USA-USSR summit

Title

USA-USSR summit

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

31 May 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:01:19

Description

John Alcock reports on the Moscow superpower summit resulting in 2 agreements on nuclear weapons and on Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev touring the Kremlin together and on a speech by US President Ronald Reagan to the Soviet Writers Union in Moscow. Reagan speaks about his hopes to see ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich perform again in Moscow, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn books’ published in Russia and an end to restrictions on artists and writers.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan; John Alcock

Keywords

USA; Human rights; Writers; USSR; International relations; Freedom of expression; Artists; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; Summits (meetings); Nuclear testing; Moscow; Mikhail Gorbachev; East West relations; Mikhail Baryshnikov; Mstislav Rostropovich; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Artistic creation

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