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US agrees aid for Nicaragua (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Report on the Senate approving USA financial aid to the Nicuraguan Contra guerillas. Includes speeches by Senators Barry Goldwater and Edward Kennedy during the Senate debate; press conference with Senator...
State banquet for West German President’s visit (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
On the occasion of Britain taking on the Presidency of the EEC and the visit of the new West German President, Richard Von Weizsaker to the UK, the Queen gives an address at a state banquet at Buckingham...
Karachi hijack (1986)
- Genre
- Press conference; Speech
Statement by Pakistani spokesman (not identified) on the identity of the groups claiming responsibility for the Karachi plane hijacking and questions put to Colonel Gaddafi of Libya on possible involvement...
Norman Tebbit on printers dispute (1986)
- Genre
- Speech
Conservative Chairman Norman Tebbit urges the sacked Wapping printworkers to think again, and accept News International’s latest pay offer.
SOGAT 82 conference (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Mark Mardell report on journalists reversing their decision to back printers in the News International dispute following a high wages and benefits offer. Also includes speech by Labour Party leader Neil...
SOGAT 82 conference (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspapers have reversed their decision to back the printworkers in the News International dispute. Mark Mardell reports on speech by Labour leader Neil Kinnock...
Scargill calls for miners action (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Mark Mardell reports on NUM leader Arthur Scargill’s speech at the annual conference in Tenby, Wales in which he claimed more industrial action will be needed to win pay increases and equal pay for miners...
Appeal for help in Suzy Lamplugh case (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference; Speech
Appeal by Detective Superintendent Nick Carter and the parents of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh after her disappearance. They talk about the circumstances of her disappearance, the last sighting of her, her...
Hunt for the Stockwell Strangler (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the continuing hunt for the so-called Stockwell Strangler. Detective Chief Superintendent Ken Thompson appeals for people to look out for their elderly relatives, and John Mayo of Help the Aged...
Spike Milligan on the pensioner’s allowance (1986)
- Genre
- Speech
Comedian and poet Spike Milligan reads a list of items that a pensioner can afford with the small increase in the pensioner’s allowance.