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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).

Poet and novelist MICHAEL ONDAATJE (on-DAH-chay). He won Britian's highest literary prize, the Booker Prize, for his novel set in post World War II, "The English Patient," (Vintage Books). ONDAATJE was born in Cyelon (now Sri Lanka), emigrated to England, and now lives in Canada. He also has written a personal memoir, "Running in the Family," (Vintage) about his eccentric family. Both books are now out in paperback

Jazz singer/songwriter, ABBY LINCOLN. Her new record is "Devil's Got Your Tounge" (Verve). Once married to legendary jazz drummer Max Roach, she's made her mark on jazz for almost 40 years, singing with giants like Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins. Lincoln has been hailed by one critic as the "Last Great Diva", and says herself that she sings in the tradition of Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. (Rebroadcast from 6

World music commentator MILO MILES reviews some dancehall reggae by Jamaican-born New Yorker, Shaggy. His debut album is "Pure Pleasure," (V

John Leonard reviewed the new William Gibson novel, "Virtual Light" (Bantam).