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South African election results (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
David O’Sullivan reports from South Africa on the re-election of President F.W. de Klerk’s National Party with a much reduced majority in the country’s 1989 General Election. The right-wing...
F. W. de Klerk on South African demonstration (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by South African President, F. W. de Klerk (13/09/89), permitting a demonstration in Cape Town against the killing by South African police of twenty-three people during a parliamentary election that...
Allan Boesak speech at Cape Town demonstration (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by World Reformed Churches leader, Allan Boesak, at a demonstration in Cape Town against the killing by South African police of twenty-three people during a parliamentary election that excluded black...
Desmond Tutu speech at Cape Town demonstration (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, at a demonstration in Cape Town against the killing by South African police of twenty-three people during a parliamentary election that excluded black South Africans from...
SLD conference-Lord Jenkins speech (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Peter Spencer reports from the Social and Liberal Democrats conference in Brighton where Lord Jenkins (formerly Roy Jenkins), the founding father of the SDP and now leader of the SLD in the House of Lords,...
SLD conference-finance speeches (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Paul Rowley reports from the Social and Liberal Democrats conference in Brighton, following the party’s poor showing in the recent European elections. In his speech, treasurer Dick Newby gave a blunt...
Former president Reagan has brain operation (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Paul Woodley reports from the United States where surgeons have successfully operated on former US President Ronald Reagan to remove fluid from his brain, believed to be a direct result of a riding accident...
SLD conference-Ashdown on Greens (1989)
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- Speech
Excerpt from speech by Social and Liberal Democrats leader, Paddy Ashdown, at the party conference in Brighton. The speech came at the end of a day in which some in the party said they wanted an electoral...
SLD conference-Wrigglesworth speech and poll tax debate (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Elena Curti reports on a speech by Social and Liberal Democrats president Ian Wrigglesworth (with excerpts) at the party conference in Brighton. He blames the split with the SDP for a string of by-election...
Wormwood Scrubs sex offenders unit criticised (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Margaret Shiels reports on an article in The Independent newspaper which claims a special prison unit for sex offenders at Wormwood Scrubs is running out of control and placing staff in a dangerous and...