Thanksgiving 1983 Soviet Saber-Rattling and Andropov's Mysterious Absence; NBC News Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee, Andrea Mitchell, Pat Trese, Tim Sebastian (BBC) & Chris Wain (BBC). Includes discussion of the mysterious disappearance from public view of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov; a clip of Soviet news announcing the response to the deployment of Pershing and cruise missiles to Europe; reaction from the Reagan Administration; analysis of the impact of the Soviet stance on future negotiations, and footage of the newly-deployed Soviet cruiser Slava, which would later be renamed Moskva (and sunk by Ukraine in 2023).
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[@larsrons7937]

Thank you for sharing this piece of history of an old broadcast. I find it interesting to see Tim Sebastian (then BBC) who's now on Deutsche Welle (Germany) and known to be sharp in his interviews.

[@UCLACommStudies]

It's our pleasure. Thanks for the background: we knew about the American reporters (who are still well-known here), but that's interesting detail on Sebastian!

[@larsrons7937]

@@UCLACommStudies You're welcome. Actually he's so sharp that the audience (in the comments) sometimes find him "too sharp", or rough. One need guts to be interviewed by him. When he isn't too rough on his guests he can be brilliant.

[@otisonyme9649]

Don't you have more pressing issues on your campus than releasing footage from 1983?

[@TSZatoichi]

Do you have to stop walking when you chew gum? UCLA has 31,000 employees in 174 buildings that span across 419 acres, they can deal with more than one thing at a time. They've also got somewhere near 50,000 students enrolled there, this video could easily be uploaded from the archive by one or more of those students as part of an ongoing project.

[@TSZatoichi]

If you want to see something interesting, go to the RUclips page and search "1968" and look at the list of the speakers they had that year, thanks to the people that have been uploading these videos from the archive, we ALL get to hear what those people had to say at such a crucial time in our history.

[@OmegaRedFan]

Very uneducated