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Strong words indeed, especially coming from a diplomat. Those harsh comments on Mrs. Gandhi and her government are from a confidential report by Gordon Upton, Australia's High Commissioner (in effect, Ambassador) in New Delhi, to his Foreign Ministry. Upton's report was leaked to a Canberra journalist and was published by the Melbourne Age, Australia's leading newspaper. The Australian government was deeply embarrassed by the disclosure, which threatened to strain relationships with New Delhi. But the Indian government has so far ignored the incident...
...decided to commemorate her silver jubilee three years ago with a Thoroughbred. A champion sire was bred to six mares. Of four foals resulting, one was a colt (the Queen preferred a filly), another was injured. The remaining pair were recently matched in a speed trial. Last week, visiting Canberra, the Queen paused to accept the winner. "A wonderful present," said Elizabeth, who dubbed the two-year-old bay Australia Fair...
That was risky enough, but young Wojtyla was also active in the anti-Nazi resistance. Jerzy Zubrzycki, a high school classmate of Wojtyla's who is now a sociology professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, says of those years: "He lived in danger daily of losing his life. He would move about the occupied cities taking Jewish families out of the ghettos, finding them new identities and hiding places. He saved the lives of many families threatened with execution." Meanwhile he helped organize and acted in the underground "Rhapsody Theater," whose anti-Nazi and patriotic dramas boosted Polish...
From a hidden position on the southern shore of the Zambezi River, Rhodesian soldiers near the town of Kanyemba last week saw about 100 armed guerrillas in camouflage fatigues, paddling in rubber boats across the river-the border between Zambia and Rhodesia. The Rhodesians opened fire, and Canberra and Hawker Hunter jets soon joined the battle. So began Rhodesia's first admitted "external" (i.e., incursion) into Zambian territory-a two-day raid that destroyed an arms cache and a command camp of Joshua Nkomo's 8,000-man guerrilla army. Rhodesia announced that the "self-defense" raid...
...targets of the five-day military operation were two camps in Mozambique that have been used as supply and staging areas for the guerrilla forces of Robert Mugabe, Marxist leader of ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union). Waves of aging Canberra, Vampire and Hunter warplanes, followed by transports and helicopters carrying black and white troops, first hit a base near Chimoio, about 54 miles within Mozambique, and then attacked a camp near Tembue, 132 miles inside the border. According to Rhodesian officials, the attacks were extraordinarily successful, killing at least 1,200 guerrillas and destroying some 40 trucks and massive quantities...