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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