Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freelancer Wendell Merick arrived in late 1964 for a ten-day visit and has hung on ever since, working as a stringer for ABC and the London Daily Express. "Whenever I thought of leaving," he says, "something else blew up-and I just stayed." The Australian Broadcasting Commission's Donald Simmons plans to stay "as long as I don't get knocked off. Why give up the best news story in the world in favor of pushing a pen behind a desk?" Malcolm Browne, formerly of the Associated Press, has been awarded a fellowship and will leave soon...
...sound corny," explains the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie, "but it's refreshing to get out where people say what they mean." Viet Nam press-corps veterans have unanimous praise for the cooperation available at every level in the combat areas. "They are terribly frank," says Australian Simmons. "Sometimes, I think, too bloody frank." Combat reporting has its own special problems, of course, not the least of which is the danger. Eight correspondents have died, a dozen have been seriously wounded, and nearly 100 have been nicked. Sheer endurance is a useful skill. "You pay dearly...
...Barrow Island, a cyclone-swept wasteland off Western Australia that until now has supported only kangaroos, lizards and one lonely tree, an international team of roustabouts is drilling with intensity and anticipation. The Western Australian government last month declared Barrow to be an economically viable oilfield, expects that by 1968 it will be producing 20,000 bbl. daily for a group made up of Shell, Texaco, Standard Oil of California and Ampol, an Australian firm...
Australia has become the world's largest producer of lead, the third largest of zinc. It exported $377 million worth of minerals last year and expects to double the figure by 1970. Says an Australian Treasury survey: "No compendium of prospects as they can be seen now can comprehend all the mineral exports likely to be recorded in five or ten years' time...
Elsewhere, other elements of Operation Abilene fared better. As the operation concluded at week's end, units of the Big Red One, the Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province...