LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Reagan and Gorbachev New Year messages

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

2 Jan 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:49

Description

Mark Percy reports on televised New Year messages by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (excerpts heard), televised directly to the USSR and USA. Both leaders are pledging to seek a strategic missile treaty in 1988, but Reagan used his broadcast to make a thinly-veiled attack on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev; Mark Percy

Keywords

USA; Treaties; Afghanistan; Television; USSR; International relations; Military affairs; Speeches; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear disarmament; Missiles; East West relations

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