TELEVISION - Feb. 18, 1993

Seeing Is Not Believing: Documentary doctoring continues. On the heels of NBC fessing up to rigging an explosion for a story on a General Motors truck, comes word that a director in Tokyo faked parts of a TV documentary about a remote region in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. NHK network has acknowledged that the film contained six fictitious scenes and five other phony parts. Masahiro Okada, 51, the director, is being suspended for six months, and at least six network executives are being punished for neglecting to supervise him. Okada is also in trouble for violating a ban and bringing back a wolf cub belonging to an endangered species.