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...tangled claims and counterclaims over operating rights to Channel Five may finally be resolved today, when the FCC meets for the first time this year in Washington...
Today's meeting follows last Wednesday's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals not to reconsider the FCC's 1969 ruling that the broadcast license for Channel Five in Boston be granted to Boston Broadcasting...
...January, 1969, WHDH's license to Channel Five ran out, and was awarded to BBI, a private company with a number of Harvard professors as shareholders. Previously, four other challengers had battled unsuccessfully for 13 years to wrest the license from WHDH...
Environmentalists argue that oil drilling in the Atlantic could shatter the marine ecology and ruin resort areas, particularly around Long Island and New Jersey. They point ominously to three disastrous oil leaks in recent years, two off Louisiana and one in California's Santa Barbara Channel, which fouled beaches and killed wildlife. In rebuttal, oilmen argue that their record is good: only three major spills from more than 14,000 offshore drilling operations. To that, environmentalists reply that there are countless unreported small leaks that together pump far more pollution into the sea than the big spills...
...moon shone that Saturday night in March 1960 in St. Martin, a picturesque dot of a town on the coast of Jersey, largest of the bucolic Channel Islands. As the village slept, a silent intruder broke into a small cottage, abducted a 14-year-old girl from her ground-floor bedroom and led her to a nearby field, where he raped her and nearly strangled her by twisting a rope around her neck...