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In April 1945, the British Army entered Belsen Camp.
This is what they saw.
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psychological warfare division.
It was a pretty awful horrifying sight.
People look more like animals than human beings.
Dead bodies all over the place.
And smell stench went for miles.
As you get nearer the camp you could smell it.
Sidney Bernstein was determined that the German people
should see the full extent of what he had seen.
Simple newsreels would not be enough.
He wanted to assemble overwhelming evidence of the existence
of Nazi concentration camps permanently recorded on film
so that these atrocities could never be denied.
The war was still going on, yet he persuaded the Russians
and Americans to send film of other camps
to add to this British film of Belson.
When this material reached London it was so shocking
and the message it contained so urgent
that Sidney Bernstein was able to assemble a distinguished team
of journalists and advisors to help him.
My instructions were to film everything which would prove
one day that this had actually happened.
It would be a lesson to all mankind as well
as to the Germans for whom the film we were putting together
was designed to show to the German people.
Most of them on our way down and on the troops' way down
had denied they knew anything about the camps.
This would be the evidence which we could show them.
But Bernstein's film was never shown.
The British government first encouraged it,
then discouraged it.
It's lain in the archives for 40 years.
This is the story of that film and why it was never shown,
but it's also the story of the camps.
We hear what happened before the cameras got there
from those who survived.
The film was started while Europe was still at war.
Its producers were anxious to show that the German people
were responsible for the growth of the Nazi monster.
It opened with scenes of Hitler at the peak of his popularity.
The original film's commentary was never recorded,
but a script has survived.
It's written in the mood of the time
and is narrated in the style of the time.
In March 1933, 17,264,296 Germans
voted for the National Socialist Party.
20,680,000 cast their votes for Democrats,
Communists, Christian Socialists, People's Party, and so on.
Lack of unity among these parties
opposing the Nazis proved fatal.
The National Socialist Party was in power.
They made many claims and many promises.
The German people had embarked on that long, incredible journey
that led seemingly out of chaos to unprecedented triumph.
In the spring of 1945,
the Allies advancing into the heart of Germany
came to Bergen-Belsen.
Neat and tidy orchards, well-stocked farms
lined the wayside,
and the British soldier did not fail to admire
the place and its inhabitants,
at least until he began to feel a smell.
It came from a concentration camp,
a waste ringed with barbed wire
and overlooked by watchtowers.
Coming in from the flowering countryside
in spite of the frightful smell,
things didn't seem so bad at first.
Children smiled through the barbed wire,
and women laughed and waved their hands.
But Belsen camp was vast,
and inside was a different story.
They had not eaten for six days,
and every soldier's stock of food was called into use.
Water, too, had been cut off,
so the water cart was the most important thing to arrive.
Most of the people seemed to be listless,
beyond hope and astonishment.
Hunger had probably affected them that way.
We discovered that among this stench of disease and decay
was something a bit worse than hunger.
Moving vaguely on rickety skeleton legs,
they were too ill to eat.
How grateful they were for a kindly word or gesture!
What misery to live among such unmentionable filth,
with scarcely the strength to pick the lice
that inevitably swarmed all over them.
There was a girl standing some way back behind the gates,
and she had a plea in her eye,
and I didn't answer it.
I didn't know what to do.
She wasn't a beauty, anything like that.
She was a good-looking sensible girl, there, an inmate.
She couldn't have been in long,
otherwise she wouldn't have been in her overcoat and what she had on.
I can keep on coming back as a memory,
that girl standing there on her own,
and I think I should have done something about it at the time.
Witnessing the liberation was 18-year-old Anita Lasca,
a survivor of three and a half years in different camps.
I remember somebody said,
I think the British are coming, I didn't want to know.
However, in the end, I believe my sister dragged me out of the bunk
and we sat down on the ground, leaning against the barrack.
It was summer, well, it was spring, and it was very warm,
and it didn't help the bodies, of course,
or the most unbelievable stench,
so we are told by the people who came in,
we no longer smelled it.
So we sat outside there and just waited for something to happen.
And there it was, a loud hailer.
You're liberated.
One of the first British soldiers to see all this was cameraman Bill Lorry.
They looked at you and didn't register anything.
They didn't smile, they didn't cry, they didn't laugh, they did nothing.
The expressions didn't change, their eyes were glazed,
and as I say, whether they actually saw you or not, I don't know,
but there was no feeling of jubilation, we're free,
I don't think they contemplated that ever.
This man had died by violence.
Huts were almost impossible to go near.
They were full of tangled masses of people
who had died slowly and painfully of starvation and disease,
writhing in agony, helpless in puddles of excrement.
What were conditions in these huts like by this time?
Unbelievable, especially as people died and died and died
and you had to take the bodies out and more bodies,
and they piled up as you've seen in the pictures,
and there was no way to remove them even, there was nothing, it was inferno.
Dead prisoners hurled out and stacked in twisted heaps.
Dead women like marble statues in the mire.
This was what these inmates had to live among and die among.
The dead which lay there were numbered not in hundreds,
but in thousands, not one or two thousands, but 30,000.
Here is a pit where the inmates, in order to earn food,
had to drag the bodies of their comrades,
but they were too weak to keep up with the rate
at which they were dying, so the pit remains only half-filled.
The SS guards in charge of the camp
were captured and lined up for examination.
Their bodies were taken to the camp
and they were taken to the hospital.
Their papers were gone through
to confirm their status, their authority.
Each with his death's head badge, each justified by German law.
They were unashamed, well-fed, well-dressed, and cheerful.
There were women also on guard in Belsen,
volunteers who came of their own free will to do their bit,
not sickly pale with hollow faces and hungry eyes,
well-fed and well-kept with a strutting arrogance.
The commandant of the camp, Joseph Kramer,
was removed for trial as a war criminal
by an allied military court.
There was an urgent need to get rid of as many bodies as possible
as quickly as possible, so all the SS were set to work.
500 Hungarian troops captured with the SS
were started on a grave-digging operation.
The SS themselves were made to do the unpleasant job
they had forced the inmates to do.
This, after all, was nothing to these men.
They, the master race, had been taught to be hard.
They could kill in cold blood, and it seemed to the British soldier
fit and proper that the killers should bury the nameless,
hopeless creatures they'd starved to death.
The SS, when we arrived, were very, very arrogant,
very smug, very satisfied.
They had no compassion for these people at all.
They could see nothing wrong in what they had done.
It was very difficult to make them realize
the enormity of what they had done.
And one way, a very good way, was to make them undo it.
And the only way we could do that was to make them personally carry
the dead bodies that we hadn't time to bury.
Burying these people was done on conveyor belts.
Truckloads were being carried to and from the mass graves.
But even that was too slow.
They brought in a bulldozer, they dug graves,
and they pushed the dead into the graves.
And one of the lasting impressions in my mind,
where these bodies had been dragged,
these emaciated people had been dragged across the ground,
the system they used was to tie rags around their ankles
and pull them by the rag.
The result was that the hands dragged out
and the fingertips left tracks across the sand.
And I have a strong memory of a body that had been dragged out
in the position of the crucifix
and the finger trails finishing at his fingertips.
But the job of clearing up Belson was a big one.
After seven dreadful days, the funerals still go on.
There seems to be no end.
The SS men are not so spick and span now.
Seven days of being shouted and cursed at,
the handling of corpses by the hundred are beginning to tell.
The burgemeisters and civil officials of the neighbourhood
were brought to witness the scenes that had been caused
as part of the Nazi scheme of things.
This was not what they expected.
It had been happening for years,
but they shrugged their shoulders and beat their brows
and tried to say it had been none of their business,
but they were mostly silent.
First of all, I want to record that all the local bigwigs and people,
the municipal burgemeister and the like,
who lived within a reasonable range,
saw what was being done in burying these tragic figures.
Some of the Germans we brought in to be filmed
when the bodies were being buried in the pit,
this couldn't look any more.
I wanted to prove that they had seen it,
so there was evidence, because I guess rightly
that most people had seen it.
There was evidence, because I guess rightly
that most people would deny that it happened.
They were given an address by a British officer
through a loudspeaker van.
What you will see here is such a disgrace
to the Germans that they were forced to leave
and the Germans were forced to leave
and the Germans were forced to leave
What you will see here is such a disgrace to the German people
and yet it is only a small part of it
which makes it even more difficult to tolerate.
You who did not rise up spontaneously
to cleanse the name of Germany.
You must expect to atone with toil
until you have reared a new generation
possessing the instinctive goodwill
to prevent a repetition of such horrible cruelties.
Meanwhile, back at the camp,
those who were still living were being attended to.
Supplies of hot soup were prepared,
and those who could eat unaided
were taken as quickly as possible.
There had been no water supply for six days.
The Germans pleaded it had been cut.
We laid on water in a few hours,
and before 12 hours had passed
had sufficient to enable them to wash.
Inmates thought there was a snag at first,
expected to be beaten for going near it probably,
but when they learned that the dream was true,
they were forced to use water.
And these are the people, the Nazis said,
delighted in being dirty.
Lack of soap and water had brought lice to the inmates,
and lice carry typhus.
To get rid of typhus, one must first get rid of lice,
so contaminated patients were removed from their huts
and put through a laundry process.
DDT was dusted over them,
and they were washed clean, wrapped in blankets,
and removed in clean ambulances by teams working in relays
and a miracle of relief work.
You know, they'd seen a thing or two, these soldiers,
you know, they'd been through a war,
but I don't think anybody could imagine
in their worst dreams anything like Belsen.
And, of course, the natural reaction was to give them food.
I don't think any soldier could have eaten a thing.
And that was another disaster,
because people started eating and died because of eating,
because we weren't used to eating.
And unless that was very carefully monitored,
the body couldn't take it.
So thousands of people died after the liberation.
Clothes were another urgent problem,
so an outfitting department was set up,
and clothes gathered from shops in the surrounding towns
were soon being tried on and gossiped over.
As women loved to do.
There were more than 200 children under 12 years old
found still alive in Belsen camp.
To those children, clean, dry clothes and kind words from a stranger
were strange, undreamed-of, mysterious things.
Some had been born behind barbed wire.
In what circumstances one dare not try to imagine.
Where are their parents?
Here, perhaps?
Or here?
Or down here in this pit?
We shall never know who they were or from what homes they were torn,
whether they were Catholics, Lutherans or Jews.
We only know they were born, they suffered,
and died in agony in Belsen camp.
And so they lie, Jews, Lutherans and Catholics,
indistinguishable, cheek to cheek in a common grave.
The living have been taken to a cleaner place.
The typhus-infected huts are set afire.
The barbed wire goes down.
The striped livery goes with it.
The striped livery goes with it.
The barbed wire goes down.
The barbed wire goes down.
Do not imagine that this was the only black spot uncovered in Germany.
There were over 300 others.
We now know that there were more than 5,000 such camps.
To show that Belsen was not unique,
the film included scenes from different camps
of the shocking range of atrocities the Allied troops had found.
Dachau.
No German can say he did not know about them.
The whole world had heard of Dachau,
a camp emphasised by the Nazis as a model camp
ever since its inception way back in 1933.
Here, as at Belsen, men knew hunger,
men became weak, men fell sick,
until they died where they lay on the floor.
In Hut 30 alone, there is recorded, for example,
72 deaths within 24 hours.
The prisoners arrived often in railway trucks,
but there had been no hurry to unload this one.
They went away, leaving the prisoners to die of hunger
and cold and typhus.
The prisoners were not allowed to leave the camp
until the next day.
The prisoners were not allowed to leave the camp
until the next day.
The prisoners were not allowed to leave the camp
until the next day.
The prisoners were not allowed to leave the camp
until the next day.
The prisoners were not allowed to leave the camp
until the next day.
The prisoners were not allowed to leave the camp
until the next day.
The prisoners were not allowed to leave the camp
Puchenwald.
This was the centre of a huge armaments complex.
In April 1945, there'd been 80,000 slave labourers here.
But a few days before liberation,
20,000 Jews were marched away by the Germans.
Here, Shoker, the camp commandant, said,
I want at least 600 Jewish deaths reported in the camp offices every day.
People were tattooed across the belly with slave numbers
and forced to work on starvation diet.
People were coldly and systematically tortured.
All this seemed so remote from humanity,
so far beyond the behaviour of man.
Mauthausen.
40,000 people had died here since the beginning of the year.
Here, the gas chambers held 200 at a time,
and the crematorium dealt with 300 per day, every day.
Teichler.
In the outskirts of Leipzig,
an effort was made to prevent 300 forced labourers
from going to the camp.
The camp was built in the early 19th century.
The camp was built in the early 19th century.
In the outskirts of Leipzig, an effort was made
to prevent 300 forced workers in a factory
from being set free by advancing Allied troops.
300 were locked in a mess hut and burned.
This is where it stood.
Some of the desperate screaming prisoners broke out.
Flamethrowers and submachine guns were waiting to receive them.
This was a woman.
Some almost reached the barbed wire.
Some got there and stayed there, but it was electrified.
This was a Polish engineer.
Karelian.
American troops advancing did not know that in this barn
the Germans had locked 1,800 prisoners
and set burning straw alike to suffocate them.
In the morning before retreating,
they had poured petrol on the bodies
in an attempt to burn what remained.
It was still smoldered when the American troops arrived.
This man was shot because he gasped for air
trying to escape while the rest of him burned.
This man was shot because he gasped for air
trying to escape while the rest of him burned.
Sidney Bernstein started collecting thousands of feet of film
shot by British, American, and Russian army cameramen.
He set out in a nine-page memorandum
his intentions for the film.
It was to be...
factual and documented to the nth degree.
It should be in the form of a prosecuting counsel
stating his case.
It is of extreme importance that German audiences
see the faces of the individuals directly responsible.
Efforts should be made to secure the names
and personal background of all persons thus shown,
attempting to establish that they were once ordinary people.
My name is Dr. Fritz Klein.
I've been a concentration camp doctor for one and a half years.
I was born on November 24th, 1988,
so I'm 58 years old.
I'm a German from Romania,
and I'm speaking today, the 24th of April, 1945.
I won't say every inhabitant of Germany knew,
but a lot of Germans that I came across knew.
There was one Tommy there,
and I said to him,
as the more bodies were being pushed into the pit
and these people were standing in front of the pit
or behind the pit,
do you think they knew about it?
He said, of course they did, Gav.
What makes you be so certain?
Well, he said, when we used to say to them,
why don't you get rid of this fellow, Hitler?
They said, if we did try to do that,
we'd be in a concentration camp.
So I knew there was a concentration camp.
Sidney Bernstein wanted to underline the role
of those German manufacturers
whose products had contributed to the death of these victims.
I wanted the names of all the suppliers of the incinerators,
different machinery that was used
to deal with these poor inmates.
And I had the names filmed,
the top of the incinerators,
the sides of a crate and things like that.
The firm that built this wasn't ashamed to sign its work.
The problem that Bernstein then faced
was to shape the material into a coherent film.
He invited journalists Colin Wills and Richard Crossman
to write the commentary and treatment.
Then a famous Hollywood director joined them.
Alfred Hitchcock was an eminent director,
and I thought he, a brilliant man,
would have some ideas how we could tie it all together.
And he had.
Film editors Stuart McAllister and Peter Tanner
had been working on the film for five months.
Peter Tanner remembers that Hitchcock was afraid
the Germans would claim the documentary was faked.
Hitchcock's main contribution to the film
was to try to make it as authentic as possible.
It was most important that everybody,
particularly the Germans themselves,
should believe that this was true
and that really this horror had happened
and people had suffered to that extent.
And he was very keen and sweet in his marriages
and saying, how can we make that convincing?
We tried to make shots as long as possible,
use panning shots so that there was no possibility of trickery
and going from respected dignitaries or high churchmen
straight to the bodies and corpses
so that it couldn't be suggested that we were faking the film.
One of the suggestions was a montage of possessions
of the people who had died or been sent to the gas chamber.
And they were pathetic things, wedding rings, children's toys,
handbags, brooches, all that sort of thing.
Here were found 820,000 pairs of boots and shoes.
Prisoners paid their own fare to Majdanek.
They thought they were going to new homes,
and so they brought their most precious portable possessions.
Nothing material could be wasted.
These packages contained human hair,
carefully sorted and weighed.
Nothing was wasted.
Even the teeth were taken out of their mouths.
Byproducts of the system, toothbrushes,
nail brushes, shoe brushes, shaving brushes.
If one man in ten wears spectacles,
how many does this heap represent?
All these things belong to men and women and children,
like ourselves, quite ordinary people,
from all parts of the world.
Hitchcock's other main contribution
was to insist on the use of shots of charming German countryside
as a contrast to the horrors of the camps.
His idea was to show the area surrounding each camp
and show how people had led a normal life outside,
whether it was boy-meat-girl or whether they were harvesting,
whether they were on the lakes,
completely ignoring what was happening within a range
of one to five miles.
Ebensee is a holiday resort in the mountains.
The air is clean and pure.
It cures sickness.
And there is a sweetness about the place, a gentle peace.
In this place, the Luftwaffe or SS Panzer officer on leave
relaxes, eats well, breathes deeply, finds romance.
Everything is charming and picturesque.
Prisoners at Dachau and Buchenwald dreaded being sent here.
To them, this place did not mean recuperation,
only starvation, tuberculosis,
through slavery in an underground factory,
and finally left to cough one's life out unaided and crowded
in the filth and stench of a hut unfit for dogs,
but for some reason called a hospital.
Able to see the mountains,
without food.
The daily collection of bodies
was disposed of through this chimney.
We wanted to know whether the Germans,
surrounding a concentration camp, knew about it.
So Hitch did this drawing, circles,
one mile from the camp, two miles from the camp,
ten miles from the camp, 20 miles from the camp.
What population in each of these areas in the ring?
Did they know about it?
It would have been part of the film,
showing it to them at the end, and say,
now you live there.
German citizens are brought in from Weimar.
They had to see, too, to see what they had been fighting for
and we had been fighting against.
They were brought in carefully like sightseers
to a chamber of horrors,
for here indeed were some real horrors.
If a prisoner had a curiously tattooed skin,
it was taken from him.
We can only hope he was dead when it was done.
The skin was tanned and made into lampshades, etc.
These shrunken heads belonged to two Polish prisoners
who had escaped and been recaptured.
Some of the visitors did not care for the site
and were assisted by ex-prisoners.
They had been aware of the camp
and willing to make use of the cheap labour it provided
so long as they were beyond smelling range of it.
Sidney Bernstein's film could only show the camps
after they were liberated.
They were mainly concentration camps
where thousands of people of all faiths were worked to death.
But there had been very different places,
not concentration but extermination camps.
The German army had moved eastwards.
Jews had been rounded up,
driven out of their towns and villages,
and at first publicly slaughtered.
Often the victims, like these near Riga,
were made to dig their own graves.
But these massacres were so public
that German witnesses complained to Berlin.
So from December 1941,
five secret extermination camps were set up
in remote areas of Poland and occupied Russia.
Treblinka, Chelno, Sobibor,
Bergetz and Malytrostynets, near the Russian city of Minsk.
Their sole purpose was the swift and systematic murder
of people like these, men, women and children,
deported from all over occupied Europe.
More than 2 million people were gassed
in these five death camps alone.
In the summer of 1943, when the Red Army arrived,
there was nothing left to film.
But the Russians did liberate this camp,
Auschwitz-Birkenau, a huge extermination system,
but also a slave labor camp.
Here a percentage were saved to be slaves
for the Nazi war effort for as long as they could survive.
In this part of the program,
we concentrate on those who are still alive.
We look at what happened before the cameras got there.
Leon Greenman had British and Dutch nationality.
In early 1943, he was deported from Rotterdam to Auschwitz
with his wife and three-year-old son Barney.
At the time, they had no idea where they were going.
They told us already months beforehand,
and then we could hear about it,
that they were going to Poland to work.
We always sat to work, they said.
We never thought nothing else but to work.
And we would see our wives at the weekends.
So we accepted that. We didn't know better.
If we would have known different,
then something else would have happened.
Hugo Grin, then aged 13, was deported to Auschwitz
from Hungary as late as 1944.
It all meant nothing to his family.
I found on one of the wagons a slip of paper
which had on it the route of this train,
and that it was going to go via Slovakia,
eventually arriving at a place called Auschwitz-Birkenau.
And I actually showed this to members of my family,
my father and the friends, and said,
look, this is where we're going.
And they said, well, fine.
That which today is such a byword
at that time had no ominous significance for us at all.
So actually the name didn't mean anything.
Long train journeys, often in cattle trucks
with no food or water, brought the deportees
to their unknown destination.
And we sat in that journey for 36 hours.
And during that time, we didn't get a lot of sleep.
We dozed off occasionally, and then we talked again.
And I said to my wife, if I happen to be ill
and not come back from there, don't forget,
if you're in Mary, get a husband.
That would be good for the child.
She said, of course.
She said, if I don't come back,
you get a wife, that's good for the child.
Journey's end. Auschwitz railway station.
The first selections began.
There was this man walking up and down the platform.
He was clearly part of a detour
that was going to clear the wagons.
And he was muttering in Yiddish.
You're 18 years old and you're a specialist.
You are 18 years old and you've got a trade.
I kept muttering it, repeating it over and over and over.
And my father, who was at that point with me,
he understood what this man was trying to do.
I did not. So that by the time we came to the head of this line,
where the actual selection took place,
and I was asked how old I was, and I said I was 19 and I was 13,
and that, yes, I had a trade and I was a carpenter and a joiner,
and in that way I was motioned to go with those people
who were destined to live.
Whereas my brother, who at that point was 11 and quite small,
just couldn't say it,
or rather he tried to say it and wasn't believed.
So he went to the other side.
We were separated, a man from the women,
and we stood there wondering.
Then one of the women, where my wife and child was 10,
ran away from the women towards her husband,
and halfway she was met by an SS officer,
a man about 40, 50 years of age,
and he had a stick in his hand and he let it come down on her head
and she fell down on the platform,
and he kicked her in the stomach and the belly.
I saw all this and I was thinking to myself,
now what's happening?
Then he turned around straight away to us, to the boys, the fellas,
and by putting his hand on the shoulder and the stick on the shoulder,
he counted all 50 men on the whole lot.
He sorted out four or five nice-looking young women,
and I guess the rest, they were told,
you go into the bathroom to have a bath.
Those that cannot walk, get onto the trucks.
I was one of the 50 boys.
We had turned to the left and we marched away to another barrack.
While we were marching, we stopped a little way,
and a truck came along loaded with women and children.
On top of the truck, I saw my wife in the middle,
standing straight up, the child in her arms.
She had a pointed cape cover on.
She had made it in Hollander, and that's the last I saw of her.
I can say now that from the 800 people,
there were 800 people that left Westenbork that morning,
only 50 were taken out and those few young women.
The rest went into the gas chambers.
So I can say that my wife was guest and child,
and all the others were guests within two hours, if not sooner.
To ensure that the doomed prisoners cooperated,
elaborate deception was maintained to the end.
An official SS report described what should happen
when these people reached the gas chambers.
The prisoners are told that they are to be cleansed and disinfected.
They must therefore completely undress to be bathed.
To avoid panic, they're instructed to arrange their clothing neatly
so they can find their things again after their bath.
Everything proceeds in a perfectly orderly fashion.
They enter a large cellar room that resembles a shower bath.
The doors are shut, and containers drop down into the pillars.
As soon as the containers touch the base of the pillars,
the substances that put people to sleep in one minute.
A few minutes later, the door opens on the other side,
and the corpses are loaded into elevators
and brought up to the first floor,
where ten large crematoria are located.
It didn't always happen in such an orderly fashion,
but the end result was the same.
Millions of bodies burned in furnaces like these.
Using material shot by the Russians,
Bernstein's film tried to grapple with the scale
of what had happened at Auschwitz.
Here, four million people were murdered,
as many men, women, and children as you could pack into a great city.
This camp was scientifically planned with a view to mass murder.
Vast extensions were still being built,
arrangements of gas chambers, mortuaries, and incinerators.
The normal extermination rate was 10,000 to 12,000 a day.
Five crematoria with a capacity of 279,000 per month.
Germans had watched them die.
They had wanted to watch them die
for they constructed special peepholes
in the doorways of the gas chambers
where they could observe the effects of the poison gas cyclone.
Here are some of the containers,
the mask worn by the operator,
and the poisons used for the injections.
These children are twins.
When identical twins were born to non-German parents,
they were confiscated and handed over to an experimental station.
German doctors injected them with diseases and attempted cures.
Success in the cure was not important,
as these children were written off, unknown.
They had no names, only numbers tattooed on their arms.
Those adults who were picked out to live were quickly processed.
Clothes were taken away, head shaved, and then they were numbered.
After being two days there, we got our number tattooed on our arm.
You see, look.
And that was already to us very immoral, you know.
We felt like gangsters.
I mean, all you have to do is to shave a man's head,
and immediately he's a nobody. He ceases to exist.
And you isolate people from their families.
Say somebody is taken with his family,
then at one point they're separated, so you're alone.
You get your head shaved and you get a number.
You forget who you are. You're just nobody.
The next thing is you get insulted.
You get no food or just a subsistence level,
so you're hungry, you're cold,
you're made to stand up for hours and then to be counted.
You probably have dysentery.
You're not allowed to go and relieve yourself,
and the end result is that you are an animal or worse than an animal.
To see this happen to people who started off as perfectly normal human beings,
and it's a process that works very fast.
I mean, you could do this to anybody around here in no time.
You can deprive people of their human dignity and get animals,
and then it's very easy to destroy these animals.
Nothing to do with human beings any more.
If you were made of weakness, you went weak and you went into the guest chambers.
The selections were once a month or so.
The barracks were all locked. Nobody was allowed out.
There were a couple of doctors in and they sat down,
and you had to march or walk past by.
And if your bibs were skinny, your arms and so,
you went sorted out for the guest chambers.
They still had a bit of muscle on them.
They were still allowed to live to go on.
But there were sometimes guards who so clearly enjoyed what they were doing
and so wholeheartedly threw themselves into it
that they became, I suppose, an unbearable menace.
And the particular individual, he wasn't even a German, he was a Ukrainian,
a young Ukrainian kid wearing an SS uniform,
whose hobby, it seemed, was to, whenever there was any crowd of prisoners around,
would simply take his rifle, swing it above his head,
and then bring it down on someone, whoever, for whatever reason.
I mean, for no reason.
And so really all of us was in this, I suppose, unbearable jeopardy.
And then one day an opportunity presented itself
where we thought we could actually kill him
and then not breathe easier, but breathe slightly easier.
And so it was done.
There were 667 known escapes from Auschwitz,
but after any resistance came swift reprisals, including public hangings.
There were 12 Poles.
It happened to be that one or two of the Poles had done something to an SS officer during the day.
And for punishment they took 12 to be counted for.
And I saw the man stand on a little bucket, a little bunk,
a little wooden box or something,
and the carpo of the camp, he put the nooses around the necks,
and then he kicked away the little box and he hung.
The second one saw what was happening. Then it was his turn.
The third one saw what was happening and so on.
Some of them didn't die quickly. The tongues came out of their mouths.
The knot wasn't placed properly. The body turned and wriggled.
I'll never forget that. 12.
And when they were all there, they were cut down, loaded on a barrel, and wheeled away.
And then they sent everybody into the barracks.
And we went into the barracks and we queued up for a soup.
We had to forget that.
What sort of things were done?
Anything from having to stand for hours, the whole camp,
on appels, on sort of being counted, recounted, or simply just standing there,
to what the Germans called being taintled.
That was a particularly fearful experience,
where literally people were counted off one, two, three, four to ten,
and the tenth one step out, whichever the tenth was, and they would be executed.
And I had gone through two such tentlings in different places.
And then you begin to realize also how chance it was that you were nine or eight,
and not ten. That's massive punishment.
It's a very powerful deterrent.
The Nazis succeeded in concealing the full reality of Auschwitz-Birkenau
from Western governments until 1944.
Information that reached Jewish agencies and governments in exile
about extermination camps was often treated with great skepticism,
as we can see in British and American government files.
Historian Martin Gilbert has made a special study of these official documents.
There's no doubt that sometimes, reading it now,
it is shocking for the modern reader to see how individual officials
dismissed as rumors, as exaggeration, as Jewish sob stuff,
the stories which reach them.
But I believe these were a small group of officials
that somehow they didn't represent the mass,
that their mental horizons were limited because they were writing in Whitehall,
and the slaughters were taking place in countries they'd never seen,
to people they'd never met, and on a scale which was actually incomprehensible
even to the Jews themselves.
In spring 1944, five prisoners escaped from Auschwitz
and brought out to the West the news of millions of deaths.
The international outcry stopped the deportation
of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews midstream.
As the Allies were bombing industrial targets only five miles from Auschwitz,
Jewish agencies pressed them to bomb the camp, but they didn't,
and in the summer deportation started again.
We find some fairly hostile comments,
and a general reluctance by some officials to pursue it,
on the grounds, as one of them put it,
that it would lead to the loss of valuable British lives, of pilots, to no purpose.
On the other hand, there were other officials who wouldn't accept this view
and who urged that it should at least be looked into.
Unfortunately, in the States, in the United States,
the man responsible for dealing with it gave the instruction on the first request,
kill it, and on the five subsequent times that he was asked
by different Jewish bodies to look into the bombing of Auschwitz,
he repeated his pro-forma answer that this could not be done.
I always hoped if I get killed by a bomb here,
it would be a blessing to me.
It would end the misery.
But never such a thing happened,
and the bombing that was done was nothing, really.
I didn't see any buildings coming down.
I didn't see any railways being bombed,
so I can't see what bombing was done. No.
There was no damage done, like a bombing in Rotterdam
or a bombing in London.
So that was very little, and it was a disappointment to me.
There was one occasion,
I think that was one of the most painful moments for me,
when we were allowed in one of the camps in Silesia called Liberosa
to send postcards. It was Sunday afternoon.
Everybody was given a postcard and access to a pencil,
which was very rare.
You could write anywhere in the world.
And at first I was really terrific.
I'll write to somebody.
And then I realized there was no one I could write to.
As the Russians got closer and closer,
the Nazis tried frantically to conceal the evidence of mass murder.
The gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz were blown up,
and thousands died on forced marches
as the remaining slave laborers were sent away from the East,
back into the heart of Germany.
And we marched out.
We walked from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz.
A lot of incidents happened then.
You couldn't march along anymore. You were shot.
I saw them run away from the march.
I saw the SS kneel down, his gun on the shoulder,
and there was another one dead.
What was the reaction of the German people along the way
who saw you marching past?
I can only say what I observed,
because I actually don't know what they may have felt.
But I was a very young boy,
and I know that we looked awful.
Ragged, probably muddy many times.
I'm sure we actually looked hungry.
And it still continues to puzzle and to trouble me
that I can recall not a single instance
when we're marching through villages and towns and suburbs
and in the midst of civilian people
who are busy going to and from work
and leading ordinary lives,
that no one ever said hello or good luck or whatever.
And no one ever threw an apple or an onion or a potato
or a piece of bread at us.
We were, consciously or otherwise, ignored.
And we actually marched through.
If there is such a thing as physical indifference,
it struck me that that's what we were doing.
We were walking through indifference.
By late 1944, the remnants of Auschwitz arrived at other camps,
dumping grounds for thousands of prisoners.
Leon Greenman went to Buchenwald.
Everybody felt that the Americans were near.
Liberation was near.
And I see still the SS shooting their revolvers
through the windows into the barracks,
and people rushing out of the wooden staircases
at the sides of the wooden barracks in Buchenwald.
And the first five or six, they fell,
and hundreds trampled on them.
And when they all walked away, they were laying bodies.
They were dead.
In December 1944, Anita Lasker was sent by train
from Auschwitz hundreds of miles to Belsen.
We had no idea really where we were going,
but we were told there were rumors that we were going to Belsen
and that it's a very nice place.
It's a place where people recuperate.
Couldn't quite believe it, however.
And we were also told that if we work hard
and build the camp up, all will be very well.
However, we got there.
We were vintage prisoners.
You know, we could smell, we could see how things are going.
The influx into these camps was now so enormous
that at the end conditions were worse than ever.
Then came liberation.
Two days later, about a dozen American soldiers came in.
Must have been doctors and photographers and picture people.
And they came into my barrack, and my carpo said to me,
the German carpo, he said,
you speak English, you talk to the people.
So I talked to them.
I introduced myself and I said, hello.
Glad to see you.
And it smelled to death and it smelled to dirt in the camps.
And for an outsider, of course, was something not nice.
So he said, well, we've seen it all.
I said, you've seen nothing.
I said, please come along with me.
And I took them from bed to bed, pulled the blankets away,
and I said, look, skeletons, bones and skins.
That's what they've done to us.
Big, strong soldiers, they turned away.
They were disgusted with it.
When these camps were liberated,
the world was shocked by the sight of these people.
But they had survived.
They were still living.
They could be filmed.
Their families couldn't.
I think to me, probably the most painful thing is the one thing
that I didn't actually see but I know happened.
For instance, what happened to my parents?
They were taken away one fine day.
And the next thing I knew was a postcard from my father
from a place called Ispitsa that nobody's even ever heard about
where he just wrote the beginning of a psalm.
I lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comest my help.
I found out that these particular people dug their own graves
and were shot into them.
So in a way, to me, although I didn't see it happen,
is the most painful thing that you live with.
The first newsreels of concentration camps
caused considerable impact.
In occupied Germany, civilians were forced to watch them,
as were German prisoners of war in Britain.
At the end of April 1945,
Churchill's Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken,
referred to Sidney Bernstein's documentary in the House of Commons.
The material is being used by the Ministry of Information
for making a film to be shown in Germany,
and a version of this will be available for showing to audiences in this country.
Conceived in wartime, the documentary was aimed at the German people
and its message was summed up in the final sequence.
It remains for us to care for these the living.
It remains for us to hope that Germans may help to mend what they have broken
and cleanse what they have befouled.
This was the end of the journey they had so confidently begun in 1933.
Twelve years? No.
In terms of barbarity and brutality,
they had travelled backwards for 12,000 years.
The film neared completion,
but for the government, peace was to bring new problems.
On August 4, 1945,
Sidney Bernstein received a memo from the Foreign Office.
My personal opinion is that we need a first-class documentary record of these atrocities
and that we cannot be content with the rather crude
and unthought-out newsreel so far shown.
On the other hand, policy at the moment in Germany
is entirely in the direction of encouraging, stimulating
and interesting the Germans out of their apathy,
and there are people around the CNC who will say, no atrocity film.
What do you think lay behind this note?
Nothing behind it in the sense of some deep mysterious thing
or somebody sabotaging the national effort.
The truth is that they had got the responsibility
of getting that country on its feet again.
Because once you've demolished it,
that's not the end of war, that's only the beginning
of the battle for peace, which means you rebuild it.
And they had to have people to do that,
and the only people they had to do it with were Germans.
Germany was now in a critical condition.
Buildings were in ruins.
People were starving.
People were homeless.
Ten million refugees were on the move.
In August 1945, 4,000 Berliners were dying each day.
The British military government was much more concerned
with these crises than with showing an atrocity film.
Lord Annen, then-Lieutenant Colonel Noel Annen,
was a member of the British Control Commission stationed in Berlin.
I mean, there's a great deal of competition
between the British military government officers
about clearing up the wreckage, getting the sewage working,
getting the refugees into camps, or getting them marching one way,
and usually, if you can, out of your own crisis
and into somebody else's.
There was all that.
The general desire for efficient and just government.
Now, that was one thing.
The second thing, I think, that the colonial mentality
showed itself in the British, was,
well, if we've got to get these people working and working with us,
the sooner then that we, as it were, can get them on our side
and make them realise that we are really going to be their leaders,
the better, and therefore don't let them have too much trouble.
The British military government, of course,
was concerned with getting the place going,
whereas I, in the political division, was concerned with denazification
and going round to military government officers and saying,
I'm sorry, your mayor has got to go.
He was a Nazi in 1933,
but this man's the best chap I've got in the place.
I can't do without him, came back the reply, and I said,
I'm sorry, the directives say he's got to go, and he's out.
I wasn't absolutely the most popular man in the British zone
for going around and saying that.
The first Nazi war crimes trial opened in the British sector in September 1945.
Belson Commandant Joseph Kramer and Dr Fritz Klein
were among 11 sentenced to death.
But although individual Nazis were put on trial,
the British government's main concern was not with retribution,
but with the effect of a severe winter on the German people.
This had been predicted in the Foreign Office memo
to Sidney Bernstein in August.
I would say that the atrocity film, if really good and well documented,
would be shown willingly and successfully in nine months' time
when the difficulties of the winter have been tackled.
There may, therefore, be no hurry for it.
That winter proved a long one.
Germany eventually emerged from this sort of chaos,
but it was divided between the West and Russia,
and soon there were other reasons why the film would not be shown in the Western part.
It became a nation with whom we were in the end going to have to have relations with.
And so, therefore, that's what happens.
The whole idea that the collective guilt of the whole German people
should be brought home to them by 1948, 1949,
was, of course, out of the question in the terms that had been thought of in April 1945.
Do you think it should have been shown at the time?
I am too German.
So you disagreed with the memo they sent you?
I didn't take kindly to it.
A lot of things happened which I'm not spoken about.
Nothing was nice, nothing was good.
You were not in the camps to live.
You were there to die, to work and die.
The utmost three or four months.
Nobody who did this expected anyone to come back.
Some people are still saying that these concentration camps never happened.
Do you believe that this film will prove that it did?
I do, but if it doesn't, it's failed miserably.
Very sad.
But if you could get all the people to say these things in one room
and show it to them, it might be effective.
It's a terrible thing.
That's why it is so important to show it again and again.
One doesn't have to keep rubbing it in,
but from time to time I think a reminder has to be made that it has happened.
There are enough people alive who have actually seen it.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
The day of war taking place in a small corner of Australia
to protect a little piece of paradise that has survived for 60 million years.
Australian rainforest trees are the source of many drugs used in the treatment of cancer.
The World Around Us Saturday on 7.
There's only one place in the world where you can see prehistoric creatures
sacrificing your creature comforts.
Nowhere else can you see living waterfalls
or an oasis of ancient palms that no longer live anywhere else.
Nowhere else can you fish for ancient secrets
and outwit one of the world's smartest fish.
Nowhere else has one of the largest wildlife populations in the world,
with a wildlife all of its own.
Nowhere else offers such a choice of hospitality
in a land that can sometimes be quite inhospitable.
If it was overseas you'd go out of your way to discover it.
Yet the biggest discovery is that it's all right here.
Come now to Australia's Northern Territory.
There's nowhere in the world like your own territory.
Wouldn't you like to see yourself as an experienced do-it-yourselfer?
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A classic romance.
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No! Get out!
A classic beauty.
I don't have any clothes on.
You want to tell me about it?
You're too young.
A classic profile.
Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Sneeze and it's goodbye Seattle.
Steve Martin.
I want to look like Diana Ross.
Daryl Hannah.
I think it's a million.
What an idea!
Roxanne.
It's, dare I say, genius?
Now showing Hoyt's Entertainment Center and Hoyt's Surface Paradise.
Having just seen Belson, a painful reminder,
one can only wonder whether the message to all mankind
will be echoed in the continuing pleas for world peace and unity.
Good night.
Saturday, 8.30.
They want me to kill a man.
The silence of the confessional has brutally broken them.
A professional assassination.
Could hurt solidarity.
The long arm of the KGB...
Go! Go! Go! Go!
...throws the equalizer back into a cold war.
Into the dark red heart of an enemy of solidarity.
The equalizer Saturday, 8.30.
And meanwhile in England...
Now it's a killing, not just a breakout.
A KGB brainwashed agent has infiltrated CI-5.
Mentally a legend rule.
And his target is Caldwell.
Don't think I'd be foolish enough to come here alone, do you?
Bode and Doyle see red on the professional Saturday night on 7.
The sort of case that makes reputations, Your Worship.
It's not just another drug case in Rafferty's court.
The son of one of the most powerful men in this state.
The legal eagles gather and the pressure's on.
And I can't get the villains convicted for what they really are.
Are you all right?
Can Rafferty's rule survive?
No comment.
On Thursday, then on the golden years of Hollywood, John Wayne...
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I'm a dying man, scared of the dark.
With Lauren Bacall, James Stewart and Ron Howard.
The Academy Award winning star of over 400 movies.
In his last and most exciting role.
The Shootist on the golden years of Hollywood Thursday, 9.30 on 7.
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Goodbyes are so hard.
I want you to know it's not your fault.
It's just that I need something else now.
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They said sure they'd give me a personal loan
and their rates are just as good as the bank's.
Gee, I didn't think it'd be so quick.
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I admire courage in a man.
I admire it even more in a company.
Instead of whinging about the quality of local products,
one Australian company has put its money where its mouth is.
Nissan.
They doubled the life of their new car warranties
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My uncle had the best of everything.
He never enjoyed his wealth.
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His pictures too precious to...
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Right from the beginning, Channel 7 has been known as Brisbane's own television station.
Channel 7 has always produced a wide range of local programs
to fill the special needs of the people of South East Queensland.
And that proud tradition continues today.
Channel 7 produces more local programs than any other station.
Channel 7 is the only Brisbane station producing regular weekly national programs in Brisbane.
In fact, Channel 7 produces more national programs than all the other Brisbane stations combined.
To do all this, Channel 7 has built by far the largest television station in Queensland.
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We've bought the largest outside broadcast van in Australia
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Now we've expanded further with a massive new building including new production facilities
and Brisbane's most up-to-date newsroom.
But most importantly, Channel 7 employs far more Queenslanders than any other station.
Hundreds of Queenslanders are employed by Channel 7 producing local programs,
compiling Channel 7's unbiased and politically independent news service,
and selecting the very best national and overseas shows and movies.
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There's been widespread praise today for Paul Keating's budget,
while the balance of trade figures released today were nearly half the expected deficit,
and the stock exchanges and the Australian dollar have taken off.
I think the most encouraging factor is it gave us confidence that the interest rate environment
looks very favourable for the immediate future.
Some businesses undoubtedly are going to gain and others lose.
What hopefully will happen, there will be restored confidence in the property market.
The budget is almost in the black, but the unemployed are still very much in the red.
That was the reaction in words from some quarters today to last night's budget.
But if Paul Keating needed other assurances he'd done a reasonable job,
he need look no further than the financial market.
It turned words into action.
The ANZ, Commonwealth, Westpac and National Mutual Royal Banks
all cut their mortgage rates by between a half and three quarters of one percent to 14.5 percent,
and the banks say there could be more good news in the not too distant future.
Then we would have to be very hopeful we could even look to lowering the rate as the year progresses.
With other banks expected to follow the mortgage reductions,
there are now predictions of a boom in housing construction.
There were also forecasts that the government's restoration of negative gearing
will restore desperately needed stock in the private rental market.
People will convert some of their investment perhaps from other areas back into private rental accommodation,
and in doing that hopefully decrease the gap that currently exists between the escalating demand
for rental accommodation and the inadequate supply.
The reaction from other sectors of the financial market has been no less stunning.
The budget and today's balance of trade figures led to record national trading on stock exchanges,
and the Aussie dollar continued to firm.
But while the financial markets went into a spin,
several of the country's top companies said the budget had been a bit of a non-event for them,
their hanging hopes on Mr Keating's promised review of company taxation,
which is being treated very cautiously.
There is obviously a suggestion that what we might gain on the swings of lower company tax rates,
we could lose on the roundabouts of longer tax lives.
The only loud criticism of the budget came from social welfare groups,
who welcomed the family assistance package,
but said the government had done nothing for the unemployed.
Well if that's good news, I don't know if that's good news because you don't know who to believe.
This may or may not be the good news.
The Australia Card Bill passed all stages in the House of Representatives tonight,
and now goes to the Senate in the next few days for a third time.
A bid by the opposition to amend the legislation so it could not be enacted without a referendum was defeated.
Health Minister Neil Bluett, who has the best surname in the business,
said today referendums have only been held to change the Constitution,
and to take every controversial issue to the public would mean government by opinion poll.
You're quite right Mr Bluett, for us to actually express our opinions on important things, who are we anyway?
We stand defeated.
Queensland First Class Police Sergeant Cole Dillon is continuing to give evidence to the Fitzgerald inquiry about police attempts to bribe him.
Sergeant Cole Dillon has already told the inquiry that when he was attached to the licensing branch between 1982 and 84,
he was offered a bribe of $400 a month by former Detective Sergeant Harry Burgess.
Today he said he assumed that Assistant Commissioner Graham Parker would have taken action against certain people named in police intelligence
as having formed a group to control organised crime in Brisbane.
He said the principals had been identified as Hector Happiter, Anne-Marie Tilley, Vic Conte, the Bolinos and a person named Feeney.
Dillon said the intelligence was gathered by former police officer Nigel Powell, but nothing ever happened.
Dillon also described an incident which he said occurred at Christmas 1982.
He said he opened his locker in which he kept his service revolver and ammunition and inside was a bottle of Shivers Regal Scotch Whiskey.
The next day he said Harry Burgess approached him and asked, did you get your Christmas present?
Not wanting Burgess to feel threatened, Dillon said he took the Scotch but never drank it.
He told the Commission, I used to speak to that bottle every night and say, why did I ever bring you home?
Today he handed the bottle unopened back to Commissioner Fitzgerald, who with a grin on his face,
left it sitting on the courtroom bench in front of him for the rest of the morning.
Sergeant Dillon also told the inquiry of visiting a nightclub owned by Hector Happiter
at which he confiscated a briefcase containing a book of names of massage parlours, prostitutes and financial transactions he took to be drug deals.
He called on Happiter at home and later he, Sergeant Dillon, was phoned by the CIB and told to return the briefcase to Happiter.
If you understand that little sepulchre, would you please let us know? We're waiting for your calls.
Didn't understand that at all. Doesn't mean anything? I mean there's more yet to be revealed.
These superpowers have ended the first of three days of talks in Washington,
amid speculation that a nuclear arms agreement is imminent. We've heard that song before.
But so far there's no confirmation that a summit meeting will take place.
With growing anticipation of a major arms treaty agreement, the two sides started the three days of talks
by signing a lesser agreement to reduce the risk of accidental nuclear war by establishing centres in Moscow and Washington,
which will inform each other of upcoming tests and exercises.
Foreign Minister, I am pleased to have you sign this agreement today and look forward to the day when General Secretary Gorbachev
and I can sign even more historic agreements in our common search for peace.
In the ceremonial photo opportunity, the Soviet Foreign Minister confirmed he'd given the President a letter from Mikhail Gorbachev,
but there was no date set for a summit.
No date, but the summit is necessary.
But any agreement on a summit date will be contingent on these talks ironing out remaining differences over an arms treaty.
George Shultz was upbeat about that prospect.
And personally I think that, at least as I would see them, they're soluble, but that remains to be seen.
The talks resume tomorrow with White House officials sticking to earlier predictions that while they don't expect a summit date to be fixed this week,
they do see the signing of a major arms treaty by year's end.
In the United States, Ian Hyslop, 7 National News.
Two of Australia's biggest drug runners were sentenced in Sydney's central court today.
41-year-old Bruce Cornwall and 44-year-old Barry Bull had been convicted of trying to smuggle a multi-million dollar cargo of cannabis into the country.
Cornwall was sentenced to 23 years and Bull to 18 years for their parts in what's become known as the Rokawa Conspiracy.
Both pleaded guilty to conspiracy and passport charges after their arrests and extradition from Europe.
But during the eight-day hearing, they claimed they were minor figures in the drug ring.
The court heard how Bull and Cornwall had arranged for 12 million dollars worth of compressed cannabis
to be smuggled into Australia from Thailand aboard the yacht Rokawa two years ago.
The plot was uncovered by the National Crime Authority from taped telephone conversations.
Cornwall and Bull claimed they were minor players in the ring, saying the deal had been organised by an American.
Justice Matthews rejected those assertions, saying both were principal participants.
In sentencing the pair, Justice Matthews said the financial gains from the drug trade were enormous and the temptation was great.
She said it was therefore the duty of the courts to deter people by imposing heavy sentences.
With remissions, Bull and Cornwall should remain behind bars until the turn of the century.
Lawyers for both men are now considering whether to appeal against the severity of the sentences.
Norm Lipson, 7 National News.
Yes, actually, I don't think we were tapping a phone then, because the alligator clips were on the microphone in,
which merely means you'd be recording what you were saying in the room.
Just thought I'd throw that in.
Anyway, it's what we call in the business here a vision to cover words. It's so you'll be entertained.
New South Wales Premier Barry Unsworth has ordered a new police inquiry into the early release of prisoners.
The move comes after claims that not all instances of improper early release have been investigated.
The former Minister of Concern, Brex Jackson, is now serving a seven-year jail sentence for accepting bribes in regard to the early releases.
What's next?
We're going to have a break. We're going to have a cup of tea back in a couple of minutes.
Tomorrow on TWT, part two of our sex forum, which includes sex and the ageing.
When people get over 50 or 60 and so forth, sex ceases to be of interest to them.
They probably haven't had sex for years.
Who is the perfect ten? I mean, other than those anorexic models, I suppose, I can't say that I am.
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Eat in or take away, seven days a week.
The new generation Nissan Urvan with a choice of 2.4-litre petrol or 2.7-litre diesel power.
And now with a two-year, 40,000-kilometre warranty.
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When you've got the taste for seafood you want it fresh.
Seafood Brisbane style.
And that's just how you get it at the Breakfast Creek Wharf restaurant.
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If you're wondering about that phone tapping here,
if you saw a tape recorder sort of recording while you were on the phone,
you'd tend to be a bit suspicious, wouldn't you?
You'd say, oh, is this for anyone or whatever?
And little clips would be in the way and that mouthpiece would keep falling out.
I think our reenactment here would not win an Emmy.
Just a thought.
On the subject of communications, Australia's third communications satellite,
OSAT-3, has been launched despite a last-minute hitch
when a fuel sensor malfunctioned on board the launcher,
a French Ariane rocket fired from French Guiana.
OSAT-3 is the final link in Australia's national satellite system.
After the successful launching of OSAT-1 and 2,
the third satellite was delayed for 12 months after problems with the carrier rocket.
But the European Space Agency overcame those design faults,
and OSAT-3 was placed in the Ariane rocket based in French Guiana.
Europe's credibility as a space power rested on its successful launch.
Six minutes before liftoff, a fuel sensor stopped the countdown.
After a tense two hours, technicians rectified the sensor malfunction,
and the countdown was underway.
3, 2, 1, go!
Ignition.
First stage ignition liftoff.
All the pressures at the incubation chamber normal.
Tuck cleared. Boosters ignited.
Bellrose, here in Sydney's northern suburbs, is the key earth station in the OSAT network.
From this antenna comes the orders and guidance for the communications system.
Signals beamed through OSAT can reach anywhere in Australia,
from the largest cities to the most isolated places in the outback.
It doesn't matter who you are or where you are, it's touching your lives somewhere.
Country centres will be the first to benefit from OSAT.
Half a million Australians in remote areas will soon receive commercial television for the first time.
Steve Barnes, 7 National News.
It's almost a conflict of terms, isn't it, that all these outback people will last receive commercial television?
Imagine the innocence of being out there never having watched me, for example.
You'd sleep better at night anyway, wouldn't you?
A man banned from owning or breeding dogs in Queensland
after one of the state's most notorious animal cruelty cases
has now been found operating in New South Wales.
Calling himself Brad Alexander, the man sells hunting dogs from his latest kennels
in a remote area near Tweed Heads.
But Alexander, or Errol Hoggins, to use his real name, values his privacy.
In 1982, Errol Hodgins was convicted of ill-treating animals
after police took possession of a truckload of 100 dogs bound for the Northern Territory.
Some of the dogs were dead, others were starving.
They were taken to Brisbane, where the dogs that could be saved were found new homes.
Hodgins was subsequently fined and banned from keeping, breeding or selling dogs in Queensland.
RSPCA officials described the case as one of the worst incidents of cruelty to animals on record.
Now Hodgins, using the name Brad Alexander, is thumbing his nose at the law
by operating his kennel south of the Queensland border.
We found more than 60 dogs ranging from bull terriers to Irish wolfhounds
and a breed Hodgins calls a pit arab.
Some were in cramped conditions and uncleaned cages,
one layer metre away, dead for less than 24 hours.
When we returned, Hodgins was tending the kennels.
He became violent when asked about his Queensland cruelty to animals record.
Get out. If I want you to take children, you take them.
Get off the property. You understand? Get off the property.
You! You're going to leave me out of the property, right?
We are! Get off the property. Get off the property.
Alexander, you're banned from having dogs, aren't you?
Get off the property, you bloody fool. Get out of here, right?
As we attempted to leave, Hodgins became more agitated.
By Christ, you've got to hide, you people.
Get off this property. I ain't not been, understand?
We're leaving now. We're leaving now.
On this track, you're on the wrong track.
Get out of here, you bastard!
Get this damn off the property, you understand?
After our visit, New South Wales police issued Hodgins with a summons
to appear in court on charges of keeping unlicensed kennels
and not having a dog register.
Looked a bit like Ivan Hutchinson, who does a film report, but it isn't.
How dare he hit a television camera crew?
And with the Pope visiting America, how dare you, sir?
Well, for once, it appears that Premier Kane is actually missing Jeff Kennet.
Is it simply because it's spring?
In Parliament yesterday, the Premier went to great pains
to highlight Jeff Kennet's absence, referring to him as the Clayton's leader
and asking why the opposition leader was on holidays
when important business still faced the Parliament.
Mr Kane's comments found their way north to the island holiday location
where the Kennet family is staying.
It's believed that when Mr Kennet was told about the Premier's remarks,
he got on the phone and called the Premier from his holiday destination to complain.
The Premier apparently defended his remarks,
and the phone conversation ended with the two men disagreeing.
The phone protest did little to soften the Premier in Parliament this afternoon.
Did you get on the telephone to...
Oh, yeah.
He may have got on the phone to Jeff to get other instructions, I don't know.
Parliament goes into recess tomorrow,
and while the mud was flying in the lower house,
debate was intense in the upper house when the Liberals introduced a private members' bill
that would make it illegal for the State Government to pass on information to Canberra
for the Australia card.
So far, the Kane government has remained non-committal on the card,
but the bill is designed to force the government to spell out where it stands.
Leader of the government in the upper house, Evan Walker,
said the ALP would vote against the bill
because the ID card legislation had not been passed in Canberra
and therefore the situation was hypothetical.
So there.
Well, from about now to the end of October, it's breeding time for magpies.
So watch out.
It's that time of the year, the marauding magpie month.
Music
During the magpie's breeding season,
any movement near a nest site can provoke an attack.
Every year at Balgala Heights Public School,
it's duck and weave, protect yourself or pay the consequences.
A scene repeated all over Sydney.
One magpie remedy seriously suggested by the National Parks and Wildlife Service
is to wear an ice cream container appropriately decorated.
Looks pretty silly, but it works.
At Currumbina Primary at Lane Cove,
the eight and nine-year-olds have made a class project of maggi-proof headgear.
That's a big hat, isn't it?
Is that for big magpies, is it?
Yeah.
Do you think it'll work?
Yep.
Looks like a dragon's hat.
A magpie.
A magpie.
You think it'll fly into another magpie away?
Probably invite them.
Yeah.
With spring in the air, it's a great time to work outdoors,
but being a postie is no lark.
Music
Col Allison, 7 National News.
Yes, when you don't want to attract birds, you've got a problem.
That's Col Allison, my name's Robertson,
7, after this I'll be back.
Music
Half the species of life on this planet exist in rainforest.
Saturday, a story of war taking place in a small corner of Australia
to protect a little piece of paradise that has survived for 60 million years.
Australian rainforest trees are the source of many drugs used in the treatment of cancer.
The World Around Us Saturday on 7.
Selling tyres is a fierce competitive business,
and to stay on top you have to stay in touch.
So at Wimps Tyre Mechanical you'll notice a few changes going on.
There's a new coat of paint on our buildings.
We've modernised our showrooms.
And our managers are wearing bright new uniforms.
But the old hands at Wimps Tyre Mechanical remind us that appearances aren't everything.
So the biggest changes we're making this year are made as simply as this.
Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
Right now, Princess are clearing end of range roller blinds.
These plain blinds now only $75.
And these fancy rollers now only $105.
And Venetians now only $110.
And these slimline Venetians now only $125.
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Eastern breeze defines the pace in a sun-shaded, courtyarded, loose-limbed place.
Light of softer aspect glows where flanking jungle olive grows,
and peacocks cry their morning sounds to wake this jewel of the crown.
Take a closer look, Najee's suits.
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He died a hero.
And was reborn as Robocop.
A one-man police force with the strength of an army,
the speed of a laser, the brain of a computer, and a body made of steel.
Looking for me?
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This is Francis Thursday at the George and these selected cinemas and drive-ins.
Victoria, it's Australia's first day to try to do something about the greenhouse effect.
A conference of appropriate people has opened to avoid the following consequences.
Every cloud may have a silver lining, but these days it's made up of chlorofluorocarbons,
carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases spewed into the air by industrialized societies.
The pollution has formed a girdle around the earth that lets the sun's heat in,
but prevents it escaping, hence the greenhouse effect.
The results can and will be disastrous.
Within a lifetime, Australia will see major increases or decreases in rainfall,
depending on the location, temperature increases of up to four degrees.
The southern states will suffer tropical cyclones.
Sea levels will continue to rise engulfing low-lying areas,
and natural disasters will become frequent.
It's a gloomy picture, but one lightened by the positive steps scientists are now taking
to protect our climate and environment.
Today, through a far more harmless sort of greenhouse,
Conservation Minister Joan Kerner launched the Greenhouse Project.
For the moment, it means more research into the causes and results of the greenhouse effect.
Ultimately, it's hoped it will produce a solution.
We need to have band-aid approach in a way in that we need to plan how we're going to react to it.
In the longer term, we have to solve the problem.
We have to fix the sore up in a sense because if we allow it to continue,
if we attempt to try and burn all the fossil fuels that are available,
then we are in serious global problems.
After all the uproar with local residents in a frenzy and Sir Joe in full flight,
ICI has abandoned plans to build a chlorine plant at Lytton in Brisbane's Bayside area.
But right to the last, Sir Joe was insisting there was no political disharmony.
Members of the Bayside Action Group were back picketing Parliament this morning
despite speculation that ICI had decided to dump plans for its controversial chlorine plant at Lytton.
Late this afternoon, the protesters got what they wanted,
a statement from ICI admitting that it had abandoned plans for the Lytton plant.
The statement said there were indications that the situation would become increasingly acrimonious
if the company pursued its plans.
It said ICI seeks to have good relationships with the communities surrounding its plants,
and it's clear that such a relationship would be difficult to achieve at Lytton.
ICI said that an important industrial investment providing increased employment
had been lost for emotional reasons unrelated to the true safety of the plant.
Did ICI get you off the hook, Mr Premier?
No, they didn't get me off the hook. I'm not on a hook. I'm not on a hook.
We made a decision on the recommendations of Cabinet.
Premier Sir Joe Bealcott-Peterson said his government,
and that meant all members of his government, were still 100% behind the Lytton project.
Despite reports of growing unrest among backbenchers, some ministers,
even party President Sir Robert Sparks, Sir Joe claimed total solidarity on the proposal.
They will be very, very rock solid.
They supported completely 100% the attitude that I have adopted and the Cabinet adopted.
As for the victors, they say they don't want to drive ICI out of Queensland.
They simply want to see the chlorine plant established somewhere safe.
It's nice that people win occasionally. Next step, the ID.
And now the results are the sort of survey that no-one believes except the winners.
We present it because it's silly. It's only September, but here are the year's most desirable men.
They got together for breakfast at the Opera House, the social set, the high flyers.
According to Mode Magazine and the Australian Wool Corporation,
it's simply not enough to be best dressed any more.
So we thought now we had to concentrate on their brains as well as their bodies.
Among the top ten, Wimbledon winner Pat Cash, Ixl boss John Elliott,
owner of the Seven Network, Christopher Skace. And what do they have in common?
High achievers, you know, the people that have achieved the most prominence in the last year.
I always felt I was a bit wanted at home anyway. I don't know about sharing it with the public.
But this man does.
Given the lack of popularity and acceptance of politicians, I suppose we more than anybody like to be wanted.
And for their latest achievement, a new cool wool coat and a caricature to remind the most wanted ten they're larger than life.
Gina Pickering, Seven National News.
Well, actually, when I saw the introduction of this, talking to my producer a couple of hours ago at the pub,
the suggestion was that they are the most desirable as in a sexual sense.
And I surveyed some of the girls downstairs who always call the spade a shovel,
and they couldn't find any of them appealing, although there was one vote for Mr. Elliott's nose.
And I think there's a rumor about that, but I don't think you should believe it.
It's not true about Ross either.
Los Angeles, all this city of angels, was positively angelic today for the visit of Pope John Paul.
The Pope arrived in Los Angeles to a sign of welcome.
Overnight, the Hollywood sign was converted to Hollywood after an L was blackened.
300,000 people lined the streets of LA to see the Pope's motorcade, although organisers predicted at least one million would be there.
At the cathedral, a spontaneous shout arose before the Pope blessed the congregation.
I bless you, Holy Father!
The Pope was appreciative.
I thank you for this blessing.
Meanwhile, at the Coliseum, souvenir stalls did a roaring trade.
For five hours before the Pope's arrival at the Coliseum, people were finding their seats at the stadium.
The mystic organisers expected a crowd of 100,000 people at the Mass.
Stringent security delayed admissions, but a capacity audience warmly welcomed John Paul II.
The Mass drew the biggest crowd of the Pope's tour.
The three-hour liturgy proceeded smoothly, but tomorrow the Pope will urge American bishops to crack down on Catholics defying Church teachings.
This is Angelus, Mark O'Brien, 7 National News.
Yes, the Catholic Church in America is not the happiest church in the world.
Well, I suppose it's a subjective judgement as to whether people who sing opera make fools of themselves or not.
Opera you like or you hate.
But if you're in opera, what do you do for kicks apart from tearing your colleagues to bits in the dressing room?
What you do is make a fool of yourself deliberately and occasionally to raise money.
And here's proof of the folly, Australian opera performance from the new show, The World Discovery Show.
The World Discovery Show
The World Discovery Show
It drives me absolutely nuts.
She refused to begin the begin when they requested it.
And she made an embarrassing scene if anyone suggested it.
For she detested it.
Though no one ever could be keener than little Mina.
Quite a number of very eligible men who did the rumble.
When she proposed to them, she simply left them flat.
She said that love should be impulsive and not convulsive.
And syncopation had a discouraging effect on procreation.
And that she'd rather read a book and that was that.
She declined to begin the begin when they besought her to.
And with language profane and obscene, she cursed the man who taught her to.
She cursed Cole Porter too.
From this it's very clear that Mina, in her demeanour, was so offensive.
That when the hatred of her friends grew too intensive,
She thought she'd better be dead while she had the chance.
After some trial and tribulation, she reached the station
And met a sailor who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela.
And so she married him because he couldn't dance.
There surely never could have been a more irritating girl than Mina.
They never speak in Argentina for this degenerate bambina
Who had the luck to find romance
And resolutely wouldn't dance
She wouldn't dance, hola!
Noel Cade wrote it.
And there was some of the Australian opera in full fright.
They'll present more of whatever it is they were just doing
At the fourth annual Twilight concert, the Sunday at the Sydney Opera House.
So be there. I'll be back after this.
She refused to begin the begin when they requested it.
Can you believe that someone who is as funny as this can sound like this?
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The accountants are back at Curtin Wonderland.
Lots of new stock in, hey?
Yes, all these new prints all under $10.
New Brack suede liners, 35 colours, all these new ready-mades
And our free make range, and all these are new.
So we've got to pay for all this.
What?
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30% off this continuous, these three dollars.
Come to Curtin Wonderland.
For great new decorated collections.
And lots of clearance specials.
Oh.
Thank you.
La Coste at Maya.
It's perfect weather for entertaining, so spring in for savings at the local bottle shops.
Save a two litre McWilliams Fortifieds for just $6.99.
And Father O'Leary's Liqueurs, a heavenly $5.99.
There's Yalumbra two litre casks for $4.99, Benjamin Port for $5.99,
And Seaview Brut Champagne at a refreshingly low $5.29.
How low, how low, just how low can we lot go?
This next item sounds exciting.
It's a further sequel to yesterday's apparently dazzling budget.
The Prime Minister says he was in Sydney tonight, relaxed, charming, and in good form,
speaking to Australian business leaders at the annual, and I'm sorry you missed this,
the annual Australian Financial Review Post Budget Dinner.
In Sydney tonight, Prime Minister Bob Hawke basked in the glory of Australia's first balanced budget in 17 years.
In summarising the budget, ladies and gentlemen, I would say we have delivered.
We have delivered in full measure on our election commitments.
Australians were the winners, he said in the Australian Financial Review Post Budget Address,
through lower inflation, lower interest rates, and more jobs.
But then the hard sell.
No government which had struggled so hard with the budget deficit could afford to ignore the Australia card.
Now I certainly do not underestimate the material benefits of the card.
Nearly $1 billion in extra revenue will substantially improve the government's ability to provide better services to the whole community.
The card was a necessary tool in the fight against tax evasion and welfare fraud.
It was blatant nonsense to refer to it as totalitarian or authoritarian.
A serious offence for police to require production of the card.
You did not recognise that sophisticated security software will be in place to prevent unauthorised access to the card register,
and that no other computers will be linked to the register.
It's very hard to be convinced.
All the police stations, or the central police in each city, have details of your offences.
And I know some policemen, and I said one day, would you do a little printout, please?
And I found that I'd been fined three or four times when in fact I had never been fined at all.
I just thought I'd throw that in.
Had I not questioned it, they would have said this man to Lunatech, this one.
The system to Lunatech. Actually it was once they said I had sped it. Sped. Went fast.
Just thought I'd throw that in.
There's no software that can't be cracked because some little loony there will tell his mates how to get into it.
Not convinced. Will not be voting next time, Mr. Hawke.
A New York man has solved his labour difficulties by the usual device of employing people to do his work for him.
The twist is the man is a well-known painter of pictures.
These are paintings by Mark Costabi, a rising, or at least twinkling star in the art world.
But you don't see any paint on Mark Costabi's hands.
Even as he plays the piano, another of his paintings is taking shape in the next room.
Someone else is applying the paint, and there's a good chance this woman conceived the idea.
But when it's finished, this canvas will be called a Costabi, and it will sell for as much as $10,000.
The most successful artists, it's obvious that they have assistants executing their work.
But they always downplay it. And I say, you know, why downplay it?
Why not not only admit that you have people doing the work for you, but take it a step further and hire someone to think up the ideas.
Costabi's trademark is the faceless, sometimes headless figure.
He used to paint them himself, but then he decided he could produce more with a little help.
So he advertised for assistants. Inventive artists wanted to provide ideas for Mark Costabi.
Diana Gentleman answered the ad and gets paid $8 an hour to sketch ideas.
There are ideas of mine, and they're drawn in a style that Mark can use.
And sell, Ron Feldman is the gallery owner who represents Mark Costabi.
He recognizes talent in others. And so he has hired, advertised, and then hired an incredibly talented staff, and they're much more talented than he is.
It's a fabulous painting. This is completely conceived of by Diana and executed by Klaue.
But it will sell as a Costabi. Curator Patterson Sims of the Whitney Museum compares Costabi's technique to what designers like Perry Ellis do with sheets.
They're not sitting down and designing each line and each tuck and each fold of those sheets.
What they are doing is imprinting their sensibility in those sheets.
Some collectors have expressed concern about whether they've purchased genuine Costabis, while others seem eager to own his more, shall we say, collaborative works.
What part of a Costabi is Costabi's?
Well, all of it is his and none of it is his at this particular point.
In time, I have a suspicion that he is a second-rate artist.
It doesn't matter whose work it is as long as it gets done and as long as it's great.
But it's called a Costabi.
Yeah, I don't mind.
In today's art world, the name is the game, regardless of who painted what eventually gets framed.
He doesn't mind. It's quite flexible, isn't he?
Of course, what they should do is merely change the name at the bottom so it's no longer a Costabi.
Who cares, anyway?
People I work with haven't got places big enough to put a painting on the wall, although our bosses have, but that's another story.
A North Californian couple are the owners of the largest private railway in the world.
That is a toy railway system.
Each season when the wheat is harvested and the beans are picked, Betty and Godfrey are busy with their hobby.
They work side by side down in their basement for the past 35 years.
Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.
Well, see, I'm trying to make a tree.
Betty contributes to the landscape. Godfrey builds the locomotives.
Together, they've created the largest private railroad in the world.
Some of the locomotives are taking better than 300 hours to build, and the trees, most of them are hand-built.
There's some 800 people in here and over a thousand trees.
Number 12, leaving Gerber northbound.
Okay.
All the buildings are built from scratch with the Southern Pacific plan.
The trains are run on schedule, on a time schedule, and we have a number of meets that we have to make within seconds.
They're coming down. They're going to go up there now.
Yeah. Let them know we're coming.
In 35 years, he's acquired 16 engines and managed to build the track that's 840 feet long.
That's about as long as three football fields.
Betty and Godfrey's model railroad layout is a replica of Northern California, complete with their hometowns, the places they work, the spot they fell in love and got married.
Boy, look at that pretty scene over there.
But for even longer than he's loved Betty, Godfrey's had a romance with trains.
Fortunately, Betty has never been the jealous type.
I like him.
She's allowed her husband to have two romances.
Well, how does that figure? Which romance are you in love with most?
Sometimes I wonder.
That's nice, isn't it?
Betty and Godfrey.
They were probably young once.
Many, many years ago, then he discovered trains.
More after this.
Help!
Saturday on 7, Jess is the witness to a robbery.
I saw two young men rush out of the store, jump in their car and speed right past me.
Chris has a crush on a spunky new friend.
He's mature. He's nice. He's gorgeous in those eyes.
Who turns out to be more than he seems.
Everybody, this is Steve.
How can Jess tell her daughter she's dating a thief?
Help robbers!
From Deidre Hall from Days of Our Lives in Our House, 7.30 Saturday on 7.
Dick Smith Electronics Viewers IQ Test.
What a clever dick.
Would you rather pay telecom $40 rent for an extension phone you'll never own
or just $19.95 for a Dick Smith colour phone?
Would you rather miss important calls in the garden
or pay $15.95 for this telephone extension bell?
Buy a phone and an answering machine?
Or pay $269 for both in one handy unit at Dick Smith?
What a clever dick.
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What a day.
Mum, can you fix those for me?
Alright, if you can chop up some veggies and heat up the wok.
Mum, can you check my algebra?
Alright, if you'll take those beef strips out of the fridge and put them in the wok.
Oh good, your hon. Look, apparently we both need to sign these.
Oh, really?
Could you put on some noodles and give the wok a stir?
How was your day dear?
Mummy, Cindy and me are hungry. Can you cook dinner?
Err, alright. If you and Cindy set the table.
Okay.
Don't wait for me.
Meat shortcuts.
They're so easy you don't even have to be in the kitchen.
Nice dinner, Mummy.
It was nothing.
New recipes every week where you buy your meat.
The inquest into the deaths of six people in a plane crash near Essendon Airport last September
has been told there seemed no reason for the aircraft engines to fail.
When the left engine of the Cessna 402 Air Ambulance failed
just after takeoff from Essendon Airport on September 3, Pilot Bill Sur had only seconds to act.
The plane with a nurse and four patients on board had reached a height of about 30 metres
and was dangerously close to power lines.
Air Safety Investigator Colin Gerrity, who was in charge of the crash inspection,
told the inquest today the pilot radioed the control tower that he was going to head straight
and feather the engine to try to glide safely to the ground.
But he couldn't shut down power and make a radio call at the same time as he had to operate a hand-held microphone.
The court also heard evidence from Air Worthiness Surveyor John Guscott
who said investigators couldn't find any reason why the plane's left engine failed after takeoff.
Mr Guscott said there was nothing to suggest it was faulty
and said the only possible explanation was that an oversupply of fuel had flooded the engine.
He added that neither of the propellers had been feathered before the plane hit the ground.
The inquest continues tomorrow.
Now I have a book here that was stolen by my producer from me.
He knows I enjoy photography so he likes to get back at me occasionally because he can't on air.
It's called Country Life in Old Australia.
It's a book from publishers Viking O'Neill, that should assure him of the next collection.
A collection of photos from the last century.
Nearly all of them new, that is to say not the usual cliches in the streets we all recognise,
but photos from state and private collections not seen before.
The text is Done by Geoffrey Dutton.
These are some of the pictures.
Music
We tend to think they're more elegant times, perhaps they were.
Simpler certainly, but a lot harder.
Country Life in Old Australia.
Put in the mind visiting that if I could go back in time, just for a couple of days.
After this, the weather.
Saturday, 8.30.
They want me to kill a man.
The silence of the confessional.
It's prooffully broken.
A professional assassination.
Could hurt solidarity.
The long arm of the KGB.
Go, go, go, go!
Throws the equaliser back into a cold war.
Into the dark red heart of an enemy of solidarity.
The equaliser Saturday, 8.30.
And meanwhile, in England.
Now it's a killing, not just a breakout.
A KGB brainwashed agent has infiltrated CI-5.
Mentally a vegetable.
And his target is Coward.
Don't think I'd be foolish enough to come here alone, do you?
Only in Doyle C. Wedd on the professional Saturday night on 7.
An eastern breeze defines the pace.
In a sun-shaded, courtyarded, loose-limbed place.
Light of softer aspect glows.
Where flanking jungle olive grows.
And peacocks cry their morning sounds.
To wake this jewel of the crown.
Take a closer look.
Najee suits.
Take a closer look.
From $299.
Most people have two appetites to satisfy.
One tasty and one healthy.
Porpoise soufflé, buckwheat and bake.
Trouble is, satisfying both can be twice the bother.
That's why Kellogg's have created Smart Start.
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And with 25% gluten nuts, all the tasty temptations of porpoise, pine nuts, sultanas and more.
New Kellogg's Smart Start satisfies both your appetites.
It's the amazing strength of emblemish security grill on your doors and windows.
That lets you choose who you let in.
And who you keep out.
Insist on the strength of emblemish security grill by Giralco.
Valerie Taylor does.
Dick Smith Electronics Viewers IQ Test.
What a clever dick.
Would you rather pay telecom $40 rent for an extension phone you'll never own.
Or just $19.95 for a Dick Smith colour phone.
Would you rather miss important calls in the garden.
Or pay $15.95 for this telephone extension bell.
Buy a phone and an answering machine.
Or pay $269 for both in one handy unit at Dick Smith.
What a clever dick.
You'll have to help me here because I'm not into tennis.
There's some names here I don't know. I'll spell the ones I'm not too sure of.
The name of the player is Mark Woodford.
Has been left out of Australia's Davis Cup squad for the semi-final against India next month.
He's furious.
Woodford was the only Australian to reach the last 16 at the US Open.
Simon Y-O-U-L and Darren C-A-H-I-L-L were preferred to Woodrow.
Woodrow.
Ah dear, he died didn't he.
Were preferred to Woodford.
Peter Doohan, Wally Massour.
I'm sure this is an anagram.
And John Fitzgerald and Pat Cash.
He had a six man squad.
Simon Yule is believed to be the first Tasmanian to be selected in an Australian Davis Cup squad.
Once the second best junior in the world.
He's been plagued by injuries in recent years.
And is now seen to be fulfilling that early potential.
21 year old Cahill is currently ranked 113th in the world.
He survived the qualifying rounds of the US Open.
Before bowing out in the second round.
I was hoping.
It was something I always hoped for.
To get in the squad.
It's a little step for me.
And hopefully I can consolidate that spot.
And just keep playing well.
Neither is expected to gain a Guernsey in the team.
Which takes on India in Sydney early next month.
But Captain Neil Fraser sees the selection as an investment in the future.
I think they realise they've got a hard road ahead.
But they're making it.
And I'm quite sure it won't be too long down the track before they do play.
One man who's assured of a spot is Wimbledon champ Pat Cash.
Still in hiding in Queensland after his first round exit from the Open.
Fraser believes the shock loss may work in his favour.
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
He's had that extra two weeks off.
And have a good clean break from tennis.
And come back very, very fresh for the Davis Cup.
I think you'd get up for the interview, wouldn't you?
We're actually thinking that Woodrow in a little two-pair of Reeboks
wouldn't look too bad on the court.
Not necessarily in his present condition.
But it's tennis for you.
Now the weather, the current temperature on our teletext is 15.
Brisbane is 17 and 12 in Melbourne.
And around the state today a summary of the weather.
If I can use the word summary.
Weeper 34, the maximum in Queensland.
Stanthorpe the minimum at 3.
Brisbane 12 to 24, Casino, Thredbo and Sydney.
Sydney 10 to 21.
Mildura at the maximum for Victoria 21.
Mount Buller 0.
And Melbourne 10.7 to 17.1.
Quilpe the only place in Queensland to receive rain.
It will change tomorrow.
Point 9, Mount Buller in Victoria 1.
Coloog 1.
New South Wales devoid of the moist stuff.
This is the synoptic chart.
What isn't shown here is an upper level low here.
Which is producing some rain in south eastern Queensland.
And the odd onshore wind which is producing some coastal rain.
This front down here is moving fairly quickly.
It's only going to affect the coast as far as the pundits have said.
And the winds are coming from the west now.
They've stopped coming from the south.
They're bored with that.
Same old white stuff.
And this high pressure system will mean better conditions coming ahead.
But in all it's not so bad.
So the weather for tomorrow anyway.
For Brisbane Thursday a few showers and a thunderstorm from that high pressure low.
14 to 25.
This is the Skace family.
Pictures of their last Christmas get together.
Lovely.
Just released.
He sent down, would you please put them into the weather.
He said certainly not knowing what it is.
But he's boss.
Lovely.
Grandfather Skace.
Skace in point.
Thursday will be fine 11 to 21 for Sydney.
Saturday fine.
Saturday fine.
And Sunday not so fine.
I think we've got the wrong ones back from the chemist here.
We can't work out who these people are.
Melbourne.
Have I done Melbourne?
Fine.
Windy late change and Sunday showers.
And so interstate.
Oh dear.
It will be fine.
Adelaide 8 to 19.
Now this is gorgeous.
You know.
All right for you Anne Rixie.
Look at this.
Look.
It's just marvelous.
Just makes you feel good doesn't it.
Makes you feel good to be a mile.
Back tomorrow.
Music.
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Now that's really worth the trip.
When it's Dunkin' Delicious you know it's worth the trip.
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In Valerie Taylor's view, Amplemèche Security Grill by Juralco isn't at all obtrusive.
When you've got the taste for seafood you want it fresh.
Seafood Brisbane style.
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Come on in the prices are right on home entertainment specials during our sight and sound spectacular.
Technovision VHS video recorders with infrared remote control five ninety nine dollars.
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Bargains good lord during Chandler's sight and sound spectacular.
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It's happening here.
Interpreter back sevens got him in television's most competitive game show Press Your Luck.
Had luckily his outrageous fortunes pile up and suddenly vanish in the blink of an eye.
It's Fast Fabulous and Funny and it's on a five thirty Monday to Friday on seven.
Controversies surrounding the visit of Pope John Paul the second were much in evidence last night in Los Angeles.
This protest the first heavily organized and highly visible one since the Pope's US trip began centered on charges of sexism in the church.
The Holy Father made no mention of the protest as he greeted children at one audience.
Nor did he later when he appeared before a group of entertainment executives and personalities.
John Paul the second will conclude his two day stay in L.A. with a mass at Dodger Stadium later today Wednesday September the 16th 1987.
From NBC News this is Today with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauli.
Good morning and welcome to today on this Wednesday morning. Jane is not with us and she is well.
Deborah Norville is sitting in. I'm with you and I'm not well but this is the best voice I've got for this morning.
We'll try to get through it. John Palmer is going to give us a little bit more on our top story and the rest of the day's news including the Bork hearings and the Chevronadze talks over the news desk in just a moment.
Then following news and weather for the remainder of this half hour our special guest will be the vice president of the United States and the front runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
Vice President George Bush will join us in just about 10 minutes.
Also coming up this morning we'll be taking a closer look at the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork.
Hearings began yesterday as day two gets underway. We'll be looking at what's yet to come in the questioning as we talk with two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Then in our second hour this morning we'll be getting into the role of women in the Catholic Church in light of the Pope's visit to this country.
And on after 8 this morning our subject is going to be a law that is still on the books in this country that keeps people out of the United States because they believe in controversial things.
Also this morning Glenn Close from Harry Morgan with first to the news desk. John Palmer, good morning.
Brian Debra thanks, good morning. First Los Angeles where Pope John Paul II has an important four hour private meeting today with U.S. Roman Catholic bishops to discuss the state of the church in the United States.
This follows a very emotional session last night between the Pope and thousands of young people. Bob Abernathy has our report.
In this city of communications John Paul proved his mastery of spectacle and drama.
He urged entertainment and news business leaders always to consider the effects of what they do.
You must ask yourselves if what you communicate is consistent with the full measure of human dignity.
But the high point of the Pope's entire trip so far came at a meeting with young people.
We feel the day with the day is like no other day.
Twenty five year old Tony Melendez a philidomide baby born without arms played and sang for John Paul.
He said later he wanted to reach out to the Pope.
Bob Abernathy NBC News traveling with the Pope in California.
In other news this morning Secretary of State Schultz and Soviet foreign minister Shevardnadze are scheduled for another day of talks today aimed at reaching agreement on a new arms control treaty.
Ann Garels is standing by at the State Department now with more on that. Good morning Ann.
Good morning John. The two men have a full agenda with both saying they hope to make progress.
Clearly at ease with one another they capped their first round of talks with an all-American dinner.
Hamburgers and sundaes aboard a naval barge. The talks had kicked off with a discussion of human rights.
Schultz pushed the Soviets to be more forthcoming and more consistent especially on emigration.
Later Schultz indicated some progress. So I'm rather encouraged by that.
According to an upbeat Schultz the meetings got off to a good start.
We're going to be able to identify quite candidly what our problems are and dig into them.
And personally I think that at least as I would see them they're soluble.
Shevardnadze agreed but said it was still too early to talk about an intermediate-range arms agreement or a summit.
We achieved greater understanding but still many issues remain.
Schultz and Shevardnadze focused on arms control all afternoon and when they broke for dinner their arms control experts continued working late into the evening.
The experts are reporting back on the results of those late night sessions and arms control will be the number one topic for Schultz and Shevardnadze today.
John.
Thanks Anne. In other news European space officials are claiming this morning they have soared past the United States to the forefront of the billion dollar business of launching satellites.
This after the successful lift off of a rocket carrying two telecommunication satellites.
Dan Molina has a report.
Attention pour moi une minute.
The tension was very visible here at the Ariane launch complex on the east coast of South America.
This was Europe's attempt to come back after a series of problems grounded the unmanned Ariane rockets last year.
On board were two communication satellites one owned by the Europeans the other by Australia.
The countdown stumbled a bit but finally.
Trois, deux, un, top.
Once off the pad Ariane flew by the book but still to come were the delicate maneuvers to deploy the satellites.
It looks like it's probably going to stay open.
OK.
August 1985 it was the space shuttle that launched the first two of Australia's OSAT satellites.
After the Challenger tragedy though then the grounding of Ariane satellite customers just had to wait and see who would come up with a dependable launch system.
US companies, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Chinese are all trying but last night the Europeans succeeded.
OSAT was deployed successfully and after that came Europe's satellite.
There are currently plans for 30 more Ariane launches over the next four years.
Forty-six more satellites are booked on board.
Dan Molina, NBC News, Houston.
Judge Robert Bork faces another day of questioning before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today on his nomination to the Supreme Court.
On the first day of confirmation hearings Bork defended his controversial views on abortion, civil rights and individual freedoms.
Today he is expected to be questioned closely about his role as President Nixon's Solicitor General who fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the 1973 so-called Saturday Night Massacre.
In Lebanon today Israeli paratroopers are fighting pitched battles with Lebanese leftist guerrillas in Israel's self-proclaimed security zone within southern Lebanon.
Three Israeli soldiers reported to have died in the fighting, four injured.
Mexico celebrated the 177th anniversary of the start of its war for independence from Spain last night.
There were fireworks and a laser light display in Mexico City's central square.
The war of independence against Spain lasted more than a decade and it cost 600,000 lives.
While some traditionalists in London are hopping mad over a new edition of the tale of Peter Rabbit this morning,
the new version replaces Beatrix Potter's inventive prose with everyday language.
For example, in the original Miss Potter wrote, Peter rushed into the tool shed and jumped into a watering can.
It would have been a beautiful thing to hide in if it had not had so much water in it.
The new version is shorter and simplified. When he got in the shed he hid in the watering can but the watering can had water in it.
One British critic called the new version absolutely horrid. It's now eight minutes after the hour of seven. Back to Brian.
All right John, thanks very much. Time for us to officially hear from Willard Scott for the first time this morning.
And for that we go to the nation's capital in Washington. Good morning Willard.
Hey Brian, how are you? It's good to talk to you.
Thank you. I'm sorry. I mean I really...
You know the funny thing is when you work the hours we do you don't know your voices like this until you get here and are ready to go on because you don't speak to anybody.
Isn't that funny? It really is the truth. You get up in the morning you don't know there's anything that matters with you until you get into the car and the guy says good morning Brian and you say,
ohhhhh. Well that's...they missed you last night at the party let me tell you that.
Thank you. USA Today five years old of course and the president was there he asked about you and he says where's David Hartman?
I said I have no idea.