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From member station K-Q-E-D in San Francisco, Ancel Martinez reports what luxury car dealers are doing to try to stave off the economic hit of a one hundred percent tariff that might go into effect if the U.S. and Japan can't solve their trade dispute by the end of June.

Writer RICHARD FORD. His book Independence Day (Knopf), the sequel to The Sportswriter (Vintage), has recently been released. FORD is also the author of Wildlife, The Ultimate Good Luck, A Piece of My Heart, and Rock Springs

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S MARA LIASSON ABOUT THE LATEST IN THE BUDGET BATTLE ON THE HILL.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including President Clinton on his budget plan; Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) nd Senator Tom Daschle (D-ND) responding to the President's budget address; enator Alan Simpson (R-WY) criticizing the American Association of Retired ersons; Executive Director of the AARP Horace Dietz defending the association; op performer Michael Jackson; the victory of the Houston Rockets basketball eam; and International Olympics Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch nnouncing Salt Lake City, Utah as the chosen host city for the 2002 winter lympics.

Professor of Religion at Princeton University ELAINE PAGELS. She has written four books including The Gnostic Gospels (which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award). PAGELS has a new book called The Origin of Satan (Random House).

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. This week, Will is in Portland, Oregon for the 56th Convention of the National Puzzler's League. He comes to us from the tudios of NPR member station KOPB. 6:49 This week's on-air player lives in Framingham, Massachusetts and listens to BUR,Boston.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON THE FINAL DAYS OF CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT HEARING INTO THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN INCIDENT...HAVE THESE HEARINGS REVEALED ANY GREAT SECRETS OR HAVE THEY JUST SHOWN THAT STRONG EMOTIONS STILL SURROUND THE INCIDENT TWO YEARS LATER?

Last week we asked listeners to call in with words they or their family members have made up. And, are so wonderful, they should be added to the dictionary. Here are the highlights...

Yesterday President Clinton issued an executive order that established the first uniform standards for U.S. agencies in granting security clearances to employees. Among the directives was an order to end the denial of security clearances because an applicant is gay. Daniel talks to Frank Kameny, who was denied government security clearances in the 1950s and 60s and was the first person to fight a discharge from a federal civil service job because of his homosexuality.

WHILE THE FATE OF TWO FORMER FOLLOWERS OF THE LATE BAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH, THE FLAMBOUYANT MYSTIC WHO ATTEMPTED TO CREAT A UTOPIAN COMMUNE IN THE HIGH DESERT OF OREGON FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, HAS BEEN DETERMINED, HAVING BEEN CONVICTED YESTERDAY OF CONSPIRING TO KILL A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR IN 1985, THE FUTURE OF THE RAJNEESH FACILITY IS YET UNKNOWN. FROM ANTELOPE, OREGON, LEY GARNETT REPORTS.