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: Military analyst Barry Posen talks about sending US troops to Saudi Arabia compared to previous deployments in Panama and Lebanon. Soldiers, sailors. Defense Secretary Richard Cheney.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/08/1990
Description: Footage of Vietnam War combat. Interview with lawyer Howard Levine about his choice to be in ROTC, his service during Vietnam, his twin sons who know people in Persian Gulf war, and the justifiability of military draft. Close up on Bronze Star medal.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/14/1991
Description: Wellesley professor Larry Rosenwald talks about war tax resistance as a form of activism. He & wife withhold portion of taxes corresponding to % of federal budget for military. IRS considers it evasion.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1991
Description: Iraqi troops reported retreating. Wounded carried from Red Cross truck to marine helicopter. Trenches in sand. Smoke and flames from oil fires. US barracks in Dhahran hit by Scud missile, killing and wounding dozens. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/25/1991
Description: Soviet envoy Primakov tours Baghdad debris. Bush meets w/ French+British defense ministers; accuses Saddam of propaganda.Ground troops sit+wait in tent in Saudi Arabia. Colonel says troops will be patient. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/12/1991
Description: Iraqis await response to Soviet peace plan. John Major says Iraq will lose. Camel. Soviet spokesman announces Iraq's conditional acceptance. US officer says 'we're movin' out.' Troops pack up. Truck convoy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/21/1991
Description: Colin Powell says strategy on Iraqi army is "cut it off and kill it." Dick Cheney is vague on expected length of war. Bush says Desert Storm is working.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1991
Description: Bush congratulates himself on quick victory in ground war. Tanks roll into Kuwait. Gen. Schwarzkopf gives briefing on strategy and ridicules Saddam. "Welcome to Kuwait" sign. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1991
Description: Soviet advisor Nikolai Shishlin awaits Aziz's answer to peace proposal. Children step through Baghdad rubble. Baker says Iraq "will leave Kuwait soon." Soldiers in sand read,listen to radio,clean gun.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1991