European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 americans time of pain makes a great series Young Blacks arc maced by police outside a Kansas school building in a painfully typical scene from the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and Early 1970s. Sarah b0tt0rff to plus editor yes on the prize takes you Back to another time when people were often scared to put their children on a school bus. The guards and the guns weren to there because of the possibility of terrorist attacks though. They were there because Black children wanted to go to White schools. It puts things in perspective somehow to Sec this harrowing minis pics on 25 years of civil rights struggles. While we re scared now afraid for our people in the Gulf and afraid at Home thank god we can say its a temporary thing. The fear and the shootings and the riots and the sheer hate that is americans racial history went on for years. And although this minis pics ends on a note of Hope it also leaves you with the Strong feeling that at some times and Many places in America the evil history goes on and on. A follow on to an earlier eyes on the prize series this one starts in the Early 1960s, when As narrator Julian Bond says the Laws but not the hearts and minds of America had been changed. The program from american Public television shoots a series of film clips and interviews at you in rapid fire. And what images. There a Malcolm a incredibly charismatic mesmerizing a crowd As he shouts a a you arc better than a White man.�?�. There a a Young Jesse Jackson hippie beads around his neck. There a a Young Mike Wallace stunned As All innocent White liberals were at the time to discover the Power of the Black Power movement and the anger behind it. Mostly though there is image after image of Ordinary people. A Young Black Soldier from the 82nd airborne for example fresh from Vietnam and now sent into Detroit to help restore order in the deadly race riots. A How docs it feel a a dumb newsman  not a Good feeling a he sighs a but its a Job. Its a duty it has to be  some of this series May be a Little shocking for kids a and for adults. But it needs to be seen and not Only because it May take your mind off the Gulf War. This is stunning material. Timing the broadcasts for the beginning of february Black history month an to plans to Start the minis pics saturday afternoon. Southern european broadcast ing will air it tuesday and thursday afternoons beginning feb. 5. Ebs to in Torr Jon Spain has it on sunday evenings and tv-2 Rota Spain has already started airing it on saturdays. There we Are watching Abc news when some cameraman cuts Back too quickly to Ted Koppel and there he is puffing madly on a cigarette. Oops. In the midst of a Pentagon press conference carried live by a in via armed forces radio and television service suddenly the words appear on the screen a this is a test of the emergency coach potato  oops. They probably meant Couch potato anyway in the midst of a film clip showing Saddam Hussein somebody puts on the logo a Rafn  an salutes Saddam Hussein oops. Well its been an interesting couple of weeks for to coverage. Given the crush of news there re bound to be boo Boos All the Way up and Down the line. When you Slop and think of it though Hasni to most of it been impressive while you expect brilliance from the billion Dollar networks its pretty Good to see military television from arts on Down scrambling from one network feed to the next in an unprecedented situation and doing a i think a pretty darn Good work1 a. A a a. A a. A a. On the subject of War coverage the arts decision to kick sports off the air for the duration also applies to such programs As entertainment tonight and sports machine. 60 minutes 48 hours and prime time live will still air. Letters 1 read with interest the letter Jan. 20 concerning the an to spots featuring the 12th aviation brigade. That coverage has been heavy for two reasons. One the 12th aviation brigade deployed to saudi Arabia in september and was the first european unit to do so. Two dedicated efforts of sgt. 1st class Steve. Davis of the v corps Public affairs office have resulted in video footage radio spots and countless newspaper articles and photographs intended a for Community newspapers some of which have even been reprinted in army times and German new papers. Since Vii corps deployed to saudi Arabia i have relieved Davis from his attachment to the 12th aviation brigade and attached him to Vii corps to assist in covering those units from v corps that deployed with Vii corps. Now that the 12th aviation brigade is not the Only european based unit deployed coverage should expand. I expect Davis will continue to produce Quality work for an expanded audience. Contrary to Afna a response to your writer there is no tv-5 Crew covering the 12th aviation brigade. Tv-5 and others have been putting. Davis video into television spots As we receive it and Courtesy of his efforts both an and tv-5 were Able to visit the 12th aviation brigade in saudi Arabia to collect More. While they have provided what they could from we Klong visits the True credit belongs to Davis who has been on the ground producing electronic and print products since the deployment began. He is a one Man show although i can understand How an could have erred in thinking that a Crew was in saudi Arabia doing All that work. Davis productivity has been incredible. A it. Col. Richard m. Bridges a Public affairs officer v corps a Frankfurt Germany a Small defense of brides head revisited named one of 1990�?Ts 10 worst to shows in the dec. 30 to plus the society depicted is As foreign to american Middle class experience As Chekhov a Russia but it really existed. Evelyn Waugh the author of the Book had a soft spot for the Catholic Gentry survivors of the reformation and the civil War but he had a keen Eye for the society of his times. I wonder if he saw the parallel Between the life of his heroine and that of the doomed daughter of the american ambassador Joseph Kennedy i refer you to the miniseries a the Kennedy and the  . Schuh a Ramstein Germany to plus sunday january 27, 1991