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Courts & crime, 1979

65 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4

Court decision

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 July 1979 · page 8

JERUSALEM: The controversial decision to establish a Jewish settlement at Eilon Moreh,…

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Order in the Court

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 July 1979 · page 13

HAIFA: A cross-section of human life is exposed in the law courts of a nation. It is little wonder that some people find in court…

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Another murder

Tribune · Wednesday 8 August 1979 · page 7

South Africa: A Cape Town doctor has found that black activist Sunnyboy Nhlapo died last February from a blow to the skull while in police…

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Court Govt Should Resign Over Rail Lies

Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1979 · page 8

A major political row has erupted over an internal Wesrail report which supports the low-cost electrification plan for the Perth-Fremantle railway submitted by Friends of the Railway (FOR)…

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Court moves on Aborigines pandering to white backlash

Tribune · Wednesday 22 August 1979 · page 3

PERTH: The Court government's insistence on detailed information before granting pastoral leases to…

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Workers and police clash

Tribune · Wednesday 29 August 1979 · page 4

Costa Rica: Workers in the eastern port of Limon clashed with security forces during their week-old strike for higher social security benefits…

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Police harassment

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1979 · page 6

Adelaide: Police are harassing Aboriginal families in the northern and western suburbs, say 16 Aboriginal women who made…

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Students sentenced to gaol for “sedition”

Tharunka · Monday 17 September 1979 · page 11

Accompanied by the fierce barking of police—dogs and by police armed with machineguns, 11 former members of the Soweto SRC were brought to court last July on a main charge of sedition alternately conspiracy to sedition, and with a 2nd alternate charge under the Terrorism Act. Their trial…

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Outside Roebourne court

Tribune · Wednesday 26 September 1979 · page 3

Workers protest against prosecutions of Pilbara unionists for alleged breaches of Section 54B of the WA Police Act. The case will be heard at Roebourne next Monday…

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Bombings follow murder in Paris

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 October 1979 · page 10

PARIS: Heavy damage was caused to a flat and a shop in Paris last week when two powerful charges of plastic explosive blasted them. No one was injured. Nazi slogans and…

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Political murder

Tribune · Wednesday 17 October 1979 · page 7

Guatemala: Amnesty International is campaigning against murder in this US-backed Central American dictatorship. Richard Reoch of…

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Wa Police Attacked for Racism

Tribune · Wednesday 17 October 1979 · page 6

Two recent blatant racist incidents in Western Australia have provoked a call for a public inquiry into the police force and threatened strike action by Community Welfare workers…

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Terrorists Sentenced

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 November 1979 · page 8

TEL AVIV: Two teenage Palestinian terrorists were given life sentences this week for their part in the…

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Begin May Resign Over Settlement Court Ruling

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 November 1979 · page 1

JERUSALEM: The Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, may resign over a Cabinet split following the Eton Moreh settlement issue. A recent Supreme Court…

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Police planes

Tribune · Wednesday 7 November 1979 · page 6

Canberra: The government has stopped a $60 million sale of 100 Nomad aircraft to South Africa after discovering that negotiators…

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Czechoslovakia: Charter 77 TRIAL Biographies of those sentenced

Tribune · Wednesday 7 November 1979 · page 9

The material on this page is compiled from a dossier prepared by the independent London journal Labour Focus on Eastern Europe. As reported in Tribune last week, the camnaian…

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Anti-union Laws 1. What Court cooked up

Tribune · Wednesday 7 November 1979 · page 5

The West Australian Trades and Labor Council (TLC) describes the Court government's Industrial Arbitration Bill as the harshest and most repressive legislation ever inflicted on the trade unions…

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Jewish divorce laws discussed in court

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1979 · page 3

According to Jewish law a couple who gain a civil divorce are still married until such time as the husband delivers a “get” to his wife, Rabbi Simon Silas told a Family Law Court hearing in Sydney last week…

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Police face killing charge

Tribune · Wednesday 14 November 1979 · page 6

Sydney: Two suspended police officers have been charged in the Supreme Court with the manslaughter, in 1972, of a…

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W. German Court Bans Disclaimers of Holocaust

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1979 · page 1

HAMBURG: It is now an offence in Germany to say that the murder of Jews under Hitler never took place and that reports of the murder of six million Jews in…

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