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Program Number: 3

 Item — Box: 10 LSF

Scope and Contents

Contents: Report: A look at Brazil's arms industry?the largest in the developing world; a story on the winner of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize, Argentine human rights activist Adolfo Perez Esquivel, and his criticism of several Latin American governments for human rights violations; a look at the biggest crackdown ever on political opposition in Haiti and its possible financial repercussions; a report on Belize, the Central American country slated for independence from Britain this year. Interview: George Jones, a U.S. diplomat in Guatemala, discusses Guatemala's territorial claims on Belize and why the dispute has been so difficult to resolve.

Recorded: December 19, 1980

Final Production: December 21, 1980

[Air Date]: January 14, 1981

Timings: v.o. 28:48, m.o. 29:00

Repository Details

Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository

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