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IN OKLAHOMA CITY, NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON OKLAHOMANS REACTION TO YESTERDAY'S ARREST OF THE FIRST SUSPECT IN THE BOMBING OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING.

ALL STATIONS FROM: MARTA HAYWOOD RE: WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY/FIRST RUNDOWN DATE: JUNE 3, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: NORA RAUM/LAURA KNOY

FROM PARIS, WHERE THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS TO BE HELD SUNDAY, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LIKE AMERICANS, THE FRENCH PICK THEIR LEADERS BASED ON WHAT THEY LEARN ABOUT THEM IN NEWSPAPERS AND ON TELEVISION. BUT WHAT THE FRENCH SEE IN THE MEDIA IS NOT AT ALL LIKE WHAT WE SEE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the debate at Brown University over school funding for women's sports. Under a federal law called Title IX, schools are required to offer men and women the same opportunities as far as athletics are concerned. But, critics of Title IX say the law is damaging to sports programs for men.

RUDOLPH VALENTINO WAS BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY AND HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH FILM HISTORIAN WILLIAM EVERSON ABOUT VALENTINO'S SHORT LIVED FILM CAREER.

A deadly storm hit the northern part of Texas late Friday night killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100. With winds topping 70 mph, power was knocked out at Dallas-Fort Worth Internatinal Airport causing flight delays and flood waters poured into Baylor University Medical Centre contaminating emergency equitpment. Member station KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.

A year after South Africa elected its first post-apartheid Government NPR's Anne Cooper visits a school just outside Johannesburg to see how the education system is faring. She finds a thriving makeshift school, created not by Government but by the drive and determination of the school principle.

Daniel Zwerdling talks to Detective Rick Sexton, the composite sketch artist for Fairfax county police about how he goes about sketching a suspect based on witness accounts. Sexton says he very often waits to interview people for a sketch until they're more calm and relaxed, even if that means they forget a few details about a suspects appearance.

SPORTS/ELVIS: ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE OPENING OF THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION'S PLAYOFFS AND RON OFFERS PREDICTIONS. AND SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE MOVIE "PANTHER," A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE BLACK PANTHER MOVEMENT OF THE 1960'S.

Daniel talks with Rasheed Khalidi, professor of Middle East History at the University of Chicago and Janet Dates, Dean of Communications at Howard University in Washington D.C. They'll discuss how certain ethnic groups tend to be either credited or blamed for certain events and how the media helps perpetuate stereotypes.