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SCOTT SIMON VISITS A REHABILITATION HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO TO SPEAK WITH YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE BEEN PARALYZED BY THE KIND OF VIOLENCE THEY ONCE PERPETRATED. HE DISCOVERS THAT SOME GANG MEMBERS, LITERALLY STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS BY BULLETS, FIND INSIGHT AND NEW POSSIBILITIES IN THEIR WHEELCHAIRS.

2: Actor PETER GALLAGHER. GALLAGHER is starring in two soon to be released films, "The Underneath," and "While You Were Sleeping." The New York Times said, "the first hit of summer is here," about "While You Were Sleeping." Gallagher has been on the acting scene for over two decades. He has worked steadily, but only recently has he garnered commercial success in film. Gallagher is well known on Broadway as the star of "Guys and Dolls."

2: The stars of the Emmy Award winning TV series "Cagney & Lacey" SHARON GLESS (Christine Cagney) and TYNE DALY (Mary Beth Lacy). The two play New York City Police detectives. The series aired on CBS from 1982 to 1988. This Tuesday the two will be reunited in the two-hour TV movie "Cagney & Lacey: Together Again." The movie is the second two-hour episode since the series ended. "C&G" was the first TV crime show in which the two central characters were female. The TV series won 14 Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award.

Yesterday, Czech President Vaclav Havel remembered the half-million European gypsies who were victimized in camps during the Second World War by unveiling a monument in their honor. The tragedy of this particular group has not been widely recognized by the international community, and Tom Whitehouse reports that the survivors and relatives of those who suffered in the concentration camps are now looking for compensation.

Lt. Gen. HAROLD MOORE and U.S. News and World Report Senior Writer JOSEPH GALLOWAY. On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site one of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang. MOORE was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, and GALLOWAY, then a UPI reporter, accompanied them. MOORE and GALLOWAY wrote a book about their experiences in the Ia Drang valley, We Were Soldiers Once...And Young (Random House). (REBROADCAST FROM 11/11/92)Journalist and best-selling author DAVID HALBERSTAM. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting from Vietnam. He was one of the first American reporters to contradict the government's optimistic picture of the war. He was attacked by officials of South Vietnam and the United States for negativism and inaccuracy in his reporting. In 1967 HALBERSTAM retired from newspaper reporting. His books since then include The Best and Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Fifties, and others. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/3/93)Writer MICHAEL HERR. He wrote what's considered the definitive Vietnam book, Dispatches. The movie "Apocalypse Now" is loosely based on his writings. (REBROADCAST FROM 5/

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including a United Nations Canadian peacekeeper held hostage in Bosnia and Bosnian Serb soldier; IRA political leader Gerry Adams talking about the uture of Ireland; the implosion of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Okalhoma ity; Joni Lesick, whose friend died in the Oklahoma City bombing; and Senator ete Domenici (R-NM) and Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) on the passage of the Budget esolution.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ROBERT REMINI, EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, ABOUT A DOCUMENT THAT PROVES THAT OUR SEVENTH PRESIDENT, ANDREW JACKSON, AS A YOUNG BUSINESSMAN LIVING IN SPANISH HELD TERRITORY, ONCE SIGNED AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE KING OF SPAIN.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH BILL MOYERS ABOUT HIS SPECIAL PROGRAM NEXT WEEK ON PUBLIC TELEVISION TITLED "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT VIOLENCE?" ITS FOCUS IS ON VIOLENCE AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND WHAT SOME COMMUNITIES ARE DOING TO CURB IT.

Health care analyst and substance abuse expert JOSEPH CALIFANO. He was LBJ's assistant for domestic affairs from 1959-65 and Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter from 1977-79. JOSEPH CALIFANO has written a book about health care reform called "Radical Surgery" (Random House) and is president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a research and experimental care facility at Columbia University. Terry will be talking to him about health care reform, welfare reform and substance abuse.

From the Beach Boys, BRIAN WILSON. We feature a segment from a 1988 interview with WILSON. This ties in with the next interview:Editor in Chief of Billboard Magazine TIMOTHY WHITE. He has written a new book that traces the evolution of the "myth" of Southern California. WHITE uses the history of the Wilson family and it's migration to California in the 1920s. The Wilson family is that of Brian Wilson, one of the Beach Boys, the band the helped put Southern California on the map as the place of sun and fun. WHITE's new book is "The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience" (Henry

ingust GEOFFREY NUNBERG reflects on the adverb.