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Editor of the editorial page at the Des Moines Register, DENNIS RYERSON. RYERSON and the staff are putting out the paper during the floods, without running water or electricty; they work in daylight with pencils and typewriters. RYERSON was in the unique position to report on the near fistfight between the Des Moines mayor and its city council over the right time to turn on the city's water supply.

Writer ANNE LAMOTT has written a new book about being a mother for the first time (and single, at that), "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year." (Pantheon Books). One reviewer writes of the book, "an emotional roller coaster ride. Painfully honest, laced with humor and poetry and moments of profound insight, it captures the intense fluctuations of feeling, the rapid alternation of exhilaration and fury, love and despair, that characterizes new parenthood." LAMOTT is also the author of the novels, "Hard Laughter," and "All New People."

Professor DEBORAH LIPSTADT examines a chilling new trend in historical revisionism: disavowing the deaths of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps. Her new book, "Denying the Holocaust" (Free Press) traces the rise of this opposition: its practitioners' change in influence as isolated pamphleteers and cranks forty years ago to their point today, where a new poll found one fifth of the American public think it seems "possible" that the Holocaust never happened

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the remake of "Born Yesterday," starring John Goodman, Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson.

2: Filmmaker ROB WEISS. His first film, Amongst Friends, draws on his own experiences growing up affluent on Long Island. His characters reject the values of their parents and are attracted by a world of gangsters and gambling.

2: It's Oscar night. New Yorker film critic TERRENCE RAFFERTY joins Terry to talk about the best and worst of last year's movies, who should win tonight, and who probably will.

Writer ALLAN BERUBE (bah-RUE-bay). He wrote the book, "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women In World War II," (1990, The Free Press). For it, BERUBE spent ten years interviewing gay and lesbian veterans, searching out wartime letters, and consulting newly declassified government documents. He found that hundreds of thousands of gays entered the military despite a procedure for screening out homosexuals. Terry will talk with him about the ban on gays in the military and the hearings going on now, about whether it should be repealed.

2: Writer ERIK LARSEN. When Larsen's son had his first birthday, he received a corporate birthday card. Larsen became interested in how companies know the intimate details of our lives. His new book, "The Naked Consumer" (Henry Holt & Co), is an investigation into direct marketing techniques--into how corporations collect the vast network of data they use to market their products. Larson is a national correspondent for The Wall STreet Journal. REBROADCAST. Originally aired 12/23/92.

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 with older gang members. 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. Terry talked with GALIPEAU in March, and invited him back for another conversation.

Maureen Corrigan reviews, "The Dutchman" by Martin and Annette Myers.

Rock historian ED WARD reviews Rhino Record''s DIY anthology (the Do It Yourself punk music of the 70s and 80s).

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews two recordings of works by the turn-of-the-century black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. One of them features historical recordings from the 1920s and 30s. (Pearl label) The other includes modern recordings of his chamber compositions and spirituals. (Koch International Cla TUESDAY, FEB 9INT. 1: Biomedical ethicist ARTHUR CAPLAN. Among the topics Marty discusses with him are the right to die and the implications of the doctor-assisted suicides, specifically how Dr. Jack Kevorkianhas been helping patients die. Caplan is Director of Biomedical Ethics and a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Surgery at the University of Minnesota.INT. 2: WU NINGKUN (WOO NING-kwun), author of a new personal and political memoir, A Single Tear, about surviving three decades of Communist rule in China. Wu was born in China and received his college education in the United States. He left a promising academic career in this country to return to China in 1951 with hopes that the new Communist regime would benefit his country. Instead, he was labeled counter-revolutionary for teaching works by Western authors and was sentenced to serve time at various labor camps and prisons. He now lives in the United States with his family. (Atlantic Monthly Press).REV. : Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews two recordings of works by the turn-of-the-century black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. One of them features historical recordings from the 1920s and 30s. (Pearl label) The other includes modern recordings of his chamber compositions and spirituals. (Koch International Cla