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Accession[2012.0286] CAMPAIGN FOR INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AND DISARMAMENTIdentifierUMA-ITE-2012028600011Scope and ContentWeekly broadcasts by Pauline Mitchell on 3CR. Includes: 14 Australians refused visas to attend UN Second Special Session on Disarmament including CICD members (CICD a Proscribed organisation meaning the US govt considers CICD a threat to their national security); US peace movement; man-made global warming; war accidents; French nuclear tests; Soviet Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State meeting; Trident submarines; Greenham Common protest camps against Cruise missiles; Massive marches against nuclear war in latter half of 1981; US destabilization in Central America; US use of herbicides in Indo-China War admission; European peace movement - a new political force, by Sam Goldbloom; peace education for the child; General Assembly of the UN vote overwhelmingly for declaration on prevention of nuclear conflict (USA & NATO allies, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, Spain and Australia vote against declaration); Pauline's report back on International Peace Bureau's The Vienna Dialogue Conference; Pauline's report back on World Peace Council's Aden Conference on Middle East and dangers of Imperialist military build-up; Australia's military build-up; Leonid Brezhnev replies to Australia's Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament (AICD) letter; US actions in Caribbean basin; call for nuclear weapon freeze; Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) Sydney doctors write to Prime Minister asking Australia to play bigger part in world disarmament; Victorian March and Festival for Peace; Pacific Peacemaker yacht rammed by French; Nuclear Freeze proposal by Reagan; Falkland Islands war; Owen Wilkes six months gaol sentence and permanent deportation from Sweden; 16,000 signatures to World Disarmament Petition presented to United Nations by Southern Peace Group; MX missile in space; chemical weapons in Asia-Pacific-Indian Ocean region; Premier John Cain receives petition with 101,760 signatures to UN's world-wide petition on disarmament; Argentina peace movement; CICD seminar Disarmament - the Great Powers and Australia's Role; warships visit Hobart; doctors' letter to Thatcher on nuclear weapons; Soviet President offers nuclear arms freeze; arms outlays and the New International Economic Order; Israel attacks Lebanon; nuclear-free state in Victoria; Minuteman missile test by US in South Pacific atoll; Omega base due to come into service soon; Queensland Governor calls for arms training in schools; invitation by Fraser to US nuclear warship to visit Australia; Trilateral Commission and new order; journalists against nuclear extermination; Reagan's plan for protracted nuclear war; gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe; war expenditure; radioactive waste in Byron Bay; Woomera satellite station and space war; unemployment and arms spending; Peace Studies in Britain; Interview with Jim Mitsos - delegate to UN disarmament session; US & USSR scientists discussion To Avert Nuclear War.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2012.0286 Unit 0003

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CreatorCongress For International Co-operation And DisarmamentRoleProvenance

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Date3 January-26 December 1982

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