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The wars & local soldiers, 1972

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Nsw Association of Jewish Ex-servicemen & Women Editorial After Anzac

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 May 1972 · page 10

Anzac Day has come and gone. The drums have been beaten and the colors flown. Many have marched and much beer has been consumed after the march. This is the traditional celebration of Anzac which we all knout, so well…

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Goulburn's Anzac Day

Tribune · Tuesday 9 May 1972 · page 11

GOULBURN (NSW): Students at Goulburn High School boycotted Anzac Day ceremonies on April 24 at the school because of the militaristic nature of the…

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Wollongong stop on war

Tribune · Tuesday 9 May 1972 · page 11

WOLLONGONG: Waterside workers stopped work for half a day on April 21. to march against the US aggression in Indochina and against conscription…

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Interrogation & Indoctrination of Prisoners of War

Tharunka · Tuesday 9 May 1972 · page 9

The following article was written by J. Gerstel from the School of Textile Technology, UNSW. As a rule the German “Abwehr” or…

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Vietnam: Stop Nixon's World Atom War Gamble!

Tribune · Tuesday 9 May 1972 · page 1

Nixon, the leader of United States militarism and imperialism, has by deliberate choice today (Tuesday) thrust the whole of humanity to the brink--perhaps beyond the…

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Anzac Day in Israel

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 May 1972 · page 1

The men who laid wreaths at the Anzec Memorial in Israel were Dr W. S. Matsdorf, on behalf of the Australian Federation of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women; Mr S. Z. Laor, representing the Israel Government; Col L. Kleet, Israel War Veterans' League leader;…

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Anti-war Raid on 'Change

Tribune · Tuesday 16 May 1972 · page 12

BRISBANE: A daring raid on the Brisbane Stock Exchange was carried out on Monday by eight anti-war activists who threw animal blood on the blackboards and handed out a leaflet. All…

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Anti-war Movement

Tribune · Tuesday 23 May 1972 · page 3

SYDNEY: An interstate consultation of representatives of the main active organisations of the Australian anti-war movement on Sunday adopted…

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The '67 war

Tribune · Tuesday 23 May 1972 · page 2

The Israeli Government claims it started the shooting in 1967 because Israel's existence was in danger. Most of the socialist left contested this claim…

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Anti-war unity

Tribune · Tuesday 23 May 1972 · page 2

Saturday May 13 saw an example of united front work by CPA Footscray branch members around anti-war meetings held in the streets of Footscray,…

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Anti-war Action Review

Tribune · Tuesday 23 May 1972 · page 10

The new wave of mass anti-war activity in Australia in the past two weeks, against Nixon's escalation of the Indochina war, was an impressive response, unprecedented…

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War heroes honored in Bulgaria

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 May 1972 · page 16

SOFIA: A biography of Itso Samouilov, also known as Emil Shekerdjiisky, a Bulgarian-Jewish Second World War…

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Vietnam: The war in South & North South Vietnam Uprisings in the villages

Tribune · Tuesday 30 May 1972 · page 9

The US radical weekly, The Militant, of May 12 carried an interview given to a number of Americans in Paris by Mr. Nguyen Van Hen,…

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Forum Club Hears About Vietnam War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 June 1972 · page 19

Members of the Forum Club were addressed at their monthly meeting last week on the current Vietnam situation by a Jewish graduate who recently visited the conflict area…

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Set of U.S. slides of war

Tribune · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 11

MELBOURNE: A set of projector slides entitled "The Automated War" has been obtained by the Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament…

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War Crime of a Machine and Accomplice

Tharunka · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 4

And so we stand together You and I grey machine — like some improbable alliance of separate ideological Super powers…

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World War. 2 Egyptian President Was German Secret Agent Sadat's Hatred Comes From His Nazi Days

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 June 1972 · page 11

Anwar Al Sadat has in the past months in Arab capitals in the Middle East, made a…

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US unions act against Nixon's war

Tribune · Tuesday 8 August 1972 · page 9

ST. LOUIS (USA): Twelve hundred delegates and observers attended the recent founding conference of Labor for peace. The meeting called for an…

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James’ Bit of History When a game became a war

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 8 August 1972 · page 3

Young James Turner of Merrylands reckons he may have uncovered an important piece of Holroyd’s early history…

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Radio and Television. Soma’s Skull and a Family at War

Tharunka · Tuesday 8 August 1972 · page 14

Most of us have an equivocal relationship with our televisions. The Beast of a Million Eyes can entertain and inform and yet addict and distract…

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