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WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Christy George reports that F.W. de Klerk, the President of South Africa, announced that the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa will be lifted, and Nelson …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Upon his release, Carmen Fields interviews South African exiles Themba Vilakazi and Janet Levine about the life and political development of Nelson Mandela. Vilakazi and Levine discuss Mandela's beginnings as …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Meg Vaillancourt interviews Nthabiseng Mabuza about the release of Nelson Mandela. Vaillancourt notes that Mabuza was only twelve years old when she was paralyzed from injuries sustained during an attack …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Meg Vaillancourt talks to students at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Dorchester about their opinions of Nelson Mandela (black South African leader). The students tell what they know …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1988 English
Christy George reports that Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to divest its pension funds from South Africa five years ago. She adds that apartheid opponents are backing …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Cyrus Vance was the Secretary of the Army from 1962-1964, the Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1964-1967, and the Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1977-1980. In the interview …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Joseph Nye was Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistant, Science and Technology, and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1977 to 1979). …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Kandury Subramanvan (Subrahmanyam) was an official in Indias Ministry of Defense. In the interview, he offers his views on Chinas 1964 test, determining immediately that India should get a device …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Mordekhai Gur was a military officer who served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from 1974-1978, then became a member of the Knesset. He discusses his …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Homi Sethna was a leading Indian nuclear scientist who served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (1972-1983) during which time he was centrally involved with the test …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
For nearly half a century, Paul Nitze was one of the chief architects of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union, and a prominent member of the Committee on the Present …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Yuval Ne'eman was an Israeli theoretical physicist, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1962-1984, and Minister of Science from 1982-1984. In the interview he discusses Israel's nuclear program …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Yitzhak Rabin was the Israeli Minister of Defense from 1984-1990, and later Prime Minister. In the interview he discusses Israel's nuclear policy. He explains that Israel's policy is that it …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States, from 1977 to 1981. In the interview Carter conducted for War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, he relates his …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Matityahu Peled was a member of the Knesset, a General in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), and a professor of Arabic Studies, at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. In …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Agha Shahi was Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations from 1967-1972, then Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1973-1982 (with a short break in between). In …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Dr. Munir Ahmad Khan was a nuclear engineer, who chaired the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 1972-1991. The interview opens with his background and the early years of Pakistans nuclear …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Muchkund Dubey spent most of his career in Indias foreign service, rising to become Foreign Secretary in 1990. His involvement with nuclear matters began in 1982 when he was named …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Paul Warnke was chief negotiator for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II during the Jimmy Carter administration and director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1977 to …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Vladimir Semyonov (Semenov) was the first Soviet Ambassador to East Germany, a Deputy Foreign Minister, and Chief Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Negotiator, 1969-1972. He recounts why the USSR …