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Since Australia's 150,000 aborigines constitute only about 1% of the country's population, they have never had much clout in Australian politics. Last December, however, militant young "Abos," calling themselves "black Australians," staged a violent demonstration in Brisbane. For the past month, to dramatize their case for land rights, they have been operating an eleven-tent "Abo Embassy" across from Parliament House in Canberra. "We are tired of hanging around the white man's door waiting for crumbs," cried Abo Journalist John Newfong. The Abos' next target: Interior Minister Ralph Hunt, whom they hope...
This week the Australian Cabinet will decide whether to seek the power to remove the Abo Embassy from the nearby lawn. If the Abos refuse to go away peacefully, the man who will have to decide whether to remove them by force will be none other than Interior Minister Hunt...
Inevitably, because blood is a whole pharmacopoeia in itself, the hematologists had a field day. Dr. Leon N. Sussman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital pointed out that besides the familiar ABO and Rh factors noted on every serviceman's dog tag and blood donor's identity card, there are no fewer than 15 other "public"* factors widely distributed in human blood. By computing all the possible combinations of these, Dr. Sussman arrived at the startling figure of 57.6 million different kinds of people distinguishable by telltale proteins in their blood. Because there undoubtedly are still other...
...virtual indestructibility of blood-group markers is shown daily by forensic pathologists who solve a crime by analyzing a single spot of months-old blood. Less commonly known, said Dr. Sussman, is that 80% of people have similar substances, from which ABO grouping can be determined, in their sputum, saliva, nasal secretions, urine and seminal fluid. To prove it in his laboratory, Dr. Sussman got an assistant to lick a postage stamp and stick it on a piece of paper. This was left on the lab table, exposed to air, sun and dust. At the end of a month...
Everything about Abo School will have a dual function. Designed for 540 children, it will readily shelter 2,000 persons. Flush with the ground, the 18-in. concrete roof will be a basketball court and a fallout filter. The two wells used for air conditioners can supply emergency drinking water. The lunch room will be stocked with a 14-day food supply, and cupboards throughout the 18-classroom building will contain 970 cots. Abo will also have a two-way radio, underground phone lines, radiation-measuring instruments, provisions for fire fighting, garbage disposal and a morgue...