Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall. In an article entitled "Dateline Australia: America's Foreign Watergate?" published this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, University of Delaware Political Scientist James A. Nathan retraces those accusations and other charges of U.S. interference in Australian affairs. Given the fact that Whitlam's policies were straining the traditionally warm relationship between the U.S. and Australia, it is not unimaginable that the U.S. might have wanted Whitlam ousted, and that the CIA might have played a role. But the evidence is circumstantial and, as recounted...
...Whitlam government had so badly mishandled the economy that Opposition Leader Fraser succeeded in blocking passage of a budget bill in the Australian Senate. With the government about to run out of money, Kerr called Whitlam to his office on Nov. 11. As the duly appointed representative of the Queen of England, Kerr took the unprecedented but legal step of firing Whitlam...
Nathan offers other motives for Kerr's action. The lease for the base at Pine Gap was scheduled to expire on Dec. 10, Nathan says, and Whitlam had hinted that he might not renew the lease agreement with the U.S. In response, the CIA sent the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) a blistering cable. It said, in substance, that the U.S. agency might be forced to cut its ties to ASIO. The next day Kerr sacked Whitlam. Nathan notes that Kerr, an Australian-born lawyer, had been active in cultural front organizations funded...
...Australian Rupert Murdoch buys Hearst's Boston paper
Stopping by a luggage store in Beverly Hills, Australian Author Thomas Keneally, 47 (The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith), struck up a conversation with the shopkeeper, Paul Page, 70. Discovering that Keneally was a writer, Page hauled out letters and documents and recounted how Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, had saved the lives of 1,300 Jews who had been assigned by the Nazis to work at his factory in Cracow, Poland, during World War II. Page, one of the 1,300, said that Schindler, a Roman Catholic, had died in 1974 and was buried in Jerusalem as one of Israel...