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2: Correspondent for The New York Times, MALCOLM BROWNE. He has a memoir about his life as a reporter, "Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporter's Life." (Times Books). He spent two decades as a foreign correspondent for wire services, newspapers, and magazines. He followed troops in Vietnam, and took the famous photographs of Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire in the streets of Saigon. He won a Pulitzer for his coverage of Viet Nam. BROWNE has also covered wars in Cambodia, Punjab, Banglades, North Africa, Latin America, and he was the oldest newsman to cover the Gulf War.

2: Columnist and commentator MURRAY KEMPTON. The New Yorker says he's "surely among the greatest of all living newspapermen" . . . "the one true original in the business." For years he wrote a column for the old New York Post. Now he writes for New York Newsday and The New York Review of Books. At 76, he bicycles around Manhatten in his elegant attire to gather material for his columns on the City's "rebels, losers and rascals." His latest book is a collection of his newspaper pieces. It's called "Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events" (Times Books/Random House).

inguist Geoffrey Nunberg. Dubious about "Estuary English", a new accent in London.

2: Journalist and mystery writer JON KATZ. KATZ is a media critic, . formerly for Rolling Stone and now for New York Magazine. First in KATZ'S "Death by Station Wagon" (Bantam) and now in his newly released "The Family Stalker" (Doubleday), soft boiled detective hero Kit Deleeuw cruises the streets of a fictional suburban community on crime-solving forays in his Volvo station wagon. Deleeuw lost his Wall Street job in the 80's. Now, he is a stay-at-home dad and neighborhood sleuth who has been described by NPR's Morning Edition as a "combination of Sam Spade and Mr. Mom." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER ATC

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Writer TOBIAS WOLFF. Terry talked with him in 1989 after the release of his acclaimed memoir, "This Boy's Life" about his unhappy upbringing in a working-class town in Washington State in the late 1950s. The book was adapted for screen; the movie version stars Robert DeNiro, and Ellen Barkin. Last month WOLFF was nominated for the National Book Award for his memoir "In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War" (Alfred A. Knopf). The book is an account of his tour in Vietnam. WOLFF also worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and has written two highly regarded collections of short stories. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 1/31/89).

2: Novelist, journalist, essayist, and pilot, LAURENCE GONZALES. He has a new book about his love affair with flying, "One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation." (Simon & Schuster). His love affair with flying began early, listening to the stories his mother told of his father's last flight in a B-17 bomber over Dusseldorf in World War II. (His father survived the war). GONZALES is a commercial pilot and he competes in aerobatics flying as well. "One Zero Charlie" is the term for the Galt Airfield in Illinois that he flys out of.

2:Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF makes his top ten picks for 1994....10. "Natural Born Killers" 9. "To Live" 8. "Ladybird, Ladybird" 7. "Quiz Show" 6. "L627" (L-6-2-7) 5. "The Madness of King George" 4. "Hoop Dreams" 3. "Vanya on 42nd Street" 2. "The Boys of St. Vincent" 1. "Pulp Fiction". His runners-up include "Bullets Over Broadway", "Speed", "Little Women", and "Ed Wood". Terry also talks with SCHIFF about the growing number of independent American films, the state of Hollywood, and the message of Forrest Gump.

2: Journalist RAY BONNER. He is former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and former New Yorker staff writer. He's lived in Africa from 1988 until January of this year. He has a new article in "Mother Jones," (Mar/Apr 93) about why the U.S. sent Marines into Somalia, in which he questions our role as the world's "missionary." Bonner also reported from Central America. Just recently he was exonerated for reporting on a massacre in El Salvador. Officials denied the event, but archeologists have since uncovered the mass grave. He's written two books, "Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador," (1984), and "Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy," (1987).

Writer and profesor MARY JO WEAVER. She teaches Religious and Women's Studies at Indiana University. She wrote the book, "Springs of Water in a Dryland: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today," (Beacon Press) about the "double bind" that many Catholic women find themselves in, either living within a institutionalized church structure that is oppressive, or rejecting a church which is a source of spiritual enrichment. In her book, WEAVER argues that it is possible for a woman to be a feminist and remain Catholic. WEAVER is also the author of "New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority." (Orginally aired 3