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RUSS RYMER is a journalist who has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has just written his first book, "Genie," (Harper Collins) which began as a couple of New Yorker articles last year. It's about the discovery in 1970 of a "wild-child," a thirteen year old girl who had lived her entire life locked in a room of her parent's house. Genie had no language or social skills. Her discovery coincided with a raging debate among scientists about the origin of language. Michael Dorris writes about the book, "At once a scientific detective story and an examination of professional ethics. . . disturbing, enlightening, and impossible to forget."

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the latest of MTV''s "Unplugged" concert series, featuring Tony Bennett.

2: Educator BOB MOSES. He was a leader in the Civil Rights struggle, helping to register black voters in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. He's still a civil rights activist, though his weapon now is Math. He's the director and creator of the innovative Algebra Project which opens up educational opportunities for young African-Americans. MOSES established the project in Cambridge, Mass in 1982. Since then it's been implimented across the country, and has reached 9,000 inner city youths. (REBROADCAST from 3

Film critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "Coneheads," the latest Saturday Night Live-inspired movie. It stars Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd.

2: Part TWO of the interview with journalists DONALD BARLETT and JAMES STEELE. Their reports from the front pages of the "Philadelphia Inquirer" later became the book "America: What went Wrong"; it was a bestseller for eight months, and added fuel to the fire of the 1992 Election. Their new book of investigative reporting is "America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?" (Simon & Schuster). They argue the middle class has been soaked by the current tax system; that the same dollar earned by a neighborhood grocer is taxed more than if it was earned by a foreign corporation doing business here. .

Former Secretary of State GEORGE SHULTZ. He has a new memoir, "Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State," (Scribners). Terry will talk with him mostly about the Iran-Contra Affair. Early on, SCHULTZ opposed any arms-for-hostages deal.

2: Once the most powerful reviewers in America, The New York Times' former drama critic, FRANK RICH. It was a great day for many playwrights when RICH stepped down as critic late last year. The British press once dubbed him "The Butcher of Broadway;" playwright David Mamet called him "a terrible critic. . . an unfortunate blot on the American theatre." Some playwrights and directors even chose to take their work elsewhere to save themselves from a review by RICH. But he's also been called "one of the most gifted critics ever to write for a newspaper... a rare and brilliant talent." Now, after thirteen years as drama critic, RICH is a columnist on the Times' Op-Ed page.

Children's book illustrator TED LEWIN (LOO-in). Lewin paid his way through art school in the 50's as a professional wrestler. His new memoir, "I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler," (Orchard Books) includes Lewin's paintings of wrestlers.

Former Drug Czar WILLIAM BENNETT. He is currently co-director of the conservative organization "Empower America." In 1981, he was appointed by Ronald Reagan to be Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1985, he became President Reagan's Secretary of Education, and from March of 1989 to November of 1990, he served as President Bush's director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Bennett has written extensively on social and domestic issues and is the author of five books. His latest is "The Book of Virtues: a treasury of Great Moral Stories," a collection of hundreds of stories and poems he hopes will instruct children in "moral literacy."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews, "The Fugitive," starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.