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- 2 February 1981-12 October 1988 (Creation)
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1 file
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Letters and copy letters mostly about articles or books, offered for publication or review, or complaints.
Contains references to a published reply to an open letter possibly containing an implied accusation of anti-Semitism, May 1981; severe printing difficulties on 7-8 November 1982; general election coverage and reflections, May-July 1983; accusation of a breach of a Readers' Digest embargo, September 1983; Sarah Tisdall's case, including the setting up of a fund for her and other victims of executive or political prosecutions, March 1984; an abandoned investigation into election expenses, March-April 1984; the settlement of the Michael Meacher libel case, January 1985; letter from Peter Mandeson about the Labour Party's use of a Guardian Marplan Poll, February 1986 and a statement from The People's Mojahedin of Iran condemning a bomb blast in Tehran, August 1986.
Contains three letters in Spanish.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole
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Subject to access restrictions in line with the Data Protection Act.
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- Cole; Peter; journalist and academic (Subject)
- McKie; David John (1935-); journalist (Subject)
- Torode; John Arthur; journalist (Subject)
- Tisdall; Sarah; civil servant (Subject)
- Meacher; Michael Hugh (1939-2015); politician (Subject)
- Mandelson; Peter Benjamin (1953-); politician (Subject)