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...those necessary to avoid a collision. Says John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "A computer can only react to the possibilities that have been programmed into it." Some experts speculate that because the Airbus jet's wheels were down as it swooped over the air show, the computers might have been tricked into thinking the plane was landing. Airbus officials discount this possibility...
When the U.S. Government used a new antiterrorism law to attempt to shut down the Palestine Liberation Organization's United Nations observer mission last December, the U.N. was outraged. In a rare show of unity, the members, Israel excepted, voted that the U.S. action violated the headquarters agreement signed when the world body moved to New York City...
...several years before she turned her attention to the decadent doings of wealthy Wasps, Dynasty Co-Creator Esther Shapiro brought NBC a script for a much different sort of TV show. Called Maid in America, it was a bittersweet movie about a Hispanic girl who goes to work for an upper-middle-class Anglo family. NBC executives praised the script but ultimately turned thumbs down. The reason, Shapiro recalls, was expressed in one blunt comment: "Tacos don't get numbers...
...that the medium isn't trying. Trial and Error, a sitcom starring Mexican-born Comic Paul Rodriguez as the grungy half of a mismatched pair of Hispanic roommates, debuted on CBS in March. But the show drew abysmal ratings and was canceled after just three weeks. Juarez, a drama about a Mexican- American lawman in El Paso, was intended to go on ABC's prime-time schedule last January. It was abandoned because of "creative differences" between the network and Writer-Producer Jeffrey Bloom (who had his name removed from the credits when one episode was finally aired in late...
Network executives insist that they are receptive, even eager, for shows $ dealing with Hispanic characters and culture. "Everyone is dying to come up with a Hispanic show," asserts Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC. "It would be good for the Spanish-speaking population and for the network." What is needed most is a successful series that would encourage TV's favorite pastime: imitation. Says Norman Lear, whose a.k.a. Pablo (also starring Rodriguez) had a short run in 1984: "As soon as a TV hit comes along, they'll copy it 100 times...