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  1. Freed Kuwait Airways hostage speaks (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    One of the hostages released before a hijacked jumbo jet took off from Larnaca Airport in Cyprus was Hilaw Fareed(?), a steward for Kuwait Airways. Reporter Nick Steens spoke to Mr Fareed in hospital...

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  2. Control tower message to hijacked Kuwaiti airliner crew (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Special

    Linda Duffin reports from Larnaca Airport, Cyprus, as hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 422 takes off for Algiers. Includes a message sent by the Larnaca control tower to the plane’s crew.

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  3. Western hostages return from Kuwait telling of atrocities (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Simon Bowden reports from Gatwick Airport on the return of 400 Western hostages including 26 Britons from Kuwait on an Iraqi airliner following the invasion by Iraqi forces. Stories have emerged of innocent...

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  4. Kuwait Airways hostages return home (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    After their 16-day ordeal at the hands of terrorist hijackers, the 29 freed hostages returned to Kuwait last night amid noisy scenes and joyful reunions. Reporter Michael O’Neill was at Kuwait Airport...

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  5. Western hostages from Kuwait tell of atrocities (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    James Matthews reports from Baghdad where a handful of British women and children have arrived on their way home to the UK following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops. The former hostages say Iraqi...

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  6. Press conference with British escapee from Kuwait (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Medical technician Peter Bunting from Nottingham, one of the last workers to flee Iraq-occupied Kuwait, talks about finding a route across the desert to the Saudi border. Interview (by unidentified female,...

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  7. Kuwaiti Government refuses to give in to hijackers (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    The Kuwaiti Government is refusing to give in to hijackers who are still holding one of its jumbo jets at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus despite the murder of a second passenger after requests to have the...

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  8. Control tower message to hijacked Kuwaiti airliner crew (1988)

    Genre
    Speech

    Before taking off from Larnaca, Cyprus, for Algiers, the hijackers of the Kuwait Airways Flight 422 allowed twelve hostages to go free. Once the plane was airbourne, the control tower at Larnaca sent...

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  9. Iraq hostage on captivity and release (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    38 sick and elderly hostages have been re-united with their families after flying home from Baghdad following negotiations by former Prime Minister Edward Heath. 200 Britons had been held since the...

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  10. Gulf crisis refugees return to UK (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    The Virgin plane Scarlet Lady returns to Britain from Amman, Jordan with almost 100 Western refugees from the Gulf crisis, Peter Stuart reports from Gatwick Airport. Includes interview with Virgin Chairman,...

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