Hutzpah in Court
HAIFA: The court of justice serves also as a stage on which are paraded human frailties, judicial wisdom, unwitting humor, bits and pieces that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Courts & crime, 1979
65 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
"Railroad Court" Says Fremantle
FREMANTLE: Eight hundred people last week decided on a mass train ride to Perth in protest at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court accused on Cockburn Sound pollution
PERTH: "Stupidity, ignorance, apathy or greed are preventing correction of the Cockburn Sound pollution problem" says Dr Chittleborough of the Sound Action Group. Dr Chittleborough told the recent WA University Summer School…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Something defective' in police case:magistrate
The NSW police last month withdrew charges against 72 people arrested at last August's Homosexual Conference street procession, following representations by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anatomy of a Chilean murder
Rightwing Cuban exiles acting for the Chilean junta assassinated former Allende government defence minister and diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington on September 21, 1976…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court says Bhutto to hang
PAKISTAN: The Supreme Court last week voted four to three to reject jailed former president Bhutto's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Syrian Secret Police at All Synagogue Services Jews Beaten
LONDON: The Syrian authorities have hardened their attitude to the country’s 4,000 Jews and have reimposed oppressive measures which had earlier been lifted. A report by the American…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THEATRE — min Murder Room
The send up of thrillers is usually a tricky genre, most of the time underestimated…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Group Threatens to Murder Jews
JERUSALEM: An extremist Moslem group in Iran, catling itself the “Popular Front of Young Moslems in Iran,” has distributed a vicious antisemitic leaflet, a copy of which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court Hears of Terrorist Plans
JERUSALEM: Yosef ‘Jo-Jo’ Nidam, the Bat Yam man on trial for his alleged connections with a terrorist gang operating in the West Bank, took the stand in the Jerusalem District Court last week. Mr Nidam, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police apathetic about wife-beating in Israel
JERUSALEM: Alignment MK Tamar Eshel has charged that the police are loathe to intervene when a wife complains that her husband has beaten her. Presenting a motion for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Townsville Police Accused of Brutality to Blacks
TOWNSVILLE: The Civil Liberties committee is demanding a public inquiry into allegations that a local police officer brutally attacks and harasses Aborigines in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police, Escapees in Gun Battle
JERUSALEM: Three more of the wanted men who escaped from Ramle jail seven weeks ago…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →short cuts The Police Outlandos D’Amour’(Festival)
On paper the Police command a high degree of musical credibility The drummer Stewart Copeland includes Curved Air among his past credits, guitarist Sammers…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wages assault young people
Employers and Fraser government hard-liners are campaigning for a freeze on young people's wages. The NSW Master Builders Association (MBA) is the first employer group to apply for cuts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World in Focus Police strike
USA: Striking New Orleans police rejected the city's latest pay increase offer last week but withdrew threats to escalate their struggle. The 1,100…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Jay in Court
Remember the 9-foot paper mache bong constructed last year by JAY for the Foundation Day Parade? This week, two members of JAY were convicted of lighting a fire in a public place, to wit, outside Parliament House in Macquarie Street, Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Free Hand for Secret Police
The Fraser government is giving the secret police body ASIO dangerous new powers, i exceeding those of the American CIA. These include independence from control by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Officer pulls over police violence against women
BRISBANE: A young constable resigned from the police force after 23 women were arrested during an International Women's Day celebration last Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Verbals
In the past five years much controversy has been centred around the advisability and justice of the use of police “verbals” in our courts of law. As is always the case,…
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