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2: BETTY PENDLER is the mother of a 36 year-old developmentally disabled daughter. PENDLER conducts sexuality workshops for parents of the developmentally disabled, teaching them how to talk to their children about sex and relationships. (A related story ran in The New York Times, Jan. 26). There's currently a trial in New Jersey about four young men accused of sexually assaulting a retard young woman.

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.

Rock Critic Ken Tucker on a new direction in rap: PM Dawn''s new album: "The Bliss Album: Vibrations of Love & Anger & the Ponderance of Life & Existence".

2: Pulitzer-prize winning journalist DAVID HALBERSTAM. He has a new book which is a social, political, economic, and cultural history of what he considers the pivotal decades of the century, "The Fifties." (Villard Books). HALBERSTAM's other books include, "The Best and the Brightest," "The Powers That Be," and others.

PART I) Poet, journalist, and critic LUIS RODRIGUEZ. He's new book, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." (Curbstone press) is about his participation in gang life in the 1960s in East L.A. RODRIGUEZ was in a gang by the time he was 12. And by the time he was 18, 25 of his friends had been killed. After time in the county jail, RODRIGUEZ turned his back on gang activity. He became involved in the Chicano movement, and was encouraged to write, because he'd shown a talent in it. RODRIGUEZ wrote "Always Running," in an attempt to save his own son from gang life. His son RAMIRO is 16 and is in a gang in Chicago. He'll join his father during the second half of the show.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews three new reissues on the Verve label: "Once Upon a Summertime," by Blossom Dearie, "Dream of You," by Helen Merrill, and "Ella Swings Lightly," by Ella Fitzgerald.

2: The hypenated American, with novelist DIANA ABU-JABER (pronounced "ABU-jabber"). Her first novel "Arabian Jazz" (Harcourt Brace) is now out; it explores the lives of two sisters in upstate New York, the children a Jordanian father and an American mother.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new CD on Angel/EMI of collected Piano Trios by the celebrated 1920''s chamber players Alfred Cortot, Jasques Thibaud, and Pablo Casals.

BILL LITTLEFIELD. He's a writer and regular sports commentator on NPR's "Morning Edition." LITTLEFIELD has a new book about baseball, "Baseball Days: From the Sandlots to the Show" (Bulfinch Press). LITTLEFIELD has been in love with the game since he was a kid, "Baseball Days" is a sentimental look at America's favorite pasetime

Probation officer for Los Angeles County, JIM GALIPEAU (GAL-ih-poh). He works with gangs in Los Angeles, and is currently trying to raise money for a program for older gang members. He'll talk with Terry about the truce between gangs that began last spring, just before the riots; the differences between gangs, between Hispanic and Black gangs, and inner city and suburban gangs; the impact of the riots, and the possibility of riots in the future. GALIPEAU has been a probation officer for 27 years. He's a Vietnam vet, and when he was a teenager, he was a street fighter and drug addict.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "CBS Reports," the documentary series which is returning to the network.

Maureen Corrigan reviews the new Patricia Cornwell mystery, "Cruel and Unusual".