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  • Discussing Nicaragua with Carlos Vias

    Oct. 29, 1986
  • Discussing life in El Salvador with development worker Jennifer Casolo

    1980
  • Discussing Klaus Barbie and Erhard Dabringhaus with author Francine du Plessix Gray

    Mar. 1, 1984
  • Discussing Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) with Professor of Arabic literature and General in the Israeli Army Reserve, Matityahu Peled

    Jan. 1, 1977
  • Discussing Ireland, Africa, and world history with Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien

    Jun. 6, 1985
  • Discussing Guatemala with human rights activist and author Dr. Raul Molina and an exiled Guatemalan, Maria X

    Mar. 23, 1984
  • Discussing civil liberties in Chile

    Sep. 1, 1978

    Discussing civil liberties in Chile with Isabel Letelier and Michael Moffitt, the authors of a report for the Institute for Policy Studies: "Human Rights, Economic Aid, and Private Banks: The Case of Chile."

  • Discussing bicentennial time and interviewing Otto Friedrich

    Jun. 1, 1975

    Otto Friedrich discusses his "Time" magazine piece, his writing, and American history. Songs "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Free America" by Joseph Warren, a German song, an 18th century Boston Tea Party song, and an 18th-century British soldier song have been removed for copyright restrictions.

  • Discussing Amnesty International and interviewing Rose Styron

    Feb. 9, 1976
  • Discussing American foreign policy and practices with American Catholic missionary Father James Sinnott

    Nov. 22, 1983
  • Discussing a trip to the Soviet Union with Sharon Tennison and Barbara Rinnan of The Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI)

    Feb. 1, 1985

    CCI maintains citizen-to-citizen networks between the US and the USSR in an attempt to empower ordinary citizens to take responsibility.

  • Presenting a rebuttal to editorials opposing the nuclear arms freeze.

    Discussing a rebuttal to editorials opposing the nuclear arms freeze

    Oct. 27, 1982

    Presenting a rebuttal to editorials opposing the nuclear arms freeze with Dr. Jack Geiger, Dr. George Kistiakowsky, Dr. Herbert (Peter) Schoville and Dr. Kosta Tsipis of MIT.

  • Dieter Lattman discusses his career as a German writer and freelance journalist and his life after WW II ; part 1

    Mar. 1, 1967

    Studs interview with German writer and freelance journalist, Dieter Lattman, who shares his military family background and the influence that WW II had on his desire to involve himself in politics. They discuss other German authors and the German family and culture. Studs quotes German journalist and political critic, Joachim Kaiser, who called the young people of Germany a "fatherless generation." Studs interviews Lattman in Germany.

  • Dennis Brutus discusses the non-violent fight against Aparthied in South Africa and reads his poetry

    Sep. 13, 1972

    Dennis Brutus reads several of his poems from the book "Letters to Martha and Other Poems From a South African Prison" (Letters number 1, 9, 17 - "In prison"). Dennis Brutus discusses the 1972 Summer Olympics and being imprisoned for being an activist against Apartheid and the unreasonable laws that went along with Apartheid. Interview begins with excerpt of interview with Chief Albert John Luthuli (excerpt from 1895817-6-1).

  • Denis Mack Smith discusses the book “Italy: A Modern History”

    May. 30, 1964

    Visiting Professor of History at the University of Chicago Denis Mack Smith discusses the book “Italy: Modern History.” Smith primarily focuses this discussion on the political history of Italy.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

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