Word: gough
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...away. But there is one thing that can be said of the Murdoch papers--almost uniformly, they make money, and lots of it. One of the few exceptions is the Sydney-based Australian, which as Australia's leading newspaper, threw considerable clout into the election of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. A few years later The Australian threw even more clout--and a good deal of Murdoch's money--into unseating the first Labor premier in 20 years. In London, Murdoch owns not only the immensely profitable News of the World, but the more staid Sun, also a moneymaker...
...close colleague said yesterday that Terrill finds himself without a position now because "two rugs were pulled out from under him." He cited the Government Department's decision not to offer tenure to Terrill and the recent ouster of Australian Prime Minister E. Gough Whitlam...
...Tientsin, 90 miles away, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was rudely awakened in his suite on the eighth floor of his hotel, a new building of modern design, when it began shaking "like an accordion." As he and his wife Margaret hurried down the stairs to the safety of the street, the hotel began whipping back and forth, as she put it, "in a way that suggested it was deciding whether or not to topple. All of us were thinking, 'My God, this has gone on long enough...
...only seven months, the Ford Administration already considers Fraser, 46, a rangy millionaire farmer, one of the U.S.'s best and most reliable friends in the Pacific. The U.S.-Australian relationship, while always close, has had its ups and downs in recent years, especially after Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pulled Australian troops out of Viet Nam. After Eraser's Liberal-National Country party coalition trounced the Laborites last December, the new P.M. immediately moved to bring Canberra more into line with American foreign policy...
...interesting aspect of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's visit here last Friday to present a $1 million bicentennial gift is that Fraser made the trip at all. From the beginning, the decision to donate the money to Harvard was the responsibility of his opponent, former Prime Minister E. Gough Whitlam. It was Whitlam who announced on July 4, 1975, that the funds would go to the University. And it was supposed to be Whitlam here on Friday, making a speech that Harvard officials hoped would parallel the address that head of state Willy Brandt made at Harvard...