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Neil Kinnock on nuclear defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
In his first major speech since Labour’s National Executive backed his multilateral policy of negotiating away nuclear weapons, Neil Kinnock told his audience at the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno...
Inside an emergency control centre (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
An emergency control centre in South London has been opened to the media. The bunker, which is below a block of council flats near Crystal Palace, is intended to house up to 50 council and police...
John Moore says poverty is relative (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Campaigners fighting poverty in Britain have been outraged by the latest statement from cabinet minister John Moore. The Social Security Secretary says the country’s poor are not really poor because...
Britain not in poverty, claims John Moore (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Social Security Secretary, John Moore has raised a storm of protest with his redefinition of who is poor. He rejects suggestions that a third of people in Britain live in poverty, and says many of the...
Nick Wright on Pink Floyd in Moscow (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Pink Floyd are taking their three-hour lights and music extravaganza to Moscow. They are already favourites of the Soviet cosmonauts, who took their last album with them into space. Keyboard player Nick...
Neil Kinnock on nuclear weapons and defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Labour leader Neil Kinnock has fiercely defended the party’s abandonment of unilateral nuclear disarmament, and called on his left-wing critics to back the change. In his first speech since the...
Panama leader rigs election (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Britain is calling on Panama’s drug-running dictator, General Manuel Noriega to quit following this week’s sham elections. The Foreign Office says there is no doubt the opposition were the...
George Bush closes on Panama (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
President George Bush’s announcement that he is boosting the US garrison in Panama by 2000 extra combat troops sent dictator Manuel Noriega and his military commanders into a flurry of meetings and...
Margaret Thatcher criticises Labour defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has torn into Labour’s defence policy, denouncing it before fifteen thousand Tory supporters at the Scottish Conservative Conference in Perth last night. The Tories are...
George Bush on US-Soviet relations (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
US President, George Bush has challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Iron Curtain. In a major speech outlining his new administration’s foreign policy, Bush also said he wants more openness in...