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...seven were acquitted in February of conspiracy charges. But five were found guilty of crossing state lines with intent of inciting riot. The charges against the five convicted--Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger and Kennie Davis--were later overturned, but not before the convictions touched off a wave of student protests...
There social worker Kee MacFarlane (Lolita Davidovich) gets the kids to claim that they were repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to witness the slaughter of rabbits and other animals. Like Lael Rubin (Mercedes Ruehl), the lead prosecutor in the McMartin case, MacFarlane is portrayed as a dangerously misguided zealot. During her videotaped interviews (portions of which are excerpted verbatim from the transcripts), children initially deny abuse until MacFarlane goads them with such remarks as "Are you gonna be stupid, or are you gonna be smart and help us out here...
...judicial system and about child witnesses." Although apsac executive director Theresa Reid has not seen the film, she has read the script and cites as her main concern "the implication that fantastic elements in a child's account of abuse are evidence that the account is false." Prosecutor Rubin declined an invitation from Time to see a screening of the movie and comment...
...financial gurus who attempt to predict the markets' eddies and gyrations are increasingly and publicly beginning to demonstrate their growing political power. This development explains why Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs Chairman Robert E. Rubin `60 is the most important man in the country...
...largely at Rubin's urging that a multi-billion dollar infusion into the post-NAFTA Mexican economy was made. The realization--and the subsequent attitudinal change by United States policy makers--that our economy is inextricably linked with Mexico's, and increasingly with other American countries, is the true measure of NAFTA's success. The nightmarish debt-crisis of the 1980s, which left most Latin American economies devastated and smoldering, is unlikely to be repeated. There is now too much at stake for North Americans for summary abandonment...