Reagan calls for human rights for Soviets

Title

Reagan calls for human rights for Soviets

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

30 May 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:30

Description

US President Ronald Reagan reinforces his campaign for greater human rights for Soviet citizens during the Moscow superpower summit, John Alcock reports. Includes excerpts of speeches by Reagan at Danilov Monastery on religious freedom and in Moscow to a group of dissidents on changes so far but need for greater freedom to emigrate and practice religion and to comply with the Helsinki accords agreed in 1975.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan; John Alcock

Keywords

USA; USSR; Jews; Political reform; Civil and political rights; Religious discrimination; Ronald Reagan; Summits (meetings); Emigration; Political dissenters; Moscow; Mikhail Gorbachev; Glasnost; Helsinki

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