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148 results found for '"Simon Israel"' in Contributors.
Douglas Hurd calls for drug crackdown (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Simon Israel reports on a call by Home Secretary Douglas Hurd for a global crackdown on drug traffickers, at a conference of European ministers in London. He’s to reveal statistics showing a large increase...
Soviets accuse British of bugging diplomats (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe is under pressure to answer Soviet accusations that British spies have been bugging the offices and homes of Russian diplomats. The Soviet Ambassador has lodged a strong...
Geoffrey Howe on Tiananmen Square violence (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe gives his reaction to the violent put-down of the Beijing demonstration in which hundreds were killed as tanks and armoured cars entered Tiananmen Square. Interviewer is Simon...
Foreign Secretary on Hong Kong and boat people (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe has strongly hinted that Hong Kong may be forced to turn back thousands of Vietnamese boat people unless urgent action is taken now. Sir Geoffrey has been telling the...
TGWU votes for disarmament (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Simon Israel interviews Ron Todd, TGWU union leader on a vote which decided to continue to back unilateral nuclear disarmament despite the Labour Party changing its policy on disarmament; and how this will...
Labour changes defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Simon Israel reports from the Labour Party conference in Brighton on a speech by leader Neil Kinnock on the new defence policy not to call for unilateral nuclear disarmament only days after the TGWU had...
Andrei Gromyko dies (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Former British Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington (Peter Carington) on former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko who has died. Says he found him an odious little man and inflexible in his policies....
Dock strike ends-reaction (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Simon Israel reports on the official end of the national dock strike. Angry striking dockers are preparing to defy their union leaders’ call to go back to work and they’re accusing the TGWU executive of...
Julie Ward inquest told of murder evidence (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Simon Israel interviews John Ward, outside the court room in Nairobi, Kenya, following the proceedings of a murder investigation into the death of his daughter Julie Ward in the Masai Mara game reserve in...
Possible pollution tax (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Simon Israel reports on the possible introduction of new pollution tax in the UK. Includes interviews with Professor David Pearce, chief advisor to the Environment Secretary, Chris Patten, who has published...