I
Like your hair is the new Tarzan Lord Grey Street
Skunk
I like I've grown to really like it and it's and it's getting kind of hooker blonde no
I
Always reminds me of a line that Peter McDougall wrote about a Scottish hooker. He said she had hair like corn growing a tarmac
Jimmy and I must tell you Jimmy and I were once prizes in a contest
It was one of those it was a soft drinks firm and it was one of those things
Hey, would you like to have dinner with the stars now? I'd seen them in newspapers all my life
And I thought kind of wish it was famous, you know
And some beautiful woman would say you'd like to have dinner with him enough you go to the Savoy or somewhere
But we are there we all were it was brilliant
We all went to the would you call it place the girl girl now?
And everything and and it was a great laugh that it was the first time that we were funny together
heckling or the other show business guys and being funny the whole thing get dirty and degenerate and
People started to dislike
Dislike the people who would want them
And really hurting them and insulting them but saying terrible dirty things, but we all got a bit sloshed
You know, I don't think he was okay
I got drunk and I and we went to a club called the Purple Onion and I got trousers
And
Well, I was remember as we had the same rock remember you play me records in the rock and roll records
Yeah, and the Clyde McPheter and all these great heroes of mine and I was showing them how to jive dancing with a door
Used to practice with a door
And I remember going to bed and Jimmy's house and I woke up in the night burst into pee
I
Couldn't find the toilet and I couldn't find the light switch and I'm sure the man to this day thinks I'm some kind of pervert
Every door I was in every cupboard creeping around his house, but that's how he's he's my friend all the time
It was well, I think the kids were great cuz in the morning they were going to school. This is a madman came in the room
I once heard a story
Guy who was in the same position and he couldn't find it. He was in a stranger's house
And he went oh god, I'm gonna have to do something and he didn't want to pee out the window
He didn't know what side was the street in the back garden. He could have been peeing a policeman or something
So he grabbed a vase
When the man to peace and we're no God
And then he left the house and he was and everything was fine until months later
Somebody said I don't ever want to speak to you you peed in the remains of my uncle. Harry
Oh, I'm not a superman last time I was at Billy's house the Pope was there I
Went over to Billy's house walk in a nice cocktail party and a pope was serving hors d'oeuvres
The car was a dead ringer for the Pope to make up and everything is going well
It was wonderful. I had a cake made for me and she got this a pope look alike
Okay
Anyway, I was in the house
And he was called Mr. Meredith and he lives in Wales. Well, Mr. Meredith came out the cake. He was brilliant
Yeah, that's great. It was breathtaking. You know, it's funny enough. She was going to get Arthur Scarlgill
Yeah, the real Arthur because you know, I like Arthur very much and she was going to get him there and then but she couldn't get him and she got the Pope
same thing
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
Yeah, and but here the man came out and
rightfully enough he went and got smashed with everybody else not drinking and this
The Pope was sort of four sheets to the wind
He had missed his train
He was lying on the couch
And I was standing with George Mellie and there was three people talking to the Pope and one had blue hair
and leather with studs and all that and they were from a rock band and the Pope was rabbit in a way
He did that
George Mellie says look, it's the temptation of St. Anthony
I wish you brought photographs
Wonderful
I said a bit earlier, I've got Superman, I've got Super Scott and Super Scouse here
Have you ever needed to tone down, I mean the accent, the Scottish way of doing things for any audience ever?
I've tried
I can't do it, I'm found out, you know, sorry
I can't
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
So
Outside all of you
So
It doesn't matter
I can change a little
And make it clearer
Slower, lower, higher
But I can't sustain any other accent
I can do it for breathtaking fractions of seconds and then I just fall to bits and it's stupid and sounds awful
Even for the Americans?
Oh for the Americans, well
Americans are very good because they listen very well
They're great listeners, Americans
I think it's because it's such a
His hair grew with him
They are very, very good listeners
But I was working in a place in Boston once
And it was purgatory
Really, seven weeks in this bar
It was an Irish American bar
And I was one of the singers
Oh God, I'll never forget it
Oh they hated me the minute they saw me
And I was singing trying to be Hannah
God I hated it
And one night I was coming in and the hat check girl was there and said hi
She was very nice, she hadn't heard my act
You know she liked everybody
Hello and I said hi
She said you're Scottish aren't you
And I said yes I am indeed
And she said don't you Scottish people have a language of your own
And I said we certainly have
And she said do you speak this
I said fluently
I couldn't save my life with Gaelic you know
And I said would you like me to teach you
She said oh yeah that would be
And it was lovely for me because I had a friend at the time
He's now dead
His name is Josh McCrae
He's a great singer in Scotland
And I said well hello in Scottish is Josh McCrae
She said yeah I can hear the music of it
Josh McCrae
She got it in one two three
And I said and the answer is okay
I said if you say Josh McCrae I say okay
If I say Josh you
And every night for seven weeks it was lovely
She'd really wait for me you know
And I'd go Josh McCrae
Hi okay
But the best thing that happened
One night I was doing a spoof
I said oh yes Scottish I know what you want
You take the high road
And they went and I'll take the low
The audience went crazy
I thought oh yeah
So I was just accompanying them
And I'll be in Scotland
But that's all I knew so I did it again
It was like cabaret
There was people marching across
And they'd say I'm going to take the high road
So the following night
I thought now what am I going to do
I need this so I wrote seven verses
So as this would come up every time
Yew
It's solemn verses
So I wrote about a guy falling in love
On the banks of Loch Lomond
And his father wouldn't let him marry this girl
So he jumped off Ben Lomond
Into Loch Lomond
What's that physical impossibility
Unless you're him
Speaking of that it's difficult to believe
Looking at you in your full glory now
That you were a boy scout
Oh I was a scout
It was lovely I was a cub first
When you're in the cubs
You get a wee thing on your jersey
A wee triangle, a coloured triangle
That says what six you know you're divided into sixes
And I was in
Everybody was red and green and blue and yellow and all that
I was in the grey six
And we were kind of grey you know
We all sort of stood about being grey
But then I wanted to be a scout
And I became one
And they were in patrols
And they were all like lions and wolves
And cobras and buffaloes
And they were all like I was in the pee-wee
I was a pee-wee
And funnily enough
Years later when I started to play music
I met Jerry Rafferty
And we were talking and he was a pee-wee as well
What were you doing? Were you a scout?
Yeah for a while
Do you remember what patrol you were in?
I really can't I only went in because I enjoyed going to camp
Of a windermere and all that and the swimming and everything
And I enjoyed the outdoors and it was good fun when you were a kid
Now Tarby was saying
The Beatles was his scene, what was yours?
Mine was
Well the Beatles sure
But there was a lot of a
I liked Angus Cain and the Volcanoes
I think I missed them
Yeah I thought people missed them
Jock Strapping with two swingers
I was a great one for
The Six Five Special and all that
And television and I remember Jim Dale
Was a rock singer though, the Piccadilly Lion
And all that
But I enjoyed
It was a great era
That pre-disco era
I was too old
Too young to be a teddy boy
And my parents wouldn't let me when the teddy boys were there
So I got the next one
The sort of groovy Italian style
Short jacket, three buttons
Three bum-freezer jackets
Winkle pickers
And I had this enormous pair of winkle pickers
Shoes
But the style was
White socks and big long winkle pickers
With Cuban heels
But mine, I had basket weave ones
And they cracked here
And there was a hole in them
So you could see my sock
Through my shoes, so I used to polish
My sock
When you were young, were you sexually
Desirable? I was
Sexually avoidable
I could
You know, I thought I was OK
I was all old spice and acne
Tie and hanky to match
That was a trendy thing
I like tying hanky
But the hanky was only a wee thing
Like three points
And when you pulled it out it was a piece of paper
Cardboard
I said, what if I go out with Deborah Carr
And she starts to cry
I can't go, here Danny
Unless it's blotting paper
I could
I tried things
To be attractive to women
You know, I had a motorbike
And they didn't like me, I smelled the petrol
You know, I tried to fancy clothes
They didn't like me, I smelled an after shave
And I was all acne
And I sort of ran all the time
And I could dance
But I couldn't turn corners
You know
So I danced till we got to the stage
So I had to crash into folk
As I was dancing
Oh sorry
I danced right out the door and up the street
So I want to have you dance
Listen, before you
I thought you'd go
Have a large one
Before you go
Get that down your body
Would you have a crumpet vicar
Thank you
That's what they say in Scotland
When the priest's in the house
Or the minister, and the dog farts
And then the crumpet vicar
I have a great gag about that
There's a lion at the water hole
In the jungle and this griller comes out
The trees, sex mad the griller
And he rapes the lion and the lion
He's got a hold of the lion, he says
I'll kill you for this when you let go of me
He slings the lion and he's away the griller
And he jumps over the garden into the missionary's place
And the old missionary's sat there
Reading the paper, and the griller
Cracks the missionary on the chin, rips his clothes off
Puts the white collar on and picks the paper up
And the lion comes round the corner
And he said, have you seen a griller in here
He said, you don't mean the griller
Who's just raped the lion down by the water hole
He said, oh my god, is it in the times already
Well, before the farting came in
When was the Stella family, sure
Superman will save us
It was a weed tune that I was after
But with the mouth, if that's alright
The mouth music more, I give the man the mouth music
See, when you learn Gaelic singing
The first thing you have to learn is how to say hello to people
Have you ever seen Gaelic singer sing
They go, hi in the hole, hi in the hole
Right, before I judge McRae
Okay, the news
Super dance
I shall arise and go now
Play my instrument and sing you a song
I'll run with Dennis and Ennis' father
Superman
Stand back, Superman
Iceman, Spider-Man
Batman, Robin too
The one who raised the rockers
But be a barockers
I've got a match for you
She makes you all look like a bunch of fairies
She's got more bottle than United Dairy
Hang about, look out for Super-Gran
Super, Super, Super-Gran
Super, Super, Super-Gran
You can stick your heroes
Your Robert Minero's Al Pacino
too
It makes the lonely nothing but a phony
You couldn't place her shoes
After her you're all big girls blouses
She's got more front than a row of houses
Hang about, look out for Super-Gran
Super, Super, Super-Gran
Change the serious credit
Change the serious credit
A serious credit
She'll do things that you never saw your granny do
Is there nothing that she can't do?
On your bike, Wonder Woman
Let's just say you had it coming
This one is for real
Charlie's Angels pack it in
Before it gets embarrassing
The baby's solid steel
She comes on strong like Bengal
And so does the baby
She's got a lot of money
She's got a lot of money
She's got a lot of money
She's got a lot of money
She's got a lot of money
She's strong like Bengal
And so it makes you all look like a bunch of ch該nsers
Hang about, look out for Super-Gran
Super, Super, Super-Gran
Hang about, look out for Super-Gran
Super, super, super grand, grand, grand.
APPLAUSE
Words and lyrics by Christopher, I imagine. Very nice.
That is for the television series. It's for the telly series.
It's great. They asked me to act in it and because Ian Cuthbertson was in it,
I took it. He's one of my heroes.
And I said, are you doing a song for it?
And they said, do you want it? And I said, yeah, and here it is.
And how's it doing? It's doing brilliantly well.
We are in the charts.
Whereabouts? About 45, I shall say.
That's pretty much. Well, I hope you'll improve as well.
Billy Connolly, thank you very much indeed.
Thank you.
Mr. Rene and Jimmy Tarbo.
Great time.
Thank you for your company. See you next time. Good-bye.
APPLAUSE
Next Friday, we'll meet George Segal, Goldie Horne and Conrad Janis.
Next week at 10 on Askelon Company.
Next on ABC, The World Tonight.
Followed by our late movie Every Girl Should Be Married,
when Betsy Drake tries to trap Cary Grant into wedlock.
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Good evening.
I'm Richard Palfreyman and this is The World Tonight.
Later in the program, a roundup of the last full week of the American election campaign
and an exclusive interview with South Korea's President Noh Tae-oo
on the eve of his visit to Australia.
First, though, here's Peter with tonight's main news story.
Hello, I'm Richard Palfreyman.
I'm a former member of the New Zealand Parliament
and I'm the first to speak in the New Zealand Parliament
in Australia.
First though, here's Peter with tonight's main news story.
Good evening.
Charles Perkins is considering his future tonight
after being sacked as the Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.
Mr Perkins' departure follows allegations of widespread financial bungling
and a meeting this morning between the Prime Minister
and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jerry Hand.
Charles Perkins was the target of a Senate Estimates Committee inquiry last week
into Aboriginal Affairs funding.
Opposition Senator Grant Tambling raised allegations of a black mafia of corruption and nepotism.
He linked the Aboriginal Development Commission and Mr Perkins with widespread financial bungling,
most notably the Wodan Town Club in Canberra and the Oasis Hotel in the New South Wales
town of Walgut. Together they've allegedly cost the taxpayer $2 million. The opposition
has waged a relentless push for Mr Perkins' sacking. Only yesterday Prime Minister Bob
Hawke said he still had confidence in Mr Perkins. But today Mr Hawke met Aboriginal Affairs
Minister Gerry Hand and decided Mr Perkins had to go. But Charles Perkins is still defiant.
I have done nothing wrong in Aboriginal Affairs that I can be ashamed of and that will be
proved in the next month or so and I would then require an apology from a number of people.
Gerry Hand says a disagreement over funding for poker machines at the Wodan Club caused
the sacking.
Opposition Leader John Howard suffered a major political setback tonight when a New South
Wales State Executive meeting of the Liberal Party confirmed the dumping of embattled Party
Director Dr Graham Starr. Dr Starr read a letter of resignation to the meeting declaring
that he did not want to be reinstated and later there was no attempt by his supporters
to press the issue.
Opposition Leader John Howard arrived at Liberal Headquarters tonight attempting to hose down
reports of the split in the Liberal Party over the future of Dr Starr.
You people are going to be very disappointed that there won't be the button fight you've
all been hoping for.
Mr Howard is a strong supporter of the State Directors. Tonight Mr Griner arriving at the
meeting refused to comment. His close advisors have been locked in a backroom battle with
Dr Starr since before the election. Dr Starr's role as the organiser of the campaign was
taken over by the Griner team. It's understood Dr Starr was strongly opposed to their involvement
in a company called Community Polling. The company has been the subject of allegations
concerning the funding of candidates in the election. Mr Howard has argued strongly in
support of Dr Starr in order to maintain his power base in New South Wales.
Indian troops are reported to have captured some of the mercenaries who tried to overthrow
the Maldives government yesterday. Between 150 and 250 heavily armed gunmen had stormed
Mali in an attempt to oust the ten year old regime of President Gayoom but later fled
in retreat.
The idyllic serenity of the Maldives was shattered in the hours before dawn when some 150 foreign
gunmen stormed the island capital of Mali. Carrying grenades, light machine guns and
automatic rifles they reportedly tried to take over the presidential palace, residence
of President Mahmood Gayoom who has ruled the country's 180,000 Muslims since 1978.
Many hours after the coup it was still not known whether it had been successful. President
Gayoom escaped capture and called on Britain, the United States and India for assistance.
Paratroopers sent in by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi landed in Mali to help put down
the coup. Residents contacted by telephone reported sporadic gunfire in the streets some
12 hours after the attack although a government official announced the coup had been thwarted.
This nation renowned until now for its beaches and fishing has been thrust under the international
political spotlight.
The Australian government has been asked to help probe corruption allegations against
former South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan and his family. Students were attempting to
march on Chun's house with the arrival of the deadline they'd set for his arrest on
charges of corruption and human rights abuse. Crowds of students rallied on several campuses
in Seoul and 20,000 police were deployed to stop them reaching the house. The demonstrators
firebombed a ruling party office and seized a government building. About 3,000 students
are estimated to have taken part in the clashes. Meanwhile the President of the Republic of
Korea is preparing for a three day visit to Australia and is due to arrive in Sydney tomorrow.
Venice may finally have found a solution to the periodic flooding which threatens its
historic buildings and art treasures. It's an inflatable flood barrier which the city
hopes will turn the tide in its constant battle against the sea.
They call it Moses and the Italians hope it'll prove just as successful at parting the waters
as its biblical namesake. Moses is an inflatable flood barrier which had its first trial run
today. It's a prototype only, one of more than 80 barriers needed to seal off the historic
city from seasonal rises in the level of the Adriatic Sea. A rise of just 70 centimetres
leaves parts of Venice under water. In 1966 the sea rose two metres leaving St Mark's
Square under more than a metre of flood water. Many priceless works of art were seriously
damaged. Venice hopes this project will help ensure it never happens again but it'll be
at least another 10 years before Moses is ready and Venice securely high and dry.
In the wake of the collapse of the Rothwells Bank a warning today that other financial
institutions could also go to the wall. While economists ponder the financial implications
of the collapse, West Australian Premier Peter Dowding was considering the political fallout.
The hour by hour death watch on Rothwells ended when the financiers simply had nowhere
else to go. The announcement of receivership was followed by Premier Peter Dowding saying
there was no chance of another government rescue of Rothwells. Today after a night's
sleep the Premier admitted the saga had dealt labour in the West a body blow.
It's obviously a very severe blow in a political sense. It's one we've got to take on the
chin but it doesn't mean the end. We obviously have a lot to claw back in the current political
situation. There won't only be a political fallout after
Rothwells. Already one company closely associated with the financier has suspended itself from
the stock exchange. The fear is more will follow.
You can see a lot of the speculative type companies, suppose that high tech companies
or other high risk ventures who won't now have access to or already access to finance
may well close their doors or just not get up and run.
One of Australia's most ambitious mining ventures, the $750 million Roxby Downs uranium
venture officially opens tomorrow. John Chapman reports on the controversial project's history.
In 1975 Australian resources giant Western Mining discovered the rich copper, uranium,
gold and silver deposits at Olympic Dam, 520 kilometres north of Adelaide on Roxby Downs
station. But it wasn't until 1982 the then Liberal
government introduced a special indenture bill to parliament to allow the project to
proceed. With the election of the Bannon Labour government in November 1982 opposition simmered.
Anti nuclear activists and tribal aborigines were also vocal. But in November 1983 Federal
cabinet and caucus gave the go ahead. A decision also confirmed at a fiery ALP national conference
eight months later. The mine is now at production stage but the
protests still niggle. The first official shipments of uranium are due to leave the
area by road in the next six weeks and further anti nuclear protests are expected.
An Australian invention could make the familiar satellite receiving dishes around the world
obsolete. Australian scientists have developed a radically new way of receiving television
communications from satellites. They've been springing up all over Australia,
parabolic satellite dishes bringing the world to a rooftop near you. But these dishes are
big rather ugly and expensive. Scientists at Flinders University in Adelaide
believe this is the next generation of satellite receiver. It uses high tech amplifiers that
mean it can pick up even weak indirect signals from space.
If we can hold the signal for two minutes we've got our picture.
Compared with dishes the corkscrew antenna is more compact, stronger and most importantly
should cost only half as much. Almost all of us are now receiving this picture sent
from a local transmitter on the ground. In future maybe your street won't look like
this when we all get pictures direct by satellite but rather like this.
And now a look at the tribulations of an American television host who became the victim of his
own show last night. Geraldo Rivera renowned for his confrontationless programs was hosting
a debate on neo-Nazi youth when his anti-black guest called a prominent civil rights activist
Uncle Tom and refused to apologise. A dozen skinhead supporters leapt from the audience
throwing punches and the furniture. Rivera's nose was broken by a flying chair but deciding
the show must go on he simply asked for a commercial break.
Well they're the major news stories of the day. Now back to Richard.
Five days before election day in the United States and George Bush has broken a campaign
vow. He's beginning to talk about what he'll do when he wins next Tuesday's election.
As confidence in the Bush camp brims over George Bush is saying that he'll look for
an early summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he'll be a quiet listening
president who'll try to be wise and he'll try to be fair. This look beyond the election
comes as opinion polls continue to give Bush a formidable lead. Here's our Washington correspondent
Alan Hogan.
Standing in the conservative Midwestern states George Bush was delivering a carefully crafted
message. Yet again he painted his opponent as somehow un-American.
On taxes and crime and America's place in the world you could probably call the distance
between us a great divide. What it all comes down to is this. One of us represents the
American mainstream and one of us does not. Yet again Bush chose to attack his opponent
rather than to offer policies of his own. I honestly believe, I think, that he's guided
more by abstract theories and grids and graphs and computer printouts and the history of
Swedish social planning. Even with the polls running all his way George Bush has not relaxed
his campaign effort. But knowing that the election is his to lose he's been careful
not to launch any new initiatives and to avoid press conferences. He's just coasting to the
finish line. One reason it's generally thought that politicians like to win elections is
to give them a mandate to do something. Do you think George Bush is going to win a mandate
this time or is he simply going to win the election? He'll have no mandate whatsoever.
He'll have a very hard time governing. In fact Democrats are already laying the groundwork
for the claim after the election that he won in a dirty campaign. He didn't even win fairly
let alone having a mandate. He's going to have a very short honeymoon. It'll be a matter
of hours and he'll have a hard time governing. Judging by this Republican pamphlet the Democrats
have some legitimate grievances about the dirtiness of the campaign. It links Dukakis
with murderer Willie Horton who committed rape while on leave from a Massachusetts jail.
Is this your pro-family team for 88 it asks. You say that this is a country of fair play.
Do you think that this is fair play? Do you think that's fair play? Do you think this
is fair play? Would you want your sister to date this guy? Do you think this is questioning
whether I am nuts or not? I mean Tom look I love to watch plant closings almost as much
as when they bloom. Do you think that's fair play? I don't know how you define it but these
campaigns have some rough and tumble in them. Poor George. He can't help it. He was born
with a silver foot in his mouth. I tend to spread the mud evenly on both sides of the
aisle here. After all the Democrats began back at their convention in Atlanta with three
days of unrelieved derision and mocking of George Bush. It was a personal attack that
was their strategy to run against Bush as a persona to make him ridiculous. The wimp
is how he was known back in July. Well he isn't a wimp anymore and now they're screaming
he's a bully. Well you can't have it both ways. Which is he? Is he a wimp or a bully?
Over the last weeks of the campaign Michael Dukakis has developed a sharper style, increased
energy and what some might call passion. I'll work with other countries but I'll be damned
if I let those countries send their poison into the United States of America and destroy
our kids. People often say well where's the passion in Dukakis? Maybe it's because I've
been chief executive for ten years and you kind of get used to the crisis of the moment
and you're a little calmer and cooler but I express my passion I guess in different
ways. I express my passion because I care deeply about public service because I'm in
it to make a difference in the lives of people. I'm not in public service to cut up the other
guy. I'm in public service because I want to make a real difference in the lives of
people. That's why I've been in public service for 25 years and that's what I think being
president is all about. I want to be a president who brings people together. No comfort from
the polls this week for Michael Dukakis. The NBC Wall Street Journal poll showed 23 states
strongly supporting George Bush including the key states of Texas and New Jersey and
11 more states are leaning toward Bush. For Dukakis still only four states and Washington
DC are strongly behind him. Three states are leaning towards him. The Dukakis campaign
is realistic enough to admit privately that their candidate is now a long shot. Their
campaign is now focused on six states New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois
and California. But even if he wins them all with their 175 electoral college votes he's
still well short of the number he needs. So could the polls have it wrong? What about
that classic upset back in 1948 when the polls picked Thomas Dewey but the voters picked
Harry Truman? Don't forget that in Truman Dewey the pollsters stopped taking the polls
two weeks before the election because they were so sure that Dewey had won. We're taking
the polls up to the last half hour. The latest polls show that Dukakis is slipping even more.
He's now in two major national polls down about 12 percentage points. There's no way
he can win. The only question is will he lose respectably or be buried in a landslide.
That report from ABC correspondent Alan Hogan in Washington. Well as you heard on the news
on the eve of President Noh Tae-u's visit to Australia South Korea has asked Canberra
for help in tracing investments by former President Chun Doo-hwan who's accused of
corruption and human rights abuses. In the eight months since his inauguration President
Noh has bought a hint of spring to his country, a showcase Olympic Games and the first tentative
plans to reunify the two Koreas. Just before leaving on his Australian visit President
Noh spoke with ABC correspondent Walter Hamilton in Seoul. You've made some new proposals recently
for reunification with North Korea. Do Pyongyang's responses so far give you any grounds for
optimism? I'm not unduly disappointed because there was no response right away from Pyongyang
on our proposals. They have inherent restrictions in opening their country and responding positively
to our approach at this time. But as time goes by there will be some hopeful response
from North Korea and things will definitely move ahead. But frankly how can you deal with
someone, a leader like Kim Il Sung who practices a leadership style which sets him up as a
demigod and who also uses terrorism against his own people? Yes it is a very difficult
thing to work out smooth relations with people like that. But there is no other alternative
if you do not improve relations with North Korea. You know what happened during the last
35 years? There was this tragedy of division for the people and the incest and provocations
and terror and there is no guarantee that things will not get worse. And as North Korea
gets more and more isolated the possibility existed in the past for them to be more provocative.
Therefore in the future I would like to see North Korea thrown out into the international
community as a responsible member and engage with us in constructive dialogue and build
the road for national reconciliation. Korea suffered at the hands of Japanese imperialism.
I wonder whether you have any concerns at all about Japan's increased military capability.
Japan has become an economic superpower and as such it has a big role to play throughout
the world and especially in helping the neighbouring developing countries. About the military power
I do not think the Japanese will try to have a big military power. The neighbouring countries
would not want Japan to have more military power than is necessary for self-defence.
Almost daily we are hearing allegations of corruption and deaths in custody during the
time of your predecessor's term in office. Would anything less than imprisonment for
former President Chun satisfy the public outrage?
When a new government comes in people are bound to look back and talk about the past
times, the irregularities and so on. And of course it is natural and it is very much necessary
that we have to straighten the historical records and if there is any wrongdoing we
have to correct those wrongs. As for the former president a lot of these
accusations come from these sentimental emotional things and among the political leaders in
Korea there is a broad agreement that there should not be any political retaliation for
the sake of democratic development. A lot of what Koreans have heard about Australia
recently concerns allegations that the family of President Chun has secret investments in
Australia that there have been shady dealings in cattle between the two countries. Do you
feel that you need to clarify this legacy of suspicion especially concerning Australia's
former relationship with the government? Of course if there is any suspicion or doubt
we have to take measures to clear it but I do not think there is any possibility of that
kind of shady deals. The national pride of both countries would not permit this and I
am sure that nothing of this sort has taken place. All these rumors have been spread after
the change of government by various media and a lot of people were moved by these reports
but I do not think there is any basis for these rumors and for all these things we are
taking necessary legal measures. Australia enjoys a trade surplus with Korea but it has
been somewhat frustrated by barriers to its agricultural products into this market. Will
in the future Australia be able to get free and open access to this market for its farm
goods? I know that our market for these agricultural products are not completely free and open
but you have to take into consideration the economic reality in Korea. Korea used to have
a deficit in its international balance of payment. It is quite recently that the situation
has changed and in accordance with this change the policies and all these economic measures
have been going on some process of adaptation but for full adaptation of course we need
some more time. President Noh Tae-oo talking with ABC correspondent Walter Hamilton on
the eve of his Australian visit and finally to Poland where communist leaders are experiencing
a forthright taste of Thatcherism. The British Prime Minister has already told them that
the country needs political reform if its economy is to be rejuvenated and she has also
upset her Polish hosts with an open tribute to the banned trade union movement Solidarity.
This report on Mrs Thatcher's first full day in Poland from ITN's Nick Gowing in Warsaw.
Poland's Council of Ministers this morning. Mrs Thatcher's car on time but the new Polish
Prime Minister Michysław Rakowski visibly on edge as he talked to advisors and fine
tuned his talking points. After three key meetings with Mr Rakowski, Cardinal Glempe
and leading independent voices yesterday British sources said Mrs Thatcher was already fascinated
by what she'd heard and had learned more in a couple of hours than any Whitehall brief
could give her and this morning Prime Minister Rakowski admitted unusually frankly how far
Poland is now behind Europe economically. Mrs Thatcher gave no ground on credits or
Poland's massive debt but apart from offering the chance for 200 Polish managers to gain
experience of private industry in Britain, British sources say the Prime Minister remains
in a mood to learn rather than give advice. But away from the formalities one has to wonder
how much the Prime Minister can really learn about the true complexities and contradictions
of daily life here. Take this morning's visit to an indoor food market where barricades
replace the usual private stores outside and the secret police were out in force, at time
seeming to outnumber the shoppers. Regulars and diplomats reported not just the inevitable
sprucing up but also the arrival of bananas and citrus fruit as well as more meat and
cakes than usual. Having patiently crowded the Balkanies and gangways in anticipation
almost all were then unceremoniously bulldozed out of the way by members of Poland's elite
ministerial security forces. They seemed less than enthusiastic about the British Prime
Minister's well established intention of communing a little with the people of every country
she visits. Yet through it all were the images, not just for British cameras but also for
those Polish shoppers who had managed to stand their ground. The volume on the shelves was
there but not the variety and the Prime Minister spent money just as she always does on such
occasions. Here she bought honey and jam but Poles were heard complaining that there's
always honey, jam and processed food on sale in Poland, that Mrs Thatcher was getting the
wrong impression of the daily struggle here to obtain the basics of life at affordable
prices and of the worst hardships endured by the majority of Poles living in the industrial
and agricultural areas outside Warsaw.
There were moments when even Mrs Thatcher herself realised the potential cost in lost
produce to these private stall holders as the media hurricane blew through. These stall
holders illustrated the Thatcherite prescription of free enterprise for Poland. Despite a little
finger trouble for the well prepared British ambassador, 700 Złoty for a kilo of tomatoes
is no problem for a foreigner but to Poles it's an enormous price for what are essentially
luxury produce in Poland. As for the stall holder she complained that Mrs Thatcher had
paid in worthless Złoty instead of dollars which can buy something and the old lady nearby
was more pleased that her eggs had survived than that she'd seen Mrs Thatcher. This evening
Mrs Thatcher's visit entered its most delicate phase. She met with General Jaruzelski who
earlier this week told Channel 4 News that he would seek her advice on economic matters
while warning that she should not meddle in Polish issues which are sovereign matters.
The meeting took place with the chance of solidarity still vivid in the Prime Minister's
mind after she visited the grave of the murdered priest Jerzy Popiewuszko. The grave is more
than the priest's last resting place, it's become a shrine, a symbol of solidarity survival
since martial law seven years ago. And then afterwards she spoke to the priest's parents
who travelled from their peasant farm near the Soviet border. A steel worker then told
Mrs Thatcher that her policies would help make Poland independent and democratic. It was
a private visit of which the Polish leadership disapproved but could not stop. And it underlined
Mrs Thatcher's message to Poland tonight as she prepares to visit Gdansk tomorrow that
greater prosperity comes to those nations which have greater freedom.
The Polish government's visit to Poland was a private visit of which the Polish leadership
disapproved but could not stop. And it underlined Mrs Thatcher's message to Poland tonight as
it comes to those nations which have greater freedom.
And that report on Mrs Thatcher's first impressions of communist Poland from Nick Gowing of ITN.
Peter.
Well to finance now, and Sir Ron Briley's Industrial Equity Limited today announced
a $74 million bid for the paper products company Edwards Dunlop. The bid's conditional on IEL
winning more than 50% acceptances. Edwards Dunlop shares close steady, 25 cents below
the IEL offer price of $2.75. Bond Corporation shares rose 10 cents, the All Ordinaries Index
fell slightly, and the price of gold was 50 cents down on its New York close.
Overseas, Wall Street closed higher. In early London trade tonight, the FT100 index was
up two points. The Tokyo market was a little weaker, and the Hong Kong market was unchanged.
On currency markets, the Australian dollar reached its highest levels against the US
dollar in four years, buoyed by high local interest rates and the firm gold price. It
traded above 83 US cents for most of the day, and gained against other currencies that closed
below its highest points.
Finally, the weather, and in a nutshell, unsettled in patches. Showers are forecast for Sydney
and Hobart, rain periods for Canberra, storms for Darwin. It should become fine in Melbourne,
and continuing fine conditions are expected in the other capital cities.
And with that, from the Newsroom, good night.
And that's all for this week. Next week, of course, sees the US presidential election,
and we'll be bringing you up to date with the last days of the campaign, and of course,
Tuesday's voting. Until then, have a great weekend, and good night.
Don't miss A Dangerous Life, coming soon to ABC.
Good evening, and welcome to our late movie. Betsy Drake and Cary Grant star in the delightful
comedy that triggered their real-life marriage, Every Girl Should Be Married.
Good evening, and welcome to our late movie.
You might as well relax. You can't change the world.
Well, why can't we send them flowers and candy, or take them out to dinner? Well, why can't
we call for them in our cars and take them for a nice little drive in the country?
And run out of gas?
Maybe, if we wanted to. Of course, I don't suppose I'll meet the right man today. I may
not even meet him this week. I may not even meet him this year. But believe me, when I
see him, I'll know him.
When's Harry going to wait on us?
You order for me, Julie. I'm going to borrow some agnivine.
What do you want to eat?
I don't know. It's such a wonderful spring day, I'll eat anything.
Oh, sorry. After you.
Thank you. How many have you?
Hmm? Thank you, pardon?
These. How many have you?
My none, fortunately.
Fortunately?
I'm not married.
Let me have one.
Uh-huh.
You all right?
That's right, thank you.
Smoke on a pipe now, Annabelle?
Charlie, haven't you anything better to do than be fresh?
Isn't he darling? Can't you just imagine his father?
Oh, Annabelle, really?
I can picture him just as clearly as if he were right here in the storm.
Say, if you see any nice noisy chances, let me know, will you?
Julie, look. It's that dreamy little honeymoon cottage we saw out on Sycamore Lane that Saturday.
Well, of course it is. Do you remember?
Well, so it is.
Look at that big crunchy chair in front of the fire. Can't you just see somebody in it?
So kind of pipey and booky and everything.
Oh, Julie, this nursery, isn't it just perfect?
Now, I could knock out that wall and put a sun deck up there.
All they have to do is show you a picture of a house and you move right in.
On what we get, less withholding and all those other, what you might call it,
that it'd take you five years to buy that hobby horse.
Oh, sure, she's just in how well you plan things.
It's what I was talking to you about. A girl who's simply got to.
It's simply the difference between, well, it's just the difference between G.I. Joe and General Eisenhower.
Okay, General, here's your chopped egg.
You forgot the sliced pickles.
Hi, Mr. Gargity, they keeping you busy these days?
Don't spill anything on those magazines. Some foolish customer might want to buy one.
You know something, Mr. Gargity? I'm going to buy this one myself instead of banana cream pie.
It's about time.
Oh, yes. Hmm. These are the kind I'm looking for. I'll take a dozen of them.
Nursing bottles, and he said he wasn't. Just a great big lie. Of course he's married.
Who's married? Oh, nothing. How should I know?
Don't you ever think of anything but getting married, Julie?
What?
This floor brings selections for ladies, Bon Voyage shops, Mrs. Childrens, and Infant's Way.
This is Blue Chantilly Lace over a navy blue crepe slip.
And this is Roger Samberton Company, Miss King, not the Folly Berger.
Yes, Mr. Spitzer.
Well, Susan, I hope you have a nice time to your birthday party.
Thank you.
Well, hello.
Oh, hello.
You don't remember me, do you? The girl in the drug store the other day, you remember better babies.
The magazines.
Yes, of course, of course.
I'll send you the dresses as soon as they come in.
Oh, hello. Hello.
Well, now that we seem to know each other so well, perhaps you'd like to wait on me.
Oh, sure.
I'd like to see some booties.
Booties?
Mm-hmm. A good one, the tie-on kind.
Well, we have these.
Oh, mm-hmm.
Are the booties for your nephew or something?
No.
These are very nice. They have fur.
Yes, so I see. Now, there's a kind you advertise. I believe you call them Winky Woolies.
Yes, we do.
These are the Winky Woolies.
Ah, yes, that's more like it.
Yeah, that's precisely what I want. I'll take 14 pairs.
14, my goodness.
Yes, nine pink and five blue. Please send them to Miss Hazel...
Miss Hazel?
Willebrand. Have them wrapped as a gift and send direct to the Fernwood Children's Home.
Children's Home? Well, how perfectly sweet. Why, that explains everything.
It does? Well, I'm glad.
Charge them to me, if you will, Dr....
Doctor?
Yes, Dr. Madison W. Brown, 710 North Rexford Drive.
Oh, I think that's just wonderful.
I mean, about you being a doctor and curing people.
710 North Rexford Drive, us meeting again like this and everything.
It's a small world, isn't it?
Isn't it, though? Especially in April.
Well, thanks for everything, but...
When you come in again, I'm always here, Miss Annabel Sims.
And we have darling things since you like babies so much.
Well, as a matter of fact, I don't. I don't like them at all.
I think they're noisy little nuisances. Oh, look out. Hey, you all right?
You almost made a first down.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Now, before you bring these youngsters of yours in here again,
I want to make sure there's something the matter with them,
so I can send you a bill. You probably will anyway.
Come along, boys. We've got no sympathy here.
Well, say hello to Hank. Tell him he's a much better father than he is a poker player.
Bye. Bye, Dr. Brown.
Whew.
Well, what are you doing? You're not through yet. You've got another patient.
She telephoned. She rushed right over. It's 6.15.
I've been up to my knees in tiny tots all day.
The only time she can get here. She said she'd have to see you.
But I've got a dinner date with Carolyn Davis at 7 o'clock.
Well, you'll be late. Now, you go right back to that office and behave yourself.
Oh, stop making a noise like a woman, Marion, running my life.
Oh, my. Why didn't I become a night watchman or a flag pole sitter
or somebody with regular hours instead of a baby doctor?
Stop calling yourself a baby doctor. You're a pediatrician.
And the best one in town, if I do say so myself.
Now, reach into that bottom drawer, marked bills, and help yourself to $1,000.
Huh?
Now, look, Mary, whoever it is, try to put them off until tomorrow or something.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, good evening.
Good evening.
Are you alone?
Well, yes, of course.
This visit, I thought you and I might just have a little talk.
Well, it's...
Oh, I'm sorry it's late, but I just couldn't get here any sooner.
And I wouldn't dream of seeing anybody but you.
You wouldn't? Why? Who sent you?
Why, no one at all.
You see, you're the only doctor I know really well.
Oh. When did all this take place?
My goodness, don't you know?
Winky Wally's.
Oh, yes. Sanford's department store.
How could I ever forget you?
Well, thank you.
Come on in.
Won't you sit down?
Thank you.
Now, let's begin at the beginning, shall we?
Now, suppose we have the little patient's name.
Annabelle.
A-N-A-B-E-L.
Annabelle. Last name?
Sims.
Sex, female.
Well, of course, for heaven's sakes.
Age?
Pretty young. Just a little over 20, but...
That's close enough. Thank you.
Now, tell me, exactly what have you observed?
Well, I guess you might call it insomnia.
Well, we'll see.
Have you any idea what causes this, what you guess I might call insomnia?
I don't know.
It might be emotional.
Highly improbable.
Winking out, rashish, chafing.
Oh, no, no. Nothing at all. Not a mark. Anyplace.
That's good.
Yes, isn't it?
How about digestion?
Oh, excellent. Practically starving right at this moment.
Cry a lot?
Once in a while.
Well, I'll tell you, Mrs. Sims, if you'd bring little Annabelle...
Mrs. Sims? Where'd you ever get such an idea as that?
And who in the world is little Annabelle?
Well, I just naturally presume...
But I told you distinctly in the store, Miss Sims.
What kind of a doctor are you anyway, going around forgetting people,
presuming they're married?
What about the baby?
Baby? What baby? So now all of a sudden I've got a baby.
And there's nothing funny about it either.
Well, I'm afraid you've made a mistake coming here, Miss Sims.
You see, I'm a pediatrician. A baby doctor.
A baby doctor? Oh.
Oh, well, that's more wonderful than ever.
I just love babies.
You do? Well, I hope you have some of your own one day.
Oh, I'm going to. Just as soon as I'm married.
Well, I guess I wasn't looking at these when I came in.
Who's that wonderful child?
Well, that's Mrs. Willoughby's little Mary Nell.
And these are her teeth marks.
Well, I suppose I'd better be going.
I guess doctors are pretty busy in the evenings...
going to clinics and calling on patients.
Sometimes.
Oh, you mean they have a free evening once in a while?
Oh, yes. That reminds me.
Mary, Mary, tell Miss Davis not to dress for dinner.
I'll pick her up straight from the office.
Now, about that emotional insomnia of yours,
I recommend a little less romantic imagination...
and a little more sleep, Miss Sims.
Good evening.
And you, you, put back that thousand dollars.
Honey, it's me.
Well, come in.
I guess.
I just thought I'd drop by before...
Well, are you doing some homework?
You might call it that.
Dr. Brown's birthplace.
Dr. Brown's college.
Sports.
Hobbies.
Well, are you writing the story of his life?
Of course not.
It's all part of the plan I told you about.
Got every detail worked out.
The general's in action.
Annabelle, do you mean you're going to deliberately set out to trap him?
Well, I know it's dreadful, but this is the kind of thing that men force us to do.
Anyway, Julie, it's all for his own good.
The way he is now, he's perfectly miserable.
I don't know, he looked reasonably happy to me.
He only thinks he is.
How could he be?
A bachelor, all alone in the world.
And you should hear how he lives.
He's nothing but a creature of habit.
Look at all of these menus, for instance.
He has a different restaurant for each night of the week.
Week after week.
No home cooking.
What are the red pencil marks?
They're all the things he likes to eat, of course.
Clear turtle soup, steak with mushrooms.
What are the blue pencil marks?
Oh, they're the things he's mad for.
Lion's-ace potatoes.
Julie, isn't he wonderful?
Oh, sensational.
Probably nobody like him in the world.
Socks, 11 and a half, collar 16, sleeve length 35.
Annabelle, have you gone crazy?
I bet you even know what color shorts he wears.
Blue.
Favorite books, hobbies.