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Antiwar activists

Description: Three antiwar activists from different interest groups discuss what is wrong with Persian Gulf war and media coverage: military censorship, ignoring peace movement, failure to portray human element.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1991

Antiwar demonstration

Description: On brink of Persian Gulf war, protesters amass in Government Center chanting 'no blood for oil,' block traffic on Storrow Drive and in financial district. Police break up blockade in front of JFK building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1991

Arab students discuss the war

Description: Interviews with Arab students at local college. They discuss the prejudice they experience and their conflicting loyalties in the Persian Gulf war. They say people should not be targeting Arabs, Muslims, or Iraqis in general, but Saddam Hussein.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/22/1991

Baker in search of peace in Israel

Description: Israelis protest James Baker's meeting with Palestinian leaders, including PLO supporter Faisal Husseini. Israeli Saadia Touval and Palestinian Souad Dajani tell their positions on giving land for peace.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/12/1991

Bank of New England failure

Description: Sen. John Kerry and a banking attorney reassure depositors in the failed Bank of New England that their accounts are insured by the FDIC.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1991

Bank of New England sale

Description: Bank of New England is acquired by Fleet/Norstar of Providence. William Seidman of FDIC announces the deal. Terrence Murray, chair of Fleet, talks about the merger. Ira Stepanian of Bank of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/22/1991

Bar Association vs. Weld on sentencing

Description: Michael Keating of Boston Bar Association says sentencing is disproportionate to crime & disagrees with Weld's stance on lengthening and toughening sentences. Many shots of overcrowded prison.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1991

Beverly Sills

Description: Interview with Beverly Sills on experiencing prejudice as woman directing an opera company and how the world is changing to allow women more opportunities. She comments on opera as expensive art form and how she tried to make quality opera that all people could afford, and that if specific opera communities are catering to the elite, she thinks the consumer can "make a lot of noise" and help to change that. She also mentions censorship in the arts and Robert Mapplethorpe. Clips of Sills singing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/17/1991

Big Bang theory

Description: Philip Morrison says big bang theory has been replaced as explanation of universe's origin. Margaret Geller talks about great wall of clusters theory of formations in the cosmos. Plasma+inflation theories.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/30/1991

Birmingham Six released

Description: Birmingham Six, wrongly suspected IRA terrorists, free after 15 years in prison. Convictions reversed because of coerced confessions &evidence tampering. Christine McAuley of Sinn Fein. Shirley Williams.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1991