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  1. Gareth Furby reports on Romanian revolution (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    As many as four thousand people may have been killed in Romania since the weekend, when demonstrations began against the twenty-four -year-old regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. Gareth Furby reports from the...

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  2. Moscow Communist Party conference (1988)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes the Communist Party conference in Moscow will accept changes to make perestroika unstoppable (excerpt of speech- through interpreter?). John Alcock reports on whether...

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  3. Hiroshima bombing 50th anniversary (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Special

    Alistair McGhie reports on the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US Air Force. Includes archive recordings of the dropping of the bomb and...

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  4. Closing of the Moscow summit (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    End of the superpower summit in Moscow which has had little concrete outcomes as a START treaty on nuclear weapons was not concluded. US President Ronald Reagan sums up the achievements in a speech to press....

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  5. Mikhail Gorbachev resignation speech (1991)

    Genre
    Speech

    Almost the entirety of President Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation speech, with the voice of an interpreter, as the Soviet Union breaks up and is replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States. Gorbachev...

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  6. American missile attacks on Iraq (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report on the UN Security Council meeting on US missile attacks on the Iraqi intelligence service headquarters in Baghdad in retaliation to a possible assassination attempt on former President George H W...

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  7. Major and Yeltsin meet in London (1992)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference; Speech

    UK Prime Minister John Major on Britain’s relationship with Russia, after meeting Russian President Boris Yeltsin in London and signing a declaration entitled Partnership in the 90s. Yeltsin, speaking...

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  8. Visit to London of Japanese Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Kevin Murphy reports on the news conference given by Japanese Foreign Minister, Sosuke Uno during his visit to London. Speaking through an interpreter, Uno defends Emperor Hirohito for failing to prevent the...

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  9. Anglo-French summit (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    The mini-summit of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris ended with both deeming it very successful. Topics discussed included NATO, Channel Tunnel, EEC,...

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  10. UN 50th anniversary (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    North America correspondent Simon Marks reports on the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the United Nations, with ceremonies at the UN headquarters New York involving over 180 world leaders. Includes...

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