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Kuwait and democracy

Description: BU professor Farouk El-Baz describes the wealth of Kuwait and generosity of citizens' services before war. In its "consensus' democracy, citizens were entitled to complain directly to the ruling family.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1991

Kuwaiti student

Description: Kuwaiti student at Tufts, Naif Almutawa, despairs for his besieged homeland. He says his country should not be expected to affiliate automatically with other Arab nations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/19/1991

LBJ during Vietnam war

Description: Doris Kearns Goodwin recounts LBJ's immersion in the Vietnam war, from choosing bomb targets to feeling responsible for soldiers. Truman announces dropping atomic bomb in WWII.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/15/1991

Laguer appeals conviction

Description: Benjamin Laguer appeals rape conviction to Supreme Judicial Court because of alleged racism in the jury. Exterior Gardner prison. Judge John Greaney.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1991

Laguer case reviewed

Description: Benjamin Laguer maintains his innocence of rape & robbery conviction. Juror in 1983 trial says another juror used ethnic slurs in deliberations. Laguer will get evidentiary hearing & possible retrial. SJC bench.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1991

Lengthening the school year

Description: Sen. William Barrett proposes lengthening school year to 200 days to bring students up to par with Asian and European counterparts in achievement. Lester Thurow and Ray Flynn concur.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/16/1991

Local Egyptian worries about relatives

Description: Local Egyptian worries about his relatives in Kuwait at the end of the Persian Gulf war.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/28/1991

Local Lithuanians

Description: Local Lithuanian-Americans listen to short wave radio for news from home about independence struggle and repression. Smuggled video of Soviet tanks & soldiers storming Lithuania, injured people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1991

Local Lithuanians protest

Description: Local Lithuanian Americans protest against Gorbachev's use force to quell unrest in Lithuania.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/14/1991

Local aid cuts protest

Description: Mayors, firefighters and police gather forces at State House to demand local aid cuts not be implemented in budget. Mayors Mary Hurley, Jordan Levy, Michael Capuano, Rep. Tom Birmingham.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/20/1991