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- December 1979 - December 1985 (Creation)
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3 files
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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.
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Additional material relating to Iran at Iran research files OBS/6/2/2/1/1/1; additional material relating to arms control at Arms control research files at OBS/6/2/2/1/1/2; additional material relating to the Falklands War at Falklands War research files at OBS/6/2/2/1/1/3, Falklands War OBS/6/2/2/1/3 and Correspondence at OBS/6/2/2/1/4.
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- Mather; Ian (1936-); journalist (Subject)
- Irish Republican Army (1969-); political organisation (Subject)