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Daniel speaks with Silas Cochise, a tribal council member of the Mescalero-Apache Indian tribe in New Mexico. This week the tribe decided not to allow the federal government to bury nuclear wastes on their lands.

The business community in the state of Texas is feeling the mpact of the Mexico's recent peso devaluation. Host Liane Hansen speaks with ohn Ira Petty, business reporter for the Houston Post, about local reaction to he current currency disaster.

Texans have long enjoyed great political clout in ongress -- in the past, it's been Democrats, but now powerful Republicans from he Lone Star State are strutting their stuff. Wade Goodwyn (GOOD-win) reports rom Austin on how Republican Congressmen from Texas will try to balance the ederal budget while trying to keep their constituents happy.

B-I - Daniel talks with Diarmuid Jeffreys, author of "The Bureau - Inside the Modern FBI" (Hougton Mifflin). Jeffreys discusses a period during the 1980's when the FBI investigated people belonging to peace and activist groups that were critical of U.S. policies in Latin America. Jeffreys says this period was reminescent of other dark periods in the Bureau when the FBI turned its attention towards investigating people in the U.S. based largely on their political views.

An interview with former Atlantic Records executive JERRY WEXLER. Wexler was the producer behind some of the greatest soul music of the 60s, including classic sessions with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. (REBROADCAST FROM 5

Poet and countercultural activist ALLEN GINSBERG. There's a new four-CD boxed set of Ginsberg's work, "Holy Soul Jelly Roll - Songs and Poems (1949-1993) (on Rhino's Word Beat label). (REBROADCAST from 11/8/94) Rock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Call Me Burroughs," the new collection of readings by William Burroughs. (Rhino: World Beat).

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT OLYMPIC DIVING GOLD MEDALIST GREG LOUGANIS, WHO REVEALED THIS WEEK THAT HE HAS AIDS.

STAMBERG/BICYCLES: SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH TOM O'KEEFE, DIRECTOR OF THE NONPROFIT UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK THAT HAS PUT A HUNDRED DONATED BIKES ON THE STREETS OF PORTLAND, OREGON, FOR THE FREE USE OF ANYONE.

Daniel talks to Tom Levenson, author of "Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science" (Simon and Schuster). Levenson says that during the Enlightenment, scientists thought that they could explain and understand everything in the universe, but that really isn't true.

NPR's Anne Garrels visited several villages in the southern part of the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya and reports that residents are divided as to whether to continue fighting Russian troops. The Russians have occupied the capitol Grozny for several weeks.

Commentator Amy Wu (woo) talks about the nonchalant attitude that her teenage peers have about sex. It wasn't until AIDS patients spoke at her school, that students realized the dangerous consequences of unprotected sex.

2: Writer/Director MILCHO MANCHEVSKI (MEEL-choe Man-CHEF-skee). The native Macedonian, now based in the U.S. went home to make his first feature film, "Before the Rain." One critic at the Venice Film Festival said the film is "written and directed with surprising skill and ability, wonderfully filmed." MANCHEVSKI is also well known for directing the music video, "Tennessee" by Arrested Development which won an MTV video award in 1992.