LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Thatcher on Korean flight 007 atrocity

Genre

News report

TX Date

18 Sep 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:02:21

Description

Report on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s first public statement on the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight 007 by the Soviet Union and Western response to it, on Dutch television station AVRO ahead of her visit to Holland. Speaking are Margaret Thatcher and AVRO journalist Peter Varicome(?). Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Peter Varicam(?); AVRO

Keywords

Air accidents; EEC; USSR; Homicide; Airlines; Aeroplanes; Netherlands; Civil aircraft; Korea; Air defence; East West relations; Aeroflot

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