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The wars & local soldiers, 1990

110 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 6

High Court orders army to courtmartial colonel who gave illegal orders to soldiers fighting intifada ‘Break bones’ officer to face trial; wife blames Rabin

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 January 1990 · page 5

The wives of high-ranking IDF officers called on Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week to accept responsibility for illegal orders he…

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Britain considers war crimes trials

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 12 January 1990 · page 6

A COMMITTEE of cabinet ministers, headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is to consider changes in the law to allow…

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Australian artists at war

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 26 January 1990 · page 23

“FELLOW Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that in consequence of the persistence of Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great…

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War crimes: the timetable

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 February 1990 · page 33

AUSTRALIAN action to bring war criminals to justice arose from allegations in April and May 1986 on ABC radio and…

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War crimes: three more cases at advanced stage

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 February 1990 · page 3

AUSTRALIA’S first Holocaust war crimes prosecution has begun and at least three other cases are at a very advanced stage of…

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The Indo-Chlna war - when will it end?

Tribune · Wednesday 7 February 1990 · page 6

By the end of the 1970s it had become clear that the decades-old conflict in Indo China was far from over…

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FEATURES Anger and love in wood An East German bookkeeper, a Wehrmacht soldier in World War II, has put the agony which he feels about what his people did to the Jews into figures carved in wood. Salomea Genin

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 9 February 1990 · page 9

HE LOOKED, to me like a typical “Aryan” who, were we not sitting in the protection of my living room, would have filled me with a mixture…

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The sword and the sickle ‘The beauty of Nahal is that it combines the sword and the sickle, settling the land and defending it.’ This special army branch is now marking 40 years of soldiering and pioneering. Daniel Gavron reports

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 9 February 1990 · page 8

HIGH UP ON the wind-swept Samaria ridge overlooking the Jordan Rift is the he'ahzut (outpost) of Hemdat, manned and guarded by an…

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War crimes charges and the media Media Watch

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 February 1990 · page 33

The Australia Day arrest of the first person in Australia to be charged under the amended War Crimes Act was [?]idely reported in the Australian media…

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Welcome Home Mandela!

Tribune · Wednesday 21 February 1990 · page 1

Last Saturday more than two thousand people turned out to march through Sydney's streets and celebrate the release of Nelson Mandela. In brilliant sunshine they paraded from the Town Hall to the…

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ARTS & LEISURE War and beyond

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 February 1990 · page 27

Beginning on ABC television this weekend is a new 10-part series by Frederic Raphael looking at the lives and loves of two Jewish men. AFTER THE War — a series of 10…

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Ernie Meyer hears about attempts to bring to justice a war criminal sheltered by Syria The last quarry of the Nazi hubnter

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 March 1990 · page 9

[?]ST GERMANY may well be the next [?]untry to ask Syria to extradite the last major Nazi war criminal to remain at liberty, lois Brunner. And if East Berlin does…

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War Stories

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 9 March 1990 · page 31

WELDON Publications on the north shore is compiling a book on how individual Australians coped at home during World War II…

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Canadian media supportive of war crimes trial EXCLUSIVE

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 March 1990 · page 13

THE CANADIAN media is providing “fair and supportive coverage” of that country’s first war crimes trial and there has not…

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The Canadian Jewish news 60 Pages Thuredav November 30, 1989 Kislev 2, 5750 60 Second Class Mail Registration Number 1683 - Postage Paid at Toronto Finta charged with war crimes in trial that could last months

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 March 1990 · page 13

TORONTO Former Hungarian [?]lice captain Imre Finta [?] responsible for…

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Soldiers beat photographer; IDF apologizes, investigates

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 30 March 1990 · page 3

Soldiers punched and kicked a photographer for the Reuter news agency last week, after he took pictures of them arresting young…

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Australia -- frozen in Cold War policy

Tribune · Wednesday 4 April 1990 · page 6

The real problem is not nuclear weapons but war and the international system that produces war. The institution…

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BUSINESS & FINANCE Food giants fighting ‘wafer war’

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 6 April 1990 · page 11
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TEL AVIV - Some call it "Water Wars,” others prefer the term “Strategic Dessert Initiative.” Either way, millions of dollars are…

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War history lectures at Great

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 April 1990 · page 7

JEWISH WAR veteran and historian Jack Epstein will discuss Australian Jewish military history at the Great Synagogue this month. Organised by the Australian Jewish Historical…

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