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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, battles between producers and censors continue to rage. "We have discussions with them every week about various lines," says Marshall Herskovitz, co-executive producer of ABC's thirtysomething. "Network TV still has a terrible attitude toward sex." With regard to political controversy too, the networks seem as timid as ever. Shootdown, the recent NBC movie about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, was altered at network insistence to soften its charges of a U.S. Government cover-up. Midnight Caller, already the target of protests from homosexual groups over a segment on AIDS airing next week, was forced...
Nora is a self-centered, live-for-today, would-be dancer (if only Mama and Uncle would give her the chance). Carnesale succeeds in portraying the shortsighted selfishness of her character in the first act, and her depiction of the various emotions of a 17-year-old are well executed through most of the play...
...Moran is charged with forcible rape of a child under the age of 16 and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 on various dates. Samoluk said part of the charge involved the use of a sharp instrument and threats made to the children that their parents would be killed if they spoke of the abuse...
Four women panelists, representing various disability groups, discussed their educational experiences, integration into mainstream society, and their role as disabled parents...
...what may be the final round of the battle over abortion. "I'm extremely worried," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). "I'm scared about what the court might do, and I'm concerned about George Bush." Though Bush has taken various positions on the issue over the course of his long political life, he campaigned for the presidency on a staunchly antiabortion platform. Last week he affirmed his commitment to that platform by deciding to keep as Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, an ardent convert to the antiabortion cause...