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GCHQ union ban - Political reaction (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the union ban at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham with Government contradiction over whether rebellious staff will be sacked and Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe being...
Violence in Lebanon (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Interview
Report on recent violence in Lebanon. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been consulting urgently with her ministers and advisers over the future of the 100-strong British contingent in the...
GCHQ union ban - Geoffrey Howe Commons statement (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; Special; Speech
UK Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe defends his trade union ban on members of the workforce at GCHQ to an all-party committee of MPs. He explains the long-standing convention that the Government does not...
Ronald Reagan makes his State of the Union address (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Technical
Gene Gibbons reports on US President Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address. Followed by fourteen individual cuts (counted in) from the address, in which Reagan portrays America as safer, stronger and...
Ronald Reagan announces presidential candidacy (1984)
- Genre
- Speech
US President Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for the 1984 presidential election. During the past year, he says, inflation has dropped, interest rates have been cut nearly in half, homes have been built...
Robert Goodman returns to USA from Syria (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Andrew Manderstam reports on the White House reception for released US airman, Robert Goodman. Leading members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet, diplomatic core, and Congress, and relatives of...
George Shultz on forthcoming disarmament conference (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on US Secretary of State, George Shultz’s strategy for the forthcoming Stockholm Conference (beginning 17/01/84). He does not think the West should be prepared to make concessions to persuade the...
Ronald Reagan address on US-Soviet relations (1984)
- Genre
- Speech
US President Ronald Reagan gives an address on US-Soviet relations. He explains that tomorrow the USA will join the USSR and thirty-three other nations at a European disarmament conference in Stockholm. Over...
Miners strike - Arthur Scargill declares action official (1984)
- Genre
- Speech
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, has attended an executive meeting at the NUM headquarters in Sheffield. He says the NEC condemn the announcement of further pit and plant...
Israeli troops in Lebanon (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on Israeli troops in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said that Israel will protect its own interests by any means necessary when he addressed American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. He...