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A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed and Representative at Schroeder (D-CO) on the Coalition's "Contract with American Families"; ormer President George Bush and President Clinton on the NRA; archeologist Kent eeks on the discovery of ancient tombs in Egypt; and the theme music from the elevision show "Bewitched," whose star, Elizabeth Montgomery, died of cancer his past week.

Guitarist Les Paul's 80th birthday is celebrated by featuring our 1992 interview with him. Les Paul has spent his life playing guitar, inventing guitars to play, and inventing devices to record himself on. He's often been called the "Thomas Edison of music."

LESTER GRAHAM OF MEMBER STATION KWMU IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI REPORTS ON THE POTENTIAL GRAIN AND CORN-PRODUCTS SHORTAGES THIS FALL AS A RESULT OF THIS SPRING'S CONTANT RAINS IN THE MIDWEST.

Actor, CLARENCE WILLIAMS III. He is best known as the bell-bottomed clad hippie cop on the "The Mod Squad." WILLIAMS is noted as a theater actor and Tony Award nominee. In addition, he has appeared in numerous TV shows such as "The Cosby Show" and "Hill Street Blues", and films such as "Purple Rain" and "Sugar Hill." WILLIAMS plays a mortician in the new action horror film "Tales From The Hood.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that the hostage crisis in the Russian city of Budenovsk (pronounced: bood-YAWN-uhfsk) took a turn for the worse today, as Russian government troops stormed the hospital where Chechen fighters are holding more than one thousand civilians hostage, but failed to end the crisis. Some hostages were freed, around 200. But most remained captive. Negotiations continue. And in Moscow, the political fallout is accumulating, as Boris Yeltsin's government tries to figure out how to end the crisis without further loss of civilian lives.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Independence Day by Richard Ford , the sequel to his acclaimed novel, The Sports Writer.

It's Father's Day, and host Liane Hansen talks with writer idney Offit (OFF-it) about his father, Barney, who was a bookie in Baltimore. ffit is the author of MEMOIR OF THE BOOKIE'S SON, (St.Martin's Press) and 13 ther books. He's also curator of the George Polk Journalism Awards.

Liane Hansen speaks with NPR White House correspondent Mara iasson about the G-7 economic summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr addresses the sometimes hot, sometimes old, history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He concludes that recent ational events and a recent appointment have once again fostered negative erceptions of the government agency.

NPR'S Peter Kenyon reports that in Washington this week, both the House and Senate will be preparing to vote on budget resolutions that Republicans say will bring the huge federal deficit under control. They say these budget blueprints will balance the budget by the year 2002 Lawmakers are still months away from actually cutting any federal programs. But the debate between Republicans and Democrats is at hand, and it's going to be contentious.

Daniel talks with former New Hampshire Republican senator Warren Rudman. Rudman was co-sponsor of a budget balancing act which was passed in the 80's but which was largely ignored by Congress. He says that while the proposed budget is likely to change as it goes through the committee process, Congress is definitely on track to eliminate the budget deficit.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "100% Fun," the new release by Matthew Sweet. (Zoo Entertainment).