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Novelist PATRICIA O'BRIEN. She spent twenty years as a reporter for the Chicago Sun Times. In 1988, she worked as Michael Dukakis' press secretary when he ran for president. She now writes novels about women on the inside of Washington power circles. Her latest novel is called "The Ladies Lunch," (Simon and Schuster) about a group of Washington women who meet weekly for lunch, until one of their group, the White House press secretary, dies a violent and mysterious death

2: Journalist JAMES TRAUB has written "City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College." This is an exploration of the "open admissions policy" that was implemented at the College in 1970, and the effects this policy has had on the school. TRAUB examined remedial classes and struggling students, and talked to administrators and professors including Leonard Jeffries, the controversial Chair of the Black Studies Department.

Excerpt from an interview with DESMOND TUTU.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the premiere of the second life of NBC''s cop- show, "Homicide".

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Tom Petty''s new album.

NELSON PEERY recently published his memoir, "Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary (The New Press)," about coming of age against a background of racism, the Depression, and World War II. The book chronicles PEERY's travels west during the Depression, and his experiences as a soldier fighting in World War II. He writes about his simultaneous love for America and hatred for the people who discriminated against African Americans, especially in the army. The book details his vision of a worldwide revolution of people of color, his involvement in the Communist party, and his own personal revolutions against officers in his unit who were cruel to black soldiers. PEERY began his book when he was 24, but did not finish it until now, almost 25 years later. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES THROUGH THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

2: MARTHA REEVES is the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, the Motown group which made it big in the 60's with such hits as "Nowhere to Run," "Heat Wave," and "Dancing in the Street." Her new autobiography "Dancing in the Street: Confessions of a Motown Diva," (Hyperion) is about her career at the height of Motown music's popularity, and about her conflicts with other Motown singers and managers.

ADRIENNE GERMAIN is Vice President for the International Women's Health Coalition, which works to improve women's reproductive health care and rights in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She will serve as one of the delegates to next month's U.N. International Conference on Population and development in Cairo. She is also co-author of "Population Policies Reconsidered" (Harvard University Press), about channelling efforts to control the population not only through fertility programs, but also by offering broad-spectrum health care to women.ARTS REV. 1: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews ABC's new drama, "My So-CAlled Life," by the producers of "thirtysomething." This series premieres tonight.

Professor JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN (CROSS-in). A native of Ireland, ordained as a priest in the U.S. (he left the Priesthood in 1969), CROSSAN now teaches biblical studies at DePaul University. CROSSAN is a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who meet to determine the authenticity of Jesus' sayings in the Gospels. CROSSAN's new work is "Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography" (HarperCollins) which seeks to place Jesus in the context of his Jewish, Mediterranean and peasant roots; to see him as a Socratic philosopher and radical egalitarian. (This is a replay of an interview originally broadcast on March 30, 1994.

2: INTERVIEW WITH MIKAL GILMORE CONTINUES.