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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1986

12 stories in Sydney's papers

Fire sensors for IDF bases

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 January 1986 · page 31

Smoke detectors are to be installed in all IDF structures of the type that burned down in an artillery corps base in Samaria earlier this…

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Candle started fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 January 1986 · page 2

The fire that caused the dealths of eight Israeli soldiers and seriously injured another in an artillery corps camp in Samaria last month was…

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QUEENSLAND Fire privatisation opposed

Tribune · Wednesday 26 February 1986 · page 5

The threat of privatisation of the fire service in Queensland still looms large and, in response, the Queensland…

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Arson suspected in giant matza blaze

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 4

PETAH TIKVA. - Fire last week struck the country’s largest matza company for the third time in six weeks, and firefighters and the…

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Matza imported after fires here

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 May 1986 · page 12

TEL AVIV. - The Super-Sol chain has imported over 100 tons of matzot to Israel from the U.S. to insure against shortage in the wake of the…

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PEOPLE Fire brigade

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 June 1986 · page 16

PRIME Minister Shimon Peres and Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir seemed to have rotated together into the job of serving…

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NUCLEAR Out of the nuclear frying-pan into a thermonuclear fire?

Tribune · Wednesday 9 July 1986 · page 14

Lucas Heights has been at the centre of numerous accidents and controversies. NSW Housing Minister…

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Aipac under fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 July 1986 · page 14

Pro-Israel lobbying group faces charges that it harms Jewish interests WASHINGTON. - The American Israel Public Affairs Committee…

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Likud holds back its fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 July 1986 · page 2

Post Diplomatic correspondent The Likud ministers were not expected to criticize Prime Minister Peres’s visit to Morocco at Sunday’s…

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Computers to speed up guns’fire rate

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 July 1986 · page 3

Post Defence Reporter The reaction time of the IDF’s big guns has been speeded up by 60 per cent by the introduction of a new…

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Brereton monorail's fire risk

Tribune · Wednesday 10 September 1986 · page 15

SYDNEY: At a press conference organised today by Sydney Citizens Against the Proposed Monorail (SCAPM), Frank…

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Peacekeepers under fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 September 1986 · page 2

UN troops in south Lebanon have become targets of terror attacks by Shi’ite extremists. David Rudge reports. THEY COME from many parts of the globe, from lands that have…

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