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STAMBERG/RENT A FORT: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH GARY JOHNSON, GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO, ABOUT WHY HIS STATE WANTS TO RENT OUT FORT STANTON, A THIRTEEN-HUNDRED ACRE GARRISON BUILT IN 1855.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including U-S Attoney General Janet Reno, Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), ep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), President Bill Clinton, the late Mickey Mantle, and usic from the late singer/songwriter Jerry Garcia, founder of band the Grateful ead.

In her continuing series of "post-war postcards", essayist Alice urlaud (FUR-low) talks to an American serviceman who describes the inner onflicts he dealt with as he guarded German prisoners of war.

NPR'S MARGO ADLER REPORTS THAT GETTING A PASSPORT FAST MAY CURRENTLY TAKE DAYS.

AS CEREMONIES GET UNDERWAY COMMEMORATING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER TO ALLIED FORCES FIFTY YEARS AGO, NPR'S NEAL CONAN REPORTS ON THE HATREDS THAT FUEELED THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC. PROFESSOR JOHN W. DOWER, THE HENRY LUCE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SAYS THAT ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY BOTH SIDES CREATED A VICIOUS CYCLE. (PROFESSOR DOWER'S BOOK "WAR WITHOUT MERCY: RACE AND POWER IN THE PACIFIC WAR" IS PUBLISHED BY PANTHEON) WE ALSO HEAR EXERPTS FROM GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S SPEECH AT THE SURRENDER CEREMONY IN TOKYO BAY.

2: Stand up comic ELLEN DEGENERES, the star of the sitcom "Ellen." The show airs on Wednesday nights on ABC. Last year DEGENERES co-hosted the 1994 Emmy awards and received a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female in a New Television series. She now has a new book, My Point. . . And I Do Have One. (Bantam News).

Affirmative Action has taken some hard hits n California this past year. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that the chancellor t the Univeristy of California at Berkeley is currently developing a igh-profile outreach campaign for the next generation of minority students

Jacki talks to Barbara Hodgson, author of "The Tattooed Map," (Chronicle Books) a story about a woman who travels to Morocco and wakes up one morning with a mysterious map tattooed on her arm. She decides to follow the map and disapprears.

NPR's Mark Schramm profiles the long and distinguished career of aseball great Mickey Mantle, who died this morning of cancer at the Baylor edical Center in Dallas. Mantle was 63 years old.

TOMORROW, THE ORIGINAL PROTOTYPE TUCKER TORPEDO, OR "THE TIN GOOSE," DUBBED THE CAR OF THE FUTURE SHORTLY AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, WILL BE AUCTIONED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE 25TH ANNUAL AUBURN COLLECTOR CAR SHOW AND AUCTION IN AUBURN, INDIANA. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JOHN LEMMO, THE OWNER OF THE CAR WHO FOUND THE PROTOTYPE RUSTING AWAY BEHIND A BARN 25 YEARS AGO.

Daniel talks to Canadian Health Minister Diane Marleau about the Canadian policies to restrict tobacco advertising. The Canadian government requires large health warnings on each package of cigarettes, imposes high taxes on cigarettes, and bans tobacco advertising. Marleau says that results are mixed... tobacco companies try to get around the advertising restrictions, people travel to the U.S. to buy cheaper cigarettes, and studies about the effectivness of the ban in reducing smoking do not show definitively that smoking among young people has declined.

Liane Hansen speaks with Washington Post reporter Nora oustany (boos-STAHN-nee) about the two Iraqi generals who defected last week rom the inner circle of Saddam Hussein. The generals have called for the verthrow of Hussein through pressure from the international community.