1980s news clips - Libyan embassy siege ends
- Title
- 1980s news clips - Libyan embassy siege ends
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech; Special
- TX Date
- Apr 1987
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:01:58
- Description
- Antonia Higgs reports on the end of the siege at the Libyan People’s Bureau in London. Includes gunfire and crowd noise and statement by Home Secretary, Leon Brittan. From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.
- Contributors
- Leon Brittan; Antonia Higgs
- Keywords
- London; Terrorism; Police; UK; Political protests; Embassies and consulates; International relations; Demonstrations; Embassy buildings; Libya; Sieges; St James Square
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