Title:TOM KING AND GERHARD STOLTENBERG, PRESS CONFERENCE DURING EXERCISE WHITE RHINO AND EXERCISE FLYING KEY IN WEST GERMANY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFK 42
Other titles:BRITISH FORCES GERMANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Unedited films of a press conference with British Secretary of State for Defence, Tom King MP and the West German Minister for Defence, Dr Gerhard Stoltenberg during Exercise White Rhino concerning the Warsaw Pact and large scale military exercises and their effects on the West German countryside.
Description: I. Tom King MP, British Secretary of State for Defence and Dr Gerhard Stoltenberg, West German Minister of Defence, at a press conference at Burg Trendelburg Hotel in Trendelburg, Hessen. Stoltenberg gives a speech in German (part of which is translated at the end). King gives a speech concerning the exercise involving British and German troops, relationships with the Warsaw Pact and NATO, possible arms reductions and how they are responding to the German population's concerns by reducing the presence of tracked vehicles on roads at weekends and public holidays. He points out that both White Rhino and Flying Key are smaller scale exercises that reduce the amount of troops and vehicles and place more emphasis on the command and communication systems instead. The journalists put questions to both men.
II. Tom King MP, British Secretary of State for Defence and Dr Gerhard Stoltenberg, West German Minister of Defence at a press conference at Burg Trendelburg Hotel in Trendelburg, Hessen. Journalists put questions to both men on public concerns over military exercises and the environmental issues that large scale military manoeuvres raise. King points out that the exercise has a large number of staff dedicated to public relations providing help for local people and compensating them for any damage done.
Alternative Title:BRITISH FORCES GERMANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
