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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).

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "The John Coltrane Anthology: The Last Giant" (Rhino/Atlantic).

2: Writer CARL HIAASEN (produced "hi-ah-sen"). Hiaasen's 1991 crime novel, "Native Tongue," (Knopf) has just come out in paperback and continues his tradition of poking fun at his native Florida. When he's not writing crime stories, Hiaasen is an investigative journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald. REBROADCAST. (Originally aired 9/

Singer/Songwriter JIMMIE DALE GILMORE is in the studio for a concert. His music bears the influence of honky-tonk, Tex-Mex rhythms, and country and western. His spiritual influences include Hinduism and writers such as Aldous Huxley and W. Somerset Maugham. GILMORE is the kind of performer who defies definition, though he has been called the "Shaman of the Sagebrush." GILMORE's been playing music for over 20 years, first with the critically-acclaimed group the Flatlanders, then solo. He says he's "never made music out of the drive to be fashionable." He dropped out of performing for almost ten years to study with a guru. He has a new album, "Spinning Around the Sun." (Elektra).

Jazz singer/songwriter, ABBY LINCOLN. Her new record is "Devil's Got Your Tounge" (Verve). Once married to legendary jazz drummer Max Roach, she's made her mark on jazz for almost 40 years, singing with giants like Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins. Lincoln has been hailed by one critic as the "Last Great Diva", and says herself that she sings in the tradition of Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. (Rebroadcast from 6

John Leonard reviewed the new William Gibson novel, "Virtual Light" (Bantam).

On the occasion of end of the Superman comic, and the Superbowl, language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG considers the origin of the word "Superman," and how "super" began to be used in other ways.

Authors SETH CAGIN and PHILIP DRAY. Their new book is "Between Earth and Sky: How CFCs Changed Our World and Endangered the Ozone Layer," (Pantheon Books). It's about how CFCs (or chlorofluorocarbons) went from being the "miracle compound" the the biggest threat to the ozone layer. CFCs came into being in 1928 and made possible the mass use of refrigerators and air conditioners. By the 1950s they were used in aerosol sprays and in the manufacture of Sytrofoam. But by 1974, scientists began to see the affects of CFCs on the ozone layer. SETH and CAGIN are also the authors of "We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi.

2: DON DES JARLAIS (Day-gjar-LAY). He's an expert on AIDS and HIV infection among drug users. He's the Director of Research at the Beth Israel Medical Center's Chemical Dependency Institute in New York. And the Deputy Director for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, New York. He's also a consultant on AIDS to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization.

2: J. L. CHESTNUT, who in 1958 became Selma, Alabama's first and only black lawyer. Working with the NAACP, he defended activists during the civil rights movement. Since then he's been involved in what he describes as the longer march...turning the victories of the civil rights movement into grass roots change. The law firm CHESTNUT founded in Selma is now the largest black law firm in Alabama. CHESTNUT's autobiography is "Black in Selma" (Anchor), co-authored with Julia Cass, a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. This interview was originally broadcast in 1990.