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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.

Today in Chicago, baseball team owners are scheduled to meet o discuss their options following Friday's decision to issue a court-ordered njuction against them. The injunction will force the owners to restore ree-agent attributions to their players' contracts. Host Liane Hansen speaks ith NPR sports analyst Mark Schramm about the details.

Daniel visits the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where development and deforestation have caused a shortage of drinking water. Industrial and commercial development has interfered with natural water patterns, and poor regulation of polluters has exacerbated the problem.

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1) FRANK SALOMON, a member of the Phoenix Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue Unit, which is one its way to Oklahoma City to help with the rescue efforts there. 2) Architecture and Design Critic THOMAS HINE. HINE has written a new book, The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Tubes (Little, Brown Co.) HINE explores the affect packages have on consumer emotions and purchases. He unveils how packaging, from Tide's orange box to Lifesaver's sleek cylinder plays on our sensibilities in making brand choices.

THIS WEEK, THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, UNVEILED A COLLECTION OF IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS. MANY HAD NOT BEEN SEEN IN 50 YEARS AND THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED DURING WORLD WAR II. IN FACT, THESE PAINTINGS WERE LOOTED IN GERMANY BY SOVIET "TROPHY BRIGADES," AND BROUGHT BACK TO RUSSIA AND HIDDEN IN VAULTS UNTIL NOW. NPR'S BROOKE GLADSTONE WENT TO THE OPENING.

Jacki speaks with NPR's Tom Goldman about prospects that the major league baseball season will begin on time tomorrow evening. Yesterday, a federal judge issued an injunction against the owners, prompting the players to offer to end their nearly eight-month old strike. Team owners will meet tomorrow to decide whether to go along with the players, or to lock them out.

Daniel talks to Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch, who have retranslated one of the books of the Bible, the Song of Songs. Traditionally read during the Jewish festival of Passover, it is a passionate love poem that takes place during the spring.

LETTERS: We hear letters from our listeners.

Jacki speaks with NPR's David Welna in Port-au-Prince on the day that the United Nations assumed responsibility for peace and security in Haiti. Yesterday, President Clinton handed over peacekeeping authority to the U.N., six months after 20,000 American troops restored Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. Welna says security remains the biggest problem in Haiti, and he says some Haitians are impatient with the pace of reform.