Israel war veterans chief guest for RSL Convention
The head of Israel’s War Veterans Association, General Chaim Laskov, is to visit Australia in September as guest of the Returned Services League (RSL.)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1981
70 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4
The ever-present threat of nuclear war
None of the figures and facts below are new. But they are often forgotten. People sometimes forget the full horror…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Australia protests German war crime trial
The Australian Jewish community has voiced its protest at the light sentences handed down on nine former Nazis whose…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Despite war, Lebanon economy is "booming"
Despite almost constant upheavals over recent months, Lebanon is experiencing an economic boom with tourists flocking there by the hundreds. This contrasts with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Straight Talking with Uncle Fred The Outspoken Anzac Pickle the piccaninies!
I nearly didn’t make it in time with me words of wisdom this week. I got to the uni with a few rough notes tucked into me gladstone bag, only to find that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Filipino guerilla war moving to New strategic phase
Luis Jalandoni, the Filipino National Democratic Front's international representative, talked to Denis Freney Of Tribune when both attended the Permanent People's Tribunal session on East Timor in Lisbon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strait Talking Uncle Fred The Outspoken Anzac
This bein the extra special music issue of Theronkan, I thought it'd be a good idea to give youse the good oil on some of me favourite tunes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War The World Forgot
The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is in its 20th year. It has been a major international battle since the Soviets joined in, in 1977. This is the war the world has forgotten yet the Australian aid agency. Community Aid Abroad, says that in terms of human casualties and the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →PLO: Sinai force could be Involved in War
Majad Abu Sharar is a member of the central council of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). He represented the PLO at last month's Spanish Communist Party Congress in Madrid, where he was interviewed by Denis Freney…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ex-NATO General warns of nuclear war threat
MELBOURNE: Australia will be in the front line in a nuclear war, along with all other countries in the world, former…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Iran civil war danger grows
IRAN: The assassination of Iran's Prime Minister and President last week brought the country's crisis to a new pitch…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Straight Talking with Uncle Fred The Outspokan Anzac
Truth be told, back when I was a young scarper, a bloke’d want to be half crazy, a poofta, or better still a half crazy poofta to get a job in the media. It’s a bit like…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Memorial's new chairman
John I. Einfeld has been named chairman of the council of the NSW Jewish War Memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paper war
The Tasmanian Wilderness Society has calculated that a subscriber to a Tasmanian daily six days a week for a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Straight Talking with Uncle Fred The Outspoken Anzac
Havin’ trudged many a mile along the Kokoda trail and seen the depths to which youse average fuzzy-wuzzy could descend to, there’s not much a bastard…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Exgeneral warns of N-war danger
Italian Senator Nino Pasti has an unusual background for a peace activist. He is a former general of the Italian airforce and in 1966 became NATO's Supreme Vice-Commander in Europe for Nuclear Affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Holocaust was surely no myth for this soldier
When former British Army officer, Stan Smith visited the recent Holocaust Exhibition at the Sydney Town Hall, he was perturbed to hear people expressing disbelief about the Holocaust. He wrote in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reagan raises N-war risk
Reagan's announcement of an $18,000 million program to upgrade the US strategic nuclear forces last weekend brought very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Iran's tragic drift to civil war
With last week's deaths of leading defence chiefs in a plane crash and the shooting of hundreds of oppositionists in recent weeks, the Iranian revolution threatens more and more to break out into open civil war. The following is an edited…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Tribune War Toys & War Games But where's the enemy?
While Defence Minister Killen was announcing the purchase of 75 FA-18 fighters at a cost of $2,430 million, Australian military forces were valiantly defending our coast against attacks from "Orangeland"…
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