More or less the semi-annual role reversal in which the guests question their

host--except that this time, halfway through, they change back to the normal order; and, indeed, all the way along it is more a four-cornered conversation than a Q&A. Topics range from a potential Nuremberg-style trial of the Shah of Iran, to whether it would be a disaster for conservatives if George Bush rather than Ronald Reagan received the GOP nomination, to women and the draft, to Ted Kennedy's challenging President Carter in the primaries. One sample: JK: "If you make a distinction between empirical differences on the one hand and principled differences on the other, isn't it true that the principled differences are far more divisive in the Democratic Party than in the Republican Party?" WFB: "Yes. Yes." NvH: "Right. But not betwixt a Carter and a Kennedy." WFB: "I disagree." RN: "I disagree with that also. Just following up what Joe said, I do believe that Kennedy is very comfortable with the idea of an all-controlling Federal Government... Someone asked him just this week, in a private conversation, how are you, in the Kennedy tradition, calling for sacrifice--asking what you can do for your country--when you're even against registration for the draft? And he said, 'I am for sacrifice. I want the American businessman to sacrifice his profits and

to reduce his profits.' "