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Probation officer for Los Angeles County, JIM GALIPEAU (GAL-ih-poh). He works with gangs in Los Angeles GALIPEAU has been a probation officer for almost 30 years. He's a Vietnam vet, and when he was a teenager, he was a street fighter and drug addict. Terry also talked with GALIPEAU in 1993 when he discussed the truce he was working on with the gangs.

NPR's Ann Garrels reports on some labor camps located in Siberia which house North Korean prisoners and are run by North Korean guards. During the Soviet era, the Kremlin didn't mind the arrangement. Now, it does.

NOVEMBER 12,

NPR's Daniel Schorr comments on the plight of the Dutch ontingent of the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia.

LETTERS FROM LISTENERS:We hear comments from our listeners oncerning our coverage last week of the Rabin assasination.

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NPR's Howard Berkes reports efforts to save the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah which have been shrinking for the past several years. Nearly every land speed record has been set there, and racing enthusiasts and a nearby factory have developed a scheme to replenish the salt on the flats.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with education specialist Deborah eier (MY-ER). She helped found Harlem's Central Park East in New York's istrict four, where her ideas spread to other schools and turned around an area nce notorious for the worst academic scores in the city. Meier has written bout her experiences in a new book, "The Power of Their Ideas" (Beacon ress)

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on this weekend's egotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders regarding the 16-month-old alestinian rule that is extending beyond Gaza and Jericho to more of the West ank. After much wrangling, an agreement was signed this morning.

WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALKS ABOUT THE UNEXPECTED SUCCESS OF THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL TEAM.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews. . .

Danny talks with writer Helena Maria Viramontes (Vee-rah-MOHN-tez) about her new novel, called "Under the Feet of Jesus" (Dutton). It focuses on a Mexican-American family that travels with the harvest in California .. picking oranges and peaches and grapes ... Viramontes says she wanted to recapture some of her own memories ... of the times when she and her parents worked in the fields.