Transmitter seized in Australia
NZPA Toowoomba, Queensland The Australian Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) has defended the seizing of a radio transmitter being used by sympathisers of East Timor’s Left-wing Fretilin movement to communicate with guerrillas fighting against Indonesian control bn the troubled island. “I would hope that nobody ’is trying to argue that illegal radios of this kind carrying the sort of messages that we know have been carried on it should be allowed to operate,” Mr Fraser told a news conference.
The clandestine Fretilin radio, the second to be confiscated by Australian Government officials this year, was seized in a raid by the police and post office officials on a lonely bushland hideout about 13 miles south of Darwin. Asked if the continued operation of the transmitter would have embarrassed him during a visit to Indonesia he is due to make this week, Mr Fraser replied: “I would have thought that that sort of radio operating would embarrass all Australians.”
When asked why, the Prime Minister replied: “Because of the nature of its activity.”
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