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Rock critic ken Tucker reviews a new album by Liz Phair, "Exile in Guyville" (Matador records).

2: Journalist STEVE ROBERTS. He's the senior writer for "U.S. News & World Report." Before that he covered Congress for "The New York Times." He'll talk about Tuesday's election.

2: In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon, we speak with:1) GENERAL CHUCK YEAGER, test pilot, war hero, and the first man to break the sound barrier.(Originally broadcast 9/13/88)2) Retired Astronaut and former test pilot ALAN SHEPARD. He was America's first man in space in 1961. Ten years later with Apollo 14, he made it to the moon, playing golf on the moon's surface. (In 1969, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon). SHEPARD has co-written a new book: "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon." (Turner Publishing).(Originally broadcast 6

2: Writer LEWIS PULLER. His book, "Fortunate Son," is now out in paperback. His father, Chesty Puller, was a famous Marine. Lewis also joined the marines in 1967, and he was badly wounded in Vietnam.

2: Interview with LAURIE GARRETT continues.

2: Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. In a new issue of the Conde Nast Traveler magazine --July 1993-- THEROUX recounts the abundant ailments and diseases he's contracted during his thirty years of world travel. Luckily, "Kuru" isn't one of them: a Papua New Guinea affliction of the nervous system where one goes mad, then dies trembling. The only way to catch it is after eating human brains.

PAUL RUDNICK is a essayist, novelist, and playwright. His latest play on off-Broadway is a comedy about AIDS, "Jeffrey," about a man who swears off love and sex. Frank Rich of The New York Times writes, "Instead of writing about the bleak absurdity of meaningless death, Mr. Rudnick. . . focuses on the far more manic, at times bizarrely festive absurdity of those who survive." RUDNICK also wrote the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet," about John Barrymore's ghost. And he writes a column in "Premiere, "If You Ask Me," in which he writes in the voice of a quintessential Jewish mother who critiques movie stars' personal lives more than their acting.

2: DAVID DELLINGER is a long-time peace activist, editor and author. He was jailed for civil disobedience a generation before Daniel and Philip Berrigan. He was part of the "Chicago Seven," the group of seven antiwar demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic National Convention which erupted into violence between demonstrators and police. DELLINGER has written six books. His latest is an account of his spiritual journey, "Fram Yale to Jail." (Pantheon).

The Biden administration announced Friday they are imposing new sanctions against Cuba's National Revolutionary Police and two of its top officials.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF has a review of the new Michael Keaton film, "The Paper".

2: Author JERVEY TERVALON. He has written a first novel, titled "Understand This" (William Morrow and Company, Inc.). TERVALON set "Understand This" in today's South Central Los Angeles where he grew up and returned after college to teach in a public high school. He believes life is much more difficult in South Central L.A.--and everywhere in America--now. TERVALON's characters are faced with often overwhelming, life and death decisions. Their lives are complex--often intruded upon by guns and drugs, but also involved with the everyday struggle to raise families and live good lives. TERVALON is currently a Hollywood Pictures Screen Writing Fellow at Disney Studios and teaches fiction writing at U.C. Santa Barbara.

Cinematographer GARRETT BROWN, who in 1978 won an Oscar for his invention of the Steadicam, a camera-suspension system that eliminates the jiggle in hand-held shots. His shots are striking; They include scenes from "Rocky," running up the stairs of the Philadelphia Art Museum, in "The Shining", when the young child is chased through the garden maze, and from "Return of the Jedi" the speeder-bike chases. BROWN also invented the Skycam, a process whereby a camera is suspended by cables over a large span, like at a football field.