TV & VIDEO - Oct. 5, 1988

The British Broadcasting Corp. has delayed the airing of a documentary about Britain’s elite anti-terrorist army unit because, the BBC says, certain changes are necessary before the program is broadcast-ready. The show, “Panorama,” was to air Monday night, but now the documentary will be broadcast “in the coming weeks” after changes are made, said a BBC spokesman. The documentary on the top-secret Special Air Services, or SAS, was framed around last month’s inquest into the March 6 killings by SAS commandos of three unarmed Irish Republican Army members in the British colony of Gibraltar, the BBC said. The Thatcher government has denied IRA claims that it operates an officially sanctioned “shoot-to-kill” policy against IRA suspects.