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Description: 1) David Boeri gets copies of property tax checks paid by St. Botolph Realty Trust and traces the flow of money through the trust, involving Harold Brown, Thomas Finnerty, and inexplicably William Bulger. Attorney Paul Garrity comments. 2) Boeri debriefs on set. 3) Meg Vaillancourt reports on outside income earned by state senators while they are apparently claiming per diem expenses incurred during public service. Sen. Brian Lees and Senate Ethics Committee are not inclined to investigate. 4) Deborah Wang reports on state's effort to stimulate foreign trade with Mass. businesses through Office of International Trade and Investment; Howard Foley of High Technology Council; Gov. Dukakis on increasing exports; Quest Systems develops light emitting compound for medical diagnosis and wants to market outside US. Anchors Lydon and Fields.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/02/1989

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Description: 1) In State of the City address at JP High Mayor Ray Flynn laments struggling economic health of Boston even as state is booming. 2) Interview with Samuel Tyler of Boston Municipal Research Bureau on city's tenuous finances. 3) Gov. Michael Dukakis signs bill to hasten conversion of abandoned buildings to affordable housing. 4) Reps. William Robinson and David Cohen debate rules reform on late night legislative sessions; Reps. Gregory Sullivan, Lawrence Alexander, Andrew Natsios; Robinson on speaker's platform with George Keverian. 5) Brief on aggressive tactics of anti- abortion protesters, reporting that Joseph Stanton of Citizens for Life denies escalating attacks on clinics, calling protesters “sidewalk counselors.” 6) Interview with Roger Fisher on Geneva arms limitations talks. 7) Felicia Lamport verse on arms talks. Anchors Lydon and Vaillancourt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1985

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Description: Before news broadcast: Ted O'Brien advertises WGBH membership; advertisement for "Vietnam: Present Tense" program with Seth Rolbein; James Earl Jones advertises "Long Ago and Far Away" program; 1)Carmen fields reports on revelations on Sen. William Bulger's questionable investment in American Cablesystems Midwest with Harold Brown and Thomas Finnerty. 2) David Boeri debriefing on set on Bulger. 3) Sludge processing at Deer Island treatment plant turns sewage into compost and pelletized fertilizer; Paul Levy of MWRA and Michael Deland of EPA; incinerator in Lynn. 4) History of Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, now landfill repository. Anchors Lydon and Fields. 5) Report on President George Bush Sr.'s tax campaign and Congressional leaders meeting about budget. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recommends budget restrictions, rather than taxes. 6) New childcare package is political olive branch between political parties. 7) National Urban League report on poverty and income conditions among black people. 8) Execution of serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida. 9) Pennsylvania native Barbara Harris chosen as first woman bishop in Anglican Communion, ordained by Boston Archdiocese.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989

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Description: 1) Attorney general Frank Bellotti on trying to stop Seabrook full power operating license. 2) Interview with NH governor candidate Paul McEachern on Seabrook. 3) Public health commissioner Bailus Walker on studying incidence of cancers near nuclear power plants; testifies before House Ways and Means chair Richard Voke. 4) Jesse Jackson at State House urges access to higher education by keeping state college tuition affordable. 5) Interview with Dudley Herschbach, professor of chemistry at Harvard, after winning Nobel Prize. Likes teaching freshmen because it keeps him focused on fundamentals. Compares science to art and music because they "can change they way you look at things." He assigns poetry writing to his students and reads a sample on quantum mechanics. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1986

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Description: 1) Human services secretary Charles Mahoney speaks to advocates about increasing accountability and facing cutbacks; Hubie Jones rebuts. 2) Utah Gov. Scott Matheson speaks to Congressional committee on presumed radiation danger from nuclear fallout, comparing power plant reactor accidents and leaks to atom bomb tests. 3) Citizens group questions safety of Pilgrim I plant in Plymouth and requests shutdown and independent monitoring. 4) Michael Wheeler on public opinion about government regulation. 5) Massachusetts legal drinking age is raised to 20 while adjacent states are at 18; New Hampshire state liquor store; Sen. Sharon Pollard; neighboring alcohol sellers see boon to business. 6) R.D. Rosen visits New Age Exposition; counterculture accoutrements and tofu tasting. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1979

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Description: Interview with Samir al-Khalil (a/k/a Kanan Makia), author of “Republic of Fear,” on Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1991

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Description: 1) Questions about BU investments through Commonwealth Partners; trustees and officers benefit privately, violate fiduciary responsibility; John Silber on Seradyn. 2) Daniel Ellsberg on US troop buildup in Saudi Arabia parallel to Vietnam. 3) Increasing incidence of AIDS among women; interview with Maryalice Guilford. 4) Gov. Dukakis on tax on professional services needed to make up budget deficit; Sen. Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1990

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Interview with John McAward on peace talks in El Salvador civil war. 2) Brief on Dr. Benjamin Spock's arrest for protesting Reagan administration. 3) Hearing on need for elder care services and better wages for case workers. Richard Rowland, elder affairs secretary. 4) Infant mortality rate demands funding for neighborhood health centers. 5) Interview with Alexander Cockburn on media & coverage of politics. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/15/1984

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) MWRA is created to manage regional water supply; Alden Raine. 2) Briefs on Gorbachev meeting with Thatcher on SDI; Bhopal chemical spill aftermath; heart transplant recipient William Schroeder's condition. 3) Interview with Chris Carter of Grassroots International and Kurt Edgren of American Red Cross on Ethiopian drought and famine relief. 4) Exhibit of Tian Wei Liu's abstract Chinese ink paintings; artist at work. Anchors Harris and Vaillancourt
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/17/1984

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Description: Brief on state senators making hateful comments about gays. Mayor White's liaison to gay community releases report on discrimination against gays. Mental health commissioner James Callahan on opening of group home in Jamaica Plain for deinstitutionalized patients. Brief on Wang Labs computer system for businesses to store records electronically, replacing paper documents. Profile of “liberal” Boston - part two of “Five Bostons” series looking at ethnic and political divisions of the city. Interview with Dennis Kearney, candidate for Boston mayor. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1983