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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1985

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UNIONS Magistrate attacks right to picket

Tribune · Wednesday 31 July 1985 · page 4

HOBART: During the federal public service strike in December last year Dain Bolwell, ACOA state…

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From four months to life imprisonment Emotional scenes as Jewish underground men sentenced

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 August 1985 · page 5

The sentences passed on the members of the Jewish underground in the Jerusalem District Court last week are generally regarded as…

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BRIEFS It was murder to work there

Tribune · Wednesday 7 August 1985 · page 4

UNITED STATES: A landmark case in industrial health and safety has been decided in the US recently…

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KANAKY Police raids threaten regional elections

Tribune · Wednesday 7 August 1985 · page 6

Tension rose in Kanaky last week as some 400 heavily- armed French gendarmes based in the nickel-mining town…

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Murder and cultural incompatibility Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman. Pluto Press 1985. $5.95

Tribune · Wednesday 7 August 1985 · page 20

Hillerman's novel is entertaining and devoid of romantics. But it is basically a detective story whose main characters happen to be Indian…

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World Scene... Court victory for Orthodox

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 August 1985 · page 29

NEW YORK: An Orthodox Jewish community in New York now has Supreme Court approval to fence off an area (eruv) where walking and carrying on Sabbath are…

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A town in trauma A Jewish town and an Arab village were the centre of public interest last week after the murder of three Jews. Two Jerusalem Post reporters throw light here on the mood in Afula, home of the three victims, and in the village where the alleged killers of two of the Israelis lived

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 August 1985 · page 17

MOT SINCE David Ben-Gurion laid the cornerstone for Afula in 1925, predicting it would become the Tel Aviv of Galilee, has the town…

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Police violence at Hiroshima Day rally

Tribune · Wednesday 14 August 1985 · page 15

MELBOURNE: The "Stop the City" rally held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on…

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French "peace leader" in court

Tribune · Wednesday 14 August 1985 · page 6

WELLINGTON (NZ): Bernard Granotier, the self- proclaimed "leader" of a nonexistent 30,000-strong…

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South Africa Police orchestrate anti-Indian attacks

Tribune · Wednesday 14 August 1985 · page 2

The apartheid regime and its police force were behind attacks on Indians in the Durban area last week, Eddie Funde, the…

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Death of financier Albin won’t halt police inquiry

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 August 1985 · page 6

TEL AVIV. - The police investigation into the financial affairs of Michael Albin is to continue despite the death of the financier. Albin, 41,…

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The Greats Scavenger Hunt '85 Tharunka’s Tim Menzies writes that organising a Scavenger Hunt isn’t all fun and games. As I write this articla, I await the phone call of Detective Sergeant Watson of the Bankstown police

Tharunka · Monday 19 August 1985 · page 10

As I write this article, I await the phone call of Detective Sergeant Watson of the Bankstown police. Who would have thought that organising a simple little Scavenger Hunt would have made me a wanted man?…

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Three held in police probe into West Bank land deals

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 August 1985 · page 4

TEL AVIV. - A senior public figure was said to be implicated in a case involving illegal land deals in the West Bank, when the case came up…

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Charge of ‘violent behaviour’ after death of two terrorists captured in bus hijack Army court to try general

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 August 1985 · page 3

Chief Infantry and Paratroop Officer Tat-Aluf (Brig.-Gen.) Yitzhak Mordechai is to be brought before an IDF disciplinary court on…

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backblocks Greenslopes doctors appear in court

Tribune · Wednesday 28 August 1985 · page 15

BRISBANE: Two doctors from the Greenslopes Fertility Clinic appeared in Brisbane magistrate's court last week charged…

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Soccer star involved in burglary ring

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 September 1985 · page 4

Israeli international soccer star, Shlomo Shirazi, has been suspended from the national team after becoming involved in a burglary ring…

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SPOTLIGHT Answer to murder Tora Today[?]

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 September 1985 · page 33

CHAPTER 21 of Deuteronomy begins with a mystery: “If one be found slain in the land the Lord thy God giveth thee...and it not be known…

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Teachers’ Murder To the Editor of The Jerusalem Post

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 September 1985 · page 47

Sir, — Regarding the tragic murders of the two young teachers, I believe that, if the political and religious leaders of the Arab and Jewish…

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Blinded police sapper cited for his devotion

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 September 1985 · page 3

JULIS (Itim). — Police sapper Suleiman Hirbawi, who was blinded in 1980 while trying to dismantle a bomb planted by the Jewish terrorist…

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Egyptians express sorrow at Cairo shooting of three Israelis Diplomat's murder won't hamper peace

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 September 1985 · page 25

The assassination ot Israeli diplomat Albert Atrakchi in Cairo last week has brought sincere messages of condolence from Prime Minister…

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