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...MAGIC FLUTE (PBS, June 19, 8 p.m. on most stations). Artist David Hockney designed this Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart, starring Kathleen Battle...
...PIONEERS! (PBS, May 17, 9 p.m. on most stations). American Playhouse brings to TV a stage-musical version of Willa Cather's novel about Swedish immigrants on the Nebraska frontier, starring Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves...
Those sensational charges are advanced by British author Tom Mangold in a new book, Cold Warrior (Simon & Schuster; $22.95), and provide the basis for a PBS Frontline special, The Spy Hunter, airing May 14. Though allegations of wrenching divisions within the CIA in the 1960s and early '70s are not new, Mangold has managed to corroborate many of the details in interviews with former CIA officials who were so distressed over events of that era that they were willing to break their vow of silence. After three years of research, Mangold concludes that counterintelligence and the recruitment of Soviets -- both...
...appropriate to silence internal dissent. For example, Nixon's normalization of relations with China may not have occured if the public had known about the president's behind-the-scenes diplomatic posturing. It was appropriate to keep the ongoing initiative out of the public eye. If Schwarzkopf had told PBS on January 15 that the air offensive was slated to begin the next day, Bush would have been right to dismiss...
...MAHABHARATA (PBS, March 25, 26, 27, 9 p.m. on most stations). Another stage event, Peter Brook's marathon version of the Hindu sacred epic, comes to TV in three two-hour segments...