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The wars & local soldiers, 1990

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Comedy, tragedy at RSL club THEATRE Clay Soldiers by Manuel Aston Directed by Peter Snow Stables Theatre, Kings Cross

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 July 1990 · page 32

MANUEL ASTON’S new play, largely about small-time show business characters in tragi-comic slices of RSL club life in some NSW country…

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The House of Lords War Crimes decision a Blow to British Justice The House of Lords in London has rejected the War Crimes Bill tabled by the British Government. As the Government ponders its next move, London barrister Dr Michael Arnheim argues why the Lords were wrong

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 July 1990 · page 20

IN REJECTING the Government’s War Crimes Bill by a majority of 133, the House of Lords has inadvertently given…

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Author of war crimes book to launch Jewish studies confab

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 July 1990 · page 4

MARK Aarons, author of Sanctuary — Nazi Fugitives in Australia, will give the opening address of a Jewish Studies conference at…

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Outlook The swastika under the Southern Cross Forum Editorial Opinion Judaism Walt Secord reports on a forthcoming book by a Sydney historian which reveals the plans Nazi Germany had for Australia in World War ll

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 July 1990 · page 25

A THIRD REICH in Tasmania or South Australia for German Australians were considered as options by…

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War Memorial ‘on good financial footing’

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 July 1990 · page 7

THE NSW Jewish War Memorial is now on a sound financial footing, which has provided the opportunity to refurbish the…

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Stop Press Bid to Screen War Crimes Trial

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 July 1990 · page 2

AN ADELAIDE television station’s request to have television cameras at the preliminary hearing of Australia’s first Nazi war crimes prosecution will be rejected…

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Is the US ending its war in Cambodia?

Tribune · Wednesday 25 July 1990 · page 6

On June 14, Thailand's Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan visited Washington and met with US President George…

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Will Demjanjuk hang? The Jerusalem Post’s Ernie Meyer looks at the options open to the Israeli Supreme Court, which recently concluded its hearings on convicted war criminal John Demjanjuk against his death sentence

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 July 1990 · page 20

JOHN DEMJANJUK’s life is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. A. bench of five justices recently ended…

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New realities in Washington The end of the Cold War has greatly reduced the importance of the Middle East as an arena of superpower rivalry, with profound implications for Israel-American relations. Two prominent analysts Book at the effect this could have on future Israeli foreign policy

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 July 1990 · page 18

THE United States-Israel policy, as it emerged even before the proclamation of the State, was…

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War crimes and the media

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 August 1990 · page 26

THE SHOOTING of the first man to be accused of war crimes in Australia on the eve of his appearance in court has vividly highlighted and even revived the ongoing…

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August release for war crimes film

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 August 1990 · page 5

AN AUSTRALIAN-made film about a Melbourne man accused of being a Nazi war criminal will be released in Sydney and…

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Major delays in war crimes prosecution after suspect shot

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 August 1990 · page 3

AUSTRALIA’S first Nazi war crimes hearing may now be delayed for weeks, if not months, following the shooting of the…

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The Holocaust, war crimes and an obscene analogy Media Watch

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 August 1990 · page 27

SHORTLY after the allegations came to light in 1986 that Nazi murderers had found in Australia a sanctuary, Neal Sher, the director of the United States’…

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Editorial Iraq's war machine OPINION

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 August 1990 · page 30

WHAT WILL the rampaging Iraqi dictator do next? In Damascus another hardline…

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War crimes trials not Israel ploy

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 August 1990 · page 8

WAR CRIMES had never been discussed between Australian Jewish leaders and Israel government ministers nor were they part…

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War and Pus The Task Force

Tharunka · Monday 13 August 1990 · page 3

War is a nasty thing. Pimples are nasty things too, but they very rarely kill people, war dors. Not only is war nasty because it kills people, it also wastes time and money and destroys the environment. If war was a microwave oven, it would leak insidiously—irradiating food and the family pet, ooze noxious gases then suddenly blow up one day when the local vicar has dropped in for tea. Needless to say, if war was a microwave oven it would have to be…

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Kuwait Crisis: Nuke War Threats

Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1990 · page 1

"In war, truth is the first casualty," Gallipot! veteran Ernie Guest told ABC radio last Monday, as three Australian warships sailed out of Sydney harbor on their way to do…

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Adelaide war crimes suspect may never stand trial

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 August 1990 · page 3

ANOTHER murder charge has been added to the 24 murder counts against alleged war criminal Ivan Polyukhovich, but he…

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War crimes hearing details released

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 August 1990 · page 4

NEW information tendered in the Ivan Polyukhovich war crimes case, names five of the Jews he is charged with murdering in the…

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America's Jewish soldiers

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 August 1990 · page 15

DESPITE Saudi Arabia’s official policy of refusing entry to Jews, the Pentagon says Jewish,…

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