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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1988

22 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

ANALYSIS An image under fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 January 1988 · page 6

Wolf Blitzer in Washington and Tom Tugend in Los Angeles WASHINGTON - Media-bashing has become a popular sport in the United States in recent years, but…

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Death toll mounts as troops fire at rioters

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1988 · page 1

Nine Palestinians were killed and at least 22 wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during a bloody weekend of rioting…

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A law of fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 27 May 1988 · page 10

DOES OR does not Judaism have a theology, a systematic theory about and study of the nature of God? As a matter of fact, the Tora does hot even expressly command belief in God. In Maimonides’s…

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Aid for Israel’s Bushfire Victims

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 27 May 1988 · page 3

B’NAI B’RITH Australia and the Jewish National Fund have launched a national emergency appeal to alleviate hardships caused…

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Wednesday, June 1, 1988 Sabotage by fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 10 June 1988 · page 24

FIRES may be the result of accident or carelessness. But some fires, alas, are man-made. The successive fires that have recently broken out in both the north and the centre of the country, laying waste to thousands of dunams of forest,…

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Arson suspected as fires ravage countryside

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 17 June 1988 · page 1

Fire and forestry officials suspect that arsonists ignited a significant number of the fires that devastated thousands of dunams throughout…

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New laws under fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 24 June 1988 · page 53

THE most pressing issues facing real estate agents were those of conveyancing, and the maintenance of a 13.5 per cent interest…

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When fire breaks out on Shabbat

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 24 June 1988 · page 4

One is permitted, in fact obligated, to extinguish a fire on Shabbat if there is even a possibility of its spreading and endangering human…

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Fire-fighters in the front line

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 24 June 1988 · page 12

Arson is the latest and most intractable element in the list of hazards facing the…

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‘We will stop them,’ says army commander; troops seal homes Crackdown on fire-bombers

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 24 June 1988 · page 1

A petrol bomb offensive and arson attacks on forests and fields spearheaded a resurgence of Palestinian violence in Israel and the administered territories last week…

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Pillar of Fire on Sbs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 June 1988 · page 16

RADIO 2EA of the Special Broadcasting Service will present an adaptation of the award-winning television documentary…

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Cease-fire in the Gulf: missed chances, future dangers

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 29 July 1988 · page 1

Post Defence Reporter Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin, referring to the apparent winding down of the Gulf war, suggested…

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Infantry steps up fire-power

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 19 August 1988 · page 7

Soldiers in the IDF's mlantry brigades will be better shots in both day and night combat, carry more fire-power and move faster with a…

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3 held for planning fire-bombing

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 September 1988 · page 5

Three Jewish residents of Or Yehuda were brought to court last week on charges of arson and conspiracy to commit murder…

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Labor Council under fire

Tribune · Wednesday 7 September 1988 · page 2

Demonstrators outside the NSW Labor Council's weekly meeting last Thursday were calling for the dismissal of 2KY announcer Ron Casey. A motion from the BWIU's Migrant Workers' Committee is expected to be on the agenda of what promises to be a stormy meeting this Thursday, September 8…

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Should IDF fire at stone-throwers?

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 9 September 1988 · page 1

The Cabinet this week discussed but did not decide whether to permit soldiers to fire on rioters in the administered areas who pelt them with stones. Curren standing orders of the…

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Korean Peace Doves Fried in Olympic Blaze

Tharunka · Monday 19 September 1988 · page 38

SEOUL, SATURDAY: As the historic Games of the XXIVth Olympiad’s Opening ceremony opened today, a tragedy in epic terms occured…

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Fire at Hadassah Hospital

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 December 1988 · page 4

Jerusalem Post Staff Hundreds of patients were evacuated from their wards when a fire broke out at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital in Kin Karem, Jerusalem, on…

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Monday, November 28, 1988 Fire in the hospital

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 9 December 1988 · page 24

IT TOOK SOME burning laundry in the basement of Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem on Saturday night to alert the country, and the government, to the…

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MCTTORING Renault puts fire into 21 TXE with a turbo

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 9 December 1988 · page 28

THE RENAULT 21 Turbo has been developed in Australia by the Renault Special Vehicles division of Rod Slater’s…

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