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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.

Daniel talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who's in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, about the latest development in the long Bosnian war. Serb forces have pulled back from the Muslim enclave of Bihac after Croatia's army threatened the Croatian Serb stronghold of Krajina.

Daniel talks with physicist Andrew Fracknoy (FRAK-noy)...about the discovery of a belt of comets on the edge of our solar system comprised of 200-million chunks of ice. The discovery was announced this week at an annual meeting of astronomers.

Soul Musician ISAAC HAYES. He is a renowned soul musician, who rose to the top of the charts in the 1970's on the Stax label, a soul record label. HAYES released his first solo album, "Presenting Isaac Hayes," in 1968. His next album, "Hot Buttered Soul," became a gold record in the 1970's. His 1972 soundtrack to the movie "Shaft," went platinum and won an Oscar for "Theme From Shaft." HAYES is also an actor, who has held roles in the movies "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," and "Posse." He was in the Nicholas Cage movie, "It Could Happen to You." It's been seven years since he's released any new albums. Now he has two new releases: "Branded," (a vocal album) and "Raw & Refined" (an instrumental.) (REBROADCAST from

2: Writer CATHLEEN SCHINE. She has a new book The Love Letter (Houghton Mifflin). SCHINE has written three previous novels: Alice in Bed, To the Bird House, and Rameau's Niece. She has also written for the New York Times Book Review, Vogue, and the Village Voice.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Book Critic, MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new book The Price of a Child (Knopf) by Lorene Cary.

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