LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Thatcher meets with German Chancellor

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

21 Feb 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:41

Description

Paul Rowley reports on Margaret Thatcher’s press conference following meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (with excerpts). Issues covered included concerted EEC response to Iran’s death threat to author Salman Rushdie and nuclear weapons modernisation versus disarmament- she calls for caution despite relations with the Soviet Union thawing and says the talks went well overall.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Paul Rowley

Keywords

Books; Authors; Iran; Ayatollah Khomeini; USSR; International relations; Freedom of expression; Defence; Germany; Novelists; Nuclear weapons; NATO; Islam; Muslims; Salman Rushdie; Germany FR; Islamic law; Helmut Kohl; Ruhollah Khomeini; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa

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