Music

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wall FO 371/163668 5 to 7 Visual American diagrams relating to the Berlin air corridor FO 371/163695 311 Visual Copy of a musical …

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

sixties brought reports about jazz and even pop music being played at clubs and on the radio, about unrestricted …

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the internal political situation in Bulgaria. The documents cover meetings of the Bulgarian Central Committee and National Assembly concerning a new labour code, …

you will know, the corrupting charm of western music has long been a source of concern to regimes in … is a sufficiently "artistic" content in their music and that the atmosphere of discotheques is not … concern over modes of dress, the encroachment of pop music and increasing disrespect for the law amongst young …

A file of correspondence and reports concerning a proposed Anglo-East German agreement on economic and industrial cooperation. The documents include drafts of the proposed agreement, which provides for the development …

elastics, dyestuffs and intermediates, l FSM; | I • • - ^Fertilizers; I ' s ° o d s \ specially furniture, toys, musical … , dyestuffs and intermediates, j I ESMi | I - Fertilizers; { • • - Consumer goods, especially furniture, toys, musical … plastics and elastics, dyestuffs and intermediates, PSM; - Fertilizers; - Consumer goods, especially furniture, toys, musical …

A file of documents concerning Anglo-Czechoslovak political relations. Subjects discussed in the file include the settlement of British financial claims against Czechoslovakia; the return of wartime gold to Czechoslovakia; Anglo-Czechoslovak …

service will include short prayers, readings and music by the Coventry Corps of Drums and a miner's band …

encompassed all aspects of the food processing sector with the exception of dairy products, a wide range of cultural goods (musical … Other areas where GDR exports could be increased included further sales of musical instruments, hand- bags etc. …

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the leading personalities in Hungary in 1982. The report offers personality notes and career profiles on leading members of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' …

interest in sport. He is fond of classical ^ ^ music, particularly opera. 9 CONFIDENTIAL | CONFIDENTIAL … First Deputy Minister with responsibility for music and the theatre. At the 9th Party Congress (1966) … and Ranki (both historians). He is very fond of music. ^ Civilised and frank. BISZKU, BELA Member … closely on industrial as well as trade policy. Likes music and is a keen oarsman. KAPOLYI, DR LÁSZLÓ State … Russian. Married, with two sons. Dislikes classical music. LORINCZ NAGY, JANOS Head of Finance Department …

it are alike high. The general achievement in music (especially singing) is, my Welsh-born Cultural …

will consider the appoint- cipants in language, music and drama I Director, East Europe & North Asia …