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Executive Director of the Institute for Legislative Action, the National Rifle Association's (NRA's) Lobbying Arm TANYA METAKSA (Mah-TAX-a). She responds to criticism of the letter sent to NRA members calling federal agents "jackbooted Government thugs." Metaksa denies that the group has any association with paramilitary groups. The NRA has suffered image problems since the Oklahoma City Bombing. The group recently ended their national convention.

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The country of China is going through a period of ransition. Where socialism was once a way of life, capitalism and ntreprenuership now are on the rise. NPR's Ted Clark reports on how the conomic and political changes are fostering deep-rooted sociological ransformations within modern Chinese culture.

President Clinton today lashed out at Republican lawmakers who derailed the nomination of doctor Henry Foster for Surgeon General earlier this week. The President said the GOP was being taken over by extreme right-wing groups who would stop at nothing to outlaw abortion. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports.

With everyone from Kenny G to US3 claiming the label "jazz," Dean Olsher tries to figure out what exactly jazz is.

Filmmaker, DEBORAH HOFFMAN. She produced, directed and wrote the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." In the documentary, which airs on PBS's "Point Of View" series June 6, HOFFMAN tells how she copes with her mother, Doris, now 87, who began suffering memory lapses in the early 1980s and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1991.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO TALK-SHOW HOST JOHN ROBBIE ABOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL RUGBY TEAM, THE SPRINGBOKS, WHO WILL BE PLAYING IN TODAY'S RUGBY WORLD CUP FINAL AGAINST THE ALL BLACKS OF NEW ZEALAND. THE SPORT THAT FORMERLY DIVIDED THE COUNTRY IS NOW UNITING IT.

ESSAY: 18-YEAR-OLD JOHN FEDOTA OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ONE OF THE WINNERS OF NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "COMING OF AGE" CONTEST, READS US HIS ESSAY TITLED "HOW LITTLE WE SEE."

NPR'S PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT MARTHA RADDATZ PROFILES GENERAL GORDON SULLIVAN, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY, WHO RETIRED THIS WEEK AFTER 36 YEARS SERVICE.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that Republicans are trying to divine the meaning of yesterday's political straw poll in Ames, Iowa, involving Republican candidates for President. Bob Dole and Phil Gramm tied for the number one spot...an outcome Gramm is calling a stunning victory.

Michael talks with Skip Brandon, former Assistant Deputy Director of the F-B-I. The person called the "Unabomber" this week said the bombings would stop if certain newspapers would publish his "anarchists manifesto." The FBI is still trying to catch the Unabomber and Brandon describes some of the things the FBI is doing to figure out how to catch the Unabomber who has been on the loose since appearing in 1978.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including sounds from the Shuttle Atlantis successfully docking with the ussian Space Station Mir; Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson from the Mir Station; BI spokesperson John Grotz (grahtz) on the Unabomber; Senator Robert Dole R-KS) commenting on violence in the movies; Senator Gary Franks (R-CT) on ongressional redistricting; and President Bill Clinton on this week's trade greement between the United States and Japan.