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United States. Executive Producer Adrian Malone, whose previous productions include "The Ascent of Man" with Jacob Bronowski and "Cosmos" with Carl Sagan, believes so deeply in the importance of this program that he is directing it himself.

-- "Islam," the final hour of year three, for broadcast during the middle of 1987, is now in research. The Smithsonian's recently acquired Vever Collection has made the Smithsonian one of the world's great centers of Islamic art, and Dr. Glenn Lowry, curator of Near Eastern Art at the Freer, is working closely with the producers of this program. It will probably be shot principally in Cairo.

Fund raising continues for the proposed ten-part series "The Buried Mirror, Images of Latin America," a co-production of Malone-Gill and the Smithsonian. It is hoped that this portrait of the peoples of the southern half of the western hemisphere will be broadcast in 1990 or 1991 as the Smithsonian's first major undertaking in commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary. Staff are currently in discussion with several Japanese underwriters who have expressed great interest in this project.

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the National Air and Space Museum, Arnold Shapiro Productions is currently in negotiation for a one-hour television production which will use the Museum's artifacts and expertise to portray the ten most important moments in the history of manned flight. The project would be slated for broadcast prior to July 4, 1987, when NASM will turn eleven.