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The wars & local soldiers, 1986

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1973—The Yom Kippur War

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

YU’s Israeli students made the transition from “books to boots” within 48 hours. As reservists returning to active duty, they were the first to leave for home. Their…

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1948—The War of Independence

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

The Annual Moshe Pearlstein Memorial Lecture at Hebrew University in Jerusalem memorializes a Yeshiva College alumnus, the first American to die in the…

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1967—The Six-Day War

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

In the grave days immediately preceding the war itself, the scores of YU students and alumni then in Israel on work/study programs or vacations refused to heed the…

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‘Syria’s increasing threat of war in Middle East’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 July 1986 · page 4

The withdrawal of most of its forces from Lebanon has enhanced Syria’s freedom of action and so somewhat increased the risk of war…

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NICARAGUA Contra war set to escalate

Tribune · Wednesday 23 July 1986 · page 6

Nicaragua celebrated the seventh anniversary of its revolution on July 19, amid expectations that the war…

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Middle East War and economic downturn bleed Iraq

Tribune · Wednesday 23 July 1986 · page 6

Iraq's war with Iran is continuing to bleed it severely, while it faces internal strife with its Kurdish…

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Malcolm Salmon-- part of the great anti- Viet Nam war movement As we reported last week, former Tribune journalist Malcolm Salmon died on July H. As our tribute to Malcolm we reprint here slightly edited versions of the memorial Speeches by former Tribune journalists Pete Thomas and Dave Davies

Tribune · Wednesday 23 July 1986 · page 12

I was associated closely with Malcolm for only about 10 years in the 1960s-- I say "only" because his life was so rich…

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Culture First World War Poetry

Tharunka · Tuesday 29 July 1986 · page 28

Ed. Jon Silkin Penguin, ISBN 0-14-008032-5 R.R.P. $6.95…

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The Dibb Report and the war machine

Tribune · Wednesday 30 July 1986 · page 8

Soon after Paul Dibb released his report on Australia's defence, top bureaucrats in Canberra were telling journalists, off the record, that…

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Punishing War Criminals

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 July 1986 · page 23

To the Editor of The Jerusalem Post Sir, - UJA’s man in Israel and former Israel Consul-General in New York, Naftali Lavie, like my…

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War criminal’s family visits him in prison

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 July 1986 · page 6

The family of suspected war criminal John Demjanjuk visited him last week, after being turned away at first when they arrived unannounced…

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War Movie

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 August 1986 · page 20

Channel 7 will screen a movie based on the actual attempts made by people of the Italian city of Assisi to…

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Soldier dies in Lebanon

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 August 1986 · page 4

An Israeli soldier, First Sergeant Arye Tubol, 20, of Beersheba, was killed in Southern Lebanon Thursday morning…

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YOUTH Media beats up "race war" among Sydney youth

Tribune · Wednesday 20 August 1986 · page 12

Recently, the media has made a lot of two clashes between Vietnamese and Lebanese youths in Sydney, one…

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Swedish Help in World War Ii

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 August 1986 · page 23

To the Editor of The Jerusalem Post Sir, In a recent Public Faces column, Mark Segal accuses Sweden of allowing the Wehrmacht to invade…

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IDF soldier Soiled in Lebanon

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 September 1986 · page 1

Jerusalem Post Staff Sergeant Yoav Sakel, 20, of Rehovot was killed when an IDF force launched what was described by the…

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Warning on War Criminals

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 September 1986 · page 6

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies was cautioned against expecting too much from…

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ME in war episode TELEVISION

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 September 1986 · page 24

The 1900 years between the sacking of Masada and the Holocaust taught the Jewish…

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Spanish war vets gather

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 October 1986 · page 8

TEL AVIV. - Sixty Spanish Civil War veterans living in Israel are to join representatives of the International Brigades from 15 other…

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Two Israelis get UN soldier’s kidneys

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 October 1986 · page 6

HAIFA. - Two Israeli women, one Jewish and one Arab, received kidney transplants from a French Unifil soldier who died at Rambam…

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