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PAC donations to incumbents

Description: Incumbent state legislators receive contributions to re-election campaigns from PACs & special interests. Common Cause points out disadvantage to challengers & wants to equalize the system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/14/1988

Parents of murdered children

Description: Meeting of support group for parents of murdered children. Crime victims.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/23/1988

Plight of UMass Boston

Description: UMass Boston staff and students march to State House to protest budget cuts at the school. Placards, chanting. Facade of downtown campus building. David Knapp.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/13/1988

Question 4 nuclear plant shutdown

Description: Ballot question 4 would shut down nuclear power plants. Mother blames her daughter's leukemia on proximity to Plymouth plant. Edison denies link to high cancer rate in area. Referendum ads.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/26/1988

Question 5 Palestinian homeland

Description: Question 5 on ballot in Newton and Cambridge asks if US should support establishment of Palestinian homeland. Palestinian rights activists campaign for it but majority of voters unaware of the referendum.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/21/1988

Reactions to Sununu appointment

Description: Steven Pierce is satisfied with appointment of John Sununu as White House chief of staff.Democrats & Seabrook neighbors disagree because of his differences with Dukakis & support of nuclear power.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/17/1988

Rest home workers

Description: State Rate Setting Commission established reimbursements too low to enable rest home owners to offer employees raises. Workers picket outside Commission office to demand better wages.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/17/1988

Retarded workers at Colgate-Hoyt

Description: Retarded workers in assembly line jobs, packing toothbrushes at Colgate-Hoyt plant in Canton. Supervisors speak highly of the reliability of these employees, despite lower productivity.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/05/1988

Route 93 interchange

Description: Charlestown residents are glad state is tearing down and detouring around stretch of Route 93 because its dangerous curves and congested access cause accidents. Artery.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/09/1988

Salvadoran refugees

Description: Salvadoran refugees arrested @ Suffolk Downs now have no means of earning a living. Centro Presente & Ray Flynn believe these immigrants should be given political asylum. Aliens, undocumented workers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/28/1988