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Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new memoir by Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, When I Was Young.

This weekend marks the first annual Patsy Cline Festival in Winchester, Virginia. Jacki talks with biographer Ellis Nassour about the delayed recognition for Patsy--she wasn't always well thought of in Winchester. And we'll hear portions of two Patsy Cline chestnuts.

SIMON/"THE TIN GOOSE": SCOTT SIMON ONCE AGAIN TALKS WITH JOHN LEMMO WHO, LAST WEEK, SOLD ONE OF HIS "TUCKER TORPEDOS," DUBBED THE CAR OF THE FUTURE AT THE 25TH ANNUAL AUBURN COLLECTOR CAR SHOW AND AUCTION IN AUBURN, INDIANA.

Novelist AMY TAN. Her best-selling books include The Joy Luck Club, and The Kitchen God's Wife. Her newest novel is The Hundred Secret Senses (Putnam's), about two half-sisters. One is Chinese-American, the other is Chinese, and has the ability to see ghosts

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)