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Columnist RAMI KHOURI (pronounced "Koor-ee"). Khouri, a Palestinian Jordanian, is the former editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times newspaper and is now columnist there.

2: Basketball player JOHN LUCAS was the number one draft pick for the NBA in 1976, before his career went downhill as a result of drug use. He conquered his drug addiction and started a recovery program for other drug-addicted athletes. He coached the San Antonio Spurs to the playoffs twice, and is now the head coach, general manager, and vice president of the Philadelphia 76ers. LUCAS has just written a memoir, "Winning a Day at a Time" (Hazelden).

Journalist KIM RICH. She's written a memoir, "Johnny's Girl," (William Morrow & Co.) about growing up in Anchorage, Alaska during the oil boom years, the daughter of "one of the most notorious underworld figures in the city." Her father operated illegal gambling houses and massage parlors all over the city. RICH's father was eventually murdered. [REBROADCAST. Originally aired 3/31/93.

As a child, LUCY GREALY spent five years being treated for cancer, which left her face disfigured. She has since had over thirty reconstructive procedures and years of living with a distorted self-image. She's just written "Autobiography of a Face" (Houghton Mifflin Company), her memoir about coming to terms with looking less than perfect in a society that values female beauty.

Writer EDWARD BUNKER. Bunker wrote the crime fiction classic "No Beast So Fierce," which first came out in 1973, about a former criminal trying to go straight. The book has been out of print since 1986, and has just been reissued. It was the basis of the film Straight Time, which starred Dustin Hoffman. Bunker spent almost 20 years in jail himself, and used his experiences as the basis of his book. He's also written 2 other novels, many essays, and screenplays for Straight Time and The Runaway Train

2: Regional Director of four women's clinics in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania, and Omaha, Nebraska, DIANE STRAUSS. Three of her clinics were the target of Operation Rescue's protests last week. Before that, STRAUSS has been harrassed at home by the group. In 1987, one of STRAUSS's clinics was the first clinic to be targeted by Operation Rescue outside of Binghamton, New York where the group is based.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Bone," the new first-novel by Fae Myenne Ng.

Austin singer/songwriter, performance artist, JO CAROL PIERCE. She won the "Songwriter of the Year" award at the 1993 Austin Music Awards. A tribute album of her songs performed by other singers, "Across the Great Divide," won the Album of the Year Award. She's originally from Lubbock, Texas -- where it seems anybody who wants to be somebody in the Texas music scene must be from. She's little known outside Texas, but has a cult following in Austin. PIERCE'S songs are quirky, and spiritual. Her song, "I Blame God," has been called, "a slice of metaphysical slapstick with the dark humor of a honky-tonk Dostoevski." PIERCE also wrote and performed the one-woman show, ""Bad Girls Upset About the Truth," told in story and song about her problems with men and Jesus.

2: Film director JIM SHERIDAN. An Academy Award nominee for Best Director of "My Left Foot," he directed, produced and co-authored the screenplay for the new film, "In the Name of the Father," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It's based on Gerry Conlon's memoir of the same name.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan on the legacy of Dashiell Hammett, who was born one hundred years ago today. Critic David Bianculli on the veteran British television writer, DENNIS POTTER, the author of "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies From Heaven"; POTTER is gravely ill, and yet he continues to compose a new mini-series. At New York''s Museum of Television & Radio, they are running his most recent miniseries, "Lipstick on Your Collar".