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BRIBES FROM BAGHDAD [VIDEORECORDING] / PRODUCER, MICHELLE GAGNON ; CBC U.N.
PRODUCER, LOUIS HAMANN.
Off-air recording of the SBS programme broadcast 30/08/05. Copied under Part 5A
of the Copyright Act 1968.
Colour recording system: PAL ; Region all.
Copyright notice: Commonwealth of Australia. Copyright Regulations. 1969.
Warning.
Editor, Bob Schroeder ; researchers, Pam Clasper, Megan Williams.
Reporter, Terrence McKenna.
Documents the story of how 'Saddam Hussein pulled it off', during the First Gulf
War in 1991, derailing the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program. He was able to steal
billions while under the watchful eye of the U.N. The programme which was
supposed to demonstrate its effectiveness became its greatest embarrassment. The
case is now referred to as the largest bribery and corruption scandal in
history. From 1997 through early 2003, the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program
allowed Iraq to export oil in exchange for humanitarian supplies. Looks into the
extent to which this programme was corrupted by Iraq's attempts to deliberately
set the price of its oil below market prices in an effort to solicit bribes,
both in the form of direct cash bribes and in the form of political favours,
from the buyers of the underpriced oil. Investigates the extent to which the
fifteen members of the U.N. council, who controlled the programme, could be
implicated in the scandal. Spotlight on Kofi Annan who was then intimately
involved with the programme, and was instrumental in the negotiations with
Saddam, to bring about the plan. Includes interviews with Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
then U.N. Secretary-General, who supervised the whole enterprise; with comments
and his story of the programme. Includes selected archival and newsreel footage
of the 1991 Gulf War and U.N. sessions dealing with the case.
First released: [Canada] : Produced and distributed by the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, c2005.
DVD.
Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
ERC DVD.
341.75471 BRIB.
THE PRESIDENT VERSUS DAVID HICKS [VIDEORECORDING] / DIRECTED BY CURTIS LEVY AND
BENTLEY DEAN ; PRODUCED BY CURTIS LEVY.
Off-air recording of the SBS-TV program broadcast 18/3/04. Copied under Part 5A
of the Copyright Act 1968.
Narrator, Curtis Levy.
In January 2002 David Hicks was picked up in Afghanistan by the Northern
Alliance and handed over to the US military. He was taken to the American Naval
Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for interrogation and has been held there in a
small cage ever since. President Bush has labelled him an "unlawful combatant".
This means that he is allowed none of the rights of ordinary prisoners-of-war.
No charges have been laid against him and only recently has he been given access
to a lawyer. This program follows the journey made by Terry Hicks, David's
father, as he traces his son's footsteps in an attempt to understand what has
happened to him.
Some English subtitles.
ERC VID.
341.773 PRES.
BLOOD ON THE WATTLE [VIDEORECORDING] : AN EDUCATION RESOURCE FOR SENIOR
SECONDARY STUDENTS.
Producer of kit Michael Berry ; director of ABC program John Lander.
Presenters: Geoffrey Robertson, Peter Garrett.
Focuses on the importance and relevance of the Australian Constitution. Video
consists of the full program, Blood on the Wattle, as shown on ABC television (1
hr 14 min.) and five segments with questions posed by Peter Garrett. The five
sections are Crime and Punishment; Rights and Freedoms; Power and Authority in
the State of Uforia; The Constitution in Modern Australia and The Will of the