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NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a recent trend among the big automakers of maintaining large reserves of cash, rather like rainy day funds, to serve as a financial cushion during the next recession. In the past the companies have had little in the way of cash reserves and have had to cut back on new projects when sales were down.

ALL STATIONS FROM: MARTA HAYWOOD RE: WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY/SECOND RUNDOWN DATE: JUNE 17, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: BILL REDLIN, LAURA KNOY

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH LAWRENCE H. FUCHS (FEW-ks), VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE U.S. COMMISSION ON IMMIGRATION REFORM AND DANIEL A. STEIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM, ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS RELEASED THIS WEEK BY THE U.S. COMMISSION ON IMMIGRATION REFORM.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED TELEVISION SHOWS, HBO'S THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW, WHICH BEGINS ITS FOURTH SEASON NEXT WEEK.

Rachel Gowases (GO-wah-says), a producer for Namibia Broadcasting Corporation, sends us an audio postcard from a friend's wedding in Namibia.

CHADWICK/BERLIN WALL THEME PARK: HOST ALEX CHADWICK TALKS WITH ROSS KOTHEN, PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR A PROPOSED BERLIN WALL THEME PARK BEING PLANNED IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WIH LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER PRESIDENT BUSH AND AMBASSADOR TO YUGOSLAVIA UNDER PRESIDENTS CARTER AND REAGAN, AND ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI (SBIG-new breh-SHIN-skee), NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT CARTER, ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT THE CONGRESSIONAL REPUBILCANS ARE PROPOSING IN FOREIGN AID AND ABOUT THIS WEEKS' NATO BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERB POSITIONS.

CONAN/MARGARET CHASE SMITH: NPR'S NEAL CONAN REMEMBERS MAINE SENATOR MARGARET CHASE SMITH WHO DIED THIS WEEK AT THE AGE OF 97.

Mike O'Conner reports from Sarajevo that Bosnian government troops are trying to consolidate their gains in a military offensive unleashed over the past few days.

SCOTT SIMON DISCUSSES STATESMANSHIP...EVIDENT THIS WEEK WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON ANNOUNCED THE OPENING OF RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM.