Item COLD WAR 27/142 - Transcript of interview with President Jimmy Carter, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, US President, 1977-1981, relating to the Middle East peace process, 1977-1978; US President Carter's conference with Muhammad Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, Camp David, Maryland, USA, 5 17 Sep 1978; the signing of the Camp David Accord by Carter, Sadat and Begin, agreeing the basis for a Middle East peace settlement, Sep 1978; Carter's human rights policy, 1977-1981; the Soviet reaction to the US human rights policy, 1977-1981; the influence of Carter's human rights policy on the democratic movements in eastern Europe, 1977-1981; Carter's desire to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the USA and the USSR, 1977-1981; the summit meeting between Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and US President Gerald Rudolph Ford, Vladivostok, USSR, Nov 1974; the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) in Europe, 1974-1977; the decision by US President Carter to deploy MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missiles in western Europe, Dec 1979; the summit meeting between Carter and Brezhnev, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), 1974-1979; Carter's support for US military expenditure on technologically advanced weaponry, 1977-1981; the US arms control proposal offered to the USSR by Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, and Paul Culliton Warnke, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Chief US Arms Control Negotiator, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1977; Carter's opinion of Brezhnev, 1979; the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the assassination of Muhammad Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, 6 Oct 1981; the deposition of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, Jan 1979; the Iran hostage crisis, the capture of the US Embassy and sixty six US hostages by Iranian followers of the Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Nov 1979-Jan 1981; the release of the US hostages after the inauguration of Ronald (Wilson) Reagan as US President, Jan 1981; the human rights record of the administration of the Shah of Iran, [1963]-1979; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dec 1979; the increase in Soviet and Cuban influence in Ethiopia, 1977-1980; the use by Arab oil producing countries of restriction of supplies as an economic weapon against western nations, 1977-1981. 44pp