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MILO MILES reviews an anthology of blue grass collections by Bill Monroe.

THIS IS THE FINAL STORY STORY BY NPR CORRESPONDENT JACKI LYDEN IN A SERIES OF STORIES ON IRAN WHICH HAVE AIRED THIS PAST MONTH ENTITLED "IRAN AT THE CROSSROADS." SHE VISITS LITERATURE PROFESSOR AZAR NAFICY (AH-zahr nah-FEE-SEE) IN TEHRAN AND BRINGS US THIS PORTRAIT OF AN UNUSUAL PROFESSOR AND UNIQUE WOMAN WHO USES ENGLISH LITERATURE TO CHALLENGE CONVENTIONAL THINKING IN IRAN.

Critic Bob Mondello muses about the cost of entertainment...now and a generation ago...and how much we all have to work to afford that ticket to the latest movie or sporting event.

2: Film director MARTIN SCORSESE, one of the most influential men of contemporary film. SCORSESE has helped restore four classic films from the 1950s which he says had a profound influence on his own films: "Force of Evil," "Johnny Guitar," "Pursued" and "A Double Life."

LETTERS: Liane reads letters from our listeners.

ITEM VETO - Jacki talks with James Thurber, the head of Congressional and Presidential Studies at American Univeristy in Washington D.C. Both houses of Congress have approved giving the President the Line-Item Veto...the ability of the President to veto specific portions of spending bills. Thurber discusses what the implications are.

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Daniel talks with Harold Wonkle - deputy assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigations Division about the Russian mafia. Recently the FBI opened up an office in Moscow in order to work more closely with the Russian police in combatting Russian criminals whose efforts often extend into the United States. Wonkle says the Russian mafia is very sophisticated and is involved in everything from moneylaundering to medical fraud.

AFTER HAVING BEEN FIRED FROM THE NAACP LAST YEAR, THE ORGANIZATION'S FORMER PRESIDENT, DR. BENJAMIN CHAVIS HAS FOUND A NEW CAREER. THIS MORNING HE LAUNCHES A NEW WEEKLY RADIO TALK SHOW CALLED "THE FREEDOM JOURNAL" ON SIX BLACK-ORIENTED STATIONS IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON AREA. NPR'S LAURA KNOY REPORTS.

At the Nuyorican (new-YOUR-ee-can) Poet's Cafe in anhattan, screenwriters of all calibers have the opportunity to test-drive heir material at a weekly small-scale production deemed the "Fifth Night." aren Michel visited the cafe and experienced the event firsthand.

The Aum Shinrykio sect is now the principal suspect in the Tokyo subway gassing last Monday. Over the past few days Japanese police have confiscated huge amounts of chemical compounds from their headquaters. But as Anne Garrels reports from Moscow the sect also has a large following in Russia - almost three times as many members as in Japan. But some of them are less willing than others.

Daniel talks to Philip Alt, who covered WWII for United Press. Alt was a colleague of Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Ernie Pyle, who was killed in the battle of Okinawa, fifty years ago. Pyle was famous for giving what he called a "worm's eye view of the war," letting his reader know what the regular G.I. did and felt in the trenches.