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Rock musician NEIL YOUNG. In 66' he joined L.A. rock band Buffalo Springfield; they split up 3 albums later due to inter-band fighting and their lack of commercial success. YOUNG then meandered from band to band, including "Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young," while doing a lot of solo work as well. He's been called the "Godfather of Grunge," and "The king of punk." His lastest album is "Harvest Moon," intended to be a sequel to his 1972 album "Harvest." (Time Warner) (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 11

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "On Deadly Ground," the new Steven Seagal film.

FATHER 'GUS' DI NOIA (De-NOY-a) is a Dominican Priest and a theologian to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. On May 31, the Pope issued an Apostolic letter to bishops declaring that women could not be ordained as priests. Though not a formal statement of doctrine, the letter was strongly put, and meant to cut off discussion about the issue. In it the Pope writes that the church "has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women," and that "this judgement is to be definitively held by the all the church's faithful." The letter was timed to counter the Church of England's ordination of 1,000 women to the priesthood. Terry will talk with FATHER DI NOIA about his views on it as an official of the church and as a sociologist.

IAN BURUMA has written extensively on Asian and European culture and politics. He has just written a book, "The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan," (Farrar.Straus.Giroux) which explores the different ways in which the people of Germnay and Japan remember World War II. In his book, he seeks to explain why Germnay has a collective sense of guilt over its war crimes, while Japan tries to forget its involvement in the war. Buruma's other books include "God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey" (Farrar.Straus.Giroux, 1989) and "Playing the Game (FSG

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Actor and Theater Director, W. H. MACY. A member of Playwright David Mamet's circle of theater innovators, Macy recently starred in Mamet's play "Oleanna", and was featured in his film "Homocide". They co-founded the Atlantic Theater Company, an ensemble which performs mainly original works by American writers. Members of the company wrote "A Practical Handbook For The Actor", (Vintage Books) from notes taken during acting workshops led by Mr. Macy. One critic writes that the ensemble "has rescued theater from the mindless". (REBROADCAST from 5/

Photojournalist JAMES NACHTWEY (KNOCKT-way). He was in Somalia in October, and photographs of his visit were the cover story in The New York Times Magazine section on December 6, 1992. Terry talks with him about his trip to Somalia: why he took the pictures he did, how he was received, why he wanted to go, etc. NACHTWEY has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal three times. The award is the highest honor among photographers and is given to those for the "best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," and it entails a deliberate decision to go in harm's way. NACHTWEY is only the seond photojournalist to be given the award three times. He's been to areas of conflict in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank, Sudan, the Philippines, Northern Ireland and more. A book of NACHTWEY's photographs, "Deeds of War," was published in 1989 by Thames and Hudson.

Singer/songwriter ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO. ESCOVEDO has just released his second solo album. It is called "Thirteen Years" (Watermelon Records). He was a founding member of San Francisco's '70's punk band the Nuns, the cowpunk band Rank & File and rock band True Believers. The title of the new album refers to a point during his marriage when all he had to offer his wife was song. After ESCOVEDO and his former wife separated, she committed suicide.

Rapper and actor ICE-T...one of the most popular of the "gansta" rappers. Although he does not often get his songs played on the radio, all five of his albums have gone gold. Greg Knot of The Chicago Tribune has written that "ICE-T is that rare gangster rapper who leads with his brain instead of his gun or his crotch." ICE-T's 1992 song "Cop Killer," landed him at the center of a controversy about gansta rap--is it a legitimate form of expression or is it incendiary hate-mongering. ICE-T has also starred in films "New Jack City," "Trespass," and "Ricochet." He's written a new book called "The Ice Opinion" (St. Martin's Press). In it he offers his opinions on such topics as racism, drugs, poverty, the L.A. riots.

Journalists NICHOLAS KRISTOF and SHERYL WUDUNN were Beijing correspondents of "The New York Times" from 1988 to 1993. They won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. They have just written a book, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" (Times Books). It explores the contradiction in China of a booming economy paired with terrible human rights abuses, as China struggles to be a new world power.

Congress has decided to conduct a study of the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the post-Cold War world. The agency suffered a shake-up following the discovery of the double agent Aldrich Ames. Pulitzer Prize winner TIM WEINER writes about the CIA for "The New York Times." He talks with Terry Gross today about what changes may take place in the agency as a result of the investigation.

Storyteller GARRISON KEILLOR. He's the host and writer of "A Prairie Home Companion" on National Public Radio--a show that "pokes at the heart of American sensibilities and sensitivities." His new book is called "The Book of Guys" (Viking). KEILLOR has written five other books including the best-seller "Lake Wobegon Days.