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DURING THE 75TH MISS AMERICA PAGEANT TONIGHT, TELEVISION VIEWERS WILL BE ASKED TO PHONE IN AND VOTE IN FAVOR OR AGAINST KEEPING THE SWIMSUIT PORTION OF THE PAGEANT....SCOTT SIMON QUESTIONS ITS IMPORTANCE.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: BILL REDLIN & MICHAEL LELAND

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Reporter Karen Michel take a look at humankind's constant esire to avoid growing old. She speaks with sociologists, gerontologists and a ew elderly folks visiting the "Fountain of Youth," in Florida.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the final novel by Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss (Hyperion).

Guest film critic STEPHEN VINEBERG reviews "Nadja" a vampire movie set in contemporary New York City. David Lynch was executive producer, and has a cameo role.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH RICHARD N. HAASS, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS AND A SENIOR FELLOW OF THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, AND NANCY E. SODERBERG, DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS, ABOUT THE LATEST MID-EAST PEACE AGREEMENT AND THE BOSNIA PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY SPEAKS WITH RECENTLY RELEASED BURMESE DISSIDENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI (ong sahn SOO chee) AT HER LAKESIDE HOME IN RANGOON ABOUT HER DETENTION AND HER STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY.

(B): More from WALTER MOSLEY. He followed up his first Easy Rawlins book with another, Black Betty. Betty's a shark of a woman who leaves dead men in her wake. Like the other books in the series, Black Betty has Easy in post-War, but pre-present South Central L.A.--this time the year is 1961. MOSLEY gained public attention when then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton said that MOSLEY was his favorite mystery writer. (REBROADCAST from 5/

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that early this morning the Senate Finance Committee approved the Republican's plan to overhaul medicare and medicaid. The legislation now goes to the Senate floor. The plan calls for senior citizens to pay more in medicare premiums and deductions, and also lets states use block grant to run medicaid, which serves poor women and children and elderly in nursing homes. The Republicans say their plan would reap billions of dollars in savings, thereby saving medicare. President Clinton today said the Republican plan is ill-considered and goes too far.

Daniel talks to Andy Pasztor, author of the book, "When the Pentagon was for Sale," about corruption in the Pentagon during the Regan presidency. He describes Pentagon officials who routinely directed defense contracts to their friends and took kickbacks for inside information about possible defense contracts.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister itzhak Rabin, President Bill Clinton, OJ Simpson defense attorney Johnny ochran, and Simpson prosecutors Christopher Darden and Marcia Clark.