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Actor LARRY FISHBURNE. He was Cowboy Curtis on "Pee-wee's Playhouse," and at 15, he played a young GI in "Apocalypse Now." He recently played the musician Ike Turner in the filmed biography of Tina Turner, "What's Love Got To Do With It." His new film is "Searching for Bobby Fischer." REBROADCAST FROM 4/6/92.

Iraqi dissident writer KANAN MAKIYA. He wrote, under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil, the book "Republic of Fear," about Saddam Hussein's regime. The book was one of the first alarms about the brutality of Hussein's regime. MAKIYA has a new book, "Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World." (W.W. NORTON). In the book he criticizes Arab intellectuals for keeping silent over escalating cruelties in the Arab world.

2: GEORGE ANNAS interview continued.

MAUREEN CORRIGAN plays hardball with Dan Rather and Connie Chung.

A reading by GARY PAULSEN from his new book, "Eastern Sun, Winter Moon."

Actor and comic JAMES BELUSHI. He's starring in the upcoming ABC series, "Wild Palms," produced by Oliver Stone. It's a thriller, set in the future. BELUSHI plays a television executive caught up in the computer-generated world of illusion that his network broadcasts. This technology known as "virtual reality," gives the illusion of being immersed in another world. BELUSHI is the brother of the late John Belushi. He was a member of Second City improvisational comedy troupe, and "Saturday Night Live." He's been in the films, "Salvador," "The Principal." Most recently he starred in the film, "Traces of Red," and is currently appearing on Broadway in "Conversations with My Father.

Palestinian-American NASEER ARURI. He's a professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusettes Dartmouth. He's the author of a number of books, his latest is"Occupation: Israel Over Palestine," in it's second edition (1989), which was selected by CHOICE magazine as one of the "Outstanding Books for 1984/85." ARURI has written many articles on human rights, the Palestine question, Lebanon, Islam, and U.S. policy in the Middle East in scholarly journals and weekly magazines. ARURI has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Middle East Watch, and Amnesty International-U.S.A. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE ARTS SEGMENT, AFTER THE ATC PROMO).

2: Comic LEA DELARIA. (LEE-ah Dah-LAHR-ea) Don't call her a lesbian. She's a dyke. . . who does standup, and jazz singing. She has a new recording of songs, "Bulldyke in a China Shop," (LadySlipper Music).

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews the new book by Croatian journalist Slavenka Draculic, "The Balkan Express." (N

2: Writer, actor, director HAROLD RAMIS. He's one of the most influential forces behind some of the biggest comedy hits of the late 70s and 80s. But his influence is not generally known by those outside the industry. (For that reason he's been called the "Clark Kent" of comedy. Also because he's "mild-mannered," "bespectacled," and he "looks as if he would be the first to duck under the table at the first sign of a food fight"). RAMIS wrote for "The National Lampoon Show," and "SCTV." He co-wrote as well as acted in the movies, "Animal House," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters," and others. He directed the movie, "Groundhog Day," starring his old co-star Bill Murray. (REBROADCAST from 2/11/93).