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NPR'S MELISSA BLOCK REPORTS FROM NEW YORK THAT A "HERO'S WELCOME" HOMECOMING CELEBRATION PLANNED FOR MIKE TYSON NEXT TUESDAY IN HARLEM IS MEETING WITH INCREASING OPPOSITION FROM SOME RESIDENTS.

Danny speaks with writer Tina Rosenberg about her new book, called The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism (Random House). They discuss how the people of the former East Germany and Czechoslovakia are dealing with their communist pasts.

Michael talks to Peter Samuel who recently wrote a paper for the Cato Institute entitled "Highway aggravation...the case for privatizing the highways." Samuel argues that if roads were turned over to private companies they would be both better maintained and less congested.

Daniel talks with physicist Andrew Fracknoy (FRAK-noy)...about the discovery of a belt of comets on the edge of our solar system comprised of 200-million chunks of ice. The discovery was announced this week at an annual meeting of astronomers.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT "INDEPENDENT" FILMS.

SIMON/MOTHER TERESA: SCOTT SIMON REFLECTS ON MOTHER TERESA'S CURRENT TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES, WHERE SHE HAS BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT HER WORK AND HER ORDER THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY. (MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - 335 EAST 145TH STREET - BRONX, NY 10451)

WE HEAR, ONCE AGAIN, TAPES MADE BY SCOTT SIMON'S FATHER WHEN SCOTT WAS JUST A CHILD. (MICHAEL SMITH'S SONG "I BROUGHT MY FATHER WITH ME" IS ON HIS NEW CD "TIME" ON FLYING FISH RECORDS - 1-800-FYI-FISH/FF70613. SING OUT! MAGAZINE, P.O. BOX 5253, BETHLEHEM, PA. 18015, 1-800-4-WESING)

CROATIA: THE THREAT OF A WIDER WAR IN THE NATIONS THAT ONCE WERE PART OF YUGOSLAVIA SEEMS MORE REAL THIS MORNING. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE SHUSTER IN ZAGREB, CROATIA.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.