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2: ALLEN and ALBERT HUGHES, 21-year old twins, and directors of "Menace To Society" (Fine Line). Their mother steered them away from drugs and gangs when they were twelve by buying them video equipment. After making several music videos and short films, they've made their first feature. It's a picture firmly in the gangster genre, an unflinching film about young men growing up in Watts. The film's 23-year old screenwriter Tyger Williams explains: "For every 'good' kid that makes it out of the ghetto, there are five more who don't. We asked the question, 'What's their story?'

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews, "Monnew" (MAH-new) a novel by West African writer Amadou Kourouma (AH-ma-doo Ka-ROO-ma).( Published by Mercury House in San Franc

2: Interview with ANDRES SERRANO continues.

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