[An appeal by the Disaster group of five…]
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-03-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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An appeal by the Disaster group of five charities, for ½ million victims of the war in El Salvador and the repression in Guatemala, as well as refugees in Honduras and Nicaragua, has run up against the non-cooperation of the BBC and the big banks.
The five minute broadcast has involved .. a month of negotiations, with all kinds of conditions imposed before it could be shown.
The BBC consulted the Foreign Office, an unusual step for a charities appeal, before allowing it, and stipulated that any money collected would go exclusively to refugees. They also demanded it be screened within two weeks of February 26th [the day the decision to allow the facilities for the appeal was taken] so that it would not be too near the El Salvador 'election' on March 28th.
Britain is the only European country to send observers to the election and
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* World tews CHELOTS LONGHY COMR Organiser, Thursday. 18 March, INTRED