| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to Saddam Hussein's speeches, interviews and public appearances. These include an Iraqi Press Office booklet for 'President Saddam Hussein meets British Media' (Baghdad, September 1982) with an accompanying newspaper report of the conference, numerous cuttings from the Baghdad Observer giving the full text of anniversary and political speeches by Saddam, as well as illustrated reports of presidential visits to places such as Hilla, Mahmoudiya, and the Kurdish Autonomous Region, a glossy 28-page booklet with the text of the President's Speech on National Day. The 13th Anniversary of July 17-30 1968 Revolution (1981), detailed reports - with transcriptions - of various press interviews with Italian, French and Arab journalists, Kuwaiti editors and Arab lawyers, the full statement of the Ninth Congress of the Regional Command of the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party (1982), detailed reports of interviews with Americans such as Stephen Solarz (US Congress) and Christine Moss Helms (journalist and author), text of speeches and statements compiled by the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, an address on Kurdish Cultural Affairs (Baghdad Observer, 11 March 1983), a press conference on Iran and nuclear reactors (Baghdad Observer, 23 July 1981), various cuttings from the Arab Times and Al Qabas (1987-88) and a copy of the Baghdad Observer (18 July 1983) with a front page photograph of Saddam with Ba'ath Party founder Michel Aflaq. |