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MSC.NeiBL PASO (AP) — Business and
■ leaders say they plan to begin a
lemesteffeer-writing campaign to persuade
•y iBt to resurrect “Juarez," a police
rpma set in El Paso that was
eled before the show was broad-
ast.
■he show', which starred Benja-
^udder ^ Banda as Rosendo Juarez, an El
gat7p,F fee County sheriffs deputy, would
laye been the first dramatic series
i. ■ lOpr U.S. network to have a predom-
d drinks jjyy Hispanic cast. The pilot orig-
ly was scheduled to be shown
. 16, then was slated for Feb-
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jducer and director Jeffrey
|om about the cancellation just
?e days after they saw the pilot
ordered four more shows.
There was definitely some differ-
nce of opinion on what the show
should look like,” Bloom said Mon
day in a telephone interview. “They
started hitting us with, ‘Where’s the
Southwest style?’
“By ‘Southwest style,’ they’re talk
ing about this Beverly Hills conceit
of what the Southwest should be. Ev
erybody should have this adobe
house with a cactus and white walls
and a Navajo rug. . . . They wanted,
probably, Santa Fe.”
Bloom showed a rough cut of the
pilot to leaders of two Hispanic arts
organizations, Nosotros and the His
panic Academy of Media -Arts and
Sciences. Richard Yniguez, Nosotros
president, said he liked the show, as
did Ivy Orta, chairman of the His
panic Academy.
Yniguez. said the groups will ask
their members to write letters to
ABC. Leaders of both groups want
to meet with executives of ABC and
Columbia Pictures Television, which
produced the show.
El Paso, an industrial border city
of 500,000, bears little resemblence
to Santa Fe, a picturesque, art gal
lery-filled town of about 50,000 high
in the Rockies of northern New
Mexico.
“El Paso doesn’t have that sort of
rarified, beautified atmosphere they
were looking for,” Bloom said.
“They wanted more of an upscale
look, and there’s not much of an up
scale look in El Paso.”
Robert Knight, director of El Pa
so’s film commission, agreed. “Prob
ably one or two (ABC executives)
have been to a party in Santa Fe and
think that’s what the Southwest is all
about,” he said.
Luz Taboada, general manager of
Cimarron Media Services in El Paso,
said she would like to join the His-
E anic Academy’s campaign, partly
ecause she has a stake in the show.
She helped cast extras.
Taboada said CBS viewers set a
precedent when they wrote enough
letters to keep “Designing Women”
and “Cagney and Lacey” on the air
after the network announced their
cancellations.
ABC spokesman Jim Brochu said
the series was shelved because of
scheduling changes and creative dif
ferences with Bloom. The network
still is interested in producing a se
ries with mostly Hispanic characters,
he said, adding that ABC might go
back to the drawing board with “Jua
rez.”
Bloom and Taboada said network
officials might have been skittish
when they watched the show and
discovered that about 90 percent of
the cast was Hispanic.
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Explosion, fires trap 160 in
mine
1EXICO CITY (AP) — An ex-
bsion and fire trapped about 160
IPieninacoal mine in northern Mex-
co on Monday, authorities said.
Tey said 17 were rescued by mid-
ernoon.
\merico Juvenal Soto Rodriguez,
jlice chief in the town of La Espe-
liza near the mine, said the blast
:urred in the morning and the fire
making rescue work difficult.
'Rescue squads are working on it,
we have firemen from the
(nearby city) of Monclova ... It is
doubtful they could be brought out
(alive),” Soto Rodriguez said in a
telephone interview.
Officials at the scene said they be
lieved that sparks from a faulty
power generator may have come
into contact with coal-gas and caused
the explosion at “Cuatro y medio”
mine.
The underground mine, the with
main shaft half a mile long, is located
two miles from La Esperanza, in
Coahuila state, 70 miles southwest of
Eagle Pass, Texas.
The mine belongs to Compania
Hulera Mexicana, but a telephone
operator at the main office in Mex
ico City, who did not identify here-
self, said they could not get in con
tact with mine office in La
Esperanza.
“The telephone there has appar
ently been damaged by the explo
sion,” she said.
Maria Esther Jeiza. a spokesman
at the Social Security Hospital in the
nearby town of Palau, said in a tele
phone interview that 17 miners had
been rescued by early afternoon.
“Here we have six, and 11 more
are in a very serious condition at the
Social Security Hospital in the
(nearby) town of Nueva Rosita,” she
said.
She said the explosion occurred at
8.30 a.m.
“We are expecting more injured,”
she added.
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