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Rock historian ED WARD explores some of the lesser known music from the Vietnam War era. INT. 2: Interview with LAURIE GARRETT continues. REV. 2: World music critic MILO MILES reviews "UDI Hrant" (oud-ee HA-rant) by Hrant Kenkulian (HA-rant Ken-KUL-i-an) It''s on the Traditional Crossroad label.

2: Writer MICHAEL IGNATIEFF ("ig-NAT-tee-ef"), who has investigated six of the world's trouble spots for a BBC television series, and a companion book: "Blood & Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). A Canadian of Russian ancestry who lives in England, IGNATIEFF's book raises the question of why nationalism, which once unified countries like Germany and Italy, today pulls countries apart. IGNATIEFF reports from Germany, the Ukraine, Quebec, and the former Yugoslavia, and writes, "The world is not run by skeptics and ironists but by gunmen and true believers, and the new world they are bequeathing to the next century already seems a more violent and desperate place..."

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI talks about former "Tomorrow" host Tom Snyder''s move from CNBC to a late show on CBS.

2: The final report on Iran contra by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh has just been released. Terry talks with PETER KORNBLUH about the reports findings. KORNBLUH is senior analyst on U.S.-Latin America policy at the National Security Archive and editor of "The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History," (published in 1993 by the The New Press).

Stephen Schiff on Spike Lee''s new film "Crooklyn."

Comedian JERRY SEINFELD. His television show just won three Emmy Awards and an army of devoted fans are propelling his book "SeinLanguage" (Bantam) up the best-seller lists. (REBROADCAST FROM 9/2/87). LARRY DAVID, the co-creator, executive producer, and one of the writers of the comedy series "Seinfeld." David just won an emmy for best writing in a comedy series. David is also the basis for the character "George," Jerry Seinfeld's neurotic best friend. He was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the short-lived ABC late night series, "Fridays." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/2/91).

DANIEL SCHORR is the Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. He was the CBS Chief Watergate Correspondent, and is now narrating a five-part BBC documentary, "Watergate." After ending up on Nixon's "enemy list," SCHORR resigned from CBS in 1976, and wrote a book about the Watergate scandal called "Clearing the Air." Before joining CBS, SCHORR was a foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. The "Watergate" series will air this week on the Discovery channel, and will coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Nixon's resignation

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "Who''s Bridge," by the Misha Mengelberg Trio. (Avant)REV. 2: Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Madonna''s new release, "Bedtime Stories" (Warner).

2:Former staff members on The Johnny Carson Show, MIKE HUBER and BARBARA BOWEN. They were, respectively, correspondent and co-correspondent for Carson and they had the job of reading letters sent from fans and non-fans of the show. They collected the most memorable ones in the new book, "Dear Johnny: Johnny Carson's Most Hilarious & Bizarre Fan Mail." (Optima Books).

2: Writer and former filmmaker GRETEL EHRLICH is the author of "The Solace of Open Spaces," a collection of essays about life on Wyoming's high plains. It was while walking on the Wyoming plains that EHRLICH was struck by lightning. The force of it threw her forty feet, severly damaged part of her nervous system, and sent her into a "solitary limbo." EHRLICH returned to her parents' home for medical treatment and began trying to understand what happened to her. She found explanations in medical books and in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which described a wandering state between life and death, confusion and enlightenment. EHRLICH's new book is "A Match to the Heart." (Pantheon) (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 6