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The wars & local soldiers, 1986

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No sign Syria planning attack Israel seeks end to talk of war

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 May 1986 · page 1

Jerusalem Post Staff Israel has asked the U.S. to reassure Syria that it has no military intentions against Damascus…

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Anzac Parade 1986 Melbourne

Dutch Australian Weekly · Monday 19 May 1986 · page 13

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Sunday, May 11, 1986 War talk

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1986 · page 28

SUDDENLY last week, without much warning, the public channels of communication, here and abroad, were…

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Rabin: no cause to start a war

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1986 · page 1

Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the Labour Party national convention in Tel Aviv last week that Israel has no intention of going to…

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“No basis” for Israel war scare says Dinitz

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1986 · page 3

Newspaper headlines predicting an imminent” Israeli attack on Syria are part of a Syrian-inspired, politically motivated plot, and have no real basis, visiting Israeli…

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10,000 war criminals living in U.S.

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 May 1986 · page 7

The U.S. is today one of the chief sanctuaries of Nazi war criminals. The suspects number not in the hundreds, but in the thousands and it…

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‘I have always told the truth’ on role in war

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 May 1986 · page 2

VIENNA. - I very much regret the accusation made by Israeli Minister of Justice Yitzhak Moda’i. This is a plain repetition of all previous unbased, groundless allegations,” said Dr. Kurt Waldheim in a telephone interview Friday with The Jerusalem Post…

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Air gunners’ war stories now in book

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 June 1986 · page 19

A World War II memoir of the RAAF Wireless Air Gunners (Wags) has been…

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Rabin: No details on abducted soldiers

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 June 1986 · page 4

Jerusalem Post Reporter KIRYAT SHMONA. - Defence Minister Rabin said last week he has contradictory information on the…

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East Timor Fretilin demoralises Indonesian soldiers

Tribune · Wednesday 18 June 1986 · page 6

Recent reports from Fretilin forces inside East Timor show that demoralisation is widespread…

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Naor book on Begin cabinet during war

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 June 1986 · page 3

A book that reveals new facts about how the Begin government functioned during the Lebanon War went on sale last weekend. Written…

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Urbanchich-war crim or collaborator?

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1986 · page 8

The only dispute concerning prominent NSW Liberal Party member Lyenko Urbanchich is whether he should be seen as a war…

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Hurford dodges on nazi war criminals

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1986 · page 8

On April 22, Spremnost, the rightwing Ustasha weekly, I published a message of greetings from Immigration Minister…

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War criminals in Australia -- the evidence

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1986 · page 9

The ABC radio series Nazis in Australia and a speech by NSW Housing Minister, Frank Walker on April 16, have drawn an angry, indignant reaction…

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Workers Rights Meatworkers "fighting a political war"

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1986 · page 4

SYDNEY: Meatworkers in NSW went on strike last week against attempts by employers to reduce wages…

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Poster War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1986 · page 35

To the Editor of The Jerusalem Post Sir, - Concerned, as many people are, about the vandalism in bus shelters, I note with alarm the…

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Aussie war records for Israeli museum

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1986 · page 10

The Israeli Ministry of Defence has appealed to the Australian Jewish community for help in its search for war memorabilia. Jack Epstein, a Sydney…

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Sri Lanka Brutal war in Sri Lanka

Tribune · Wednesday 9 July 1986 · page 6

Sri Lanka's civil war involves atrocities and human rights abuses on "a scale which reflect the bitterness…

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Winter Reading Spanish Civil War -- fifty years on

Tribune · Wednesday 16 July 1986 · page 15

The 1930s was the decade of the Great Depression. It was also the decade of the rapid spread of Fascism, that monstrous political system…

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1974—The War of Attrition

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 July 1986 · page 18

One olah has a special place in the ranks of the heroes of Israel and in the heart of the Yeshiva University family. An outstanding graduate of Yeshiva…

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