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DAVID GARROW is a Pulitzer Prize winning author for his biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., "Bearing the Cross." His newest book is a history of the struggle for birth control rights during the 1920s and 30s and how that paved the way for the abortion rights struggle. Along the way, GARROW examines how these rights are tied in with issues of privacy and sexuality. GARROW found that the arguments used in the birth control rights struggle were the same ones used in the struggle for abortion rights. His new book is "Liberty & Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade."(MacMillan Publishin

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Blink" the new film directed by Michael Apted, starring Madeline Stowe and Adain Quinn.

Actor JOHN MAHONEY. He started out in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater.His film roles include "Tin Men," "Eight Men Out," the randy professor in"Moonstruck," and the father in "Say Anything."... Mahoney now playsFrasier's (Kelsey Grammer) father in the "Cheers" spin-off "Frasier".Television producer STEPHEN BOCHCO. With shows like "Hill Street Blues," "L.A.Law," and this season's "NYPD Blue," Bochco can claim credit for awhole TV genre: intensely realistic dramas that use an ensemble cast andmultiple, interweaving plots that quickly cut back and forth. TV critics allude to the "Bochco-ization of network TV," as more and more programsuse the Bochco trademarks of large casts, gallows humor and allusions tounconventional sex. Bocho remains an innovative, albeit controversial,force in television. His latest series "NYPD Blue" has been rejected by asizeable number of ABC affiliates for vulgarity and nudity. The ratingsand critics,though, assert that this is television at its finest.Actor DENNIS FRANZ. He played the tough, gum chewing LieutenantNorman Bunz on the acclaimed TV series, "Hill Street Blues." Bunz brieflystarred in the short-lived "Hill Street Blues" spin-off, "Beverly Hills Bunz.He returns to television in ABC's "NYPD Blue." As Detective Sipowicz, heplays a legendary cop that is now battling burn-out and the bottle.

2: Writer and critic NELSON GEORGE. George is one of this country's most prominent chroniclers of black music and culture.. He was the black music editor at "Billboard," for seven years, and is a regular columnist for the "Village Voice." His new book "Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture," (published by HarperCollins) is a collection of his writings and covers the last two decades in Black urban culture. George also edited the book, "Stop the Violence," a collaboration of top rappers working to end black-on-black violence. George's earlier books include a history of Motown called "Where Did Our Love Go?" and "The Death of Rhythm and Blues."

2: Editor, author, and Jewish theologian MICHAEL LERNER is founder and editor of "Tikkun" magazine, a bimonthly Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society. In his new book, "Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), LERNER presents a new interpretation of Jewish texts and history, and a new approach to God and prayer. (Originally aired 9

DR. MARK FEINBERG is the director of the Virology Research Laboratory at San Francisco General Hospital and the Associate Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research. He just returned from the 10th International Conference on AIDS in Japan. For the past ten years, FEINBERG has been studying how the HIV virus causes AIDS; recently he has focused on people who have had the HIV virus for many years, but have not yet shown AIDS symptoms

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new Watergate documentary that premieres Sunday on the Discovery channel.

DANIEL SCHORR is the Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. He was the CBS Chief Watergate Correspondent, and is now narrating a five-part BBC documentary, "Watergate." After ending up on Nixon's "enemy list," SCHORR resigned from CBS in 1976, and wrote a book about the Watergate scandal called "Clearing the Air." Before joining CBS, SCHORR was a foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. The "Watergate" series will air this week on the Discovery channel, and will coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Nixon's resignation

2: Writer MICHAEL IGNATIEFF ("ig-NAT-tee-ef"), who has investigated six of the world's trouble spots for a BBC television series, and a companion book: "Blood & Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). A Canadian of Russian ancestry who lives in England, IGNATIEFF's book raises the question of why nationalism, which once unified countries like Germany and Italy, today pulls countries apart. IGNATIEFF reports from Germany, the Ukraine, Quebec, and the former Yugoslavia, and writes, "The world is not run by skeptics and ironists but by gunmen and true believers, and the new world they are bequeathing to the next century already seems a more violent and desperate place..."

Writer DARCY FREY, a contributing editor to "Harper's" and "The New York Times Magazine." FREY spent a year at the Abraham Lincoln High School on Coney Island, where he says African-American boys usually turn either to dealing drugs or playing basketball. He followed four young basketball players trying to make it out of the ghetto and into a Division I school. "The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams" (Houghton Mifflin Company) is his record of what happens to the dreams of these young men.

2: The final report on Iran contra by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh has just been released. Terry talks with PETER KORNBLUH about the reports findings. KORNBLUH is senior analyst on U.S.-Latin America policy at the National Security Archive and editor of "The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History," (published in 1993 by the The New Press).

Comedian JERRY SEINFELD. His television show just won three Emmy Awards and an army of devoted fans are propelling his book "SeinLanguage" (Bantam) up the best-seller lists. (REBROADCAST FROM 9/2/87). LARRY DAVID, the co-creator, executive producer, and one of the writers of the comedy series "Seinfeld." David just won an emmy for best writing in a comedy series. David is also the basis for the character "George," Jerry Seinfeld's neurotic best friend. He was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the short-lived ABC late night series, "Fridays." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/2/91).