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  1. Communist rule in USSR ends as Gorbachev resigns (1991)

    Genre
    News bulletin; News report; Speech

    IRN 7.00am news bulletin (25/08/91) read by Philip Cottrell, which focuses on the end of communist rule in the Soviet Union after more than seven decades. Mikhail Gorbachev has resigned as party leader and...

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  2. Muslim fundamentalists found guilty of World Trade Center bombing (1994)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Press conference

    Four Muslim fundamentalists have been found guilty of detonating a bomb beneath the World Trade Center in New York, killing six people. FBI Chief in New York, William Gavin expresses his satisfaction, as...

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  3. Race riots in Brooklyn, NY (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Discussion

    Paul Woodley reports from New York on racial tension between Black and Jewish groups in the Crown Heights area in Brooklyn, with dozens of arrests and injuries as police and civilians came under attack from...

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  4. Apollo 11 anniversary (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Paul Woodley reports on the twentieth anniversary celebrations of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 and the USA’s future plans to return to space. Includes excerpts from speeches given by the Apollo 11...

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  5. UN calls for Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon (1992)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Paul Woodley reports from New York where the United Nations is calling on Israel to withdraw its forces immediately from southern Lebanon where it has been attacking Hezbollah rocket bases. Two Israeli...

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  6. CIA double agent Aldrich Ames arrested (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    CIA agent Aldrich Ames was in charge of the counter intelligence unit targeting the Soviet Union but now he and his Columbian born wife Maria del Rosario have been arrested and charged with passing...

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  7. UN Security Council postpones peace conference (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    The United Nations Security Council has postponed a vote on a proposed international peace conference to tackle the Arab-Israeli dispute over the occupied territories. Dr Mohammad T. Mehdi, spokesman for the...

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  8. US hostage William Higgins reported dead (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference; Speech

    Paul Woodley reports from the United States on reaction to claims abducted American Marine, Lieutenant-Colonel William R. Higgins, has been murdered. Since his kidnapping in Lebanon on 17/02/88 there have...

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  9. Major and Clinton meeting (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    UK Prime Minister John Major and US President Bill Clinton have met in Pittsburgh to discuss Northern Ireland, Russia and the Bosnian war. NATO planes acting on behalf of the UN have shot down Bosnian-Serb...

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  10. NATO lifts air strike threat against Serbs at Sarajevo (1994)

    Genre
    Interview; Speech; News report

    NATO’s threat of an air strike against Serbian forces has been lifted after Serbian troops removed heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. With reaction from Britain’s ambassador to the UN Sir David Hannay;...

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