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UN 18-Nation Committee on Disarmament meets in Geneva; Hundreds of thousands in Washington DC protest Vietnam war

Meeting of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament (United Nations) on January 27, 1966, at the Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Seen among others are: William C. Foster, U.S. representative,and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Soviet chief negotiator, S.K.Tsarapkin; and British representative, Lord Chalfont (Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont). Views of the meeting starting with Mr. Tsarapkin as the Chair. Camera pans interior of the Palace of Nations. View of the outside of the building. Press briefing with closeup of Mr. Tsarapkin as he voices the USSR support for discussion of draft treaties to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Closeups of U.S. delegate William Forster standing by a lake as narrator speaks of the hope for progress. Next scene is three years later: shows Joan Baez singing her song "Last night I had the strangest dream," at a Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam rally near the Washington Monument, in Washington, DC, on November 15, 1969. This gathering of hundreds of thousands of antiwar citizens, in peaceful protest, was organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. View of peaceful crowd of demonstrators gathered on the Washington Monument Grounds, listening to Baez sing. Next scenes show views of various boy and girls all over the world. Children of many races and nationalities are seen including Indian, Middle eastern, African, Asian, European, and American children. Some of the children are smiling or playing. Some are standing near a radar or radio control tower. One boy is standing behind barbed wire. Clip ends with scene inside a United States nuclear missile silo (possibly Minuteman), with a team of two Air Force personnel on duty, always at the ready to launch missiles if required. Closeup view of a 24 hour clock is seen ticking, and one of the personnel in the silo watches it closely. A key hangs from the clock. Another airman is seated at a desk in the missile silo.

Date: 1969
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037575
Iraqi soldiers question suspects on a street after a revolt in Iraq; also Jordanian soldiers and Israeli soldiers.

The results of a revolt in Iraq. Soldiers in jeeps and other vehicles move about on the streets after riots in Iraq. Iraqi Officers and leaders on review stand. A soldier salutes. Houses damaged as a result of the riots. Soldiers stand near a tank. A soldier works on a jeep and he shows the bullet marks on the vehicle. An officer questions a suspect as he takes down notes. Another officer looks on. Jordanian soldier loads a rifle and mans an outpost. Group of Jordanian soldiers holding rifles and being inspected. Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF) soldiers loaded into an open railroad car. Israeli soldiers traveling in an armored truck. They get off, holding rifles. IDF soldiers advance across a field. They check the papers of civilians and search them. A man puts up a poster on a wall. Civilians cheer as they demonstrate outside a building in Cairo, Egypt.

Date: 1966
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022119