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2: Attorney and writer MARY FRANCES BERRY. She's also a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a professor of history and law at the University of Pennsylvania. She was formerly the assistant secretary for education in the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare. She's written a new book about the tradition of "mother-care" in our society, the notion that women have prinicipal responsibility for childcare. The book is, "The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother," (Viking). BERRY argues that women have not always traditionally been responsible for taking care of children, but that society has become accustomed to the arrangement and the existing power structure reinforces it.

Interview with PATRICE GAINES continued.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews CBS''s "Pickett Fences."

Author and former British prisoner, Belfast-born GERRY (pronounced "Jerry") CONLON. In his memoir, "In the Name of the Father," he tells the story of his wrongful conviction and fifteen-year imprisonment by the British Governement for the 1974 terrorist bombings of two pubs near London. He was in prison with his father, Giuseppe, who was also falsely convicted as a co-conspiritor in the bombings. (REBROADCAST FROM 1/

DOUG HONIG works for the ACLU in Washington State. They recently challenged a Seattle ruling which makes it a crime to panhandle aggressively, and to sit on sidewalks in the downtown district.

Actress and Stanford Theater Professor, ANNA DEAVERE SMITH. She performs solo, multi-casted pieces, the scripts of which are created from interviews she did with people who lived thru events of social upheaval. "Fires in the Mirrors" (aired on PBS) gave voice to the many facets of the Crown Heights riots. Her new show "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992", condenses 170 interviews Smith conducted with 21 Los Angelinos, including: Darryl Gates, Reginald Denny, Rodney King's aunt, and a Korean shopkeeper (whose lines are spoken in perfect Korean and translated overhead). "Twilight" begins a run at New York's Public Theater. SMITH also has a cameo role in "Philadelphia" as a key witness. (Rebroadcast from 4-26-93).

British actress JOAN PLOWRIGHT. She's one of her nation's leading actresses, having appeared on the London stage since the mid 50s. She's also been on Broadway, had numerous role on British television, and appeared in the films "The Dressmaker," "I Love You To Death," and "Avalon." She was also married to actor Sir Lawrence Oliver. She's stars in the new movie "Widow's Peak." (REBROADCAST from 4

ALLEN SPLET, the sound designer for the David Lynch films, "Blue Velvet," "The Elephant Man" and "Eraserhead." (REBROADCAST from 11/26/87).

MEL WHITE is the ghost-writer of biographies for such Religious Right leaders as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robinson and Billy Graham. That was before he came out as a gay man, after a long struggle accepting it. WHITE tried aversion therapy and exorcism to purge himself of his homosexual feelings. Now WHITE is the Dean of the largest gay church in the world, Dallas's Cathedral of Hope and the author of "Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America," (Simon & Schuster).

2: Director of the human rights group, Middle East Watch, ANDREW WHITLEY. On Tuesday the Mideast Peace Talks start up again. Terry talks with WHITLEY about the human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories.