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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Fred Barnes from the Weekly tandard magazine and Doyle McManus from the Los Angeles Times about the news rom the past week, including Pat Buchanan and the Republican primaries, CIA irector John Deutsch (DOITCH) and his statement about using journalists as pies, and the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland.

ANNE GARRELS IN MOSCOW HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL THE RUSSIAN REMEDIES BEING OFFERED HER THIS WEEK TO EASE HER NASTY COLD.

Steve Inskeep of member station WBGO reports on a commuter train crash in New Jersey this morning in which 3 people were killed and more than 100 injured. Officials suspect one of the trains ran a stop signal.

In remarks today before The American Conservative Union, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour sought to unite a party divided over the candidacy of Pat Buchanan. The conservative group also heard from the executive director of the Christian Coalition, Ralph Reed. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

NPR Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr talks about the "V-chip" that s part of the new Telecommunications bill.

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Singer/songwriter BONNIE RIATT. Her newest release is her first live album, "Road Tested," (Capitol). It's been nominated for a Grammy. But today, RIATT is on Fresh Air to talk about the musicians and performers that inspired her. She'll play recordings by such blues artists as B.B. King, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Sippie Wallace. RIATT recorded one of McDowell's songs on her new album. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, about the campaign season's first primary in the South. A debate is scheduled for Thursday, and so far only Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes have agreed to attend. The primary is Saturday.

about campaigning among Republican candidates for tomorrow's Arizona Primary. The winner will get all 39 delegates to the national convention.

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Daniel Pinkwater is paging through National Geographic and comes across a picture of a remote Chinese village that has bagel s. And bagels that he says look pretty good. He mourns that fact that you can get good bagels in China, but not where he lives just a hundred miles north of New York City. He is stuck with the frozen erzatz kind.

Liane Hansen speaks with William Greaves, an African-American ctor and movie producer, about the race films of the 1930s and 40s, which were reaction to the negative stereotypes of blacks in early Hollywood productions