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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1962

7 stories in Sydney's papers

Young Hungarians trained by USA to kill and wreck

Tribune · Wednesday 3 January 1962 · page 7

BUDAPEST: Young Hungarians who said they had escaped from special American military camps described at a press conference here on December 21 how they were trained for espionage, murder, sabotage and other acts of war against their own people…

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Shipwrecked, but he will go again!

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 17 January 1962 · page 1

A Parramatta man, who was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast…

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Berlin Wall Blocks Spy, Wrecker Gangs

Tribune · Wednesday 17 January 1962 · page 5

MOSCOW: The German Democratic Republic decision last August to erect a wall along its West Berlin border and impose strict control on border crossings will go down in contemporary history as a peace move of prime importance…

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Sydney Life and Times Shipwrecked play

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 February 1962 · page 8

The Elizabethan Theatre Trust’s new season of rep. plays which started so auspiciously with “The Naked Island” in the second of its series suffered a kind of shipwreck itself…

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Newcastle unions expose NCC unity wreckers

Tribune · Wednesday 6 June 1962 · page 11

Twenty-five unions affiliated to the Newcastle Trades Hall Council, in a half page of the Newcastle Morning Herald (Tuesday, May 29), headed--"What is Santamaria's National Civic Council," make an urgent call on unions to…

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Vandals Wreck School Gardens

The Biz · Wednesday 13 June 1962 · page 3

Vandals have again done extensive damage to the children's gardens at Conley Heights Public School with the result gardening as a project has had to be discontinued…

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West German Govt. campaign to wreck GDR economy

Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1962 · page 5

Here in Australia at is very difficult to appreciate to what length the West German Government has fane to damage the German Democratic Republic. SOME of the facts I heard…

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