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Includes: briefings for NK’s visit to the Soviet Union, particularly on defence and human rights; notes of NK’s meeting with President Konstantin Chernenko on arms reduction; speech notes; programmes and arrangements for various visits; transcript of an interview by NK for Radio Moscow; information for press.

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Programme and briefings for NK’s visit, including a copy of the statement by Tom King, Secretary of State for Defence, on defence options for change (July 1990), with an extract from the debate on his statement, and an article by Martin O’Neill, principal defence spokesman, on Labour’s defence review.

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Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

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Includes: text of NK’s speech at the Kennedy School of Government, Boston, "Components of security: defence, democracy and development"; briefings on the launch of Labour’s non-nuclear defence policy; press release on a meeting of the European Socialist and Social Democratic parties of NATO on security policy (Oslo [Norway], Sept 1986); note on Labour and the ‘nuclear umbrella’.

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Press cuttings, press summary and papers including an issue of International Security on conventional defence in Europe.

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Programme and briefing on defence policy, including papers and press cuttings on the summit on arms control between the United States and Soviet Union at Geneva [Switzerland], 1985 and papers and press cuttings on the German Social Democratic Party, mainly relating to European defence policy. Also includes a programme for a visit to Sweden for a European conference, and arrangements for a meeting with Bill Keys, Chairman of the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee.

Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: visit to New York [United States], including texts of speeches by John Brademas, President of New York University; visit to Australia [cancelled]; visit to Waltham Forest housing developments, London; visit to Liverpool for Eric Heffer’s award of the freedom of the city; the launch of a biography of Mary Robinson, President of Ireland; a photocall with Vickers workers, including briefings on the replacement of the Chieftain...

Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a meeting with Dick Cheney, American Secretary of Defense, on European defence, NATO and nuclear disarmament, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Dan Quayle, Vice-President of the United States, on defence and the Common Agricultural Policy; a meeting with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Soviet Union, on overseas aid, defence and disarmament; a meeting with Boutros Boutros Ghali, Secretary-General of the United...

Scope and Contents Cuttings and correspondence on American and Canadian press coverage, and non-nuclear defence, with requests for interviews and invitations. Correspondents include: Robert Rae, leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party; Vice-President George Bush; Gene La Rocque, Director of the Centre for Defense Information; Harold Willens; Jesse Jackson; Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley, US Congressional Summit on Exchange Rates and the Dollar; Charles Price, American Ambassador to Britain; Walter Mondale;...

Scope and Contents Notes and background papers, particularly on the American defence budget and response to NK’s defence policy, and also including: cuttings from the American press; correspondence with individuals including Armand Hammer, Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (2); schedules; summaries of the visits by John Eatwell [Economic adviser to NK] and Fenton Communications Inc; briefing note by Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary to NK] on subjects including concerns at White...

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Papers and correspondence from JA's work as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Financial Secretary at the War Office, particularly on his official visit to Muscat [Masqat] and Oman and JA's negotiations with the Sultan of Muscat on various civil and military reforms, securing long-term facilities for the RAF, settling disputes and improving relations with Saudi Arabia. Also includes general War Office papers and papers on an earlier visit to the Near East and Middle East.

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Interview with NK on Labour's nuclear disarmament policy.

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Briefings, arrangements (including correspondence with Peter Mandelson, producer) and transcripts for NK’s interviews with Brian Walden for Weekend World. Subjects include: economic policy and Labour’s attitude to the City; NK’s visits to Europe, the Stockholm Conference on arms control [Sweden] and the situation in the Lebanon; foreign policy; renationalisation; pensions; defence; energy.

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Briefings, arrangements and transcripts for NK’s interview with Brian Walden for Weekend World, Jan 1984. Subjects include: electoral strategy; economic policy; renationalisation; trade unions; defence; pensions. Includes a transcript of an earlier Weekend World interview with [William] John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, on Government cuts to public spending.