Description: 13 year old Cambodian boy in Lowell drowns, pushed into canal by white boy. Racial prejudice apparent in city with largest Cambodian community on east coast.
Description: Cambodians are one fourth of Lowell population. Residents there are bitter about immigrants receiving welfare. Cambodian businesses, Khmer signs. Adults in English class.Inside Buddhist temple. Man with returnable cans.
Description: Inside Cambridge Trust Company bank customers write checks and present them to tellers to be cashed. Wide shot of UMass Boston contemporary brick buildings along Dorchester Bay. Planes fly low over campus on approach to airport.
Description: Cambridge activist attempted to visit El Salvador as part of Sister City Project but was denied entry. She wonders if US is also thwarting her efforts. File of Salvadorans.
Description: Michael Dukakis and Paul Tsongas attend announcement of Cambridge public schools computer literacy campaign. Mayor Alfred Vellucci. Four children at terminals.