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The wars & local soldiers, 1988

133 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 7

OVERSEAS British war crimes panel visits USSR

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1988 · page 14

JERUSALEM: The British panel of judges investigating Nazi war criminals will travel to the Soviet Union to collect evidence to…

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An implacable fighter in the war against pain

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1988 · page 7

Professor Joseph T. (“Terry”) Davidson, head of the Department of Anesthesiology in the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centre,…

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Two soldiers killed in South Lebanon

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1988 · page 4

Post Defence Reporter Corporat Amir Siedner, one of two soldiers killed when a 50 kg. roadside bomb blew their tank apart…

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News Report Soldiers ‘exploded’ after rock attack by rioters

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1988 · page 2

The four soldiers filmed by a CBS television camera crew while beating two Arabs in Nablus and the officer responsible for them were released…

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Purim ’88: almost no Arabs or soldiers

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1988 · page 8

TEL AVIV - Shai Ben-David stood quietly on the fringe of the crowd yesterday and watched his classmates at the Dizengoff Elementary…

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Families wait for news of missing IDF soldiers

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 18 March 1988 · page 21

GALILEE: It has been more than five years since the Lebanon war ended for Israel and since then the north of Israel…

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The Arts & Entertainment a soldier’s conflicts of loyalty THEATRE

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 18 March 1988 · page 18

EHAD MISHELANU (One of Us), by Benny Barabash. Directed by Itzik Weingarten. Sets and costumes — Moshe Sternfeld. Beit Liessin, Tel…

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Central America -- does Reagan want war?

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1988 · page 5

Last week President Reagan sent over 3,000 fully-armed troops to Honduras in what is called an "emergency deployment readiness…

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Overse As Australian presents Israel with war veterans’ address

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 March 1988 · page 17

AUSTRALIAN Ivor Leiser presented an illuminated “salute to Israel” to Israeli President Chaim Herzog on behalf of more…

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News Analysis Tolstoy on war crimes and criminals

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 8 April 1988 · page 9

IT SEEMS like years ago, but it was only last November when I was in Israel during the time that Count Nikolai Tolstoy, the…

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Two soldiers jailed in burying case

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 8 April 1988 · page 2

TEL AVIV (Itim) - Two of the three IDF soldiers involved in the attempt to bury alive four West Bank Arabs in the village of Salem…

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Good Morning Vietnam The irrelevance of war

Tharunka · Monday 11 April 1988 · page 29

Popular movie genres come and go in cycles and Vietnam seems to be the latest fad. It's taken some time for the film industry to explore, with honest realism, America's involvement with that war, and the popularity of Oliver Stone's Platoon reaffirms the view that Americans are prepared to examine their mistakes. Barry…

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INTERNATIONAL Panama: another war to crown"Reagan's term

Tribune · Wednesday 13 April 1988 · page 5

With the US poised to intervene militarily in Panama to oust military ruler General Noriega, Reagan seems…

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Peace impasse ‘could lead to war'

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 15 April 1988 · page 5

By ELAINE RUTH FLETCHER IF THE PEACE process remains at an impasse and the uprising in the territories continues, Israel could be faced with a war against a…

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Enemy missiles‘can’t win a war’

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 15 April 1988 · page 5

The threat posed to Israel by ground-to-ground missiles is more psychological than practical, and Israel has a number of means of…

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Soldier jailed for Fatah meetings

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 15 April 1988 · page 4

Post Defence Reporter An IDF soldier has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for desertion and giving assistance to the enemy…

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Anzac Day

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 April 1988 · page 6

SPECIAL services will be held in synagogues this weekend to mark Anzac Day…

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Anzac Day in Sydney

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 April 1988 · page 22

THE annual Anzac Day wreathlaying at the NSW Jewish War Memorial on Monday will be attended by representatives of…

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Funds lor war crimes trials

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 April 1988 · page 3

CANBERRA: The Federal Government intends to provide more money and resources for Nazi war crimes investigations in…

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News Report Abu Jihad: ‘Father of the Holy War’

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 April 1988 · page 2

Khalil al-Wazir was a veteran of the PLO campaign against Israel. He called one of his sons “Jihad" (holy war), and was himself known…

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