Attempted Soviet coup collapses
- Title
- Attempted Soviet coup collapses
- Genre
- Interview; Speech; News bulletin
- TX Date
- 22 Aug 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:03:13
- Description
- IRN 06.00 news read by Douglas Cameron focusing on the collapse of the attempted Soviet coup. With Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speech on victory through an interpreter; comment from Soviet political analyst Joe Adamov and Dr Julian Cooper, Soviet expert from Birmingham University on possible trial for treason of coup leaders. Also on murder of Julie Dart; return of abducted toddler Vida Fenton, found in America with her father; Fortune magazine survey of richest people.
- Contributors
- Douglas Cameron; Mikhail Gorbachev; Joe Adamov; Julian Cooper
- Keywords
- USA; Revolutions; Politics; Government; USSR; Homicide; Children (age group); Children (family); Periodicals; Presidents; Wealth; Political leaders; Treason; Moscow; Abduction; Boris Yeltsin; Mikhail Gorbachev; Philadelphia; Crimea; Fortune (periodical); Vida Fenton; Trials (reason); Julie Dart
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