Campus protest at UK deployment of cruise missiles

Title

Campus protest at UK deployment of cruise missiles

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech; Special

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:02:51

Description

Report on the campus protest (in Merseyside?) and disruption of a meeting organised by Conservative students with Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine on the planned deployment of US cruise missiles in Britain. Includes actuality, excerpts of Heseltine speech and interview with Mike Hobbs of the student CND group. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Michael Heseltine; Mike Hobbs

Keywords

USA; Government; UK; British; USSR; Demonstrations; Michael Heseltine; Nuclear weapons; NATO; Missiles; CND; Anti-nuclear movements; Greenham Common; Students; Universities; Military bases

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