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Newsweek Year Ender

Item number (ISN):

15450

Series title:

Newsweek

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

15450

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Type of material:

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

GLOBAL TELEVISION NETWORK

Accession:

1983-0356

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1979-12-30

Production company:

Global Television Network

Production credit:

reporter, Peter Jennings; Everett Banning

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Special edition of reports and commentaries on the major news items of 1979 presented by Ed McManning. Major events in Canadian politics, focusing on Prime Minister Trudeau's resignation as leader of the Liberal Party; Joe Clark's election as Prime Minister and subsequent defeat a few months later; and the referendum question in Québec. Includes footage of: excerpt of Trudeau's resignation speech & his concession speech to Clark; shots of Clark & NDP Leader, Ed Broadbent on the 1979 campaign trail; meeting of Conservatives in Jasper Park; excerpt from Clark's victory speech; Margaret Trudeau dancing at a crowded disco; Fabienne Roy of the National Social Credit Party; Finance Minister John Crosbie tabling the Conservative budget in the House of Commons; Quebec Premier René Lévesque in National Assembly; and Governor General Ed Schreyer reading the Speech from the Throne. 2. Canadian disasters of 1979; the derailment of CPR train carrying propane and chlorine; the Red River Valley flood in Manitoba; the tornado in Woodstock, Ont.; the collision between a tanker truck and a busload of students west of Barrie; the fire which killed 7 children in a junior forestry program; the Rideau Club fire and on the international scene, hurricane "David" in the Caribbean. 3. Memorable personalities of 1979 with reports on: the deaths of former Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker and of Sen. Claude Wagner of Montreal; royal visits of the Queen Mother and Princess Anne; the return from exile in France of Jacques and Louise Cossette-Trudel, involved in the FLQ kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner James Cross; the Bruce Lorenz murder trial; Toronto police raids of the offices of homosexual newspaper "The Body Politic" and of gay club "The Barracks"; Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards found guilty of heroine possession; the charge against Peter True, of Montreal, of breaking the official secrets act; the conviction of Jean Claude Parrot, President of the Canadian postal~workers' union; the end of a 9 month strike by INCO workers in Sudbury, Ont.; the Feb. 26 eclipse of the sun; the 108th birthday of Toronto's Ben Sherman; Pope John Paul II and his papal tours. Report includes shots of: executive assistant, Keith Martin, delivering a press statement on Diefenbaker's death; Diefenbaker's funeral train heading across the Prairies to Prince Albert, Sask.; scenes from the FLQ crisis; Roman Catholic Bishop Emmett Carter commenting on the Toronto police raids. 4. World events of 1979 which include: the Islamic revolution in Iran; the war in Cambodia; the Vietnamese boat people; election of first black government in Rhodesia; the overthrow of Uganda's President Jai Amin; the overthrow of Nicaragua's dictator Anastosio Somoza; the imposition of military law in South Korea with the assassination of President Park Chung Hee; the election of Britain's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher; the funeral of Lord Louis Mountbatten; the signing of section of the Salt II by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Noteworthy footage includes: Shah of Iran and Empress Farah before the revolution. Shi'ite religious leader, Ruhollah Khomeini returning to Iran, after his exile in France; demonstrations outside U.S. Embassy in Tehran; relief operations in Cambodia for the victims of hunger and war; a sea of overcrowded boats filled with Vietnamese refugees drifting aimlessly; Vietnamese refugee camps; Britain's Lord Carrington meeting with Rhodesia's Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa and guerilla leader Joshua Nkomo; NASA film and animation of the Skylab, Voyageur I and Pioneer I missions with photographs of Jupiter and Saturn. Also presented is an excerpt from a report "Cambodia: The Second Holocaust" with comments by journalist John Pilgin, maker of the film "The Silent Death of Cambodia". Includes wartime footage of American, Cambodian, and North & South Vietnamese fighting; Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1969;~Cambodia's Prime Minister Lon Nol; the victorious Khmer Rouge entering the capital of Phnom Penh; scenes of forced labour in Cambodia, concentration camps near Phnom Penh and unattended starving and diseased Cambodians in make shift hospitals. Program concludes with Bannings's hopeful predictions for the 1980's in the fields of science and medicine. <60mn>

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CAMBODIA~CAMBODIAN-VIETNAMESE CONFLICT, 1977-~CANADA~CARIBBEAN AREA~CONCENTRATION CAMPS~DISASTERS~ELECTIONS~FIRES~FLOODS~FUNERAL RITES & CEREMONIES~HOMOSEXUALS~HURRICANES~IRAN~KOREA ~MINERS~NICARAGUA~OCTOBER CRISIS~ONTARIO~OTTAWA ~OUTER SPACE EXPLORATION~POLITICS & GOVERNMENT~POPES~QUEBEC SEPARATISM~RAILROAD ACCIDENTS~RED RIVER ~RHODESIA~SOLAR ECLIPSES~STRIKES & LOCKOUTS~SUDBURY ~TORNADOES~TORONTO ~TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS~UGANDA~VIETNAMESE REFUGEES~VISITS OF STATE~VOYAGES & TRAVELS~WAR RELIEF~WAR VICTIMS~STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS II~ANNE, PRINCESS ROYAL, DAUGHTER OF ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1950-~BANNING, EVERETT~BREZHNEV, LEONID~BROADBENT, ED~CARTER, EMMETT~CARTER, JIMMY~CARTER, ROSALYNN~CLARK, JOE~COSSETTE-TRUDEL, JACQUES~COSSETTE-TRUDEL, LOUISE~CROSBIE, JOHN~DIEFENBAKER, JOHN G.~ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1926-~FARAH, EMPRESS OF IRAN~JENNINGS, PETER~JOHN PAUL II, POPE~KHOMEINI, RUHOLLAH~LÉVESQUE, RENÉ~LON NOL~LORENZ, LORA LEE~MARTIN, KEITH~MCMANNING, EDWARD~MOHAMMAD REZA SHAH PAHLAVI~MOUNTBATTEN, LOUIS~MUZOREWA, ABEL~NKOMO, JOSHUA~NORODOM SIHANOUK, PRINCE~PARK CHUNG HEE~PARROT, JEAN-CLAUDE~PILGIN, JOHN~RICHARDS, KEITH~ROY, FABIEN~SCHREYER, EDWARD~SHERMAN, BEN~SOMOZA, ANASTASIO~THATCHER, MARGARET~TRUDEAU, MARGARET~TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT~TRUE, PETER~WAGNER, CLAUDE

Language:

English

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1. Made in cooperation with CKND Winnipeg; CFAC Calgary; CITV Edmonton; CKVU Edmonton.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8312-0004

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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