US defence spending cut
- Title
- US defence spending cut
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1983
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- Duration
- 00:02:03
- Description
- Report on a press conference by US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger announcing his recommendation that the defence budget be reduced by 11.3 billion dollars, a U-turn probably due to the economic recession. With excerpts of announcement. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Caspar Weinberger
- Keywords
- USA; Budgets; Cost reduction; Defence; Defence policy; Economic recession; Missiles; Government spending; Ronald Reagan
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LBC/IRN, "US defence spending cut". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000300307017 (Accessed 28 Apr 2025)