TV & VIDEO - Sept. 4, 1989

Public TV stations won’t be scared away from the documentary “Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians,” despite claims that it is biased in favor of the Palestinians and may have been covertly funded by an Arab group, says Public Broadcasting System spokeswoman Mary Jane McKinven. She said 25 of the 26 major-market public stations will carry the 90-minute documentary Wednesday. “Days of Rage” is scheduled to be presented as part of a 2 1/2-hour program offering opposing views on the long and bitter Palestinian-Israeli dispute in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Controversy over the documentary was heightened last week when an article in The New Republic said that the Arab-American Cultural Foundation in Washington provided “substantial funds” to producer Jo Franklin-Trout and her Pacific Productions.