Description: 1) Human services secretary Charles Mahoney speaks to advocates about increasing accountability and facing cutbacks; Hubie Jones rebuts. 2) Utah Gov. Scott Matheson speaks to Congressional committee on presumed radiation danger from nuclear fallout, comparing power plant reactor accidents and leaks to atom bomb tests. 3) Citizens group questions safety of Pilgrim I plant in Plymouth and requests shutdown and independent monitoring. 4) Michael Wheeler on public opinion about government regulation. 5) Massachusetts legal drinking age is raised to 20 while adjacent states are at 18; New Hampshire state liquor store; Sen. Sharon Pollard; neighboring alcohol sellers see boon to business. 6) R.D. Rosen visits New Age Exposition; counterculture accoutrements and tofu tasting. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1979
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: 1) Questions about BU investments through Commonwealth Partners; trustees and officers benefit privately, violate fiduciary responsibility; John Silber on Seradyn. 2) Daniel Ellsberg on US troop buildup in Saudi Arabia parallel to Vietnam. 3) Increasing incidence of AIDS among women; interview with Maryalice Guilford. 4) Gov. Dukakis on tax on professional services needed to make up budget deficit; Sen. Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1990
Description: 1) Interview with John McAward on peace talks in El Salvador civil war. 2) Brief on Dr. Benjamin Spock's arrest for protesting Reagan administration. 3) Hearing on need for elder care services and better wages for case workers. Richard Rowland, elder affairs secretary. 4) Infant mortality rate demands funding for neighborhood health centers. 5) Interview with Alexander Cockburn on media & coverage of politics. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/15/1984
Description: 1) MWRA is created to manage regional water supply; Alden Raine. 2) Briefs on Gorbachev meeting with Thatcher on SDI; Bhopal chemical spill aftermath; heart transplant recipient William Schroeder's condition. 3) Interview with Chris Carter of Grassroots International and Kurt Edgren of American Red Cross on Ethiopian drought and famine relief. 4) Exhibit of Tian Wei Liu's abstract Chinese ink paintings; artist at work. Anchors Harris and Vaillancourt
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/17/1984
Description: Brief on state senators making hateful comments about gays. Mayor White's liaison to gay community releases report on discrimination against gays. Mental health commissioner James Callahan on opening of group home in Jamaica Plain for deinstitutionalized patients. Brief on Wang Labs computer system for businesses to store records electronically, replacing paper documents. Profile of “liberal” Boston - part two of “Five Bostons” series looking at ethnic and political divisions of the city. Interview with Dennis Kearney, candidate for Boston mayor. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1983
Description: Claflin School (in snow) in Newton to be renovated into Hospice of the Good Shepherd. BHA administrator Lewis Spence proposes mixed income population for public housing projects; activist Ken Wade opposes plan. Interview with Michael Novak on US policy in Central America. Look back at Armenian genocide. Lucy derManuelian talks about art and culture of Armenia. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1984
Description: 1) Interview with Paul Doty and Uri Ra'anan on Soviet downing of KAL plane. 2) Brief on EPA declaring new hazardous waste sites eligible for Superfund cleanup, including Sullivan's Ledge Quarry in New Bedford contaminated with PCBs, and Iron Horse Park in Billerica for asbestos. 3) Brief on Boston police commissioner Joseph Jordan entering alcohol detox center in RI. 4) Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR or MRI) at Mass. General Hospital; file of spinal x-ray and CAT scan; patient being prepared to enter tube chamber; brain images; Bailus Walker, public health commissioner discusses relative merits and costs of the new technology for earlier diagnosis. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1983
Description: TOCN special on Evelyn Murphy as Democratic gubernatorial candidate. ,Fields
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/24/1990
Description: TOCN special on Frank Bellotti as Democratic gubernatorial candidate. ,Fields
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/17/1990