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SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT SHORTSTOP CAL RIPKEN OF THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WHO, THIS WEEK, BROKE LOU GERHIG'S MONUMENTAL RECORD OF 2,130 CONSECUTIVE GAMES PLAYED THAT HAD STOOD SINCE 1939.

Charles Boyd is a lone juror who held out against convicting a defendant in a Maryland court recently, and he did so because of some lessons he learned from the OJ Simpson case. Danny talks to Boyd about his courtroom experience.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle D-SD); Amtrak crash survivor Hortencia (hore-TEN-shyuh) Orgeta; Amtrak resident Thomas Downs; FBI agent Larry McCormack; Senator Bill Roth (R-Del); enate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD); and Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tx).

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that with thousands...perhaps a million people expected to participate in tomorrow's Million Man March in Washington, observers are trying to distinguish the message of the event from its controversial organizer Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan drew criticism this week when during an interview with Reuters Television, he made an anti-Semetic remark.

SISTER MARY/ SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH SISTER MARY OF THE CROSS, A CLOISTERED NUN FROM SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY WHO ATTENDED THIS WEEK'S MASS BY POPE JOHN PAUL IN NEARBY NEWARK.

Reporter Robin White reports on a parasite responsible for killing oneybees in the U.S. Honeybees provide an essential link in the agriculture ood chain.

MARK HERRELL (her-ell) is a local organizer for the Philadelphia contingent headed to Monday's Million Man March in Washington D.C. Last year, Herrel chaired a three-day forum in Philadelphia that brought together several hundred African-American men together to discuss problems in the black community. He is the Director of the Youth Gang and Drug Prevention Program for the Philadelphia Mayor's office. INT 3: GLENN LOURY (lau as in cow) is an African-American conservative who is an outspoken critic of affirmative action programs. He has just written the book One by One From The Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America. Free Press 1995. In 1987, Loury was nominated to become Reagan's Deputy Secretary of Education. Loury withdrew his name citing "personal reasons." Later that year, Loury was arrested for possession of marijuana and cocaine. He now a Professor of Economics at Boston University. INT 4: GEOFFREY CANADA is author of Fist Stick Knife Gun; A Personal History of Violence in America (Beacon Press 1995) It provides a look into the lives of children living in violence. CANADA is President and CEO of Rheedlan Centers for Children and Families in New York. He helps at risk children in the inner-city to find alternatives to violence.

Commentator GERALD EARLY gives his thoughts on next week''s scheduled Million Man March in Washington.

SCOTT SIMON AND SIMON HOGGART OF LONDON'S GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Daniel speaks with NPR's Lynn Neary about the Pope's visit to the United States this week. During his trip, which included appearances in New Jersey, New York, and Baltimore, the Pope appealed to Americans to be sensitive to the needs of the poor and sickly, and to young people to devote their lives to the church by becoming priests and nuns.

Bill Zeeble of member station KERA in Dallas reports on the performance this weekend of the rarely-heard Khachaturian Concerto which features the flexatone, an eerie-sounding percussion instrument which is very difficult to play.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH LOUIS SARRIS, A STATE DEPARTMENT ANALYST FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA THROUGH MOST OF THE YEARS OF THE VIETNAM WAR (NOW RETIRED), WHO SAYS THAT IN HIS MEMOIR "IN RETROPECT," ROBERT McNAMARA, WHO HAD HELPED DESIGN AND LEAD THE VIETNAM WAR, HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED HIS ERRORS FULLY...NOT EVEN IN THAT MEMOIR.