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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 8:20 (This week's on-air player lives in Iowa ity, Iowa and listens to

A FUNGUS, SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH CAUSED THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND ALMOST 150 YEARS AGO IS THREATENING THIS COUNTRY'S POTATO INDUSTRY. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MURRY MAHANY, A FARMER IN ARKPORT, NEW YORK, WHERE POTATO FARMING IS A 50-MILLION-DOLLAR-A-YEAR INDUSTRY.

Ever since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have visited the extraordinary collection of exhibits. But museum organizers noticed that missing among the visitors were D.C. public school kids. And so they developed a program that would bring local young people to the museum where they could not only learn about the holocaust but eventually get a job at the museum. Daniel visits with some of these high school students during one of their 10 week courses and discovers how the program has not only changed the way these teenagers view history, but how it has affected their parents as well.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH HOWARD LIEB, WHO PUT TOGETHER "THE AMERICAN COMEDY BOX SET - 1915-1994" ON RHINO RECORDS (R2-71617), A COMPILATION OF SOME OF THIS CENTURY'S GREAT RECORDED COMEDY.

Mark Urycki (your-ICK-ee) of member station WKSU in Kent, hio, reports on the recent theft of some folio pages removed from a manuscript n the Vatican library. The man suspected of the crime is an art history rofessor who denies the charges.

WE WILL AIR AN EXCERPTED VERSION OF A SPEECH THE LATE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ITZHAK RABIN MADE SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER HE SHOOK THE HAND OF PLO LEADER YASSER ARAFAT ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

We hear letters and comments from our listeners in response to ast week's panel discussion on racial tensions in America.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Liane Hansen speaks with NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr. chorr first met Rabin in l97l, and followed his career through good times and ad, and remembers him as a strong leader who has changed the course of Middle ast history.

Writer YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI is a senior writer for "The Jerusalem Report." He's the author of Memoirs of A Jewish Extremist: An American Story, (Little, Brown) which tells the story of his involvement with Jewish right-wing movements in the United States, and with the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane. HALEVI eventually broke away from the movement

NPR'S PETER KENYON REPORTS THE LATEST ON THE BUDGET SHOWDOWN BETWEEN PRESIDENT CLINTON AND THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS...A SHOWDOWN THAT MAY SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. 3:30.

SCOTT'S THOUGHTS ON THE ASSASINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ITZHAK RABIN LAST WEEKEND