Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from PBS Evening News for Friday, Feb 22, 1991


Title: Frontline: Guns, Tanks And Gorbachev

Abstract:

An examination of the current situation re: independence movements in the USSR Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with Hedrick Smith (PBS), USSR Foreign Minister Eduard Schevardnadze, Mikhail Gorbachev, Latvia President Anatolijs Gorbunovs, ethnic Russian spokesman Anatoli Alekseyev, Latvian parliament members Juris Bojars and Andrejs Krastins, Black Veret commander Czeslaw Mlinniku, USSR military officer Viktor Alksnis, Moscow Deputy Mayor Sergei Stankevich, Russian Republic President Boris Yeltsin, Russian Republic Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, Yelena Bonner, Latvia VP Dainus Ivans, Secretary of State James Baker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Curtis Kamman, arms negotiator Paul Nitze, Sen. Bill Bradley, Sen. Orrin Hatch, George Bush, Mike McKee of Conus Communications, Professor Bruce Parrott, Republic of Georgia President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian Envoy to the US Eduard Gudava, South Ossetia political leader Torez Kulumbegov, Republic of Georgia Interior Minister Dilari Khabuliani, and unidentified others.

Begin Time:09:00:00 pm
End Time:09:58:00 pm
TVN Record Number:656486
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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