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Decision Makers looks at human rights, violations and our views in the West which some see as hypocritical, looking particularly at Iran, Rhodesia, El Salvador, Communist countries, South Africa, Argentina....
Report on the controversy caused in South Africa by the British Government meeting President P.W. Botha’s government, but refusing to meet with members of the United Democratic Front over dissidents...
Report on Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet Jew imprisoned for 9 years in the USSR, being reunited with his family as they were allowed to leave the USSR to join him in Israel. Includes his mother speaking to...
John Alcock reports on the end of the superpower summit in Moscow. Includes excerpt of speech by US President Ronald Reagan at a state banquet he held for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; Foreign Affairs...
John Alcock reports from Moscow back to the studio on news Dr Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet dissident who holds a Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigns against human rights abuses, is to hold a news conference in...
John Alcock reports on a news conference held by Andrei Sakharov (with excerpts), a leading Soviet dissident who was released from internal exile 2 years ago. He backed Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika...
Nigel Wrench reports on the first screenings of Richard Attenborough’s film Cry Freedom in South Africa- the story of Donald Woods, journalist, and his friendship with Steve Biko, freedom fighter in South...
Donald Woods, journalist whose book on South African freedom fighter Steve Biko who was killed by police was made into the film Cry Freedom, comments on it being banned in South Africa despite the...
Nicky Broyd reports on the South African Government stepping in to ban the screening, despite the censors passign it, of Cry Freedom, a film centred around the killing of freedom fighter Steve Biko by...
Simon Israel reports on the case of a Czech spy who pretended to be a Dutch-born art dealer. He has been jailed for ten years at the Old Bailey, true identitiy still unrevealed. He had infiltrated dissident...
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