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Includes: notes on a press conference on Nicaragua, chaired by NK, 1983; an invitation to sponsor the Nicaragua Emergency Committee, 1983; memorandum by George Foulkes on Argentina; correspondence on American policy towards Nicaragua; briefing for a meeting with Ricardo Lagos, President of the Chilean Party for Democracy, November 1988; post-visit briefing for visit [? in Jan 1985] to Mexico and Nicaragua, Jan 1989; note on the Guatemalan peace process.

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Includes: briefing for visit by Argentinean Parliamentarians; note by Stuart Holland on the situation in Chile; note on Panama; briefing for a dinner with Francisco d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Ambassador to Britain; copies of letters from NK to Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: energy policy; the prosecution of the Ministry of Defence official Clive Ponting under the Official Secrets Act after he sent documents on the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War; an inquiry chaired by Lord Bridge on interception of postal and telephone communications by the security services; commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the war; publication of an official history of nuclear testing; human rights in Indonesia;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on American policy towards Nicaragua, include: Francisco d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Ambassador to Britain; Julian Filochowski, Director of the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development; Frank Judd, Director of Oxfam; George Galloway, General Secretary of War on Want. Also includes: copy of a letter from NK, and also a joint letter from NK, David Steel and David Owen [leaders of the Social Democrats] to Thomas 'Tip' O’Neill, Speaker of the American House of Representatives,...

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Subjects include: Larry Whitty’s election as General Secretary of the Labour Party; a motion of censure on the economy; the miners’ strike; battles with the Left, particularly Eric Heffer and Tony Benn; NK’s visit to Nicaragua.

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Includes: press cuttings of articles on NK from the Guardian; correspondence with Guardian journalists, including a letter from Jack Ashley, complaining about an attack on NK, and a suggestion for a biography of NK; briefings for interviews; press releases, including a summary of Labour’s position on nuclear power; a press pack for "Labour, putting people first", part of the Freedom and Fairness campaign (1986); text of an article by NK on Nicaragua.

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Correspondence, briefings and draft statement on NK’s visit to Nicaragua for the inauguration of [José] Daniel Ortega as President and his visit to Mexico. Correspondents include Baroness Young, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Detailed briefing on Nicaragua.

Scope and Contents Briefings, schedules and correspondence on arrangements, with correspondents including: Francisco Cuevas de Cancino, Mexican Ambassador to Britain; Francisco d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Ambassador; Miguel d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Also includes: schedules for September 1984 [for a cancelled visit]; shorthand notes of NK’s meetings with Fidel Castro [President of Cuba], Bayardo Arce, member of the Nicaraguan National Directorate and Father Cesar Jerez; notes on NK’s meeting...

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Press cuttings on Central America and NK’s visit.

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Notes from the visit, mainly in shorthand.