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...John Kerr London...
...deed was done so swiftly and so unexpectedly that rumors still linger in Australia about what really happened. From the day in November 1975 when Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the leftist Labor Party and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, allegations have surfaced 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...
...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...
...Medley Relay--1) Princeton (Chun, Habernigg, Ritchie, Lind) 4:00. 14:1000 Freestyle--1) Richardson (P) 10:24.76,2) Devies (P) 10:31.60, 3) DiBlasio (H) 10:42.42;100IM--1) Chun (P) 1:01.66, 2) Kerr (P) 1:02.40, 3) Greis (H) 1:02.72,200 Freestyle--1) Lind (P) 1:52.85, 2) Calvert (H) 1:56.86, 3) Floyd (H) 1:58.28; 100 Back--1) O'Connell (P) 1:01.79, 2) Ritchie (P) 1:02.09, 3) Isackson (H) 1:04.17;100 Breast--1) Habernigg (P) 1:09.60, 2) Hsu (P) 1:10.32, 3) Greis (H) 1:11.67,200 Fly--1) Zimic...