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2: LESLIE HARRIS is the writer and director of "Just Another Girl on the IRT." This is HARRIS's first film, and with it she became one of few African-American women film directors to have her film released nationally. The film won the special jury prize for a first-time film maker at the Sundance Film Festival. It's about a highschool junior, Chantel, who is an A-student, with a gift of gab and an attitude. The New York Times's Vincent Canby wrote of the character that she is, "almost as significant of her place and time as Booth Tarkington's Penrod is of his."

She really can talk to the animals. Or at least the chimps. JANE GOODALL reflects on over 30 years in the company of one community of chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania. Goodall has co-written a new book, "Visions of Caliban" (Houghton Mi

Marty talks with three young drug dealers from Camden, New Jersey. (Camden is across the river from Philadelphia and is considered one of the most violent cities in New Jersey; it also has a higher than average poverty rate for children. ) The three gang members go by aliases, Eddie Bauer, 16 years old, Kevin Madison, 20, and Sampson Riley, 18. They are members of the 6th & Ferry Gang.

Chubby Checker got the credit for "The Twist," but the real credit goes to HANK BALLARD who wrote the song and recorded it first (with the Midnighters') in 1958. BALLARD was a notorious figure in the early days of rhythm and blues. His song "Work with me Annie," was considered too lewd for many stations to play. Anyway, BALLARD gets the credit for "The Twist," in a new documentary, "Twist" by film maker RON MANN. Terry talks with both HANK BALLARD and RON MANN.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews Rising Sun, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. It''s based on a novel by Michael Crichton (CRY-ton), who also wrote Jurassic Park.

2: NPR correspondent and writer FRANK BROWINING. He has a new book about gay culture, "The Culture of Desire: Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today." (Crown publishers).

Morning Edition commentator Red Barber chats with guest host Mara Liasson about why Pete Rose won't be allowed into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Professor ROBERT JAY LIFTON. Lifton is distinguished professor of psychiatry and psychology and director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College, City University of New York. He's been studying cults and fundamentalist groups for many years. Lifton will talk about the armed cult in Waco, Texas run by David Koresh of the Branch Davidians--how typical they are, and what can be done to deal with them

JOHN DARNTON, former New York Times reporter. He was based in Poland from 1979-1982 during the rise of the Solidarity movement and martial law. DARTON has just returned to Poland and wrote about it for the New York Times (Wed., March 17, 1993). He'll talk with Terry about what he found there.

2: Writer LARRY COLTON. He has a new memoir, "Goat Brothers," (Doubleday) it's about he and his faternity brothers at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1960s and what happened to them. It's about a group of superjocks who are unprepared for life ahead. One reviewer writes, "a gripping, often painful look at lives that went right and awry in about equal measure."

2: Former National Security Adviser to President Carter, ZBIGNIEW BREZEZINSKI. He's written a new book about the state of global politics," Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century," (Charles Scribners). He warns in the book that we must change our values and realize our global interdependence.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reflects on the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Gay Rights March, both in Washington, D.C.