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ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUES FACING CONGRESS UPON ITS RETURN AFTER LABOR DAY IS THE FUTURE OF MEDICARE. WHILE REPUBLICANS SAY THEY ARE COMMITTED TO REFORMING THE PROGRAM IN ORDER TO SAVE IT, DEMOCRATS ACCUSE THEM OF MISLEADING THE PUBLIC. NPR'S PATRICIA NEIGHMOND REPORTS ON A TOWN MEETING SPONSORED BY CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN BILL THOMAS.

WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY CELEBRATES 10 YEARS ON THE AIR.

LIANE HANSEN

THE WEEK AHEAD IS PROCLAIMED "BANNED BOOKS WEEK" BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION...AND SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT "LITERARY CLASSICS."

Jacki speaks with Representative Donald Payne

Jacki speaks with Don Wetzel, inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine about his invention. This week the Smithsonian Institution added an ATM machine to it's collection of 20th century artifacts. Wetzel says that last year alone, more than 8-billion transactions were conducted using ATM's.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, by Carolyn Heilbrun (Dial Publishing).REV. Linguist GEOFF NUNBERG considers the movement to make English the official language.

NPR'S PATRICIA NEIGHMOND REPORTS ON THE RELEASE THIS WEEK OF THE REPUBLICANS' PLAN TO REFORM THE MEDICARE SYSTEM, AND ON YESTERDAY'S PUBLIC HEARING ABOUT HOW AND WHETHER THEIR PLAN WOULD WORK.

NPR'S TOM GJELTEN HAS THIS ASSESSMENT OF HAITI'S PROGRESS OVER THE PAST YEAR.... SINCE PRESIDENT CLINTON SENT TWENTY THOUSAND AMERICAN TROOPS TO THAT COUNTRY TO RESTORE PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE TO POWER.

Liane speaks with Sen. Paul Simon about his biography of lijah Lovejoy, an avid abolitionist in the 1830's and the first martyr to reedom of the press in the United States.

3: Guitarist DANNY AMIS from the band, "Los Straitjackets." The group hails from Nashville. They perform in Mexican wrestling masks, and play instrumental surf-rock with a "dark vibe lurking in the mix." (Guitar Player). They have a new CD, "The Utterly fantastic and totally unbelievable sound of. . . Los Straitjackets." (Upstart records 617-354-0700).