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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1985

11 stories in Sydney's papers

Soldiers killed in Pershing missile "accident"

Tribune · Wednesday 30 January 1985 · page 6

A Pershing II rocket motor caught fire while being unloaded at a CAS (Combat Alert Site) in…

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University Union Waving not Drowning (OR should hand movment be restricted on the beaches)

Tharunka · Tuesday 2 April 1985 · page 28

This is only one example of what could be discussed, argued, debated, talked about or dumped in the debates scenario that exists at Yeuni…

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Drowning Slugs

Tharunka · Tuesday 7 May 1985 · page 9

Waiting so still and waiting for so long, Blood stains the stairs but then it’s gone. Awoken in swent from dreams of molluscs, Laid in rows upon buttered crusts…

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Art of Words Ashes Appropriated, Ideology Retained Drowning Slugs

Tharunka · Tuesday 7 May 1985 · page 9

ashes are collected between our loes the ashes accommodate on our loathes and in our hair. we are the west…

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Nazi hunter tells Gathering Hitler regime ‘no accident’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 May 1985 · page 3

The Nazi regime of Hitler “cannot be accepted as an accident of history”, famed Nazi hunter, Beate Klarsfeld, said in Sydney on Saturday. If this happens the…

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Wast Germany Us explanation of Pershing accident "completely impossible"

Tribune · Wednesday 29 May 1985 · page 6

On January 11 this year one of the newly installed ;Pershing II rockets blew up at Waldheide, four…

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Industrial Accidents — The Globe Theatre

Tharunka · Thursday 6 June 1985 · page 29

Industrial Accidents is a performance of dance and movement, presented with vitality exuberance. It attempts to get by without glam, glitter and pretence — and it does so…

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Accidentally on purpose? Public Faces

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 June 1985 · page 11

FOLLOWING the presentation of Israel’s own peace initiative by Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the Knesset last week, it was left to…

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Six injured in Jerusalem terror blast

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 September 1985 · page 2

Six people were wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in Jerusalem last week. All were lightly injured and were later released from…

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Noah Mozes, leading editor, killed in road accident

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 October 1985 · page 7

Noah Mozes, editor-in-chief and chairman of the board of Yediot Aharonot, died on October 7 at Ichilov Hospital from massive head…

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Six injured in terrorist blasts

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 October 1985 · page 2

Terrorist bombings in Jaffa and Afula last week injured a total of six persons, one seriously. In the blast in the northern town of Afula, the…

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