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SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH SIMON HOGGART OF THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER IN LONDON ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Jacki speaks with Oscar Newman, an architect and city planner at the institute for community design analysis in New York, about "defensible spaces." They're an approach to revitalizing inner city spaces by closing off neighborhoods with gates that, in effect, turn neighborhood streets into cul-de-sacs. Newman says defensible spaces have been tried in several cities with good results: they give residents a more personal and intimiate connection to their neighborhoods, which translates into safer and more vibrant living spaces.

NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS FROM MOSCOW THAT IT APPEARS THAT THE LONG LINES OF PEOPLE WAITING TO PURCHASE AVAILABLE BASIC GOODS, WHICH WERE SO FAMILIAR IN OUR MEMORIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, HAVE NOT ENDED WITH THE FALL OF COMMUNISM. PEOPLE ARE JUST LINING UP FOR DIFFERENT REASONS.

***** (SCOTT) NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY IN TOKYO *****

THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION WIPED OUT THE HUGE ARMS INDUSTRY IN THAT COUNTRY. MOST OF THE SCIENTISTS WHO DESIGNED AND BUILT THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION LOST THEIR JOBS. NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON A NEW PROGRAM FUNDED BY THE UNITED STATES TO KEEP THEM HOME IN RUSSIA SO THEY WON'T TAKE THEIR EXPERTISE TO THE ROGUE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.

In light of connections made this past week between the CIA and the urders of two Americans in Guatemala, NPR Senior News commentator Daniel Schorr onsiders the history of the Intelligence Agency's use of "sources and methods" s described and influenced by the National Security Act of 1947.

SCOTT TALKS WITH PETER GURALNICK, AUTHOR OF "LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS--THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY" (LITTLE BROWN). THE BOOK TRACES THE FIRST 24 YEARS OF PRESLEY'S LIFE.

NPR's John Greenberg reports on the changing relationship between Washington and statehouses. The republican-controlled Congress has promised states that it will reduce the number of mandates it imposes on states.

800-Autopsy - NPR's Mandalit Del Barco rides along with a man in Los Angeles who has his own freelance Autopsy business.

Daniel talks to Fred Plotkin, the author of "Opera 101" about father-daughter relationships in the operas of Verdi. Plotkin says that recent scholarship has revealed that Verdi had an illigetimate daughter, and that is probably the reason that he explored father/daughter conflicts so much in his work.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: MICHAEL LELAND & LAURA KNOY

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:40 This week's on-air player lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and listens to WEMU, psi