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& 3: Diaster relief expert FRED CUNY (CUE-knee). Since January he's been in Sarajevo, implementing new water and gas systems. A former professor of engineering and public affairs, CUNY is hired by governments and agencies to coordinate responses to floods, famines, cyclones, earthquakes. He says, "Diasters are a function of underdevelopment" and he finds much humanitarian aid and relief satisfies the needs of the donor before it helps the recipient. CUNY was a Senior advisor to the US government on the Somalia famine in 1992. His book is "Diasters and Development" (Oxford University Press). (REBROADCAST from 11/3/93)Writer and director SUSAN SONTAG. Sontag was in Sarajevo in August, where she directed a performance of Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" in the Serbo-Croatian language. She is one of few arts figures to visit the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, a battle she calls "the Spanish Civil War of our time". Her latest novel is the "Volcano Lover," recently published in paperback by Anchor Books. (REBROADCAST from 8/25/93) NO REV.(INT. 5 INSTEAD) : One of Bosnia's leading film makers, and professor of film at the Academy of Film and Theatre in Sarajevo ADEMIR KENOVIC. His newest film "SA-Life" (SA stands for Sarajevo) is compiled of scenes shot by himself, other film makers, and film students in and around Sarajevo that capture the horror of the war. Each day, KENOVIC and his fellow film makers would meet in his basement studio to plan the day's shoot, going out with hand-held cameras. KENOVIC has made three other films. "SA-Life" played at the Cannes Film Festival and at the "International Video Arts Festival" at Lincoln Center in New York. (REBROADCAST from 10

2: Terry talks with two authors of children books which were once part of the reading list for the Rainbow curriculum in the New York Public schools. The two books were controversial, and removed from the list, because they dealt with children of gay parents. LESLEA (Les-LEE-ah) NEWMAN is the author of "Heather has Two Mommies," and MICHAEL WILLHOITE wrote "Daddy's Roommate." (Both books are published by Alyson Publishers, Boston, Mass).

Part one of a two part interview with "Mr Horror": writer STEPHEN KING. He ushered in a whole new era of horror fiction with his first novel in 1974, "Carrie." In the ensuing twenty years he has penned novels, short stories, screenplays, comic books, and TV movies. His latest collection of short stories was "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" (Viking); KING has also written the adaption of his apocalyptic novel "The Stand" for a mini-series which airs next week on ABC. (This portion rebroadcast from 7

Writer MIKAL GILMORE, youngest brother of executed killer Gary Gilmore. Gilmore's 1977 death --at his own request-- by firing squad in Utah, was the first American execution in ten years. Brother MIKAL finds seeds of his brother's two murders sown far back in Gilmore family history, and its Mormon roots. When asked why he writes a memoir twenty years after the events many Americans remember from Norman Mailer's book "Executioner's Song", GILMORE says, "I'm writing about it now because for many years I tried to live my life as if I wasn't a member of the same family. I put a good deal of distance between myself and other people in my family, and between myself and the history of my family." Recapturing that history is the aim of his new memoir, "Shot in the Heart" (Doubleday).

Mary Previte, superintendent of the Camden County (NJ) Youth Center. Previte, the great granddaughter of missionary pioneer Hudson Taylor, grew up in China with her missionary parents. During World War II, she and her fellow students and teachers spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp. Previte credits the structure her teachers' created with making the horrific experience bearable. For the past twenty years, Previte has run the youth center, a holding center for boys and girls charged with serious crimes. She has applied the lessons of her teachers to the center, creating a place of structure and security for children used to violent, chaotic lives. Her new book, "Hungry Ghosts" (Zondervan), relates her experience as head of this acclaimed youth center and her own life story.

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Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the new movie "Shadowlands" starring Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger. It''s based on the lives of British writer C.S. Lewis and the American poet who became his wife, Joy Gresham. Whitehead, who is Fresh Air''s regular jazz critic, is filling in for film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF this week.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Rameau''s Niece," the new novel by Cathleen Schine.

Writer ANNE LAMOTT has written a new book about being a mother for the first time (and single, at that), "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year." (Pantheon Books). One reviewer writes of the book, "an emotional roller coaster ride. Painfully honest, laced with humor and poetry and moments of profound insight, it captures the intense fluctuations of feeling, the rapid alternation of exhilaration and fury, love and despair, that characterizes new parenthood." LAMOTT is also the author of the novels, "Hard Laughter," and "All New People."

Instead of an arts review, more with DERREK PENNY. (REBROADCAST from 12