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2: Filmmaker ROB WEISS. His first film, Amongst Friends, draws on his own experiences growing up affluent on Long Island. His characters reject the values of their parents and are attracted by a world of gangsters and gambling.

Writer ALLAN BERUBE (bah-RUE-bay). He wrote the book, "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women In World War II," (1990, The Free Press). For it, BERUBE spent ten years interviewing gay and lesbian veterans, searching out wartime letters, and consulting newly declassified government documents. He found that hundreds of thousands of gays entered the military despite a procedure for screening out homosexuals. Terry will talk with him about the ban on gays in the military and the hearings going on now, about whether it should be repealed.

Marty talks with three young drug dealers from Camden, New Jersey. (Camden is across the river from Philadelphia and is considered one of the most violent cities in New Jersey; it also has a higher than average poverty rate for children. ) The three gang members go by aliases, Eddie Bauer, 16 years old, Kevin Madison, 20, and Sampson Riley, 18. They are members of the 6th & Ferry Gang.

Maureen Corrigan reviews, "The Dutchman" by Martin and Annette Myers.

Rock historian ED WARD reviews Rhino Record''s DIY anthology (the Do It Yourself punk music of the 70s and 80s).

2: BETTY PENDLER is the mother of a 36 year-old developmentally disabled daughter. PENDLER conducts sexuality workshops for parents of the developmentally disabled, teaching them how to talk to their children about sex and relationships. (A related story ran in The New York Times, Jan. 26). There's currently a trial in New Jersey about four young men accused of sexually assaulting a retard young woman.

2: DON DES JARLAIS (Day-gjar-LAY). He's an expert on AIDS and HIV infection among drug users. He's the Director of Research at the Beth Israel Medical Center's Chemical Dependency Institute in New York. And the Deputy Director for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, New York. He's also a consultant on AIDS to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization.

2: Pulitzer-prize winning journalist DAVID HALBERSTAM. He has a new book which is a social, political, economic, and cultural history of what he considers the pivotal decades of the century, "The Fifties." (Villard Books). HALBERSTAM's other books include, "The Best and the Brightest," "The Powers That Be," and others.

PART I) Poet, journalist, and critic LUIS RODRIGUEZ. He's new book, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." (Curbstone press) is about his participation in gang life in the 1960s in East L.A. RODRIGUEZ was in a gang by the time he was 12. And by the time he was 18, 25 of his friends had been killed. After time in the county jail, RODRIGUEZ turned his back on gang activity. He became involved in the Chicano movement, and was encouraged to write, because he'd shown a talent in it. RODRIGUEZ wrote "Always Running," in an attempt to save his own son from gang life. His son RAMIRO is 16 and is in a gang in Chicago. He'll join his father during the second half of the show.

2: Interview with MICHAEL BESCHLOSS continued. BESCHLOSS is also the author of "Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance" (1980), and "The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963" (1991). He is editor at large and foreign affairs columnist for "Time" Magazine, and was CNN-on-air analyst during the years when the cold war was ending.