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Among the speakers at today's UN meeting was Cuba's Fidel Castro. It was Castro's first appearance at the UN since 1979, and NPR's Tom Gjelten has been following him around. Tom talks with Daniel about Castro's day.

Storyteller Carmen Didi shares another tale of her mother's finesse - this time with the English language.

The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

Bob Mondello reviews the movie "Unzipped," a documentary about the fasion designer Issac Mizrahi. It's very slick and entertaining, he says.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr comments on the possible andidacy of Colin Powell.

NPR's David Molpus reflects on the occasion of his 30th igh school reunion.

Some voices heard in the wake of the assassination of Israeli rime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...including President Clinton, Shimon Peres, and abin himself.

Daniel talks to Timothy O'Brien, staff writer at the Wall Street Journal about a recent article covering a computer break-in at Citicorp, one of the largest banks in the country. A 28 year old computer hacker in St. Petersburg, Russia, allegedly broke into Citicorps and transfered over 12 million dollars from corporate accounts all over the world to his own account, $400,000 of which he was able to withdraw in cash before getting caught by Citicorps and the FBI.

Journalist EVAN THOMAS. He is Assistant Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief at Newsweek. His new book is The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA (Simon & Schuster). In the book he tells about the men who ran the CIA's covert operations during the worst of the cold war years. THOMAS had access to the CIA's own records about their operations, and he interviewed many of the men involved. THOMAS was the only person to have such access to the CIA's archives. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

T.V. critic DAVID BIANCULLI previews the season opener of "NYPD Blue."

NPR's Howard Berkes reports from Phoenix, Arizona, on the annual onvention of the National Rifle Association. The group is trying to improve its mage after a difficult week of controversy, following a fund-raising letter hat called federal agents, "jack-booted thugs."

2: Poet and translator W.S.MERWIN. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1970 work, The Carriers of Ladders. His books of poetry include The Song of Roland, The Compass Flower, Miner's Pale Children, Houses and Travellers, and The Rain in the Trees. Many of his poems concern the beauty of the natural world and the consequences of man's desecration of it. (Rebroadcast. Originally aired on 5/13/88.)Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz changes hats and becomes Poet Lloyd Schwarts and reads a poem about his mother.