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...Coalition," boasts Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. At the same time, the N.R.A. has developed a grass-roots network of political activists that, at a time of low voter turnout, is inspiring a new level of fear on Capitol Hill. "We have a political system that rewards intensity," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "The only way you overcome that is to match their intensity with an intensity among those on the other side, and in the gun debate that has not happened...
...with no convictions on any of the 65 criminal counts. Now the family's seven-year legal ordeal is the subject of Indictment: The McMartin Trial, a gripping-though excessively pious-TV movie that will make its debut May 20 on hbo. Conceived and scripted by veteran screenwriter Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Atlanta Child Murders) and his wife Myra, the film feverishly aims to convince any doubters that the McMartins were the victims of a terrible injustice...
...Myra Mann and her husband. "I reacted like everybody else," she says. "I thought, 'God, what people.' They looked rather sleazy. Later on I realized it was because they hadn't slept. They were in terror." The Manns have been obsessed with the case since 1986, taking it as a personal crusade. In fact, they became participants in it. After Glenn Stevens, one of the prosecutors (played in the film by Joe Urla), quit the case because he felt the McMartins were being unfairly targeted, Myra Mann began to tape what would turn out to be 30 hours of interviews...
...them during the 1980's. Among the victims of the hysteria were the McMartin family, who were accused of horrific crimes in their Southern California day care center. Their trial, then the longest and costliest in American history, ended in 1990 with no convictions. But screenwriters Abby and Myra Mann's nine-year obsession with the case leaves the film feverishly trying to convince any doubters of the McMartin's innocence...
...Demonization of Adolescent Sexuality: Moving toward a Sex-positive Approach to Adolescent Health and Education. Keynote speakers include Jonathan Mann, Francois Xavier-Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Rafael Sainz, Latino Health Institute/Positive Youth; Elaine Young, Institute for Health Professions, MGH; and Sherry Turner, Mt. Holyoke College. Kresge Building, 6:30 p.m. Buffet dinner, 5:30 p.m. Call 629-0140 for information...