MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
April 12, 1986 -
April 12, 1986 -
April 12, 1986 - Hormel
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April 16, 1986 -
April 17, 1986 - Reporter Bruce MacDonald debrief about Honeywell protest, protestors, arrests. The usual annual demonstration, no surprises. MTC buses to take away those arrested. Protests hope to raise public awareness about Honeywell defense contracts, also this year include South Africa apartheid in cause. Bruce MacDonald part of Minnesota News Network. Info from log sheet: Bruce MacDonald takes in Honeywell demo. q/a 4:02, LO (host), ME
April 17, 1986 - No recording equipment allowed in meeting. Marv Davidov and other members of Honeywell Project urge Honeywell to stop making nuclear weapons and any arms systems used by Contra rebels in Nicaragua, wants Honeywell to move all operations and investments out of South Africa, and convert weapons factories to endeavors promoting peace and employment. Honeywell spokesman Edmund Spencer at subsequent news conference says 18 years of protest had have no effects on Honeywell business decisions. Honeywell thinks protestors are wrong, the way to bring peace into the world is for US to maintain a very strong defense position. Aerospace and defense division accounts for 27 percent of Honeyell earnings, in 1st quarter showed improvement while overall earnings down 43 percent. Spencer says Honeywell does mfr some systems used in bombing raid on Libya, but ll doesn?t know if Honeywell parts were used in that specific action.
April 18, 1986 - MPR’s Loren Omoto interviews John Camp, Pioneer Press reporter, on his celebration of winning 1986 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Reporting. Camp’s report was a series on how one family was dealing with the farm crisis. John Camp would later become famous as mystery author, John Sanford.
April 19, 1986 -