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US/USSR handshakes, 1975
American and Soviet astronauts Thomas Stafford and Alexei Leonov's symbolic handshake, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's untimely intervention about the realities of the USSR.
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Fri 18 Jul 1975
21:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Gerald Ford, the new man in the White House, 1974
New revelations about President Gerald Ford's past, are discussed by the press.
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TV news coverage, 1974
America's rolling TV news coverage, and why it makes for better democracy.
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- Fri 18 Jul 1975 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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