Moscow superpower summit

Title

Moscow superpower summit

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

31 May 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:24

Description

John Alcock reports on the superpower summit in Moscow. On agreements on nuclear weapons- interview with negotiator Georgi Abartov on significance; Reagan’s calls for better human rights including excerpt of his speech to the Soviet Writers Union; concerns for the elderly Reagan’s health; tour of the Kremlin by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan; John Alcock; Georgi Abartov

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; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Artistic creation

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