicity helped the movement to a consid­ erable extent. One self help acti­ vist comm ented that: “ The trial taught women all around the country about the yogurt cure. It was a big PR jo b .” e n s t r u a l extraction, the most controversial practice o f the self helpers, has not yet been legally tested in American courts. However, the New York city health department recently became the first city to declare that menstrual extraction is now subject to the same health rules governing abortions.

Self help has also caused dis­ sension among the ranks o f radical feminists. Ellen Frankfort, author o f the column “ Vaginal Politics” in the Village voice stated that cervical examination is a m ove­ ment indulgence with limited diagnostic ability. Dr Jane Fisher,

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was a “ hot shot” idea o f his more than ten years ago), has also devel­ oped his own menstrual extrac­ tion kit which is designed for use by doctors and medical clinics at $25-$50 per extraction. Karman, his modish clothes, unctuous good looks and baby blue XKE Jaguar, is hated by self helpers for his blatant disrespect for woman and his hip experimentation on wom en - his first cannula patient, by his own admission, “ didnt even know she was one” .

RITISH self helpers are in a different situation to their American counterparts. In Ameri­ ca the medical system is extreme­ ly capitalistic and exploitative, with poorer, lower class citizens denied medical access. Conse­ quently American women have to militantly set out to improve the attitude o f the medicos and alter the system so that it benefits them.

In Britain, which, according to Eva Learner, a social health care lecturer at L ondon ’s University College hospital who is currently visiting Australia, has a “ potential­ ly beautiful health care system open to everybody” , the role o f Self Help Centres are more in the area o f general social work and the raising o f womens conscious­ ness.

Learner, who is broadly experi­ enced in obstetrics and gynecol­ ogy, and is a consultant in these fields, has been involved in both American and British self help movements. She says that British self helpers face no political prob­ lems except to push for certain developments to be made avail­ able on the National Health Ser­ vice.

British self helpers examine each other vaginally but are not so involved in diagnosis or using home remedies. Only a very small number o f women carry out menstrual extraction - the pro­ cess is still underdeveloped in Britain and is being examined by legislative bodies. It is available on the NHS but it’s carefully moni­ tored.

Learner advocates the training o f paramedics to carry out extrac­ tion under the medical care service.

She is not in favor o f women performing the process on them­ selves. She views menstrual extrac­ tion purely as an abortion method. She thinks the idea o f wom en going to such lengths to alleviate the hassles o f a period is m orbid, and throwing women back to the archaic era, and that wom en w ho carry out the process are a bit “ k ook ie” .

Learner says the problem o f wom en being conditioned to feel “ dirty” during periods is still a b lood y nuisance (her pun) and one o f the aims o f self help should be to ensure that all British wom en have a healthy attitude towards menstruation and feel free to fuck etc, during menstrua­ tion. She maintains that “ men­ strual anxiety” is still a wide­ spread problem in Britain.

British Self Help Clinics are designed more as walk-in centres where women are invited to learn about their bodies, or merely to chat about their problems. British self helpers involve themselves in all areas o f health, including mental health and also examine legal and social problems.

Eva Learner says that one o f the most important developments o f British self help had been the discovery o f the high incidence o f wife bashing. Large numbers o f “ battered” women have been coming to the centres seeking shelter - previously they had n o­ where to go, stayed at home, and did not com e to public attention.

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into the problem, and a report giving statistics should soon be tabled.

On the home front u r p r i s i n g as it may be, in Australia, where wom ens services are seriously undeveloped and where, paradoxically, women have one o f the highest rates o f usage o f the “ pill” in the world, a government financed Self Help Centre has been established and will open officially on march 8, to coincide w ith International Womens Day. The centre, known as the Leichhardt Community Health Centre, has been given a grant o f $33,000 by the Federal Hospitals and Health Services Commission, is the first Australian government financed com m unity service to be operated b y an independent b od y.

The idea for the centre rose out o f the Womens Commission o f 1973 which discussed the need for a centre to act as an abortion referral centre, to cater for womens medical and paramedical needs, to give contraceptive ad­ vice, to perform an educative role in the com m unity, and to pro­ mote self help and knowledge o f the body.

Judy McLean, secretary o f the centre, said that initially the centre would be “ fairly conserva­ tive” when compared to US Self Help Clinics.

The centre, situated in an old working class area, hopes to act­ ively work among the wom en o f the immediate area but indica­ tions are that wom en from all over Sydney will make use o f the services. The centre will be staffed by two doctors, two nurses, one fulltime, the other parttime, one health education officer, one re­ search worker and a secretary.

Unfortunately, apart from the Leichhardt clinic, there is no other organised self help b od y in Australia. I contacted several women from various womens or­ ganisations — some had n o know l­ edge o f self help, others had heard o f it, but dismissed it. I spoke to

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Beatrice Faust, an extremely active radical, the woman w ho originally established the extreme­ ly effective Womens Electoral L obby and is presently involved in the A bortion Law Repeal Associ­ ation (A L R A ).

Faust believes that Self Help Clinics are definitely needed in Australia because most wom en are naive and incredibly ignorant about their own bodies. She says that our medical system is in better shape than Am erica’ s but wom en should be actively involv­ ed in improving the attitudes o f Australian gynecologists. A cco rd ­ ing to Faust, m ost Australian gynos fall into tw o basic categor­ ies - those that are cunt shy, and those that are cunt happy.

Faust described the catholic d o cto r w h o delivered her first child. T o suit his own ideals this d octor would not administer a painfiller. The birth was particu­ larly painful because Faust had to be cut to facilitate the baby’ s exit.

Then when this ghoul began to “ sew her up” she demanded a painkiller. He refused, and Faust, in agony, threatened to kick him in the face (wom en on the deliv­ ery table are in an excellent posi­ tion to deliver such a kick) unless he administered the painkiller, which he then did. This doctor, says Faust, was cunt shy. A d o c ­ tor w ho didnt like women, enjoyed their pain, liked to, and felt it his role, to punish women.

Then there was the time Faust stripped o f f in front o f a gyno. He said that she had fine white skin and that she would be good to make love to. This was a cunt happy doctor, one who “ liked” women.

Women are under a distinct disadvantage when dealing with m edicos and are usually to o timid to demand a gynecologist to im­ prove his methods and manner.

Faust dismisses the medical board as not very useful — it usually tends to cover up and only acts if a gynecologist is reported to have done something obviously out­ rageous, like trying to forcibly

kiss a patient.

T o help wom en find sympa­ thetic doctors the Womens Elec­ toral L ob by keeps a “ black” list and a “ white” list. Faust recom­ mends that wom en avoid catholic gynecologists at all costs, and that jewish gynecologists are usually the best. Faust warns against un­ married female gynecologists she says these women are just as bad as cunt shy men, that after making a lot o f career sacrifices these wom en develop a contempt for other women, are extremely unliberated and their conscious­ ness is usually badly in need o f raising.

Faust has very definite views on menstrual extractions - she maintains they should only be performed by trained medical or paramedical staff, and only for abortion purposes. On hormonal balance, she believes the gradual release o f menstrual fluids plays a very important function in the hormonal cycle and rapid release o f menstrual fluids would cause a hormonal backlash and depres­ sion.

Self help, she says, should be extended to training wom en to take their own smears for vaginal and cervical cancer testing.

UT WHAT about the “ w om b men” themselves, how d o they react to self help and menstrual extractions? I put this question to Dr Trevaks, the medi­ cal superintendent o f that all im­ portant institution, the Royal Womens Hospital in Melbourne.

He was earnestly bemused about the whole thing. He gave me a conspiratorial male grin and shrug — the universal indication among men that th ey’ve really got no idea what goes on in a woman’ s head.

However, Trevaks knew a lot about womens bodies. He discus­ sed menstrual extraction in very efficient terms. Yes, he’d heard it talked about, read about it in the popular press, and explained that it was practised, where practical, in “ therapeutic” abortions in that hospital. He drew me a “ map” o f the uterus, identified the com m on enemy, the fertilised ovum, and, menstrual extraction kit in hand,

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-DO IT YOUR-SELF EXAM INATIONFULL bladder will obscure findings — urinate before examination.

Lie com fortably on your back on a firm surface (floor or table), or on the edge o f a chair, and let your knees fall gently apart.

Then, using a goose neck lamp and a hand mirror (Beatrice Faust recommends m otorbike wing mir­ rors - they’re ideally suited for the job ), examine the external genitalia. L ook fo r growths and skin changes, such as rashes, dis­ coloration etc, and any discharges coming out o f the vaginal open ­ ing.

Next pull back the outer lips and expose the smaller inner lips.

L ook for cysts in the crevice lining the inside o f the outer lips.

Now use a speculum which has been sterilised in alcoh ol - specu-

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lums are available from most m ed­ ical suppliers.

Lubricate the blades with surgi­ cal jelly - easy on the jelly, to o much jelly can be confused with vaginal secretions.

Pull the lips apart with your left hand and insert the closed speculum blades with your right hand.

The blades should run perpen­ dicular to the floor - insert them parallel and y o u ’ll press soft vagi­ nal tissue against the pubic bone resulting in pain.

When the speculum is firmly inserted turn it so that the blades are now parallel to the floor and squeeze the outside arms towards each other. This spreads the blades open inside your vagina.

The teeth on the handle will lock in an open position. Gently

push the blades further in to expose the pink cone like cervix, the opening to the uterus. The cervix moves about a bit. If it is out o f view massage your lower abdomen to gently push it back to centre.

Using the hand mirror, inspect the mouth o f the cervix. L ook for cervical erosion, red mqist areas around the opening. L ook for discharges coming out o f the cer­ vical mouth — these discharges are signs o f infection in the uterus or fallopian tubes, such as gonorr­ hoea. Discharges coming from the vagina, but not the cervix, are signs o f vaginal diseases such as trichomonas vaginalis or fungus in­ fections.

Finally, slowly release the teeth o f the speculum and remove it.

demonstrated how the method worked.

He said it should only be per­ form ed b y medical staff and that the idea o f a woman extracting her own fluids was impractical. He strode into the middle o f his office and flexing his knees, as though about to demonstrate a golf stroke, he showed the diffi­ culty a lone woman would have in inserting the tube and then manip­ ulating the syringe. He also said that self-examination was tech nically negative and that he would not advocate the prescription o f any substance or drug, restricted or otherwise - but he quickly added it was not up to him to tell women what they could, or could not, d o to their own bodies.

A TER that day I found myself trudging up the dingy cement stairs leading to the Fertility Control Centre, the home o f well known “ abortion’ referralist, Bertram Wainer. Sitting in Wainer’s reception room , you get the feeling that this is the nitty gritty o f the cunt business - furtive, whitefaced Mss nervous ly await their call; tired, wan, worried women look at posters that proclaim “ Y o u ’ve com e long way baby” ; a tear stained girl clutches her boyfriend, desperate ly kisses him, as though she might never return from “ in there” .

When the last patient’s gone, Wainer calls me into his office and begins a relaxed, informal chat.

Broaching the subject o f self help, Wainer states that he’s not oppos­ ed to women “ looking up each others fannies” . In fact, he says, he’d more than welcome any movement that would help women overcome their ignorance about their genitals and the repro­ ductive “ mysteries” .

He explains that he’s not a “ medical chauvinist” , that people in general should leam more about their bodies and that they should even perform such simple procedures as taking their own blood pressure.

Wainer has a com panion, a glamorous blonde, middle aged American colleague. Her high forehead, arched eyebrows and accent traces, indicate that she has an upper class european back­ ground. She also has a very cold attitude towards her patients. If she had her way, “ ordinary” people wouldnt even be allowed to take their own temperature, let alone examine themselves. This woman, who declined to give her name, said that in America there’d been a campaign to educate women to check on the placement o f their own IUD insertions. She said she’d com e across a woman w ho had infected herself — she was working in the garden and then walked inside and stuck her dirty finger up herself.

Wainer leaned forward and urg­ ed me to ensure that I didnt credit this quote to him - “ the womens libbers would crucify m e,” he said.

His female colleague then in­ formed me that it takes a great deal o f training to becom e a gyne­ cologist and that it had taken even her a year before she could feel and recognise “ things” . Wainer thought that menstrual extraction performed b y untrained women was the height o f nonsense, that non trained people shouldnt pre­ tend to be doctors and that this was in fact backyard abortion and therefore highly illegal. Wainer says that it is a good idea for paramedics to be trained to per­ form extractions.

Finally, Wainer told me that it’s his opinion that do-it-yourself extraction kits were an obvious gimmick and showed me an inter­ national newsletter, InterCom, which warned that these kits were becoming a dangerous big business.

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M Y NAME MEANS HORSE: Ross Ryan (EMI EMA 301).

OSS Ryan more o r less sprang out o f nowhere last year, when he was chosen as a supporting act in WA for R oy Orbison, and since then he has gone from strength to strength.

His biggest break in the eastern states was the Hollies’ tour, when the audience was so disappointed by the main act and so pleasantly surprised by Ryan that they came away raving about the support act. A breakthrough fo r both Ryan and an Australian audience.

EMI have a great deal o f faith in their singer/songwriter/guitarist boy wonder and this shows on the packaging o f his second album As well as printing the lyrics in the handsome fold-out cover, there are explanations from Ross on certain songs, giving it all a very personal touch. Cynics suggest that this faith stems from the fact that Ryan has an American pass­ port and therefore will be easier for EMI to break in in America, and though the removal o f visa problems can be o f great assistance in this, I think the main reason is Ryan himself.

On stage Ryan has an amazing talent for projecting himself to the audience with feeling and af­ fection. He enjoys handling an audience and is one o f the few Australian performers who can get the crowd to sing along without bludgeoning them about the head or resorting to threats, as some rock groups do. As well, he has a fresh sort o f rugged yet amen­ able b oy next door image which perfectly suits the type o f materi­ al he sings.

All this is captured on his new album Many o f Ross’s songs are drawn from personal experience and observation: Orchestra ladies is “ dedicated to those young ladies who, as rumor has it, help fill the em pty hours o f the lonely travelling musician” , and it is a fresh and sensitive approach to the oft-used and abused subject o f groupies, suggesting that “ you com e look for a dream/and you find nothing there” .

B lood on the m icrophone gives the listener a glimpse o f the stage from the other side o f the lights, when the performer is facing a disinterested, almost hostile audi­ ence. A nice angle, and a brilliant

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both credited for backing vocals) sings a soaring line which brings to mind Cocker’s Beverley Gardiner or the unspecified backing vocalist who helps make John Denver’s Aerie a great album. It is one o f those strong songs which builds and builds and stays firmly in mind after one hearing.

Battle song is a wistful anti war song, bringing the blame quite squarely back home with a gentle hushed female chorus: L o o k on down/see what w e’ve done. Peter Martin who arranges the strings delicately and tastefully through­ out the album plays some nice guitar on this track.

Edith child has a cover P.S. attached to the lyrics: “ This is what is known as a ‘ chunga chunga’ song. It’s for you people in record land w h o believe all music is for dancing. Power to your feet. S o there you are folks - it’s got a beat and you can dance to it.”

I am Pegasus, the single from the album is explained away by Ryan with the words: “ This song does mean something. However the explanation is so confusing it would probably only bore y o u .” I know more people w ho hate this song than like it - partly perhaps, because o f its radio exposure. I dont mind it however, and its obscure lyrics amuse rather than annoy me.

The last track on the album Sing-along-horse-song, subtitled the song the world has been wait­ ing for, is a nonsense play on the name o f the album, so named because the name Ross means horse. It is not an important track here, with its rollicking sing-along, but I can imagine it playing a lively part in Ryan’s perform ­ ances.

Ross Ryan begins his album with a message to listener and reviewer alike: Why dont you walk over /and lift o f f the n eed leJust dont lay the blame/beside m y name You pu t me on.

And I left it on, and I enjoyed it. M y name means horse is a very pleasant, easy listening album There are m great profundities in the lyrics, no stunning innova­ tions in the music, but gentle, pleasant albums arent too easy to com e by. So if that’s what you feel like, give this a chance.

MARGARET MacINTYRE title fo r a song.

As well, there are the personal love songs: A Jules song, There is no pain, and N ob od y waved g ood ­ bye - the last tw o tinged b y a gently bitter tone.

The most outstanding song on

the album is D ont lo o k to me, an ambitious but successful song in which Jesus is both subject and narrator, yet the song is neither farcical nor a steal from Jesus Christ superstar. The message is that Jesus has declared himself a

failure in his efforts to help man and decided to cop out: S o dont look to me/It is over.

In the last rousing chorus line the backing singers swell above the strings, and either Allison MoCallum or Kristi Lane (w ho are

STEVE HARLEY of Cockney Rebel said it all when he commented on a sell-out Mott the Hoople Concert for M elody maker last year: “ It was rubbish. But it made 2000 kids happy, and that’s what’s important.” And that’s how photographer Rod Manning saw the recent Melbourne Slade Concert.

L A M E N T FOR S A D JO N A H

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He flies on weather-beaten wings n d wanders w ith the waves B low n on b y ever-beating winds Over sile n t sailors' graves

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AMOS DRUMMOND PLANET WAVES: Bob Dylan e v i e w i n g a Bob Dylan album is more than a bit difficult. It’s hard because the man’s music - his songs - has stood so high so long, has not only reflected but channelled and translated a decade - in many cases, mine included, the guy has been able to form the opinions and yea verily change the lives of others with a guitar, a rough hewn verse and a voice that has fluctuat­ ed between frog and fairy.

It’s gotten to the point where reviewing him has become a bit like reviewing God and his World Game Plan (now there’s a show that should truly have bom bed in New Haven).

But that, o f course, is so wrong. Somewhere back in the early 60s when critics were de­ scribing Dylan as a chaplinesque character with the face o f a choir boy and the voice and style o f a neo W oody Guthrie cum Blind Lemon Jefferson, before he start­ ed to define the protest m ove­ ment, Dylan made a strong point o f saying that the one thing he learned from W oody - one o f many catalysts — was that no man should be made to suffer the idol syndrome.

That, I believe, is a simple, sensible point that he immediately began to contradict for this or that reason by condoning by silence the myth that others, we were more than willing to build.

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This man loves Dylan....

He substituted the sports hero for the so called cut-above-them ob scene.

Christ. I hung on every album wondering where the guy was going so I could change gear ac­ cordingly and smirk at all the bastards who couldnt fo llo w his drift. He had achieved artistic freedom because I’d grant him anything and wait until it grew on me and grow it did and does.

But hang on! That was years ago. Where the hell is that matur­ ity everyone promised me for so long? When Planet waves was first released I took a cab to the record shop and ordered three copies, waiting to leap into a trance, nod my head in approbation and con ­ firm that the king was indeed alive.

I know that all sounds like crap. I know I know. But god ­ dammit it happened. He did it again. I just can’t kick the habit no matter how old I try to get.

Planet waves is a fucking great album (and anyone who thinks I should end the review right here, and I do, doesnt realise that the reading public demands more and I get paid by the line).

Now I’m going to make a slight confession that will lose me a couple o f friends w h o burn candles in front o f Dylan’s pic­ ture. Some o f his songs bore the pants o ff me. Some o f his lyrics are tearfully trivial and his m elo­

dies m onotonous. But it always into one o f those “ Here’s what takes me so long to find out Dylan seems to be saying” raves which ones. And there are p rob­ or even “ Here’s what he’s saying ably a couple o f songs that fit this to m e” jags cause they aint worth category on this album but I just a bucket o f cold spit as a former can’t recall which right now.

American vice-president once said It’ll take a bit more time and a explaining the worth o f his office. few more hundred listenings b e ­ But we’ll have a small run fore objective judgment enters the through so you can have some­ picture. Right now I’m glad b e ­ thing to argue with me about. cause there is no one like him, no On a night like this is about 14 one com ing close to him, no one hours after the New Morning. If w h o impresses me more with their I’m n ot to o far off/ I think we did sincerity, and no one w ho makes this on ce before the man sings. me so happy to listen to.

Yea, but it’ s all right.

Where has our blue eyed son Going going gone . . . Robbie got to now ? Well for one thing at his clinical best and Dylan he’s in love and he’s how lin’ about singing about what seems to be a it, and he has this group called narrow escape. There’s a lot that The Band backing him up and happened back there in the past n obod y can set up a howl like this that scared shit out o f Dylan but band. he can still sing about it or allude Back in the drug days Dylan to it at least. said he played with R obbie Tough mama . . . a gritty side Robertson cause he was the only o f the sad eyed lady. I wonder if man alive who oould mathemat­ this is gonna be one o f the ones I ically dissect his music. Right he d on t really care for. is again. While other groups pro­ H a z el. . . Hang on, did he say vide a wall fo r the singer to hang STARDUST IN YOU R EYES . . . ou t on, The Band cuts through a Y eah and he also moans verse and Levon Helm, on drums, ooooooooh h h h h for the touch o f moves it along. Dam n! This isnt a you r love . . . but if the truth be group it’s a holy com m union with known I’m in a romantic m ood Dylan as the host. There. N ow I this year and Dylan the sucker know that’s a gross exaggeration punches me with this song. It’s but what the hell d o you want me simple and soft and tender and to say. They’re good? Give me a this is getting me sick to my g ood old exaggeration over an stomach but I’m writing it. He’s understatement any day. singing it. It makes a helluva Now I don t feel like getting difference.

....but not the Four Tops M AIN STREET PEOPLE: Four Tops (Probe label).

HE TERRIBLE thing about this album is that it’s not bad. (I have a recurring nightmare about that phrase. I see my tom bstone Here lies Amos Drummond born 1943, died whenever - “ N ot Bad” .).

It’s the sort o f an album you wouldnt mind some talking in the middle of. It’s the sort o f an album that if someone wanted to bullshit in the middle o f it you

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wouldnt want to kill 'em I’d play it when my nerves were shot — BECAUSE IT DOES NOT OF­ FEND. And therein lies its fault. I dont mind baby fo o d but I prefer hot chili.

The Four Tops. Back in the forgotten 60s they used to sing spade rockers like Reach ou t and Bernadette. They had no message but there was an urgency - they moved — you could dance to them and really stomp to ’em.

The words never meant much but

Dave Hill's Top Ten Dave Hill, lead guitarist fo r Slade.

1. Never, never, never, Shirley Bassey.

2. String o f pearls, Glenn Miller.

3. You really got me, the Kinks.

4. L ove’s theme, Love Un­ limited.

5. H ey Joe, Jimi Hendrix.

6. Summer breeze, Seals & Croft.

7. Twist & shout, Beatles.

8. Walk on by, Dionne War­ wick.

9. Whiter shade o f pale, Procol Harum.

10. Move it, Cliff Richard.

No. 10 was extracted under duress. From 1-9 came tumbling out, with “ Oh good. I did this for an English magazine just recently.

I hope some Mums and Dads read your paper ’cos they’ll be amazed to know I dig their type o f music.”

Innocent Bystander: “ Y o u ’re playing it pretty safe. There must be something earlier than that, something that helped get you interested.

An embarrassment maybe.” “ Oh alright then.” No. 10 . . .

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no one gave a damn. And they were a great act to watch - three dudes sm ooth as silk doing a slick dance behind a raving vocal.

They used to play in a place called the A p o llo theatre on 125 th street in Harlem, New York, on the same bill as champs like Sm okey Robinson and the Miracles and James Brown and have everyone h ootin ’ and howlin’ and jumping on seats. And it didnt even matter if damn near every song they sung had the same sound, the same beat. If nothing they were good exercise.

They were packaged anarchy.

But times and trends have changed (even Dylan and the Grateful Dead have kicked the desperation k ick ).

There are some good numbers.

Main street people, the title song, starts and finishes the album and is listenable. Sw eet understanding love almost recaptures a small drop o f what used to be and Are y o u man enough (from Shaft in A frica) is lushly produced, nicely arranged but throughly antiseptic.

I know this sounds like a thea­ tre review in the Financial times o f L ondon but Levi Stubbs and Lawrence Payton jnr, w h o share the vocals, d o a good jo b and the harmony is (ugh) workmanlike but, Christ knows, not exception­ al.

Main street p eop le (the picture on the cover shows four pint sized dudes standing on a corner harmo­ nising). I know the last decade was more than a little rough on the senses. I know there was a need to quieten down. But I didnt think the Four Tops would trade in whatever soul they had for schmaltz.

It’s a pity but not a crying shame. I’ll listen to it ’cause I need something when loud hurts, but I aint gonna live b y it. j j

Something there is about you . . . similar school but there he is howlin’ and honkin’ and between him and The Band w h o is pushing w ho? I dont know what the hell rainy days on the great lakes or walking the hills o f old Duluth (and it had to be Ruth . . . Phyllis doesnt rhyme with Duluth) has to d o with it but I like it.

Forever you ng is my favorite song on the album. His gift to others is his gift to me. If I could only share with you what this song does for me . . . May yo u always kn ow the truth and see their lights surrounding you with Dylan’s voice sliding from note to image.

Dirge brings up that scarey past again and it’s a tune well named but nothing I care to think o f right now.

You angel yo u and Never say good bye are nice and simple, soft rocking love songs. Wedding song is Dylan and guitar and the ideal love, the full circle (I love you more than madness). And again, yet again, he disavows his role as prophet leader (It's never been m y duty to remake the world at large, nor is it m y intention to sound the battle charger). Yeah, well he can just d o what he wants to d o and I’ll be satisfied.

My overall impression is that Dylan has forsaken the m elody for the package but it doesnt bother me. Where he will go from here doesnt interest me right now.

But may he stay forever young.

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Doings L A T I N J A Z Z ! T h e e x c i t i n g a fr o s o u n d s o f the I A N B R O W N S E X ­ T E T e v e r y th u r s d a y f r o m 8 . T iv o li h o t e l, P irie s tr e e t, A d e la id e .

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M e lb o u r n e . B o r e d b u t b u s y b i­ guy, 2 3 , h op es to m eet spunky, in t e llig e n t , good l o o k in g m a le th r o u g h th is a d . ( U n d e r 2 6 . ) IN C box 7903.

M e lb o u r n e . C a m p g u y , 2 4 , w e ll hung, good slim body, se e k s ( h a n d s o m e ) m a n , u n d e r 3 5 , w ith a t h le t ic b o d y . D is c r e t io n assu red f o r m a r r ie d m e n . IN C b o x 7 9 0 4 .

N o r t h e r n N S W . L ib e r a t e d m a le in t e r e s t e d in s h a r in g h is n a tu ra l liv in g , lo v in g , g r o w in g e x p e r ie n c e w it h s e v e ra l othe.rs. S u n , skin , fo r e s t s , fie ld s , stre a m s. IN C b o x 7905.

M e lb o u r n e . F e m m e , 2 9 , N a t io n R e v ie w t y p e , g e m in i, 5 ’ 8 ” , h ave ju s t e s c a p e d f r o m m a rria g e w ild e r ­ n e ss an d w is h t o m e e t in t e llig e n t , fo r w a r d t h in k in g . N a t io n R e v ie w o r ie n t a t e d g u y f o r o u t in g s an d d a llia n c e . M a n y in te re s ts in c lu d ­ in g m u s ic , th e a tr e , p o t a n d w rit­ in g.

R ead abou t th e g e m in i w o m e n . S e n d p h o t o w it h a n s w e r t o IN C b o x 7 8 6 3 .

M e lb o u r n e . M a le , e a r ly 3 0 s , g r a d ­ u a te , p r o f e s s io n a l, d i v o r c e d . S e e k s fe m a le c o m p a n i o n s h i p . In te r e s ts in c lu d e w in in g , d in in g , th e a tre , v ie w t o m e a n in g fu l r e la tio n s h ip .

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One issue only THE majority o f gay liberationists in Sydney are conversant with police and prison brutality and depersonalisation.

They also support any moves to clean up the current mess in this state’ s police stations and prisons.

But the Sydney Gay Liberation Front, despite efforts by the marxists and gay SY A members to force it to, is, at this stage, still a one-issue organisation. That one issue being to fight for gay civil and human rights.

It was therefore a surprise to read in Wendy Bacon’s report o f the recent demonstration outside Long Bay jail (TLD 2 /8 ) that among the groups listed on the bottom o f the pamphlet read to prisoners inside the jail and distributed outside was Gay Liberation (with a capital “ G” and “ L” , denoting a group not a movement). Those listed were, according to Ton y Green’s inform ation to the police, organisers o f the demonstration.

Let’ s get the record straight. The matter o f Sydney GLF assisting in organising this or any non-gay demonstration has n ot been raised this year or at any time during the group’s two-year existence.

If individual members o f GLF wish to take part in non-gay demonstrations (and it’s interesting to note the pamphlet makes no mention o f poofter bashing or pack rapes in prisons) they are free to d o so, but as gay liberationists (small “ g” and “ 1” ) n ot as representatives o f Sydney GLF. If your readers are interested in gay life behind bars then they can read an insider’s report on that subject in the current issue o f Stallion (inquiries to PO Box N o 162, Alexandria NSW 2015), Australia's only national gay magazine for and b y the gay community.

Power to the (gay) people, MARTIN SMITH, Glebe, NSW

French letters I READ with interest the article regarding the demonstration outside Long Bay jail. ( TLD 2 /8 ). While not professing to be an expert on the activities o f the majority o f organ­ isations listed on the pamphlet, it’s interesting to note the inclusion of such marxist organisations as the CPA and Gay Liberation.

Perusal o f the pamphlet indicates the “ exploitationism” o f “ situationism” by these organisations. No mention, o f course, o f the multitude o f persons imprisoned without trial in the marxist countries or the fact that homosexuals are even more persecuted there than in this fair(?) country.

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PETER FRENCH, D ouble Bay, NSW

More proof IN TLD 2 /7 I wrote that a reward o f $20,000 (TLD com positors increased it to $28,000) had been on offer for many years in the Benighted States for anyone w ho could prove that the Salk polio vaccine was n ot a fake. This was an error and I wish to apologise for it.

The amount was actually $15,000.

N ot that the amount matters a damn. One would have thought that Salk, and com panies' which were making millions from production o f the vaccine, would have been only too willing to provide the p roof for nothing — if they could.

L A R R Y DRAKE, Gin Gin, Qld

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NF myths THE BITTER experience of “ Trapped, o f W odonga” is a perfect example o f the evils o f the enforced nuclear family system o f living.

I dont know whether I can help “ Trapped” , but I can think o f lessons w e might learn from her plight: (1) d on t get married — it’ s all trap and n o b oon , (2) d on t have kids for no reason it’ s cruel to you and them, (3) dont allow your friends “ spouses” to “ forbid” you to relate — that's deserting the human race, (4) d on t make “ material security” the first priority for kids; if you have care o f kids — “ Trapped's” kids, for example w ould be better o f f with no shoes and a happy mother.

I’ve had a kid myself for two years and much o f this time we have been broke. She’s never had shoes, never for long a fixed abode, etc, but I would say she’s physically and emotionally most other newspapers, w ho regard poets as second class citizens & their w ork as mere filler.

News & Weather, 41 Wharf road, Birchgrove.

Sweet & Sour Sonnets as sent to you, was designed to allow the simple & dignified retrieval of the sense & style o f each poets work . . . (a poem needs space like painting, sculpture or dance) the poems were not accompan­ ied by that “ zappy” jejune nimbin artwork. One o f the primary aims o f N&W is the creating of an awareness o f an intermedium between graphics (lay­ ou t/typography/photos/illustrations), & verse . . . that poets can use these in the making o f a poem. Richard Tip­ ping’s page if ever printed should make this point.

healthier than most kids.

And I see no reason why biological parents should be expected to hang on to “ their” children. It is a nuclear family myth that a biological parent is necessarily a child’ s best friend. The fact that someone grew on your sperm or ovum doesnt entail that y o u ’ ll like them (or they you).

If someone doesnt want to have “ their” kid and someone else the kid likes does — eg. a barren woman who wants a child to live with, a “ single” person, a commune, a “ couple” hom o or hetero, a mother who wants more kids b u t n ot thru her cunt — then sim ply reshuffle living arrangements.

There’s n o reason w hy people should remain in nuclear family ranks — that’s sheer superstition. O f course anybody w ho tries living in other than the holy family arrangement finds vari­ ous exciting(?) problems o f maladjust­ ment (resulting from nuclear family upbringings).

This can mean that unorthodox non-nuclear family live-ins often “ col­ lapse" before long: but that doesnt mean they're no good. People evolve.

It is just another NF myth that a living arrangement has to be permanent.

Perhaps TLD could function as a child swapping exchange, cutting out officialdom . There’ s a lot o f miserable kids around, a lot o f unwilling m oth­ ers, and a lo t o f people w h o’ d love and be loved b y these kids.

O fficialdom is evil and to be avoid­ ed in child swapping because they dehumanise it into bureaucratic pro­ ceedings. They (1) keep kids in child prisons (which they call “ HOMES” ), (2) give kids to the most plastic foster parents they can find, the ones w ho meet their “ standards” (= middle class materialism), and (3) w on ’t give kids to beautiful people, indeed sometimes (4) they take kids FROM beautiful people.

N ow what do we do if there’s a fight over w h o’ ll “ have” a kid. Some­ times people disagree over the best living arrangements and there’s horrible affairs o f kidhunts, dobbing in, etc.

Rather than lose the kid into evil (eg.

Child Welfare Department) hands, we should use a cod e o f GUARDIAN­ SHIP. Here’ s the idea.

Each kid has a guardian. That doesnt mean a kid has to be living with his guardian or be provided for by his guardian. Ideally, the kid can live where he likes. But if there’s an irre­ solvable fight over a kid, the guardian, says what goes. Now who shall be the guardian? Well, unless otherwise stated, the guardian is the natural mother. If there is to be a different guardian, the guardian has to choose one who agrees to take the role and then he or she, the latter, is the guardian, and so on.

(I like the word “ guardian” because it doesnt sound so much like the parental ownership scene, but more like a sort o f servant, w ho just stands guard in the wings while the kid largely does his ow n thing.)

As for “ Trapped” , I can think o f a way o u t that works for me. If you are blackmailed into some shitty work or home or other social predicament by money-security concerns, the only ulti­ mate solution is to become independ­ ent o f the things m oney buys.

Renounce one com m odity after another, and find b y experiment how independently you can live.

If you dont need their bread, they can't b u y you !

PHIL O ’ CARROLL

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N o movement serious about radical social change can afford to damage itself in this way.

PAT FLANAGAN , Hazelwood Park, SA

Counted out

YESTERDAY I bought m y third and last issue o f TLD. :A t one stage I thought your magazine was going to fill a long felt want, b ut not now.

Y ou featured McNally’s article on the need for an Australian Boxing Commission and promptly turned around and published another article in which he was called a “ crap merchant” and generally offended writers. Is this your idea o f fair play and loyalty to contributors?

When the author o f the attack can com e through as much adversity as I’ VE JUST had occasion to read your cheerfully as Ward McNally has and can introduction to the Interview with point to anything approaching his Jean-Paul Sartre (TLD, 2/5). Pleased b y your reprinting of the piece, I was knowledge of, and involvement in, appalled b y the introduction’s cavalier boxing, he will be entitled to be heard.

Only as long as he refrains from trying disregard o f fa ct 1) “ In w orld war two (Sartre) engag­ to be a smartarse though and treats real ed in a lonely and dangerous struggle men as he himself would like to be against the German occupation” . This treated. seriously distorts and inflates the JACK SHAW, nature and status of Sartre’s wartime Brisbane, Old

Appalled

Q. “ What is a Rolling Stone Haiku?”

A . “ That verse fo r m , in an inch & a half 12 em column space that a rec­ ord com pany didnt buy.

activities. Without wishing in any way to play dow n Sartre’ s contribution, the fact remains that the philosopher o f action played a much less active role than, say, Camus, the philosopher o f despair and quietude. (Sartre is being only a little self-deprecatory when he says in the New left review o f nov-dec 1969 that “ all I did was a few errands” .)

2) “ After the w a r. . . (Sartre) join(ed') the French Communist party” and “ renounced his membership in the party following the 1956 invasion o f Hungary” . Sartre has never been a member of the party (though he did say at one stage during the 60s that he would join were he living in Italy), as any acquaintance with Beauvoir’ s memoirs, or any o f the standard b o o k s on the French Left (Caute, Lichtheim) confirms. It is true that, in part because o f the Merleau-Ponty’s influ­ ence, Sartre in thought and action was closer to the stalinist French CP in the 50s (before Hungary) than ever before or since.

3) “ He chose to remain a marxist, rather than returning to existential­ ism” . But o f course, in crucial respects (the fixation with cartesian subjectivity and the reification o f the isolated individual), Sartre has never abandoned his existentialism despite his professed conception in the Critique o f marxism as the only philosophy o f our time, and o f existentialism as a parasitic ideology living on the margin o f marx­ ism (his words), the existential tail soon comes to wag the marxist dog.

4) “ Sartre may be an existentialist, but it is an existentialism o f his ow n making. If tragedy and isolation are the condition o f man, they are n ot any longer (sic: they were never, for Sartre) the excuse for surrender, but reason for combat” . Whatever else Sartre’ s “ existentialised marxism” involves, it is most emphatically not “ tragedy and isolation” as “ the condition o f man” .

Material scarcity and class exploitation can be drastically reduced if n ot entire­ ly eliminated through class struggle.

This is the message o f the Critique.

5) “ Sartre has forged a deeper under­ standing o f idealism, and the practical, coldly realistic decisions that underlie it” . This is at best confused (mixing tw o totally different notions o f “ ideal­ ism” ), at worst utter nonsense.

Historical and factual ignorance is nothing specially to be proud o f; b ut it is not out o f any pedantic predilection that I point these facts out. Such complacent displays o f disregard for fact (however caused) have important, negative, ideological and political c o n ­ sequences.

They play right into the hands o f the Knopfelmachers and all the other apologists for the capitalist status quo w ho tax the Left, in particular the New Left, with irrationality, disregard for fact and logic, historical naivete, etc.

~Y

Thanks to those who’ve sent reports of the Duval Creek Workshop — a lazy outdoor investigation into alterna­ tive living styles recently celebrated near Armidale.

Among the daily visitors were Joan and Max, a middle aged couple who participated in the tribal rituals with gusto. In this open letter to her daughter, Joan offers her impressions of the workshop.

Solzhenitsyn feedback

My dear Shelley JOAN PRAED Here we are back in the sys­ tem, returned from the Duval Creek Workshop - our own local mini Nimbin! Jupp and Paul took sleeping bags and camped with friends, so theirs was a 24 hour a day adventure. Max and I went out from home each morning, parked the car at the inner gate and walked the bush mile to the camp site, sometimes loaded with fo o d and sometimes in the rain.

(The outer gate carried a sign which said Park here, or bog later!

- one o f the many directional works o f art which had graced fence posts at every problematical com er.)

It was a delightful bush setting - plenty o f trees, open space, birds, insects, practically every Australian species o f aggressive ant, and a small creek. There must have been about 80 people there at the best o f times, though there was a great deal o f comings and goings and some hopefuls arrived only on the monday, losing three days. Every conceivable form o f temporary shelter was scattered among the trees, from sophisti­ cated, expensive tents through domes and pup-tents to chunks o f plastic sheeting draped between trees. Between trees was a popular place — for hammocks in one case, for the big Coolgardie cooler in another. The cooler seemed to w ork quite well, with bags sewn together and draped over a bar between trees with the ends in a hole full o f water. Shades o f Western Australian goldfields, where I saw these long ago!

They built a communal kit­ chen, dug a three holer communal toilet, dug garbage holes and put up a communal all-purpose dome. The toilet was at the top o f the slope, with very inadequate privacy — when you rose from the hole you exposed your backside to the view o f anyone who hap­ pened to glance your way. Not that anyone really stared or cared.

There was also a sauna down by the creek and a big bell in a tree could be rung to call the group together when anyone had something o f group importance to say. Phil Huggins initiated a group o f us in transcendental meditation and those o f us who are c o ­ counsellors made ourselves avail­ able to three groups formed to learn about it.

One o f the main aims was to investigate group techniques that can be helpful in running a com ­ mune, as the Alternative Living Foundation wants to start one in this area. Already they know how to communicate, to tackle diffi­ culties in open session, to sing and dance and enjoy being together and to care for the environment. I felt they d o not yet know how to trust each other to get chores done - by the time most people started arriving the communal toilets were already dug, the kitchen was up and the fire blazing in the shearers oven and

truckloads o f fo o d , gear and tools had been delivered. It seems to me that while such organisation is laudable, such methods teach only a few. It should have happened after everyone had arrived, so that we could all learn what was need­ ed and take part in the work.

Was it a success? Yes, it was. It doesnt really matter whether it was a survival workshop or a five-day picnic. It functioned well, there were so many good vibes about you wouldnt believe, even in the wet, and while there was some disagreement on what form a commune would take, no bad feeling was allowed to take root.

They are rejecting material things in favor o f cooperation, conservation and caring. Here is one person fo r whom the lifestyle, but not the principle, com es to o late. I wish them well.

Y our Mother,

W HAT Pan Flanagan, in his article Solzhenitsyn: the case against hysteria (TLD, 2 /7 ), totally ignores is the most important thing about Solzhenitsyn — his novels. He makes passing reference to them, only to dismiss them with a quote from Knopfelmacher (for whose opinions he shows little respect else­ where in the article): “ Solzhenitsyn's literary w ork . . . contains almost noth­ ing which has not been known about the Soviet system, or which was not easily available fcr detailed scrutiny in western countries, at least since the M oscow trials of 1936-38.”

It’ s probably true that Solzhenitsyn gives us little new inform ation about the Soviet system, in what might be called statistical terms — facts a bout the prison camps, the number o f prisoners in them, or the ways in which the Soviet “ state capitalist system” con ­ trols the society b y means o f the camps. What Solzhenitsyn does give us is the opportunity to see just what it’ s like for an individual to live in that system — the day-to-day emotional and social realities o f life both inside and outside the prisons.

And, n ot only does he show us what life is like for himself as an individual, b ut he also (which is what makes him

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such a good novelist) shows the lives o f different individuals in quite different emotional and social situations in the Soviet system.

There is, for example, in Cancer ward a character w ho is a pettyminded, ambitious bureaucrat. (I can’ t remember the character’ s name.) H e’s a weak-minded, cowardly individual — the kind o f person on whom the Soviet government is probably to a large extent based. Solzhenitsyn is able to take us into this character so that we can see clearly the kind o f cowardly egotism which is at the centre o f one o f the pillars o f the Soviet bureaucratic governm ent His insight goes deeper than political analysis. He shows us what it is in human beings that makes the survival o f such a dreadful system possible.

Another character in Cancer ward is a man w ho has held high positions and has been gradually dem oted because o f his lack o f sympathy with the govern­ ment and its methods. But that man, despite his profound objections to the system, has never crossed the system, has never actually refused to carry out orders which he knew were morally w rong — for fear, as he puts it, for the safety o f his daughter; though we can see, b y the nature and extent o f his guilt, that he has been motivated also b y fears for his own safety.

Solzhenitsyn’ s picture o f Stalin, in The first circle, takes us beyond the usual image o f the arrogant and cruel dictator, to see the endless morass o f horrible paranoia as well as the stupid­ ity o f Stalin’ s behavior. These brief accounts can’ t do justice to the depth and strength o f Solzhenitsyn’s writing.

While Pat Flanagan is probably right in saying that “ Solzhenitsyn's demands for petty bourgeois civil liberties . . . are abstract, supra-class dem ands," it seems to me that the limitation o f his article is his total concentration on those abstract demands, overlooking the very real matter o f the novels. And next to the tangible, human subject matter o f Solzhenitsyn’ s novels Flana­ gan’ s concerns seem to be quite ab­ stract, if not, “ supra-class” .

The purpose o f this letter is to encourage those w ho might have been discouraged b y Flanagan’s article, to read Solzhenitsyn’ s novels. They are very good, stimulating and enjoyable reading (although very disturbing at times) from which we can learn a great deal, not only about life within the Soviet system, but also about our­ selves.

RENE BUHLER, Hazeibrook, NSW * * * SOLZHENITSYN! A name that re­ echoes in the hearts o f many slaves in and ou t o f the Soviet Union. Like Prometheus he has defied the gods o f the Kremlin who, instead o f sending him to a jail, a concentration camp or a mental asylum, forced him into exile.

But the bare truth is “ that socialism without freedom is slavery” and that no amount o f manoeuvres can cover the ugly bolshevik reality.

In the Soviet Union there is no freedom from slavery, oppression, class distinction and class antagonism. If, as K. Korsch argues, the “ genuine prole­ tarian dictatorship” is “ distinguished from every false imitation o f it b y its creation o f the conditions o f intellec­ tual freedom n ot only for ‘ all’ workers but for ‘ each individual’ worker” then Solzhenitsyn’s case refutes the exist­ ence o f “ genuine proletarian dictator­ ship” and indicates that “ conditions o f intellectual freedom are virtually non existent Solzhenitsyn is a rebel against a regime o f lies, deceptions, persecution and tyranny, a regime established by Lenin and Trotsky. “ The Soviet state” , writes Martov “ has n ot estab­ lished in any instance electiveness and recall o f public officials and the com­ manding staff. It has n ot suppressed

the professional police. It has n ot done away with social hierarchy in produc­ tion. It has not lessened the total subjection o f the local com m unity to the power o f the state. On the con­ trary, in proportion to its evolution, the Soviet state shows a tendency in the opposite direction. “ It shows a tendency towards in­ tensified centralism o f the state, a tendency towards the utmost possible strengthening o f the principles o f hier­ archy and compulsion. It shows a tendency towards the developm ent o f a more specialised apparatus o f repres­ sion than before . . . In the crucible o f reality, the power o f the soviets has becom e the ‘ soviet pow er’ , a power that originally issued from the soviets but has steadily becom e independent o f the soviets.”

Solzhenitsyn’s rebellion is n o t ro o t­ ed in metaphysics o f escapism, ideo­ logies and utopian dreams, b u t is a reflection o f pitiless bolshevik reality that imprisons and eliminates deviationists and dissenters, and does not tolerate any criticism. A reality expos­ ed by the sailors o f Kronstadt a long time ago: “ . . . the communist power has substituted for the glorious em­ blem o f the workers, the hammer and sickle, another symbol — the bayonet and the barred window , which has permitted the new bureaucracy, the communist functionaries and com mis­ sars, to procure for themselves, a tran­ quil and carefree existence. “ But most debased and criminal o f all is the spiritual slavery established b y the communists. They put their hands on the thoughts and moral life o f the workers, compelling everyone to think only according to their formulas. With the aid o f state unions, they have chained the workers to the machines, and transformed work into a new slavery instead o f making it pleasant T o the protests o f the peasants, which have gone as far as spontaneous revolts, the demands o f the workers, com pelled b y the very conditions o f their life to resort to strikes, they reply with mass shooting and a ferocity that the czarist generals might have envied.” What Solzhenitsyn has just done is to have broken the silence and to have lifted the curtain which reveals the stifling atmosphere suffocating the people o f the Soviet Union. And just for that he has been condemned to exile.

The left capable o f rallying forces, against American atrocity, the war in Vietnam, the coup d ’ etat in Chile, and also in support o f Angela Davis and others, has failed to d o so in the case o f Solzhenitsyn. Why? The answer, com plex as it seems, is simple.

The Soviet Union is Mecca o f social­ ism. It is a sacred ground one should not tread upon. Its misdeeds, unlike those o f rotten capitalism, are results o f a noble aim, the establishing o f socialism, therefore, while undesirable they are nevertheless tolerable. Social­ ists learn by their mistakes. Without mistakes there is no progressive devel­ opment. But no such mistakes are allowed to capitalism because capital­ ism has fulfilled its historical function.

This approach is based on m iscon­ ception o f socialism. It is riddled b y ideological garbage and wishful think­ ing. The reality is that in the USSR there is no socialism but a pyramidal structured society, a replica o f ancient Egypt The Pharaoh-god — the general secretary — and his tentacles, the central committee, the party, security police, the jailers, w ho force the people o f the Soviet Union to labor and support them in the name o f class justice denied them here but promised them in heaven.

But as Yevtushenko says “ silence becomes lie” . The left continues to perpetuate the lie that the USSR is a socialist country.

JACK THE ANARCHIST, Stanmore, NSW

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a* Peel S tre e t, N o rth M e lb o u rn e f o r In c o rp o ra te d N ew sagencies P t y L t d , th e p u b lish er a n d d is tr ib u to r , 1 1 3 Rosslyn S tre e t, M e lb o u rn e . A b o lis h revenge . . . th e n w e can abolish prisons.