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CBC-TV News in Review: October 1997*

• 1997 ----- color ----- 59 min ----- vhs
• Segments: 1. The Indian Subcontinent: Turning 50 (14 min) On the anniversaries of India and Pakistan, CBC reporter Satinder Bindra looks at the current state of Indian society after 50 years of independence and partition. 2. Nuclear Power: Pulling the Plug? (14 min) Once the envy of the world, the Ontario Hydro nuclear program was revealed as having serious financial, managerial, and operational problems. Environmental questions are again being asked. 3. North Korea: The Secret Famine (12 min) CBC reporter Raymond St. Pierre, one of a handful of Western journalists allowed into North Korea, reports on the food crisis in the last Stalinist stronghold in the world. 4. The Mir Space Station: Keeping It Together (15 min) Human error and technological difficulties plague Mir, a symbol of international co-operation and technological excellence. It will be remembered as an important but intermediary-stage project that lived long enough to become flawed. (Closed-Captioned) (Extensive study guide available upon request) (Donated by the Department of Canadian Studies) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)
• Topics: (Aero/Astronautics, Atomic Energy, Canadian Studies, Energy, Far Eastern Studies, History: Asian, Political Science: Asian, South Asian Studies)

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