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Today's first half is about children who are orphaned after losing their parents to AIDS. Studies estimate that by the year 2000, up to 125,000 U.S. children will be left parentless because of the fatal illness. AIDS workers are now beginning to realize their next step is to help these secondary victims by providing homes, food and counseling. We interview two people on the subject; a single mother with AIDS, and the head of a project designed to address the needs of orphaned kids:1)LAURA JIMENEZ. ("hee-MEN-ez") She is a 42-year-old divorced mother with AIDS. Jimenez lives in a housing project in the Bronx with her 10-year-old son. Her two other children, in their twenties, are married with their own kids. She has worked through desperate times to become an activist for women with AIDS.2) CAROL LEVINE. ("la-VEEN") She is the Executive Director of "The Orphan Project," based in Manhattan. She founded the organization two years ago, after working on the Citizen's Commission on AIDS. The Orphan Project undertook at study of how many children in the New York area were affected by HIV in their families. Levine was surprised at the numbers the study turned up. Now the project is looking at social and policy options to help these children

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Dudley," the new sitcom starring Dudley Moore.

We pay tribute to Frank Zappa who died over the weekend with an excerpt of a 1989 interview with him.

Ward on saxophone solos.

2: Russian literary critic and dissident writer, VICTOR EROFEYEV (ER-row-FAY-ev). He's written his first novel, "Russian Beauty," (Viking). The book, about a young bisexual beauty who leaves the provinces for Moscow, has been a best-seller in Russia. EROFEYEV is also the son of a Soviet diplomat.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two sequels to literary classics, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Pride and Prejudice."

HELEN PREJEAN (pray-ZSAHN)'s book, "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" (Random House) details her experience working with death row inmates in Louisiana. Prejean has come to believe that the death penalty is not only ineffective as a deterrent, but that the government can't be trusted to decide who should live and who should die. Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun

2: Producer JEFF APPLE and writer JEFF MAGUIRE. Their latest project is the new film, "In the Line of Fire," starring Clint Eastwood as a burnt-out Secret Service agent, haunted by the assassination of President Kennedy. APPLE has produced hundreds of TV commercials as well as documentaries and promotional films. He came up with the idea for the film, and approached MAGUIRE to write the film script.

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2: Concert with the McGarrigles continues.