Correspondent and host Harry Ellis in Washington DC broadcasts a bulletin about the refugee situation in Afghanistan. Report opens with flashback scenes from December 1979 as Soviet aircraft bomb Afghanistan territory. Soviet helicopter MI-24 flies overhead. Situation in Afghanistan over the years since the invasion forces its people to leave their country. Current day scenes of Afghan refugees camped on land in Pakistan. Doctor checks the Afghan patients. Epitaphs of Afghanis who could not survive. Afghan Refugees work in Pakistan. Afghan laborer breaks stones and another laborer fills grain into containers and then into sacks. Afghan Aid Medical Clinic where volunteer doctors give free treatment to Afghan Refugees. Doctor and nurses attend to the patients. Afghan Refugees camped in Afghanistan. Man watches over a grazing herd of sheep. Young Afghani children at a village school in Afghanistan.
Overview of German logistics port at the Kerch Strait in Crimea, during World War 2. Smoke is rising in background from bombing by Soviet warplanes. Port facilities include a rail line and several piers. German soldiers crank up the door of a troop amphibious landing boat as it pulls away from the shore. Boats flying the German war ensign. Several of these boats carrying supplies move along the waterway. Scene shifts to airborne German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers in action. Closeups of some of them. Stukas diving with whine, and bombs striking Soviet targets below.
Television discussion about United States- Latin American relations in United States. Frank Carlucci answers the questions of the people regarding this topic. Maria C Siccardi presents the show. A question is asked from Buenos Aires regarding the Soviet/Cuban presence in Nicaragua. Discussion about the politics in Guatemala, changes required in politics in Guatemala. Talk about Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance meeting with Reagan. Also talks about the statement of Soviets to withdraw aid.
Two Soviet missiles readying for launch as their platforms raise from a horizontal to an angled position. View of a different missile from the base of its silo. A Soviet Army technician at a control panel preparing for a missile launch. Views of a missile emerging from its silo, with smoke and fire emitting from the sides of the silo as the missile rockets upward.
Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visits Cuba. A Soviet airliner arrives at the airport. Mikoyan emerges from the aircraft and waves. A large crowd of people gathered to witness the event. The press awaits his arrival. They click photographs. Mikoyan meets President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado and other Cuban dignitaries. Ernesto Che Guevara takes snapshots of Premier Mikoyan in a native hat that reads 'Cuba'. A gathering of Cuban officials and dignitaries. Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro among the guests. The Russian Premier with Prime Minister Fidel Castro at a reception. People eating. Castro drinking wine. 'National Institute for Agrarian Reforms' sign board. A sugarcane plantation. Farmers load the harvested sugarcane into trucks. A farmer drives cattle. People on the cart. Fidel Castro with other officials in the building from where the National Institute for Agrarian Reforms is run. Men and women farmers applaud and greet him. Castro talks to a little girl. Castro's men work with wooden planks to build homes for workers. An unfinished East Havana Housing Project. 'National Institute of Savings and Housing' board.
Four Russian scientists rescued from ice at Greenland Sea in the Arctic ocean. The deck of a Soviet ice-breaker. The North Pole camp on an iceberg. A man looks through binoculars from an Soviet ice-breaker. The marooned men.
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