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The wars & local soldiers, 1968

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100,000 claimed for London anti-war march

Tribune · Wednesday 6 November 1968 · page 3

THE LONDON Morning Star reports that more than 100,000 people marched through London on Sunday, October 27 in Britain's biggest ever demonstration against the Vietnam war. Estimates published in the…

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P.m. Asked Why Secrecy on Germ War

Tribune · Wednesday 6 November 1968 · page 3

SYDNEY: A challenge to Prime Minister Gorton's sincerity in claiming that biological (chemical and germ) warfare research now proceeding in Australia is "defensive" was made last week by a New England University…

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Lynch and Westy look at the war with hawks' eyes

Tribune · Wednesday 6 November 1968 · page 9

Tribune's Foreign Editor discusses the prevalence of hard-line attitude in certain official U.S. and Australian circles as the prospect of peace in Vietnam grows larger…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 November 1968 · page 12

Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9 a.m. New Members: Contact the…

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Holroyd hearsay Death of old soldier

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 12 November 1968 · page 8

Mr. Matthew Lipscombe, a well-known resident of Osgood Street. Guildford, and an…

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A bloody awful war Diggers' reward: humbug & hunger

Tribune · Wednesday 13 November 1968 · page 6

"THE Australian soldiers are entitled to, and shall receive, not only the thanks of a grateful people, but that treatment which their great services deserve."…

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NLF appeals for world support U.S. Plans Mean Real Danger of Long War

Tribune · Wednesday 13 November 1968 · page 1

PRESENT intentions of the United States and Australian governments appear to mean that Australian regular and conscript troops will still be killing Vietnamese and being killed, one year and even two years from now. That is the challenge facing the Australian people -- despite the stop to the bombing of the North by President…

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Two young men who won't be in it today "I Won't Do Anything to Help Aggression" "I Won't Be Part of an Unjust War"

Tribune · Wednesday 13 November 1968 · page 6

WHAT could the army contribute to the 'making of a man' out of Laurie Carmichael, aged 20, of West…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 November 1968 · page 12

Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9 a.m. New Members: Contact the…

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Senator's speech in McCarthyist tradition Attack on Abc Spikes Dlp What did YOU do in the war, Sen. Little?

Tribune · Wednesday 20 November 1968 · page 1

SENATOR J. A. Little (Vic.), of the Democratic Labor Party, last week delivered a bitter attack on the ABC's This Day Tonight TV show for having interviewed, on November 5, Tribune Foreign Editor Malcolm Salmon…

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Gala concert marks establishment of Anzac memorial Forest

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 November 1968 · page 1

A glittering gala concert at the Sydney Town Hall last Sunday marked the establishment of the…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 November 1968 · page 12

Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9, a.m. New Members: Contact the…

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President-elect was in Israel just after war

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 November 1968 · page 9

President-elect Nixon was in Israel on a two-day visit a fortnight after the Six-Day War. On his arrival on June 21 he was reported as saying…

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Anzac Forest Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 November 1968 · page 8

The feeling of a gala occasion had a twofold source at the concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 November 1968 · page 12

Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Barmitzvah: OTTO HOOLHORST, Dec. 7…

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Sephardi Synagogue Gets War Memorial

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 December 1968 · page 2

"The building, adjoining the Sephardi Synagogue, where Sunday School is conducted for the children of the congregation, has been accepted as a War Memorial,” president of the Sephardi Synagogue…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 December 1968 · page 12

Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Barmitzvah: OTTO HOOLHOURST, Dec. 7…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 December 1968 · page 12

Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Chanukah Service: Sun., Dec. 15, 7 p.m. Children especially invited…

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“Popular War”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 December 1968 · page 1

BEIRUT. The Arabs not only want to regain the territory lost to Israel in the Six-Day War, but also to…

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Four Days of War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 December 1968 · page 4

Amid heavy artillery battles, Israeli commandos, gunners and planes were involved in Israel’s most widespread…

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