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NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports on local reaction to the ecent building boom in the capital city of Hanoi, Vietnam. Many residents are p-in-arms about current threats to the city's antiquity and physical beauty, nd some are organizing to put a hold on the spurt of modern growth and xpanison.

NPR foreign correspondent TOM GJELTEN (jell-ton) has a new book, "Sarajevo Daily: a city and its newspaper under siege." During the height of the Serbian siege on Sarajevo the city was in ruins but one symbol of hope remained constant for its people, Oslobodjenje (Oh-slo-bo-JANE-ya), the city's multi-ethnic daily newspaper. When the siege began the paper's editor vowed, "As long as Sarajevo exists this paper will publish everyday." Gjelten uses the paper as a backdrop for his book in order to look at the larger issue of the war torn country and its people. GJELTEN was the Eastern and Central European correspondent for NPR from September1990 to December 1993. (GJELTEN INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO SEGMENT

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.