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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i> Members of the American Nursing Assn. opted to go
ahead and picket in front of KNBC-TV in Burbank on Wednesday, even though producer Aaron Spelling previously had vowed to change what they were protesting: the “offensive” portrayal of
student nurses in NBC’s “Nightingales.” “We want to reinforce the enlightenment,” Terry Ajir, California Nurses Assn. Region 3 president, said before the planned 4:30 p.m. demonstration. She
said that the signs would express thanks to those who were instrumental in changing the risque image of student nurses. She added that the group is encouraged with the vow but is regarding
it with “guarded optimism.” MORE TO READ