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...Australia's elections later this year, one issue that may affect the outcome is 30 years old. The problem facing Liberal Prime Minister William McMahon, who has a tough fight ahead to stay in office, is how to handle the country's World War II archives, which are supposed to stay sealed until...
Many Australians have urged the government to open up the archives immediately to get things settled once and for all. But what Prime Minister wants to risk shattering one of his country's most cherished images? Last week McMahon adroitly managed to have it both ways. He will release the records, he said-but only those that are not contrary to the public interest. The sorting-out process will take at least six months-by which time the elections should be safely over...
...shadowy figure skulks in a doorway of the official Canberra residence of Australian Prime Minister William McMahon. Challenges, shots, anticlimaxes. The intruder gets away, the fuse in the Molotov cocktail he planted is blown out by the wind, and the P.M. and his pretty wife Sonia weren't there anyway. But Commonwealth police say that this is the third such bombing attempt by a group of right-wing extremists. Nothing to do but increase the guard at the McMahons' home...
Greece and moved with his family to South Norwalk. Connecticut when he was sever At Brian McMahon High School he scored 74 goals in three seasons and set the state scoring record as a senior with 31 goals in 11 games...
Deeper in his heart. McMahon is no doubt hoping that he will be successful in next year's elections. But Australia's economy is in the doldrums, and McMahon, the third conservative Prime Minister in three years, has not created a strong image of leadership. Polls show that approval of his party has dropped to 43%. Even so, his warm reception in Washington-"Triumphant," the Sydney Morning Herald called it-may yet help him just enough to win re-election to a three-year term...