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Adameit on Soviet referendum

Description: Fletcher School professor Hannes Adameit discusses Soviet referendum on preserving the union, and Gorbachev's rivalry with Yeltsin.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/18/1991

Local Lithuanians

Description: Local Lithuanian-Americans listen to short wave radio for news from home about independence struggle and repression. Smuggled video of Soviet tanks & soldiers storming Lithuania, injured people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1991

Repression in the Baltics

Description: Survey of Baltic states' struggle for self- determination and resulting Soviet repression in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Nina Tumarkin.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1991

Shevardnadze in Boston

Description: Past Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze comes to Boston to address BU commencement. Walks with entourage & John Silber. Graham Allison calls him the architect of new Soviet foreign policy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1991

Soviet dissident Bukovsky

Description: Exiled Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky recalls recent trip to deteriorating Moscow. Says reform is not possible without workers' strike, and Yeltsin will emerge in forefront.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/29/1991

Soviet retrogression on arms control

Description: Uri Ra'anan talks about Soviet evasion of INF arms control agreement by giving Iraq SS-12 missiles and delivering war matériel to Baghdad immediately before start of Persian Gulf war. Red Army chorus.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1991

War update

Description: Gorbachev makes peace proposal to Iraq; details scant but not to US liking. Warthog plane aloft. Tanks leave dust trail. Soviet flag in wind.Kremlin in snow. Aziz with cigar + Russian hat. Bush power walking.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1991

War update

Description: James Baker warns 'tough times ahead'; ground war inevitable. King Hussein leans to Saddam. Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran discuss diplomatic alternatives. Bombs being loaded onto aircraft. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1991