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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: George Bush response (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
US President, George Bush warning that the rest of the world will not accept a puppet regime in Kuwait, and on Iraqi lies over the withdrawal of troops. Times correspondent Richard Owen on the new Kuwaiti...
Margaret Thatcher’s Colorado speech following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990)
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- Interview; News report; Speech
Phil Edwards reporting on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s speech to the Aspen Institute, Colorado. Thatcher calling for all United Nations members to apply a total economic embargo unless Iraq withdraws...
London march by Kuwaitis following Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Sally Arthy reporting from the London march by Kuwaitis, following the handing in of a letter to Number 10 calling on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to take the strongest possible action to force the...
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Dominique Harvie reporting on the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Manchester DJ Phil Kennedy, whose wife is a stewardess aboard the stranded British Airways plane captured during a stopover in Kuwait city, on...
Strike on North Sea oil and gas platforms (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Angus Coull reporting on the strikers’ demonstration at Shell’s Aberdeen headquarters where representatives of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee, organisers of the stoppage, have had a meeting with...
Foreigners to leave Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- News report
James Matthews reporting from the Gulf following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. On foreigners trapped in Baghdad, including passengers from the captured British Airways plane, being allowed to leave, the...
Prince Charles setting up summer school in architecture (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
William Roncon reporting on the setting up by the Prince of Wales of a summer school in architecture at Magdalen College, with the possibility of further summer schools and the establishment of an...
British forces to be sent to the Gulf (1990)
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- News report; Interview; Speech
Elena Curti reporting from Downing Street on the decision to send British forces to the Gulf. Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd announcing that the forces will be contributing to a multi-national effort for the...
Yamil Alsam on rape of Kuwait hostage (1990)
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- News report; Interview
Kuwaiti businessman, Yamil Al Sam, who managed to escape from Kuwait to Britain, on the rape by an Iraqi soldier of a woman passenger from the British Airways plane captured during a stopover at Kuwait City...
Plans to transfer Miss Saigon to New York scrapped (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Paul Woodley reporting on producer Cameron Mackintosh’s scrapping of plans to transfer the musical Miss Saigon from London to New York following the refusal by the American Actors’ Equity Association to...