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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...
Neil Kinnock on his visit to the USA (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour leader Neil Kinnock on his visit to the United States. In a meeting with US Secretary of State George Shultz about the matter of Central America, Kinnock had perceived all the ingredients for a...
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...
Margaret Thatcher on withdrawal of British troops from Lebanon (1984)
- Genre
- Parliamentary debate
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher makes a statement in the House of Commons regarding the withdrawal of British troops from Lebanon. Their headquarters are in Hadass, so they are unable to help British...
South Bank to be transformed (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified (Scottish) male speaker on bringing people and money to the South Bank, London. The area in question runs from the Bankside area and Tower Bridge, to Lambeth Bridge and down to Elephant and...
Margaret Thatcher on business deals for Britain (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Brian Walden interviews UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on LWT’s Weekend World programme. She talks about securing business for Britain and about her 1981 tour from Delhi to five countries in the Gulf....
25th anniversary of Castro’s victory over Batista (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report (from Havana) on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Cuban President Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz coming to power by overthrowing President Fulgencio Batista. Trainee pharmacist Oscar Alcalde was there at...
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...