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People to people diplomacy interview with James and Peggy Baumgaertner
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- Creator
- interviewed by Rebecca Schnabel
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 2015
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- 1 CD-R (sound ; 4 3/4 in.)
- OCLC
- ocn965927485
- People to people diplomacy interview collection.
- Baumgaertner, James; dermatologist; Baumgaretner, Peggy; portrait artist; cofounders of the International Peace Lantern Exchange Program--Physicians for Social Responsibility; memorial for Hiroshima; April 1985--[Kasuashi] (sp?), Hiroshima survivor; first lantern float demonstration--International Peace Lantern Exchange Project (IPLEP)--1986 press conference on international exchange--La Crosse media reaction; Lanterns of Hope--organizing IPLEP; first travels to USSR; 1986--difficulties in Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Russia--trouble in Moscow; Zhukov, Yuri; head of Soviet Peace Committee; Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich--letter from Shestakov, Vladimir (Volodya); Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Russia, 1987-- Shestakov 's mother lived in Dubna, Russia; Bell, David--discussion between Bell and Baumgaertner; November 1987--Dubna became a strong connection--Bell suggests sister city connection to Baumgaertner-- council unanimous vote; no funding--IPLEP continuing today--Baumgaertner family involvement--Hanson, Charles; peace activism, cultural exchange--opposition to IPLEP from La Crosse, Wisconsin community--Success with IPLEP--Collapse of the Soviet Union--personal sacrifices made for IPLEP--Dubna La Crosse Friendship Acossiation (Dubna committee)--Baumgaertner's travels for IPLEP--Peace Lanterns in a museum for Chernobyl; Ukraine--technological difficulties--Russians who moved here; La Crosse, Wisconsin--Cold War Soviet visitors to the US--community reactions, both abroad and local; February 1990--negative reaction; Limbaugh, Rush--school children's reactions to Russian photos--Grechko, Georgy; cosmonaut; government surveillance, Baumgaertner phones tapped--personal cultural impact during travel through Eastern Europe--James' first visit to Dubna, February 1990--negative reactions to IPLEP; rubber duck float, sitting ducks--Baumgaertner's speaking in Russia; impromptu speeches; Soviet Peace Committee; Kubasov, Valeri Nikolayevich, cosmonaut--describing Baumgaertner’s possessions pertaining to Russia and IPLEP