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Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN looks at who won''t be performing at the upcoming inauguration activities, but who should be.

Blossom Dearie — that's her real name — has been a fixture on the New York nightclub scene for decades. The singer and pianist is known for her quiet voice, unusual choice of material and jazz-influenced style of singing.

Terry speaks with ADMIRAL GENE LA ROQUE (la- ROCK), director of the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C. They discuss the future of the American military: Is the American military becoming a world police force in the post-Cold War era?. General La Roque offers an analysis of yesterday's allied air strike on missile bases in southern Iraq and also sheds light on question of military invervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Balkans. They also talk about the American military and the U.N. and how the military may fare during the transition between the Bush and Clinton presidencies

2: ZE'EV-CHAFETS (SHAY-fetz) editor of "The Jerusalem Report," a news magazine published in Israel. Chafets is an Israeli who grew up in Pontiac, Michigan. He was the director of the government press office under prime minister Menacham Begin. He's also the author of "Inherit the Mob," a comic novel about a journalist lured into the Jewish Mafia, baited by a large inheritance.

FRESHMAN CONGRESSMAN BOBBY RUSH (D-Illinois), who in the late 60's and early 70's was a leader of the Black Panther Party. At one time he served as minister of Defense for the Panthers. From 1983 till his election to Congress last year he served as an Alderman in Chicago.

2: One of Britian's most radical and uncompromising film and television directors, KEN LOACH. He was a member of the British "Free Cinema Movement" of the '50s (committed to dealing with issues of the working class and lower-class of British society), and he was a pioneer of the docu-drama of the '60s. His socially-conscious film "Cathy Come Home," (1966) about a homeless mother, aired over the BBC, created a scandal, and forced a public debate about the homeless in London. He's produced many features for BBC television. His latest film "Riff-Raff," about construction workers is his first comedy, but it doesn't depart from what LOACH tries to do with his films. The London "Times" calls it, "an abrasive front-line report from the bottom of society's ladder." A retrospective of LOACH's work will be presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center, February 2 - 13, 1993.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews, "Snow Vrash," by Neal Stephenson.

Some reactions to the inauguration and thoughts about the new administration:1) Satirist HARRY SHEARER, creator/host of Public Radio's "Le Show," on which he often satirizes American politics, culture and social conventions. He's also the voice for a number of characters on "The Simpson's." Terry will talk with him about his reactions to Clinton's inauguration.2) Language Commentator GEOFFRY NUNBERG. Terry will talk with him about the language of Clinton's inauguration speech. 3) Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, GEOFFRY KEMP. He's also an expert on the Middle-East. Terry will talk with him about how he thinks the new administration will affect our relations with Iraq

2: Novelist and short-story writer CHARLES BAXTER. He has a new novel, Shadow Play," (W.W. Norton & Co.) about a Faustian contract a man makes with a former classmate. BAXTER has written several volumes of short stories. His stories have appeared in "The New Yorker," "Harper's Magazine," "The Atlantic Monthly,." One reviewer writes, "Baxter is a master at creating loopy, poetic, and meaningfully unhinged psyches."

World music critic MILO MILES reviews the music of African reggae star Alpha Blondy. Blondy''s new albums are Masada (World Pacific label) and The Best of Alpha Blondy. (Shan

Former Black Panther ELAINE BROWN. Her new book, A Taste of Power, (Pantheon), tells the story of Brown's rise to the head of the Black Panther Party in the mid-70s and her later break with the Party

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two sequels to literary classics, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Pride and Prejudice."