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The 90-minute film has been denounced as "biased" and "one-sided" by the vice-president of a New York-station linked with the Public Broadcasting System, whose 333 affiliates will broadcast the film on Sept. 6. The film, Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians, reports on the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza from the perspective of Palesti- nians. New York's WNYC was scheduled to broadcast Days of Rage and package it for the entire PBS network, but two weeks ago Chloe Aaron, vice- president for television at the station, said Channel 31 would not broadcast the film because it was not balanced. Aaron said the film was re- jected because it does not mention the Holocaust, how the Jews got to Israel, how Palestinians treated the Jews or how Arabs treated Palesti- nians. As a piece of "pure pro- paganda," Aaron compared it to German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's pro-Nazi film, Triumph of the Will often con- sidered one of the most power- ful works of cinematic pro- paganda ever made. New York's WNET, which has agreed to broadcast the film, convinced PBS to delay it on the network's schedule from June to September. The station said it needed addi- tional time to arrange for a panel discussion to follow the presentation. Jerome Trainer, vice presi- dent for programming at WTVS, said he has "a tremen- dous amount of confidence in WNET. They are journalisti- cally as sound as any in the system" and should produce a balanced panel discussion. WTVS's September sched- ule has not yet been set, Trainor said, but "normal programming" patterns of the past indicate that local PBS affiliates will carry the film, just as they have carried other controversial documen- taries offered by PBS. In a news column in the New York Times, the film's director and producer, Jo Franklin-Trout acknowledged that Days of Rage has a point of view, but asserted that PBS has presented other "one- sided" works. Among these, el she said, was Diary of a Refusenik, which "had the person telling the story of his life. There were no cuts with Soviet officials telling their side of the story. We had quite a number of Jews here adding perspective:' Franklin-Trout characteriz- ed as "demeaning" her as- sumption that PBS antici- pated that U.S. Jews would be offended by broadcasting Days of Rage. American Jews, she said, have "been the most stalwart defendants of free- dom of expression." In an op-ed piece, Times' columnist Anthony Lewis said rejecting Days of Rage because it was not "balanced" is detrimental to the First Amendment's gliarantee of freedom of expression. The amendment, he said, en- courages "conflict" of opinion so "the public can decide what it believes .. . If news- papers and television and magazines could only run `balanced' or 'unbiased' ac- counts, we would be living in a society very different from the one envisaged by James Madison, the author of the First Amendment." The 18-month-old intifada, 1 wrote Lewis, "has had pro- found effects on Israelis and Palestinians . . . It is right for Americans to be able to see 4 an unvarnished expression of the thoughts and emotions behind the uprising," just as the Israeli side, he said, should be heard on American airwaves." Post Questions Israeli Divorces: Cruel Or Just? Israel's system of divorce — called "humiliating" by some, defended by others — is ex- amined in an article in The Washington Post. In the piece, the Post's Jerusalem correspondent, Glenn Frankel sketches the peculiarities of a legal system which has placed total authority regarding marriage and divorce for Jews in the hands of its nation's Orthodox rabbis. This system may be on the verge of reforms because, according to Frankel, "during Israel's recent coalition crisis, ultra-Orthodox parties over- played their hand and wound up with little influence in the new government. That has led secular Israelis to con- sider anew the many ways in which the rabbis impinge on 4 -'4 4