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Contains papers relating to work of Ian Mather as defence correspondent for the Observer, includes records relating to his imprisonment and release in Argentina during the Falklands War.

Research files relating to Iran, arms control, the Falklands War and tenders for a Royal Air Force trainer plane.

Material includes newspaper clippings, typescript press releases, printed publications and printed reports.

Research material relating to the arms crisis between the United States (US), Western Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Material includes: newspapers, photocopies of articles and clippings from newspapers and periodicals, including clippings of Observer articles by Ian Mather; United States Information Service Wireless Files; printed interview transcripts with statements from Soviet dignitaries; briefings from the Defence Information Groups and School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford; press releases from 10 Downing Street, Novosti Press Agency, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Cruise Resistance and McDonnell Douglas Corporation; printed literature and leaflets from McDonnell Douglas Corporation, General Dynamics and Cruise Resistance; photocopies of correspondence between Cruise Resistance members and various individuals; maps of the United Kingdom (UK), Salt Lake Desert area in Utah, US, and the USSR and photographs, showing missiles being launched.

Subjects covered include: Warsaw Pact; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces and Strategic Defense Initiative talks in Geneva; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II); 'Star Wars' and the production, testing and deployment of cruise missiles in Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Holland; NATO; the setting up of Cruisewatch by Cruise Resistance, with the aim of monitoring the activities of cruise missile convoys in the UK, especially around the Greenham Common base in Salisbury Plain, Berkshire, England; protests organised by Cruise Resistance and CND in opposition to missile deployment; promotion of missiles from the General Dynamics company, who manufactured Tomahawk Ground Launch Cruise Missiles, used by the US Air Force; chronology of US/USSR summits since 1943; US President Ronald Reagan; Paul H. Nitze, special advisor to Secretary of State George Shultz, later special advisor to Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters; and Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

The majority of material is in English, but there is also material in Russian.

Research material relating to the Falklands War, 2 April and 14 June 1982.

Material includes: Newspapers, articles and clippings from British newspapers and periodicals such as the Guardian, the Times and Royal Air Force News and Navy News; typescript press releases from 10 Downing Street; and photocopies from Keesing's Contemporary Archives on the invasion of the Falkland Islands.

Subjects include: main events of the war, including the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano; the surrender of Argentina; and the resignations of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Lord Carrington, Lord Privy Seal Humphrey Atkins, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Richard Luce, and John Nott MP, whose resignation was not accepted.

Research material relating to the tenders of the Royal Air Force Basic Trainer, focusing on competition between the Embraer Tocano from Short Brothers Public Limited Company, and the Swiss Pilatus PC9 from British Aerospace.

Material includes: Printed transcript from the House of Lords discussing the tenders; letter from RJ Gordon of Short Brothers Public Limited Company to Ian Mather, inviting him to a lunch promoting their Tocano plane; promotional literature from Short Brothers Public Limited Company and British Aerospace; typescript press releases from British Aerospace and Short Brothers Public Limited Company; articles from newspapers and periodicals such as the Daily Telegraph, Flight and Jane's Defence Weekly, on the competition for the trainer plane tender, and announcing that Short Brothers Public Limited Company won the tender, with was followed by opposition from British Aerospace; and black and white and colour photographs from British Aerospace and Short Brothers Public Limited Company showing their trainer planes.

Telex reports and typescript and carbon copy drafts of articles written by Ian Mather on a range of defense issues.

Telex reports and typescript and carbon copy drafts of articles written by Ian Mather on a wide range of issues.

Subjects covered include: the Falklands War; efforts towards securing independence for Belize and civil unrest caused by paramilitary groups such as BAM (Belize Action Movement); mennonites living in Belize; Mossad and the murder of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany; events in Iran such as the downfall of President Bani Sadr, the hijacking of a Kuwaiti plane in Tehran, the American hostage crisis where 52 Americans were held in the American Embassy in Tehran, and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980; arms control, including descriptions of weapons, talks between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the deployment of cruise missiles in the United Kingdom; famine in Ethiopia; the IRA (Irish Republican Army) bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton; the European Economic Community, the Common Market and the Common Agricultural Policy; events relating to Libya, including the murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London.

Newspaper articles, press releases, copies of court papers, letters and notes relating to the imprisonment and release of Ian Mather, Simon Winchester and Tony Prime from their imprisonment in Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Argentina, during the Falklands War.

Photocopies of British and Argentinean newspaper articles relating to the imprisonment and release of journalists Ian Mather, Simon Winchester and photographer Tony Prime, who were arrested on suspicion of espionage by Argentine authorities in April 1982 during the Falklands War. Includes an article written by Simon Winchester on his experiences for his newspaper the Sunday Times.

Majority of material in English, but some material in Spanish.

Material relating to the imprisonment and release of journalists Ian Mather and Simon Winchester, and photographer Tony Prime (nicknamed The Ushuaia Three after the location of their prison) on suspicion of espionage by Argentinean authorities in April 1982, during the Falklands War.

The material, which is all photocopies, includes: an Argentinean pamphlet relating to the Argentinean Army having invaded the Falkland Islands; press releases from the Observer News Service, containing articles by Mather on his experiences in prison; papers from the Committee for the Release of the British Journalists held in Argentina, detailing the aims of the committee and the background to the situation; a letter he wrote while in prison, including extracts from his prison diary, to Donald Trelford (Observer editor), about life in jail, descriptions of the different prisoners and prison officials, and trying to contact friends and family; biographies of Ian Mather, Tony Prime and Simon Winchester; memos from Times Newspaper Limited relating to activities to try and release the men; copies of court papers relating to the bail applications for the journalists (in Spanish); transcripts of the grounds put forward by the prosecutor opposing bail of the journalists, and the grounds of the defence; transcripts of the interrogations of Tony Prime and Simon Winchester; press release from What the Papers Say announcing that the Observer won 'Newspaper of the Year' in 1982; press releases from Free the Journalists Committee or Committee for the Release of the British Journalists held in Argentina, which was specifically set up to campaign for their release; booklets from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ); poem by Mather's niece about the prisoners and the Falklands War; types and a memorandum titled 'The Ushuaia Three', describing efforts to drop the charges of espionage after their release.

Majority of material in English, but some material in Spanish.