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  • Donald Woods on South Africa and apartheid (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Former editor of the Daily Despatch and anti-apartheid activist, Donald Woods returns to South African 13 years after his exile and talks about how it has changed. Reporter is Grant Ferrett(?).

  • Gulf crisis - UN Security Council meeting (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Press conference

    Concern about Britons and Americans being held in Iraq and Kuwait has been voiced at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York. The UN has asked its Secretary General, Javier Perez de...

  • Iraqi Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on economic sanctions (1990)

    Genre
    Speech

    Statement issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, broadcast on Baghdad TV with English translation. It says that the economic embargo imposed on Iraq by the US and its allies is an act of...

  • 200 Britons held in Baghdad hotel (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Response to Iraq’s holding 200 Britons in a hotel in Baghdad; with an extract from a speech by British Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, who denies overreacting, and a statement from Labour’s Foreign...

  • George Bush speech to war veterans (1990)

    Genre
    Speech

    The full speech of US President George Bush, as he addresses the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, in which he states that America will not be intimidated and calls upon Iraqi president,...

  • Red Cross sends delegate to Baghdad for talks (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Martin Fuhrer, Deputy Head of the Red Cross’s Middle East Operation, speaks about the trip of Red Cross Delegate General for the Middle East, Angelo Gnaedinger, to Baghdad for high-level talks with Iraqi...

  • Report on Bush speech - American hostages in Iraq (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report on US President George Bush’s speech to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, in which he warned Saddam Hussein that Iraq was responsible for the welfare of all American hostages....

  • Interview with Iraqi dissident exile (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Jaffar Al Mohajer(?), an Iraqi dissident exiled in Britain, says that Saddam Hussein has been committing crimes against humanity for years but the West has ignored them. Male interviewer not identified.

  • Briton flees Kuwait (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Steven(?) Edmonds(?) of Lowestoft tells of his escape from Kuwait across the desert, and says it is getting harder and harder to escape from the Iraqi –occupied Gulf state. Male reporter not identified....

  • Douglas Hurd defies Iraqi demands to close British Embassy in Kuwait (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd says Britain will defy the Iraqi ultimatum to close the British Embassy in Kuwait, and condemns Saddam Hussein’s strategy of seizing Westerners to use as a human...