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2: Author SUSANNA KAYSEN. At age eighteen, she was hospitalized in Boston's McLean Psychiatric Hospital. Her two years there, from 1967-1969 and experiences of the other young women of her ward are the subject of Kaysen's book, "Girl, Interrupted" (Turtle Bay Books).

Journalist MARTHA HONEY. She worked as a freelance journalist in Costa Rica from 1983 to 1991. Her clients included Times (London), The Nation, ABC television, and National Public Radio. In 1984, she and her husband, Tony Avirgan were covering a press conference called by contra leader Eden Pastora Gomez, when a bomb exploded killing three journalists, and injuring dozens of other people, including Pastora, who was the intended target. (Tony Avirgan was also one of the people injured.) HONEY and AVIRGAN and other journalists set out to find the person(s) responsible. Their search led them to an Argentine leftist guerrilla, who had been killed in the meantime. What they found also implicated the CIA and Contra extreme rightests. HONEY writes that the CIA "put out false leads, stole evidence and worked to derail Costa Rica's Investigation of the incident." HONEY has a new book "Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in costa Rica in the 1980s," (University Press of Flo

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the reissue of "True Blue," by the late Tina Brooks.

CHARLES KUPCHAN (KUP chin), Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations and former Director of European Affairs on the National Security Council in the Clinton White House. He'll discuss the political motivations of the European players in NATO's ultimatum to Bosnian Serb forces. The Bosnian Serbs must withdraw artillary and mortars from their stranglehold positions on Sarajevo by February 21st or face NATO air strikes.

Interview with PETER GURALNICK continues. REV.: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG reflects on pronunciation of foreign words by broadcasters.

2: Film director JOHN SCHLESINGER. He started his career directing publicity films on the making of "The Guns of Navarone"; his first feature film was "Terminus," a documentary on 24 hours in the life of the enormous Waterloo train station. His films include "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "The Day of the Locust," "Marathon Man," and "Madame Sousatzka." His first American film was "Midnight Cowboy" which was first given an X rating when it opened in 1969, later that was scaled to an R after it won the Oscar for best picture; SCHLESINGER was awarded the Best Director Award for the film. "Midnight Cowboy" has been rereleased in New York to mark its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. (Rebroadcast from 10-5-88).

KEN TUCKER reviews ZZ Top''s new record "Antenna" (RCA).

2: Interview with PETER KRAMER continued.

2: Playwright, NPR commentator, housecleaner and former elf to Santa, DAVID SEDARIS. He launched his radio commentator career with his "SantaLand Diaries," broadcast during NPR's "Morning Edition in 1992. His humor has been described as a "caustic mix of J. D. Salinger and John Waters." Along with his sister, Amy Sedaris, he wrote the play "Stitches," which was described as a "macabre and hilarious social satire." Now he's making his literary debut, with a new collection of stories and essays, "Barrel Fever," (Little, Brown and Company).