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  1. Home Office criticised over asylum rejections (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Razo Marzotic(?), spokesman for an unidentified refugee group (poss. European Liaison Group), criticising the record of the UK Home Office record on granting asylum to political refugees from...

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  2. Stancu Papusoiu asylum case (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Dan Stanescu(?), British Romanian Association, about the case of Stancu Papusoiui, following his controversial deportation from Britain after being refused asylum by the Home Office. Male...

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  3. Romania’s top chess player seeks asylum in UK (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Tim Knight reports on the case of Mihai Suba, Romania’s top chess grand master, who says he wants to defect to Britain. He has applied to the Home Office for political asylum, leaving his wife and one son...

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  4. Nadia Comaneci defects to the US (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Paul Woodley reports from New York on former top gymnast Romanian Nadia Comaneci arriving as a political refugee in the USA. Includes excerpt from press conference with Nadia and State Department spokesman...

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  5. William Waldegrave on the crisis in Romania (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Foreign Office Minister, William Waldegrave accuses the Romanian authorities of covering up the number of deaths of demonstrators in the country. He discusses the British response to this, what Europe is...

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  6. Michael Colesnic on revolution in Romania (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    A Romanian-born academic who has been speaking to his 79 year-old mother in the southern part of the country says that demonstrations against the Government are spreading. Dr Michael Colesnic, a biochemist...

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  7. Romanian revolution - Hungarian slaughter (1989)

    Genre
    News report

    Two IRN bulletins (may or may not be of same date). Gareth Furby reports on the slaughter of protesters in Timisoara, Romania. Most of the victims are Hungarians.

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  8. British lorry driver escapes from Timisoara (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    2 clips, apparently related. British lorry driver Barry Wilcock talks to Gareth Furby on escaping from Timisoara, Romania.

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  9. Demonstrators attacked in Timisoara (1989)

    Genre
    News report

    2 clips. Gareth Furby reports on an attack on demonstrators in Timisoara, Romania. First clip includes chanting, and sounds of the attack (gunfire and helicopter gunships); second clip focuses on the...

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  10. Barry Wilcock on escaping from Timisoara (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    British lorry driver Barry Wilcock talks about his experience in Timisoara, Romania, during the violent demonstrations against President Ceausescu. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Gareth Furby).

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