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2: Journalist and former anchor of the CBS News, WALTER CRONKITE. Thirty years after Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech, CHRONKITE questions whether African-Americans choose to integrate into society or socialize primarily with each other. CRONKITE's newest project "The Faltering Dream," questions whether integration is still a goal or if a "equal but separate" is a more appropriate approach to race relations. In "The Faltering Dream," CRONKITE interviews notable black leaders including Reverend Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee. CRONKITE worked at CBS News for 31 years.

: Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG considers the use of language in the business world.REV. 2.: Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the debut album from JULIANNA RAY: "Something Peculiar".

2: CONCERT with the McGarrigles continued.

Lt. Gen. HAROLD MOORE and U.S. News and World Report Senior Writer JOSEPH GALLOWAY. On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site of one of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang. MOORE was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, and GALLOWAY, then a UPI reporter, accompanied them. MOORE and GALLOWAY have written a book about their experiences in the Ia Drang valley, "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young."(HarperCollins). (Rebroadcast from 11/11/92).

2: Comedy writer ALAN ZWEIBEL discusses his 14 year friendship with Gilda Radner. They met working on the original Saturday Night Live and teamed up to create such memorable characters as Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella. ZWEIBEL has written a new memoir about their friendship, called "Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story" (Villard Books).

2: Writer REBECCA BROWN, author of a new book "Gifts of the Body" (HarperCollins Publishers). The book is a collection of connected short stories about caring for people with AIDS. Though the work is fiction, many of the characters are based on people she herself worked with. BROWN is the author of other books including "The Terrible Girls," "Annie Oakley's Girls," and "The Children's Crusade."

2: Detective novelist JAMES CRUMLEY. It's been ten years since his last book. In CRUMLEY's fourth novel, "The Mexican Tree Duck" (Mysterious Press), redneck detective C.W. Sughrue (pronounced Shoog-rue) returns. CRUMLEY gets alot of materials for his novels hanging out in bars in his hometown of Missoula, Montana. CRUMLEY has written three other detective novels.

Chilean novelist ISABEL ALLENDE (ah-YEN-day). She's one of the few females in the male-dominated world of Latin American novelists. She's the niece of Chile's ousted President Salvador Allende, who was pushed out during a 1973 coup and assassinated. ISABEL left Chile after the military coup and went to Venezuela. She moved to the U.S. five years ago after falling in love with an American, and now lives in California. Her new book, "The Infinite Plan," (HarperCollins) is the first time she's set a story in the U.S. about a white American family. ALLENDE is also the author of "The House of Spirits," "Of Love and Shadows," and other novels.

We speak with JOHN BARTH, senior producer of Marketplace and former colleague from WHYY, about life in L.A. following this morning''s earthquake.

2: Contributing Editor and essayist for Newsweek magazine ELLIS COSE. His new book, "The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care?" (HarperCollins) is about what many middle-class blacks feel, but few white americans understand: that middle-class blacks still struggle against racial stereotyping, discrimination, and alienation, despite their financial success and their best efforts to "play by the rules." COSE argues that many white americans make assumptions about Blacks which are at odds with reality. For instance, that employment discrimination against blacks is no longer a problem.