Korean Airlines atrocity and arms control proposal

Title

Korean Airlines atrocity and arms control proposal

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

26 Sep 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:04:05

Description

Report on US President Ronald Reagan’s new arms control proposal to the USSR to be unveiled at the UN General Assembly, with excerpt from radio broadcast to US and Soviet people by Reagan on the proposal and Soviet shooting down of Korean Airlines plane. Also reports on a US ABC television interview with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with excerpt on the Korean Airlines atrocity. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Ronald Reagan; ABC

Keywords

USA; USSR; UN; Homicide; Aeroplanes; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear disarmament; Civil aircraft; Korea; Air defence; East West relations; Andrei Gromyko

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