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Interview one consists of two segments:1) JEAN HUNT, gives a grassroots perspective on abortion rights and accessiblity. Hunt is a registered nurse who has been an activist in the women's health movement since the late 60's . From 1988-1992 she was director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women in Philadelphia. She says that even if the federal government ensures the right to an abortion, local politics, health care economics and physician shortages make it difficult for women to get abortions. 2) DR. MILDRED JEFFERSON, a founding member of the state and national right-to-life movement, she is a fromer President of the National Right To Life Committee and now serves as President of Right To Life Crusade, Inc.. Dr. Jefferson was the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and is currently a general surgeon and professor of surgery in Boston.

2: Interview with RAFAEL SCHARF continued.

Writer KEN LEVINE (pronounced "Le-Vine"). He's an Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and has been head writer for two of television's greatest shows: MASH and Cheers. He trained himself to be a baseball announcer out of a childhood love for the game, and has written a new book about his season as a broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles: "It's Gone!...No, Wait a Minute" (Villard Books) He's now an announcer for the Seattle Mariners

HASKELL WEXLER won Academy Awards for his cinematography on "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," and "Bound for Glory." He's been nominated for work on several other movies, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and "Matewan." He's also the director of "Medium Cool." Wexler is known for moving easily between marginal, political films and more mainstream fare. He was the subject of a retrospective at the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York in April. And his work and comments can be seen in the new documentary about cinematography, "Visions of Light." REBROADCAST. Originally aired 3/16/93.

New York Times journalist JANE PERLEZ. She's been reporting from Africa since 1988. And has been credited with recognizing stories before the rest of the media. She was reporting on the trouble in Somolia, and the threat of famine a year ago, long before it became the focus of world attention. PERLEZ's assignment in Africa has ended. Soon she'll be reporting from Eastern Europe.

Maureen Corrigan reviews, "The Dialectic of Sex," which is now back in print by Shulamith Fireston.

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Actor JASON ALEXANDER. He's best known as George Constanza on the NBC series "Seinfeld", where he plays Jerry Seinfeld's best friend. Alexander won a Tony Award in 1989 for his performance in "Jerome Robbin's Broadway." (REBROADCAST FROM 6/

Novelist STANLEY ELKIN. He's been called "one of the most entertaining stylists in contemporary American fiction." And that ELKIN's use of metaphor, "transforms grotesque situations and the drab vulgarity of popular consumer culture into comic affirmations of human existence." (from "Contemporary Literary Criticism). His novels include, "The MacGuffin," "The Magic Kingdom," and others. His latest book of novellas is "Van Gogh's Room at Arles." (Hyperion). ELKIN was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis twenty years ago. He'll talk about his writing and his life and how it's changed since the disease has progressed

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony," by Roberto Colasso (Knopf).

Tibetan buddhist master SOGYAL RINPOCHE ("soh-GYAL RIN-poh-chay," the ch as in chair). He was born in Tibet and raised by a master in the buddhist tradition. He also studied at Cambridge University in England. He has lived outside of Tibet, in exile, for 20 years. "Rinpoche" is a title usually given to incarnate Lamas, meaning "the Precious One." A few months ago, John Cleese of Monty Python fame introduced one of Rinpoche's talks, saying it was the first time he played warm-up man to an incarnate lama. Rinpoche is the incarnation of Terton Sogyal (1856-1926), a Tibetan mystic and the teacher of the last Dalai Lama. Rinpoche's new book, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," combines Tibetan wisdom with modern research on death and dying. (HarperCollins

Novelist ALBERT FRENCH. He found inspiration for his first novel, "Billy" (Viking), in the true story of an 11-yr-old getting the electric chair in the 1930's. "Billy," is the story of the "legal lynching" of a ten year old boy in the deep south who inadvertantly kills a white girl. FRENCH writes in "Delta" dialect, epitomizing racial hatred in America