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University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 2-19-1974 The Living Daylights 2(7) 19 February 1974 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1974), The Living Daylights 2(7) 19 February 1974, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.7, February 19 - 25, 28p. https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/17 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 2(7) 19 February 1974 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.7, February 19 - 25, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/17 HERE IT \ COMES! \ Future shocks, ' time games and t electrical wizards Visions of the video village Richmond, a city caught in the rush Dylan junks dope and gets active Britain prepares for civil war KM NOHIN AST WEEK our prominent citizens Richard Beckett L— academics, artists and politicians — led protests against the Soviet Union’s beats up treatment of its greatest living writer, the week’s news Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a man arrested REBELMANILA, Saturday. — About 10,000 RAIDS people are dead or missing in fighting and expelled from his country for criticis ugger the bomb, le t’s between Government troops and Moslem rebels. — Fill story, page 4. ing prison conditions and oppression dur GET STUCK INTO THE ing the days of Stalin’s regime. In jux FREE TUCKER: Following his ' / 7 /‘7'74 taposition, here in Australia protesters BSoutheast Asian tour, describ- against our own penal system were arrest j: ed as an amazing success because of the ed outside Pentridge prison on Sunday (p. : j decision to let a few downtrodden, WORLD 5), None were professors. :j Filipino car workers into the country, IN B R IE F Pat Flanagan, a marxist, says the glob ; Australian prime minister Gough Whit- al outcry over the writer is a heap of •:1am once again proved he was the small MANILA — Government forces claimed to have com bourgeois hysteria (p. 5); and Jack plete control over the south j: leader of a parochial nation by hasten- ern Philippine island of Jo- lo. where 300 people have Grahame, a lawyer and a gadfly on the j:ing to Sydney’s Circular quay to lunch died in fierce lighting be tween troops and Moslem NSW justice department, tells in an inter rebels last week. •: on board a French luxury liner, “in one The Defence Secretary (Senor Enrile) told report view with John Dease and Mark Butler of the ship’s dining rooms which is the ers yesterday that 250 Moslem insurgents and 26 Government troops had just what should be done with our own : haunt of the princes and presidents”. been killed when about 300 rebels attacked the provin prison system, and the people who run it cial capital of Jolo last : Leaving the small moral issue of the week. About 30 civilians, caught in cross fire, hac (P- 6). : continuing French nuclear tests in the also been killed, he said Opposite, Albie in low crouching : Pacific aside, can you imagine the leader 'Uqe-~/ 1 >*'1A D. Buckminster Fuller style, has a look at • of any adult nation tripping over him- our future electronic cities, our video • self to clamber on board a crummy nyone who can use furniture and sell it.” All this proved is ;:;: villages. Will we enter into 2001 on the j: cruise liner containing, among others, NAPALM MUST BE SUPERI that, if he really is the Mr Big of plans of men who won’t be around then? j: “members of the Wrigley chewing gum OR: Colonel C. W. T. Kyndon, Australia, our criminal element is as *: He says we should get up and do some : family, the countess de Fels, author now retired, told the senate second rate as the rest of the nation. g thing about our own future rather than : Janet Taylor Caldwell and madame C. A Back in the action city of Chicago, j g standing committee on foreign affairs leave it all to the boffins. • Sportuna Coty”? Rise up Cocky Cal- that Duntroon’s royal military college, McPherson wouldnt even rate a mention The Melbourne city of Richmond is : well, all is forgiven in the also ran league. i;i; already in the clutch of future shock; its training ground for Australia’s biggest he seven dwarfs w ill collection of widow makers, should be city council remembers the good old days urther good news for £ PROTEST TO THE UNITED forced to join the 20th century because and tries to stop the clock while the ECOLOGISTS: New South g world beyond city hall is changing by the NATIONS: Knockabout Meg its inmates were out of touch with minute (p. 18). Whitlam, who accompanied her reality and believe themselves to be far j: husbandT Gough on his mystery tour of superior to civilians. He said matters F Wales pollution control com- Meanwhile people ace still squatting for their right to live now. j: the east (shades of Mark Twain’s in- might change if the Duntroon lads were missioner, Mr E. J. Coffey, iji- We report two cases this week: one a j: nocence abroad) and undid all the good forced to speak to at least one civilian a joyfully maintained his state lead in jjij group of gentle nature lovers on Sydney’s •: done by her husband’s closed mouth by, day and that their military academy was Australia’s destruction stakes by an- g Dobroyd Point (p. 17), and the other as usual, opening hers wide and letting turned into Canberra’s second univers nouncing that a natural plain on the g Some residents of Brisbane who wish to (the flies hang in there. In an interesting ity. Illawarra escarpment, 30 miles south of g live in a city that isnt totally blocked out i statement on the mental capacity of fter a ll this, a soviet Sydney, was perfectly suitable for dump- jijij by the madness of freeway development j i j anyone under six foot tall, she said of LABOR CAMP WOULD ing colliery waste. Mr Coffey said: “One jijij schemes (p. 4). ; Ms Ne Win, the pint sized wife of the HAVE BEEN HEAVEN: Nov is forced to accept the reality, at least j-:-: Winston Smith writes from England. equally pint sized Burmese prime min- elist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, for the time being, that to dispose of A the Coal Cliff material, some degree of ijij: He says it doesnt matter who wins the ister: “She had perfect charm and I thrown out of mother Russia for writ elections there. Not as far as the people : dont think I’ve seen anyone so small ing a few unkind things about that degradation of the natural environment ijijj are concerned anyway. In a country j : with such presence.” Someone should country’s penal institutions, and daring in the area implacement is inevitable.” i;ij: where food prices spiral upwards 20 j : tell poor old Meg that Southeast Asia is to question the authority of the state, percent in one year, where miners (the j : not noted for its production of six spent his first week of so called freedom apering over the pris- jg traditional whipping boys for industry) jj footers. in the west signing autographs and ON WALLS: Following a series jg are fighting for “a living wage” , and counting up the pennies in his Swiss of interesting disturbances in jg where the government (Labour, Tory, alling flat on the bank account. Strangely enough, in all New South Wales jails, the cor- MORAL OUTRAGE DEPART P Liberal, whoever) can do little to repair the democratic babble about rights of rective services department brightly an- gj the ever increasing class barriers, the army MENT : Fierce little A1 Grassby critics of the state that emanated from nounced that prisoners in future would g prepares for strong civil control over an F (what does Ms Whitlam think the United States, which has offered be allowed to grow their hair long and angry nation (p. 10). :• of his tiny presence?) jumped up and Solzhenitsyn asylum, the name of Ezra have the right to purchase shaving g; Appearing on our TV screens these :j down with righteous rage and moral Pound was not mentioned once. Come cream, toilet soap and shampoo, listen -jiji days is a totally chunderous ad for an :• indignation after being officially told to think of it the name o f Wilfred to the races and be allowed two bags of -g aerosol spray, Uncle Sam. So sickening in jj that his men had caught a bunch of Burchett wasnt much bandied about by laundry a week. Having solved these fact, it prompted Harry Gumboot to ; Colombian wetbacks being smuggled members of Australia’s DLP, who claim major problems, the department sat j:j:j forestall his magnum opus on work to jij into Australian on tourist visas. This all ed Solzhenitsyn’s expulsion was all the back and sighed with relief, then set gj study the nature of the beast. The result j: sounded very fine until a gentleman fault of the federal Labor government minor worries such as the rehabilitation jjjjj is an attack on the advertising industry in :• called Dr Alvaro Borilla-Aragon, who because it hadnt protested early enough. of prisoners, the degradation of jails jjjjj general. just happens to be the Colombian con- generally and the question of protecting g: hey c a ll him mr little: A.