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Terry talks with two young men who've been through the program at the Camden County Youth Center, a juvenile detention center in Camden, New Jersey: EDDIE BUDAH and DERREK PENNY. BUDAH will read some of his poetry that has appeared in the Center's newsletter, "What's Happening."

MARY PREVITE (pronounced prev-eh-tee). She's the administrator of the Camden County Youth Center. Over the 19 years she's been at the CCYC, PREVITE has witnessed the increase of violence in our society, and the effects on among America's young. PREVITE says that most of the kids she sees live in terror, knowing violence as the only way to express their emotions. Fourteen years ago PREVITE started a student newspaper called "What's Happening", establishing a dialogue between herself, the kids, and the community.

JAMES FALLOWS is the Washington editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." He has a new book, "Looking at the Sun," (Pantheon) to be published in February about the Asian economy. He's written a three part series of articles drawn from the book in the Atlantic (the last one appears in the Jan 94 issue).

2: SELIG HARRISON ("SEE-lig") spent four years as Washington Post Bureau chief in Japan, and is now Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He argues that the nuclear threat posed by North Korea is overstated -- that they are using the "nuclear card to get diplomatic recognition and economic help." Negotiations offer a chance for nuclear disarmament and dismantling throught the area. He writes, "The only way to stop nuclear proliferation without paying off would-be nuclear powers in one form or another is to move purposefully toward a nuclear free world." (Wash Post, 1

Writer TOBIAS WOLFF. Terry talked with him in 1989 after the release of his acclaimed memoir, "This Boy's Life" about his unhappy upbringing in a working-class town in Washington State in the late 1950s. The book has been adapted for screen; there's now a movie version starring, Robert DeNiro, and Ellen Barkin. WOLFF, who served in Vietnam, later worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and has also written two highly regarded collections of short stories. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 1

2: Writer E. ANNIE PROULX (pronounced "Prew"). She just won the National Book Award for Fiction, for her second novel, "The Shipping News," (Scribner's). PROULX describes herself as "incautious, heedless, reckless, stupid." Her characters are often compared with Dickens', and her books are rooted in a particular landscape: "The Shipping News" takes place in a barren Newfoundland. It's been called, "a strange book, a stunning book, full of magic and portent." (Boston Globe).

: We pay tribute to Professor and filmmaker MARLON RIGGS, who died Tuesday. His film about gay black sexuality, "Tongues Untied," unleashed a storm of controversy for its graphic content; it was used by Senator Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina), to argue against government grants to the arts. Another RIGGS film was "Color Adjustment," a critique of prime time TV's myths and messages on American race relations. RIGGS was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews

LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a world premier of composer John Harbison''s "Cello Concerto", performed by Yo-Yo Ma and The Boston Symphony Orhcestra.

Writer and director SUSAN SONTAG. Sontag is just back from Sarajevo, where she has been directing a performance of Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" in the Serbo-Croatian language. She is one of few arts figures to visit the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, a battle she calls "the Spanish Civil War of our time". Her latest novel is the "Volcano Lover," recently published in paperback by Anchor Books.

2: Terry talks with journalist FORREST SAWYER, who hosts the new television newsmagazine "Day One." Sawyer was recognized for his reporting during the Gulf War, when he split off from the press pack and brought in some of the earliest footage of surrending Iraqi soldiers and the American liberation of Kuwait. (REBROADCAST FROM 3

One of the most respected war surgeons, DR. CHRIS GIANNOU (YAH-new). He was Director of surgical operations in Somolia with the International Committee for the Red Cross, from February 92 until January 93. He helped set up field hospitals, taught war surgery, and performed surgery. Before that GIANNOU spent over two years in a Palestinian Refugee Camp, which was under constant seige. GIANNOU wrote a book about it, "Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut." (Published by Olive Branch Press). (REBROADCAST FROM 2/25/93).