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Frase From Page 3 No single action has lead to greater assurance to Australia that the council's defense build up will continue than the 1980 election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, with whom Fraser shares a common task of budget-slashing blended with allowing individual states to work out their own authoritative control. "The state and local governments are closer to the recipients of many services and are better placed to administer those programs," he told the Australian Parliament when budget cuts were announced in May of this year. Fraser has helped keep unemployment at 5.6 percent (with 6.7 percent a record for the country) while unemployment is fluctuating about 9.6 percent. His budget cuts, however, remain the single-mindedness of his aims, with his current plan to save $644 million in the i? ?ii: . ucAi uatcii year uy cuuuig 350 budget items from pubic service jobs to the reduction of tax concessions for industry and ending free hospital treatment. THE CUTS HAVE NOT been accepted totally by the public. Both students and unions have demonstrated against Fraser's actions, the former because of vast funding cuts in higher education and the latter because of the possible elimination of 17,000 public service jobs to establish the same functions at the state and private level. The 50-year-old prime minister gives the appearance of being both shy and arrogant, which some think is the result of his aristocratic background. He is the son of a wealthy landowner and grandson of a senator in the first Federal Parliament. Fraser was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Oxford University where he studied philosophy, politics and economics. Memories of a shy, friendless youth pervaded through the minds of those who knew him during those early years. In 1954, he ran for a local Western district seat of Wannon and lost, but, gained the determination to win the 1955 Federal rarnameni eiecuon unaer the Labor Party. Fraser became Minister for the Army in 1966 and ) served as Minister for for Education and Science as well as Minister for Defense. He spoke for primary industry and for labor and industrial affairs in the early 1970s before becoming leader of the opposition in March 1975. eraser lives in wareem, Australia, and loves his farm, sheep, bulls and I motorcycles. His haughty * manner of statesmanship is off-set by his wife Tamara's popularity and good humor. As many analysts comment, Fraser is considered I an overlord whom the j t Gail middle and lower class regard as cold and distant, but who vote for him because conditions could get worse. Upper class Australians see mm as an miroveri ana Keep their distance. IN INTERNATIONAL relations, Fraser has gained status as negotiator, standing firm during CHOGRM talks in Sydney (1978) and Lusaka (1979) in order to emerge a hero in first gathering Bangladesh, Fiji, Nauru, New Zealand, India, Papau, New Guinea, Singapore, Tonga, Western Samoa and Sri Lanka to the ummit in 1978 and spearheading the settlement which lead to a return of legality, easing racial tensions in Rhodesia. In 1980, the New Delhi CHOGRM had its 0/>himmmnnfc onrl cnikn/ilrn iiviiKVTvniviuo auu ociuav.iv3. Fraser was instrumental in assuring India that Singapore and Malaysia's bad political feeling toward that country could be resolved. At the same time, Fraser and Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew argued openly about Australia's protectionist trade policies, long a sore point with those who oppose Fraser's stand that i:u 1 A 1 a; 1 -? A II uuerai iraue acnon lea 10 me inevitable rise of unemployment coupled with social unrest. The Australian prime minister is also in a state of paranoia over what he perceives to be the growing threat of communism throught the world, created by the Soviet Union and put into physical action by the invasion of Afghanistan and threatening of Poland. Fraser's first action was joining President Carter in boycotting the 1980 Moscow Ul^ UIIU II1U1 c recently, keeping the Indian Ocean manned with navy ships and the air occupied by U.S. B-52 aircraft surveillance. He supports the Reagan Administration's ?i I & life, woodhiii Mall U-f Each Persor or tape of I _ I saie. uiech selection of sale Co is Inti backing of the government in El Salvador and favors countries like his own which accept refugees fleeing t n * _ wr Vietnam, i^aos ana i\ampuchea. During the 1981 ANZUS council meeting in Wellington, New Zealand June 22 and 23, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Tony Street met with U. S. a/** Malcolm Fraser r77v I Summer \ I Clearance I Entire Ii Inventory of Men's Lon? / I J Sleeve r% ! / Dress ISm / Shirts h&A / 50% OFF! 1 tec ooriimip^ >ick-lt-S; i gets to pick his/her choic : out Colurr recorded mu. od July 2,1 Open til 6:00 on Sat. ernati Secretary of State Alexander Haig and the ministers of both foreign affairs and defense in keeping with the pact to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, increase econoic development throughout the world and to establish new trade part ners. Part of the friendship Fraser enjoys with the United States is due to the role Australia plays in safeguarding the Southern and Western Pacific regions with defense mechanisms manufactured by America, including radar geared to track Soviet spy satellites and missiles. While the current prime minsiter of Australia has many critics, particularly the lower class which seems to sink deeper into oblivion, 9% |J Calvin } Bill Blass li John Henry Noebridge 11212 Main St. Near the Capitol Phone 252-5430 Open Mon.-Fri. )es ji ords i Bush River Mall ale one album e to be on ibia's best sic. Sand 4 onal S Malcolm fr'raser may yet have a few aces to play in his riprk nf r'arHe whiph forecasters have predicted would Ik? the end of him I "'jgg ! I Sui | Chili ! i y. h With Mustard an< 8 _ 91 Coupon t! Sunday N i 7-1 \yi0 tnoc NUt Si | Served with rich walnuts w/mapk I I w / wmpijeu cream " 7 Coupon E | Sunday Nic ! i BAR i Pork Sea i Served with Slaw & I With C 9 | Coupon E: Sunday Nig Itatus Now, however, it could be difficult for anybody to unseat him, and even more difficult to understand what keeps him afloat. 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