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2: Interview with REV. YOUNGBLOOD cont'd.

Interview with MAX WEINBERG continued.

SONNY ROLLINS, tenor saxophonist, is one of the jazz world's greatest improvisational artists. At the tender age of 23, he played with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. After successfully battling a heroin addiction in the early 1950s, he joined the Clifford Brown-Max Roach quintet. He also began a critically-acclaimed solo career. Now in his sixties, he feels obligated to carry on the vision of his own mentors to today's rising stars. His latest album, "Old Flames" (Milestone), focuses on jazz standards and features Sonny backed by a brass section.

2: Journalist HOWARD KURTZ. He is media reporter for "The Washington Post." He has a new book, "Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers," (Times Books). In the book he looks at how the press has bungled some important stories like the HUD scandal and the S&L mess, the William Kennedy Smith trial, and the Clarence Thomas hearings.

Journalist PHILLIP LONGMAN. He specializes in politics and public policy. He'll talk with Terry about the items in Clinton's address last night dealing with entitlements. Clinton wants to a impose higher-income tax on Social Security benefits for individuals with incomes over $25,000 and couples over $32,000. The administration says this would affect fewer than one-quarter of retirees. LONGMAN is the author of "Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America," (published in 1987 by Houghton Mi

2: Writer SHIRLEE TAYLOR HAIZLIP. Her book "The Sweeter the Juice: a Family Memoir in Black and White," (Simon & Schuster), chronicles her exploration of six generations of her multiracial family tree. HAIZLIP is a light-skinned African-American. Her father was a prominent black Baptist minister in Connecticut. Her mother was the descendant of an Irish immigrant and a mulatto slave. The lineage of HAIZLIP's mother's family was unclear because early in HAIZLIP's mother's life she was separated from the rest of her family who "disappeared" into the white world.

Film director ANDREW DAVIS. Davis' string of action-thriller hits include last year's "Under Siege" with Steven Seagal and a Chuck Norris picture "Code of Silence". His latest film is a remake of a TV series from the 1960's "The Fugitive" starring Harrison Ford. Davis' Hollywood credentials belie his journalistic background: he began his film career as an assistant cameraman to Haskell Wexler on "Medium Cool" which was filmed during and uses footage of the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention. Davis served as a PBS reporter and then moved to Los Angeles, where he was director of photography on 15 films before his debut as a director in 1979.

This year marked the 50th Anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Terry talks with RAFAEL SCHARF, one of the founders of "The Jewish Quarterly," a London literary and political magazine. He's compiled a new book of photographs, "In The Warsaw Ghetto Summer 1941," (Aperture). The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier and have never been published before. He also has papers and diaries from the Ghetto which document daily life there. SCHARF was born in Poland, but left the country shortly before World War II. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/19/93).

2: Miami Herald columnist and novelist CARL HIAASEN. "Strip Tease," Hiassen's fifth novel and latest gonzo thriller, is a yarn, pitting a seemy Florida politician against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. Mr. Hiaasen has spun tales of environmentalists feeding tourists and senior citizens to alligators ("Tourist Season), of a villainous South Florida plastic surgeon who kills a woman during a nose job ("Skin Tight"), and about the amusement park, "The Amazing KIngdom of Thrills,' where one of the novel's heavies is loved to death by an amorous dolphin ("Native Tongue").

2: Former Congresswoman LINDY BOGGS, who became Louisiana's first woman member of Congress in 1972. She was elected after her husband, then House majority leader Hale Boggs, died in a plane crash. BOGGS was an advocate for civil rights and women's issues before her retirement in 1990. She is the mother of NPR and ABC-TV's Cokie Roberts, Washington lobbyist Thomas Hale Boggs, and the late Barbara Sigmund, who was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey. BOGGS has written her autobiography, "Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman" (Harcourt, Brace & Company).

Spy novelist JOHN LE CARRE. His novels, almost every one of which is considered a masterpiece of the genre, include "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold," "A Small Town in Germany," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Little Drummer Girl." To many critics, Le Carre is not simply the finest spy novelist of his era, but perhaps the finest all-around novelist. Several of his works have been made into movies, most notably "Spy Who Came In From the Cold," which starred Richard Burton and Claire Bloom. His new best-seller is called "The Night Manager." (Knopf) (REBROADCAST FROM 5

2: Two winners of the P.E.N./Freedom to Write Awards: Serbian dissident writer SVETLANA SLAPSAK (Svet-LAUNA SLAP-sack) and Bosnian writer ZORAN MUTIC (zoe-RON MOO-tick). Both fled Sarajevo and Belgrade respectively to avoid repercussions because of their outspokenness and are living in exile in Slovenia. MUTIC is of Serb/Muslim background and is a translator who translated Rushdie's "Midnight Children," into Serbian. After the death sentence against Rushdie, MUTIC became a staunch supporter of him in the Sarajevo community. SLAPSAK wrote the widely acclaimed essay, "When Words Kill." In 1968 she was beaten by police because of her editing of the magazine "Frontisterion." She is president of the Committee for the Liberty of Expression.