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NPR'S MICHAEL SKOLER REPORTS THAT THE ETHNIC FEARS THAT HAVE LEFT RWANDA VIRTUALLY DESTROYED BY WAR AND GENOCIDE ARE NOW BEGINNING TO PARALYZE ITS SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR...BURUNDI.

Jacki talks with Rolling Stone magazine music critic Anthony DeCurtis about the value of Greatest Hits albums. Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits suceeded Garth Brooks greatest hits on the Album charts and DeCurtis talks of the merits of buying such collections.

NPR's Martha Guild reports on a rather sad story. Last September Ann Barrett overdosed on antidepressants. When the police found her they also discovered a 400-page diary which they took for a suicide note. They confiscated it and to the despair of the family .. lost it.

SCOTT SIMON AND NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTENBERG TALK ABOUT HOW AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS PLAYING ON THE HILL, ESPECIALLY AS THE 1996 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOOMS.

ENTERTAINMENT: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE "DON JUAN DeMARCO" STARRING JOHNNY DEPP, MARLON BRANDO AND FAYE DUNAWAY.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH DR. GARY MILHOLLIN (mil-HALL-en), DIRECTOR OF THE WISCONSIN PROJECT ON NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL, AND DR. PAULA NEWBERG, SENIOR ASSOCIATE SPECIALIZING IN SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS AT THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE, ABOUT THE MANY ISSUES RAISED BY PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER BENAZIR BHUTTO'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON THIS WEEK.

ITEM VETO - Jacki talks with James Thurber, the head of Congressional and Presidential Studies at American Univeristy in Washington D.C. Both houses of Congress have approved giving the President the Line-Item Veto...the ability of the President to veto specific portions of spending bills. Thurber discusses what the implications are.

Critic Bob Mondello muses about the cost of entertainment...now and a generation ago...and how much we all have to work to afford that ticket to the latest movie or sporting event.

NPR's John Burnett spends an evening with Dr. Marvin Tuttle - a man whose mission in life it is to protect and educate people about the misunderstood bat. Tuttle says bats are key to ecological balance not to mention they're great at keeping the mosquito population and other crop eating pests under control.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW FILM "MAJOR PAYNE," STARRING DAMON WAYANS AS MAJOR PAYNE.