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NPR's Ann Garrels reports from Moscow that four years after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, Russians are disillusioned, and it turns out that rebuilding a cathedral is easier than building democracy.

Kim Kokich reports

Jacki talks to Marshall Chapman about her new CD "It's About Time..." (Margaritaville Records) which was recorded live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women. Chapman says that she was nervous about performing at the prison, but the inmates responded enthusiastically to the concert.

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The United Nations and NATO have given the Bosnian Serbs a Monday deadline for pulling their heavy weapons back from Sarajevo or face renewed military attacks. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Ann M. Martin, author of the estselling series of kids books, "The Baby-Sitters Club." They talk about about he new movie adaptation of Martin's work, and about issues facing young girls oday.

Last year, a cajun dance hall in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, called La Poussiere, allegedly denied entry to an African-American patron. The federal Justice Deptartment has sued the club saying it violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We traveled to the region to investigate the case...and to talk about race relations with the whites and blacks who live there. This is part one of a piece that continues in the second half hour of the show.

Part two of our piece about race relations in southwest Louisiana, and the Justice Department's civil rights lawsuit against a cajun dance hall called La Poussiere.

SIMON/BBQ: SCOTT SIMON VISITS DREAMLAND BARBEQUE IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. JOHN BISHOP, WHO IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN, FIRST OPENED DREAMLAND IN TUSCALOOSA IN 1958, SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE ALABAMA DROPPED ITS SEGREGATION LAWS. TODAY, THERE ARE THREE DREAMLAND RESTAURANTS...TUSCALOOSA, BIRMINGHAM, AND MOBILE, ALABAMA.

THE GREENBRIER HOTEL IN WEST VIRGINIA RECENTLY ACQUIRED SOMETHING THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDERNEATH ITS POSH INTERIOR SINCE THE 1950'S.

Daniel talks with the authors of "Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work." Mauro Corvasce and Joseph Paglino are police detectives in New Jersey. They say many of the criminal acts portrayed on TV and in novels are inaccurate or incomplete.

2: Former Soviet Ambassador to the United States ANATOLY DOBRYIN (doe-BRINN-yen). Dobryin has written his autobiography In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents published by Times Books 1995. Dobryin was Ambassador from 1962 (Kennedy) through 1986 (Reagan). He was a key diplomat in many U.S./Soviet conflicts including The Cuban Missile Crisis. Dobryin, now 76 years old, is still active in Russian diplomacy as senior advisor to the Foreign Ministry. He lives in Moscow.