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SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

MATT JACKSON OF MEMBER STATION WUFT IN GAINSVILLE, FLORIDA, REPORTS ON A RIVER BAPTISM HE RECENTLY ATTENDED IN THE SUWANEE (SWAN-ee) RIVER.

Organizers of an international womens forum near Beijing today called an emergency meeting with Chinese officials. They demanded that Chinese security forces stop harassing delegates and preventing free access to forum sites. Organizers say if offiicals don't ease up on security by noon tomorrow the forum could be ended early. NPR's Mary Kay Magstead reports from the conference.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ARMY RESERVE GENERAL AND BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE DONALD F. CAMPBELL WHO, WITH A TEAM OF ARMY RESERVE JUDGES, IS WORKING TO RECONTRUCT AND MODERNIZE HAITI'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM.

WORD - NPR's Walter Watson profiles stand-up comic Paul Mooney. Mooney's routines are rife with use of the "N-word." Mooney believes that if he uses the word as many times as he can, it's power will be diminished.

NPR'S TOM GJELTEN HAS THIS ASSESSMENT OF HAITI'S PROGRESS OVER THE PAST YEAR.... SINCE PRESIDENT CLINTON SENT TWENTY THOUSAND AMERICAN TROOPS TO THAT COUNTRY TO RESTORE PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE TO POWER.

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF INTERPRETER VAL CHLEBOWSKI (shleh-BOV-skee), SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FORMER POLISH PRIME MINISTER AND UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR FOR BOSNIA, TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI ABOUT THIS WEEK'S NATO BOMBING CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERB MILITARY POSITIONS. MR. MAZAWIECKI RESIGNED HIS POST IN JULY TO PROTEST THE SERBS' CAPTURE OF THE MUSLIM ENCLAVE OF SREBRENICA, STATING THE U.N.'S FAILURE TO PROTECT ITS OWN DESIGNATED 'SAFE AREAS' MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO "CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PRETENSE OF THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS."

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed today at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Daniel talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein, who is in Jeruselem, about what happened.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THIS FINAL WEEKEND OF BASEBALL'S REGULAR SEASON, THE WILD-CARD POSSIBILITIES, AND THE NEW FOUR-TEAMS-PER-LEAGUE PLAYOFFS THAT BEGIN NEXT WEEK.

Daniel reads letters from listeners.