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Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Monday, May 07, 1990


Title: Capitol To Capitol: Leadership and The 90S

Abstract:

Live discussion moderated by Peter Jennings (ABC) and Gostelradio Special Reports Director Leonid Zolotarevsky re: USSR and Eastern European political and economic reforms, USSR's Baltic Republics unrest, German reunification, and US-USSR relations with participants via satellite in DC and Moscow, including Council of the Union Chairman Ivan Laptev, Rep. Thomas Foley, Sen. Robert Dole, International Affairs Committee Chairman Aleksandr Dzasokhov, Peace Committee President Genrikh Borovik, Supreme Soviet member Kyodor Burlatzky, Georgetown University student Mari Horne, and Yevgeny Velikhov of the Council of People's Deputies; taped segments by John McWethy (ABC) re: Mikhail Gorbachev and political changes in Eastern Europe with CIA analyst John Helgerson, Defense Secretary Richard Cheney, and excerpts of statements by George Bush.

Begin Time:11:31:00 pm
End Time:01:21:00 am
TVN Record Number:646731
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