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Was it a brutal gang rape and killing? Or a terrible accident with a bungled response? Police are searching for clues — as protests erupt in India's capital.

Linguist GEOFF NUNBERG talks about how the French are trying to keep their language pure.

2: Pro-gun activist NEAL KNOX. KNOX is a powerful weapon for those who abhor any regulation of firearms. Champion target shooter and former gun journalist, he is considered the most influential voice in the National Rifle Association. He has been called the NRA's "spiritual master." He is a hardliner who believes that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the individual an absolute right to keep and bear guns. The Wall Street Journal said "Knox is likely to have a greater impact on the rapidly escalating firefight over gun control than any other individaul in America" (October 26, 1993).

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews

HARRY WU is a resident scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He came to the U.S. from China where he was held in a prison labor camp for 19 years. The son of a wealthy banker, WU was a newly graduated college student when he was arrested in 1960 and denounced as an "enemy of the revolution." In the camps he endured torture, starvation, and he learned to "stop thinking in order to survive." In 1979 he was released. After emigrating to the U.S., WU made a daring trip back to China for the TV show "60 Minutes." Disguising his identity, he and a camera crew went back to the prison labor camp to document abuses there. WU's new memoir is "Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag." (John Wiley & Sons).

Classical Music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ on a live performance of Bellini''s opera "I Puritani" which features Luciano Pavarotti and Bevery Sills. (Legato Cla

2: J. L. CHESTNUT, who in 1958 became Selma, Alabama's first and only black lawyer. Working with the NAACP, he defended activists during the civil rights movement. Since then he's been involved in what he describes as the longer march...turning the victories of the civil rights movement into grass roots change. The law firm CHESTNUT founded in Selma is now the largest black law firm in Alabama. CHESTNUT's autobiography is "Black in Selma" (Anchor), co-authored with Julia Cass, a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. This interview was originally broadcast in 1990.

One of the most respected war surgeons, DR. CHRIS GIANNOU (YAH-new). He was Director of surgical operations in Somolia with the International Committee for the Red Cross, from February 92 until January 93. He helped set up field hospitals, taught war surgery, and performed surgery. Before that GIANNOU spent over two years in a Palestinian Refugee Camp, which was under constant seige. GIANNOU wrote a book about it, "Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut." (Published by Olive Branch Press). (REBROADCAST FROM 2/25/93).

Maureen Corrigan reviews Donald Hall''s new book, Life Work and the Mechanical Brides exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New Yorkwhich runs through January 2nd.

World music critic MILO MILES reviews music by the women''s acapella group, Zap Mama. They have a debut album called "Zap Mama." (Luaka Bop).