Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convicted drug dealer who had violated his parole and was a fugitive. As the two drank wine and smoked pot late into the evening, the talk turned to politics and the complaints both had against the U.S. Government. "You ought to hear what the CIA is doing to the Australians," Boyce told his friend. Then he cited materials that had crossed his desk at TRW telling how the CIA had infiltrated Australian labor unions...
...Hawke, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, denied having any knowledge of CIA involvement in Australian union affairs. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser promised to look into the allegation...
Well before its publication, this second novel by a hitherto obscure Australian had become an economic event. Harper & Row ran off 225,000 hardback copies and put up $100,000 as an initial advertising budget. The Literary Guild made the book its main selection for June, relegating Erich Segal's Oliver's Story, a dead-certain moneymaker, to second place. Avon Books shelled out $1.9 million for paperback reprint rights, topping the record $1.85 million that Bantam Books paid for E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime two years...
Died. Karen Krantzke, 30, an Australian who ranked seventh in women's tennis singles in 1970; of a heart condition; in Tallahassee, Fla., after winning a doubles tournament. Krantzke returned to the pro circuit a few months ago after recovering from a forearm injury that had kept her off the courts during most of the past two years...
That young lady caught with her pants down is Australian-born Actress Belinda Bauer in the movie made from Richard Condon's Winter Kills. When a wealthy heir (Jeff Bridges) takes her out to lunch, the stuffy maitre d' tries to kick her out for wearing a pantsuit. Belinda blithely drops her trousers and sits down anyway. "It was a wonderful moment," recalls the sometime model, "but then I'm an exhibitionist." She is also a perfectionist: for her first film role-Belinda, 26, plays a reporter for a national newsmagazine-she spent days observing journalists...