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Born. To Heather Menzies Henderson, 27, only daughter of Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and Peter Henderson, 27, attache at Australia's embassy in Djakarta: their first child, a daughter; in Canberra, Australia...
...CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 12--Vladimir Petrov, the former Soviet spy chief in Australia, said today Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean lied when they asserted they never were Soviet agents...
...Herbert Evatt's public popularity and political power have been shaking apart since Australia's Petrov spy case broke early last year, just as Evatt, leader of the Labor Party, was fighting to return to power. Spy Petrov, onetime third secretary at the U.S.S.R. embassy in Canberra, revealed that there had been information leaks to Russia from the External Affairs Department during Evatt's leadership, even mentioned two of Evatt's former secretaries in connection with some fast and loose handling of government secrets (they were later cleared). Evatt's Labor Party lost the election...
...standing border dispute (see above) is that they are currently competing with each other in an expensive jet air-power race. Last year the Peruvians asked the U.S. to sell them twelve F-86 Sabre-jet fighters. During the past ten months, Ecuador got twelve Meteor fighters and six Canberra twin-jet medium bombers from Britain. Last week came the Peruvian retort: the government announced that it had signed up for 20 of Britain's late-model Hawker Hunters...
Venezuela, oil-rich and free spending, owns 24 British Vampire fighters and twelve Canberra medium bombers, has ordered 22 Sabres from the U.S. The first half dozen Sabres are scheduled for delivery in October...