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The wars & local soldiers, 1977

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No Change in Attitude Minister on Lebanon War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 January 1977 · page 3

Significant changes in Israeli policy could conceivably change a balance within Lebanon, but the situation in Lebanon will not change at the present moment as we assess it. It will certainly not change the Australian attitude, the Australian Foreign Minister, Mr Andrew Peacock said recently at a…

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LOVEJOY'S Nuclear War

Filmnews · Tuesday 1 February 1977 · page 6

On George Washington's birthday, 1974, Samuel Holden Lovejoy toppled a 500 foot steel weather tower in Montague, Massachusetts, U.S.A…

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Waldheim Fears New M. East War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 February 1977 · page 1

NEW YORK: UN Secretary General, Dr Kurt Waldheim, said he feared a new Arab-lsraeli war if no “breakthrough” is achieved this year. He was speaking on the…

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Top Soldier

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 March 1977 · page 22

Former Sydney resident, Kerry Marks, now residing in Israel was one of five girls selected for special citation out of a group of fifteen hundred girls completing their basic training in the Israeli Defence Forces…

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Anzac for Service

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 March 1977 · page 5

Mr Lindsay Joseph, who is believed to be the only Jewish surviving “Anzac,” will give the oration at the…

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Have You Given to the Press Fund Yet? Well Fed Despite War

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1977 · page 12

Food production in East Timor's liberated areas- covering over 80 per cent of the territory- has outstripped the maximum achieved under Portuguese control. Mr Alarico Fernandes, Fretilin Minister for…

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Americans support Indonesia's war

Tribune · Wednesday 20 April 1977 · page 3

American Congress members who visited Indonesia recently have openly backed…

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Indonesia Faces Long War

Tribune · Wednesday 27 April 1977 · page 11

SYDNEY: A secret intelligence report to the Australian Government describes…

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War Memorial shows profit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 April 1977 · page 5

In spite of the prevailing economic situation, the New South Wales Jewish War Memorial has again shown a profit, chairman Mr Syd Einfeld, said in his annual report…

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Canberra Anzac Day

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 1 May 1977 · page 9

A l'occasion de d'Anzac Day à Canberra S. Exc. l'ambassadeur de France M. Albert Tréca et le Président national des…

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Pour Les Francais, Un “Anzac Day” Pas Tout a Fait Comme Les Autres

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 1 May 1977 · page 1

I ES anciens combattants français d'Australie participèrent ou furent représentés à de nombreuses cérémonies dans la 2e quinzaine…

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Anzac Goin’ Down for the .....Time

Tharunka · Monday 2 May 1977 · page 8

"Australia's most potent memory" was how last Friday’s Sydney Morning Herald (22nd) described Anzac Day. Intrigued…

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Anzac Day at Moriah

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 May 1977 · page 23

A unique Anzac Day ceremony took place at the SubPrimary Department of Moriah War Memorial College last Friday. It was proceeded by a parade of the Cadet Band of the school…

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War on the campus

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 May 1977 · page 19

Jewish students had better start digging psychological bomb shelters. Our “Six-Day Wars” on the…

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Threshing Floor ’ Wounded Healers’

Tharunka · Monday 9 May 1977 · page 5

Not uncommonly there is a sense of malaise ,bitterness being out-of-touch that operates in us. It might be a surface…

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New War Threat

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 May 1977 · page 8

LONDON: Prospects for Middle East peace dimmed ominously last week with President Assad’s statement to British journalists in Damascus that, if there was no Geneva conference, no return of Arab territories and no “home” for…

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Uk Preferred War on Jews Rather Than Fight Arabs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 June 1977 · page 7

LONDON: If was on the advice of the military in the summer of 1946 that the Attlee Cabinet decided that it was better to fight the Jews rather than the Arabs. This was a decision taken…

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War Again!

Tharunka · Monday 6 June 1977 · page 15

From Our Drunken War Correspondent. The eight month old war with the Hutt River Province erupted again with renewed fighting on three fronts…

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Threats follow smoking ‘war’

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 7 June 1977 · page 3

A GREYSTANES man who has been waging a one-man battle to enforce the State Government’s ban on smoking in private buses claims he is receiving threatening telephone…

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Plo Gets Own Way in Talks on War Conduct at Geneva

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 June 1977 · page 9

GENEVA: The 100-nation conference here conduct rules voted to apply new provisions to in which peoples are fighting against colonial alien occupation and against racist regimes.”…

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