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Press, 31 March 1981, Page 8

‘Mole’ probe call The Australian Opposition Leader (Mr Bill Hayden) will . raise in Parliament several allegations concerning Australia's secr.et services. He was particularly concerned about a news report that the Soviet K.G.B. had been receiving classified information for 10 years from a senior source in a Government department in Canberra. The report said the “mole” in Canberra -was in a key position in the Foreign Affairs, Defence or Prime Minister’s Department. It said an assessment had been formed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency that the K.G.B. had been able to obtain much higher, level information from Canberra than anywhere else.—Canberra. Powell warning The Right-wing British member of Parliament. Enoch Powell, a leading crusader against non-white immigration, predicts that Britain’s racial problem will explode into “civil war” unless there is wholesale repatriation of non-whites. Mr Powell said that unless ' Britain's 1.9 million nonwhites went back to their homelands, London and other cities would face violent racial clashes. Non-white community leaders condemned. Mr Powell's speech as “provocative” and "inflammatory.”—Birmingham.

Lennon service Worshippers wept as Britain’s biggest cathedral echoed to recordings of the former Beatle John Lennon. More than 2000 people packed into Liverpool Anglican Cathedral for a festival of peace in memory of Len-, non, who was shot dead in New York in December. The service was part of a double trjbute to Lennon. A mile away nearly 2000 watched local groups play . Beatle numbers on the site of the former Cavern Club .in Matthew Street, where the group's musical career began—Liverpool.

Peace team’s hopes An Islamic peace mission seeking an end to the Gulf war has arrived in Teheran, undeterred by intransigent speeches from. Iraqi and Iranian leaders and reports that Iraq is rearming for further conflict. The Palestinian commando leader. Yasser Arafat, was accompanied by the mission’s 11 other members, who include the presidents of Bangladesh, Gambia. Guinea and Pakistan, and the Prime Minister of Turkey. Mr Arafat said that he expected the new bid to be “far more positive” than that which failed one month ago.—Teheran. C.I.A. blamed The former Iranian Deputy Prime Minister, Abbas Amir Entezam, on trial for spying for America, has said that the United States Central Intelligence Agency had forged the documents being used to accuse him. Defending himself before a revolutionary tribunal inside Teheran’s Evin Prison, Mr Entezam referred to documents found at the United States Embassy when militant students stormed it in November, 1979. “They have been prepared by the agents of the most criminal Government of the world and cannot be used in an Islamic court against a Muslim,” he told the presiding judge, a Muslim clergyman.— Teheran.