MONITOR RADIO: DAILY EDITION {SOVIET COUP} (RADIO)
Summary
One in this series of news, culture and human interest magazine programs. Rob Nelson and Pat Bodnar host this program, which includes news reports and interviews. Highlights include the following: Nelson interviews reporter Dan Sneider regarding that day's overthrow of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by Communist Party hardliners; Jean Hacklander offers reaction from President George Bush regarding the coup; Russian President Boris Yeltsin calls on the people to resist the coup; Rod Macleish reports from Moscow on the coup leaders; Nicholas Pilugin in Moscow offers comments from a concerned Moscow resident; Michael Richards reports on the reaction to the coup in Washington. D.C., with comments from Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney; Tara Siler reports from Washington regarding the now dubious status of recent U.S.-Soviet treaties; reaction to the coup from around the world includes reports from London (with comments from Margaret Thatcher and British Prime Minister John Major), Berlin, Paris, Jerusalem, and New York. Also included is part one of a five-part report by John Rudolph on how mayors of cities across the U.S. are dealing with their constituents' anger during a time of fiscal problems and reduced services. Mayor Maynard Jackson of Atlanta is interviewed for this report. There is also an environmental report on how untreated industrial waste from Cairo factories may be polluting Egypt's Nile River.
Details
- NETWORK: APR American Public Radio
- DATE: August 19, 1991
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:04
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R:10373
- GENRE: Radio - Magazine; Radio - News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Soviet Union - Attempted coup, 1991-; Soviet Union - Administrative and political divisions; Soviet Union - Politics and government - 1985-; Autonomous soviet socialist republics; U S S R - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S - Foreign relations - U S S R
- SERIES RUN: APR American Public Radio - Radio, 1991
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Rob Nelson … Host, Interviewer
- Pat Bodnar … Host
- Dan Sneider … Reporter
- Jean Hacklander … Reporter
- Rod Macleish … Reporter
- Nicholas Pilugin … Reporter
- Michael Richards … Reporter
- Tara Siler … Reporter
- David Broncaccio … Reporter
- Michael Callimback … Reporter
- Wendy Hanamura … Reporter
- Bill Ehrickson … Reporter
- Jim Lederman … Reporter
- Danny Lehrecke … Reporter
- John Rudolph … Reporter
- George Bush
- Dick Cheney
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Saddam Hussein
- Maynard Jackson
- John Major
- Margaret Thatcher
- Gennady Yanayev
- Boris Yeltsin