Item 1984/5 - Simpson Notebooks: Foreign affairs

1 item, paper

Notes, questions, and drafts of reports on various foreign affairs including:

(1) Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to Britain [last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991

(2) Chile

(3) negotiations between the USA and the Soviet Union to ease Cold War tensions (George Schultz, the US Secretary of State and Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs)

(4) British / German relations

(5) notes on the book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, a non-fiction biographical book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward detailing the meteoric rise and tragic drug-related death of comedian and Saturday Night Live star John Belushi at the age 33

(6) the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher and the breakdown of diplomatic relations between Britain and Libya

(1) After meeting Gorbachev Mr Thatcher said he was ‘a man one could do business with’, laying the groundwork for a thaw in Cold War relations before he became Soviet leader in 1985

(2) Chile was under the harsh military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet who ruled the country from 1973 to 1990