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NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the case of onvicted spy Jonathan Pollard. The Israeli government has requested that ollard be released from a U.S. jail; the Clinton administration is considering ts response.

Daniel talks with Phillip Jenkins Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University about the history of militia movements in the United States. Jenkins says that in the 1940's in particular, there were several right-wing militias run by Christian leaders. They believed the federal government was subverting the constitution and many of them followed a popular radio talk show host who was also a priest preaching anti-semitic and racist views.

SCOTT SIMON AND SIMON HOGGART OF BRITAIN'S THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER TALKS ABOUT THE WEEK'S NEWS

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Rock historian ED WARD continues his series on cities and rock and roll. Today''s city is New Orleans.

SCOTT SIMON SHARES SOME THOUGHTS AND FEARS REGARDING DETECTIVE MARK FUHRMAN AND OTHER POLICE OFFICERS.

MATT JACKSON OF MEMBER STATION WUFT IN GAINSVILLE, FLORIDA, REPORTS ON A RIVER BAPTISM HE RECENTLY ATTENDED IN THE SUWANEE (SWAN-ee) RIVER.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed today at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Daniel talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein, who is in Jeruselem, about what happened.

World music critic MILO MILES reviews "Grayfolded" by the Canadian avant-gardist John Oswald which is two extended versions of the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star." Using a technique called "plunderphonics" Oswald took recordings from the Dead and manipulated them electronically. (If you can''t find the album in your record store, it can be ordered from Swell Productions, 253 College St., #295, Toronto, Canada, M5T 1R5. Phone: 416-531-

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF INTERPRETER VAL CHLEBOWSKI (shleh-BOV-skee), SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FORMER POLISH PRIME MINISTER AND UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR FOR BOSNIA, TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI ABOUT THIS WEEK'S NATO BOMBING CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERB MILITARY POSITIONS. MR. MAZAWIECKI RESIGNED HIS POST IN JULY TO PROTEST THE SERBS' CAPTURE OF THE MUSLIM ENCLAVE OF SREBRENICA, STATING THE U.N.'S FAILURE TO PROTECT ITS OWN DESIGNATED 'SAFE AREAS' MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO "CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PRETENSE OF THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS."

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WIT BURTON H. THROCKMORTON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF NEW TESTAMENT AT THE BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND AN EDITOR OF NEW "NEW TESTAMENT AND PSALMS: AN INCLUSIVE VERSION," PUBILSHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Organizers of an international womens forum near Beijing today called an emergency meeting with Chinese officials. They demanded that Chinese security forces stop harassing delegates and preventing free access to forum sites. Organizers say if offiicals don't ease up on security by noon tomorrow the forum could be ended early. NPR's Mary Kay Magstead reports from the conference.