Description: Students at Boston Technical and Madison Park High Schools learn mediation techniques to settle disputes and prevent violence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1991
Description: Ellen Guiney, Lloyd King, Ted Landsmark tell what is lacking in Boston school reform after Mayor Flynn requests appointed school board. They say parent involvement, diversity, accountability are needed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1991
Description: Self-immolation of war protester Gregory Levey in Amherst brings responses from students, professor, resident, and member of nearby Buddhist community. Memorial flowers on town common at site of fire.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1991
Description: At Baird & McGuire Superfund site, dioxin and heavy metals are still being cleaned up to prevent further contamination of drinking water in Holbrook. Residents are concerned about cancer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1991
Description: Boston State Hospital, no longer used as mental health facility, is one of several surplus properties state could sell to be developed & create jobs if not for legislative backup. Abandoned, overgrown land.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1991
Description: Syrian president Hafez al Assad compared to Saddam Hussein as longtime unchallenged secular leader, ruthless extremist, and sponsor of terrorism. Bombing of West Berlin disco.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/12/1991
Description: Retrospective of fifteen years of The Ten O'Clock News through montage of anchors, reporters, newsroom and control room scenes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/30/1991
Description: Advocates for poor protest outside House Ways and Means chair Rep. Thomas Finneran's office against budget cuts; Reps. John McDonough, Stanley Rosenberg. Parcel 18 Ruggles Center in Roxbury to be occupied by Registry of Motor Vehicles; Mayor Raymond Flynn, Gov. William Weld, BRA executive director Stephen Coyle, Rev. Tony Bethel. Architect's scale model of City of Boston development in Coyle's office. Studio interview with Myron Weiner (MIT) and Kishore Mandhyan (BC) on assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and election violence in India. Young Boston children make fanciful, recycled art of objects from industrial surplus bins. Dr. Walter Drew of Institute for Self Active Education encourages this for its free-spirited creativity and joyous expression.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991
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
Description: Teens talk candidly about their use of condoms and their awareness of disease risk. Boys playing basketball. Girls congregate on benches outside Cambridge Library. High school students.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/01/1991