Description: Philip Johnston and Bill Rodgers start campaign for no smoking by year 2000. Balloons rise in sky, released by children at State House. Ash tray, cigarettes, billboards, smokers, No Smoking symbol.
Description: PROBLEMS OF AIR TRAFFIC AND NOISE POLLUTION AROUND LOGAN AIRPORT AND HANSCOM FIELD. Mary Ellen Welch, Anna DeFronzo, David Davis, Massport.
Description: Essayist and critic Nat Hentoff visits his old Dorchester / Roxbury neighborhood and talks about antisemitism in the 1930s and 1940s and the evolution of the area.
Description: Boat owners and union officials at contract negotiation stalemate in New Bedford fishermen's strike. Mayor comments. Buckets of just caught fish being hauled up from boat.
Description: Michael Dukakis, John Sununu, Joseph Brennan, Madeleine Kunin, William O'Neill, and Edward DiPrete hold a panel on Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. Dukakis and Sununu comment on their opposing views. Massachusetts Energy Secretary Sharon Pollard comments on a potential energy crisis. Following the edited story is b-roll footage from the panel presentations.
Description: OVERCROWDING AT NORFOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTION. SHERIFF CLIFFORD MARSHALL. Jail cells. Guard opens and closes barred door to cell tier, showing heavy sliding locking mechanism.
Description: Citizens testify against proposed sites for dumping nuclear waste in New Hampshire. Sununu. Snowy rural environs. Seabrook aerial. Radioactive.