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Commentator GERALD EARLY remembers one of the most amazing events in professional boxing''s history: when Mohammed Ali knocked out former champion Sonny Liston.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH CHIP BERLET, Ber-LAY) AN EXPERT ON MILITIAS AT THE POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ABOUT WHAT MAKES PEOPLE HATE SO FIERCELY. SCOTT ALSO TALKS WITH FRANK JORDAN, MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO, ABOUT WHAT HE IS DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT HAPPENED IN OKLAHOMA CITY DOESN'T HAPPEN IN HIS. KATIE WORSHAM OF H.U.D., WHO ONCE WORKED IN THE BOMBED MURRAH BUILDING, RETURNED THIS WEEK AS ACTING STATE DIRECTOR BECAUSE THE FORMER DIRECTOR WAS KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION. SCOTT SPEAKS WITH HER ABOUT HER FORMER COWORKERS WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE BLAST. AND, SCOTT ALSO SPEAKS WITH JIM McNABB, PASTOR OF THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, ABOUT A FELLOW PASTOR WHO WAS KILLED WHILE IN THE BUILDING.

Ayoka (eye-YOKE-uh) Medlock tells the story of raising her sister's four children in Richmond California. Medlock is a 19 year old college student and her report comes via Yough Radio, a journalism training program in Berkely, California.

RETIRED MAYOR: Host Liane Hansen speaks with 92-year old Harold hue (SHOO-eh), who recently retired as Mayor of Anna, Ohio after 10 busy years n office.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports from Ho Chi Minh City on the rememberances of those Vietnamese who fought in support of the communists. And while many of them celebrated their country's independance in 1975, they still say they're not entirely satisfied with the direction their country's taken in the last 20 years.

BASEBALL CARD BLURBS: Host Liane Hansen speaks with Bruce Herman - e writes all the blurbs on Tops baseball cards.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including a Ukrainian student welcoming President Clinton to the country; resident Clinton speaking about post Cold-War relations; Red Cross spokesperson ary McAndrew and flood victim Alice Henderson on the flood waters in and around ew Orleans, Lousiana; Representative Rosa Delauro (D-CT) on Bush's decision to top supporting the NRA; U.S. Attorney Pat Ryan on the charges against Terry ichols; Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Pete Domenici (R-NM) on alancing the Federal budget; and Vice President Al Gore criticizing the epublican medicare proposal.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports from Phoenix, Arizona, where the National Rifle Association is continuing its annual meeting. Today, NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre sought to distance his organization from the militias and paramilitary groups we've been hearing so much about since the Oklahoma City bombing.

NPR Senior News commentator Daniel Schorr explains what can happen hen a member of Congress reveals CIA secrets. The most recent example was when epresetative Robert Torricelli, Democrat of New Jersey, announced at a news onference that the CIA was covering up its knowledge that an army colonel in uatemala, who also happened to be on the CIA payroll, was implicated in the urder of an American innkeeper and a Guatemalan guerilla leader.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD has an obituary of Don Pullen, who died Saturday at age 53. The New York Times called him "one of the major jazz pianists of his generation."

Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House 1995. non-fiction) Mailer says we must ask "Who was Oswald?" as a prelude to asking "Who killed JFK?". The book profiles Lee Harvey Oswald's life.... Mailer published his first book in 1948. The Naked and the Dead Oswald's Tale... is Mailer's 28th book. In 1968, He won a Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night and was again a Pulitzer recipient in 1980 for The Executioner's Song. He is co-founder of The Village Voice and was president of AMERICAN PEN from 1984 to 1986.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON HOW OKLAHOMANS ARE COPING WITH THE AFTERMATH THE THE BOMBIMG ON APRIL 19TH, AND HOW THAT TRAGEDY MAY HELP CHANGE OLD OKLAHOMAN STEREOTYPES.