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United States - Soviet Union Summit Meetings
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keywords: international relations, united states, soviet union, summit meetings, president ronald reagan, president mikhail gorbachev, arms control, inf treaty, icbm, chemical weapons, iran iraq war, lech walesa, red square may day parade, human rights abuses
Synopsis: A series of news reports document the summit meetings between the USA and the USSR touching on the topics of Arms Control, Regional Issues, Bilateral Issues, Perestroika and Human Rights with scenes of President Ronald Reagan and President Mikhail Gorbachev...(read more)
- Date: 1987
- Duration: 00:20:39
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Soviet Union
USA - USSR Moscow Summit: Arms Control
President Ronald Reagan makes the following statement in reference to the East and West relations: "as I said before, we do not mistrust each other because we are armed, we are armed because we mistrust each other". This is an excerpt from President Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech at the Berlin wall June 12, 1987.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1987. Scene of U.S. missile on transporter, U.S. missile is launched. Shows launch of a U.S. Strategic Missile from a silo. Scene of a Russian Tupolev TU-95 "Bear" bomber in flight. Shows a cruise missile launched from a ship. Shows bodies of dead people (civilians) killed by chemical weapons.
USA - USSR Moscow Summit: Regional Issues
Russian (Soviet Union) troops in Afghanistan. President Reagan speaks on doubt that Russia will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan as agreed upon.
Brief scenes of the Iran-Iraq War (First Persian Gulf War) between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq.
In retaliation for the mining of the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war and the subsequent damage to an American warship, the United States attacked the Iranian frigate IS Sahand and the Iranian oil platform in the Sassan oil field. Shows tug boat spraying water on the burning, smoking oil platform.
Other hot spots around the world are the continuing conflict between the Palestinian Arab militants and Israel. In Nicaragua a truce is reached between President Ortega and the Contra Leaders.
USA - USSR Moscow Summit: Bilateral Issues
Paintings from three generations of the Wyeth family packed for shipment to the Soviet Union (Russia) for the Wyeth-family art exhibition. Shows Mikhail Gorbachev on the streets of New York visiting with Americans. George Shultz and his wife are warmly greeted by citizens of Georgia in the Soviet Union. Shows President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at the 1987 Washington Summit.
00:09:27;07
Still photographs from 1956 of the Russian magazine Amerika and the American magazine Soviet Life. Brief scene of Billy Joel on tour in the Soviet Union. Russian Folk Music group on tour in the United States. Scenes of the Bolshoi Ballet Company performers. Shows kids (children) from the Soviet Union (Russia) enjoying the outdoors in America. Scenes of one of the people-to-people exchanges or Chautauqua Talks in upstate New York. Soviet Union citizens viewing Information USA, a multi-media exhibit that toured Russia. Shows American and Soviet astronauts meeting in space.
00:12:03:02
Fast moving Soviet (Russian) tank in Afghanistan. Russian troops on the street of an Afghanistan city. Shows American journalist Nicholas Daniloff arriving in the United States after his release by the KGB.
00:12:43:08
Dance Theatre of Harlem performers on tour in the Soviet union. Excellent footage of President Ronald Reagan and Russian Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union.
USA - USSR Moscow Summit: Perestroika
Perestroika is designed to produce a stronger, more competitive Soviet super-power. It is a program that effects political, economic, and social institutions.
Scene of a boat on the Moskva River with the Moscow Kremlin in the BG. Moscow street scenes.
00:16:15:21
Brief scene of Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity trade-union movement in Poland. Scene of a May Day celebration in Red Square.
USA - USSR Moscow Summit: Human Rights
President Ronald Reagan calls on the Soviet Union to abide by the Helsinki Accords. Image of the Moscow Kremlin. Brief Moscow street scenes. Image of George Schultz stating the United States would continue the Strategic Arms negation. Scene of White House Press Briefing in 1988, shows Helen Thomas front and center. Sign reads "Department Of State".
00:19:01:14
Shows Russians protestors. Shows protestors demonstrating in Washington before Gorbachev visited the United States for the freedom of Soviet Jews. Demonstrator carries sign that reads "Glasnost For Soviet Jews". Another protest sign reads "Mr. Gorbachev:Let Our People Go". Interior scene of a Church in the Soviet Union as Russians celebrate their Christian faith. Shows a Ukrainian Catholic Church being built in Washington. The Ukrainian Catholic religion is outlawed in the Soviet Union. Shows a human rights protest march in the Soviet Union. Brief scenes of parade in Red Square.
