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Writer KEN LEVINE (pronounced "Le-Vine"). He's an Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and has been head writer for two of television's greatest shows: MASH and Cheers. He trained himself to be a baseball announcer out of a childhood love for the game, and has written a new book about his season as a broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles: "It's Gone!...No, Wait a Minute" (Villard Books) He's now an announcer for the Seattle Mariners

MILO MILES REV.S NEW SALSA SINGER "INDIA", WHOSE ALBUM, "LLEGO LA INDIA" (yay-GO la EEN-dee-a) FEATURES BANDLEADER AND SALSA VETERAN EDDIE PALMIERI.

2: We remember songwriter SAMMY CAHN, who died last Friday at the age of 79 with an interview Terry Gross recorded with him in 1985. Cahn wrote many of the songs that Frank Sinatra recorded, including Come Fly With Me, Teach Me Tonight and High Hopes. He also wrote the scores for many Broadway shows including Walking Happy and Skyscraper, and for the movies Come Blow Your Horn, Robin and the Seven Hoods, and A Pocketful of Miracles.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Willie Nelson''s latest, "Over the Borderline."

Actor JASON ALEXANDER. He's best known as George Constanza on the NBC series "Seinfeld", where he plays Jerry Seinfeld's best friend. Alexander won a Tony Award in 1989 for his performance in "Jerome Robbin's Broadway." (REBROADCAST FROM 6/

HASKELL WEXLER won Academy Awards for his cinematography on "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," and "Bound for Glory." He's been nominated for work on several other movies, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and "Matewan." He's also the director of "Medium Cool." Wexler is known for moving easily between marginal, political films and more mainstream fare. He was the subject of a retrospective at the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York in April. And his work and comments can be seen in the new documentary about cinematography, "Visions of Light." REBROADCAST. Originally aired 3/16/93.

Ken Tucker reviews, "Waundering Spirit," the new solo album by Mick Jagger.

2: Founder of the anti-abortion group, "Operation Rescue," RANDALL TERRY. Recently, his group tried to stop abortions by blocking access to clinics in seven cities across the United States, including Philadelphia. TERRY also has a new book, "Why does a nice guy like me keep getting thrown in jail?" (Huntington House Pub., Lafayette, LA; Resistance Press, Windsor, N.Y.) (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7/

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony," by Roberto Colasso (Knopf).

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the Evidence label''s reissues of three early SUN RA albums: "Bad and Beautiful," "Super-Sonic Jazz," and "Jazz In Silhouette." The LPs were originally recorded for Sun Ra''s own Saturn records.