Description: Philip Johnston and Bill Rodgers start campaign for no smoking by year 2000. Balloons rise in sky, released by children at State House. Ash tray, cigarettes, billboards, smokers, No Smoking symbol.
Description: NRC recognizes improvements made at Pilgrim nuclear plant and says it is nearly ready to restart operation, pending evacuation plan approval and ballot referendum outcome.
Description: Jon Parker on a personal mission, distributes clean needles and bleach to intravenous drug users in exchange for their used works. Heroin addicts shooting up. Needle in arm with blood. Syringe. AIDS.
Description: Harvard professor Howard Raiffa endorses negotiating a peaceful solution in the Persian Gulf by including the Israeli Palestinian conflict in the talks.
Description: Ray Flynn and Edward Kennedy address gathering to inaugurate new Boston City Hospital construction. Steam shovels and welder at excavation site adjacent to old BCH.
Description: Michael Dukakis, John Sununu, Joseph Brennan, Madeleine Kunin, William O'Neill, and Edward DiPrete hold a panel on Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. Dukakis and Sununu comment on their opposing views. Massachusetts Energy Secretary Sharon Pollard comments on a potential energy crisis. Following the edited story is b-roll footage from the panel presentations.