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2: PAUL SIMMS, creator of the new NBC sit-com "News Radio." This is SIMMS' first entry into the world of sit-coms but SIMMS previously worked as writer for both the "The Larry Sanders Show," and "Late Night with David Letterman." He also wrote for Spy Magazine.

Soviet born journalist MASHA GESSEN (GUESS-N) has just edited a new collection of post-Soviet fiction by women, Half A Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women (Cleis Press, Pittsburg, PA.). GESSEN says that most of the writers in the collection belong to the "mute generation" that came of age under Brezhnev. GESSEN's immigrated to the U.S. in 1981, when she was 14 to be with her parents. She's been an editor, primarily in gay and lesbian press, and was international editor at THE ADVOCATE. GESSEN has now repatriated to Russia.

Puzzle master Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 9:34 This week's puzzle player is Pnina (P'NEE-nah) Stern of New York city; her ublic radio station is W-N

Actor CHARLETON HESTON. A consistent lead in the biblical epics of the 1950's and 1960's, HESTON had starring roles in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "The Ten Commandments"; HESTON also covered the Roman era in epics like "Ben Hur," "Julius Caesar," "Antony & Cleopatra," and medieval Spain, in "El Cid." "The Ten Commandments" is being shown on ABC on Sunday. (REBROADCAST FROM 11/30/90). Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for almost 80 films, including "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," and "The Ten Commandments". Lately he's done the scores for "The Field" and "The Grifters." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/10/91)Film Director MARTIN SCORCESE. He directed "The Last Temptation of Christ" in 1988. His other films include "Taxi Driver," "Goodfellas," and "Age of Innocence." In 1993, as part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese" - a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. In this excerpt from that talk, Scorcese explores some of the special difficulties involved in shooting a biblical epic in the desert with very little money. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/11/93)REV 1: Rock critic ED WARD. Subject TBA.

NANCY POSTERO VISITS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF BAHIA (bah-EE-ah) AND PROFILES THE "DR. RUTH" OF BRAZIL, A MAN WHO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT SEX AND CONTRACEPTION IN THAT CATHOLIC COUNTRY.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AND HER DAUGHTER CHELSEA HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM A 12-DAY TOUR OF SOUTH ASIA AND HOST SUSAN STAMBERG LOOKS BACK OVER THE TRIP.

Scholars, social critics, and futurists ALAN and HEIDI TOFFLER, authors of Future Shock (1970). They've gotten a lot of publicity lately, because of their association with Newt Gingrich. GINGRICH sought them out 20 years ago because he was fascinated by their ideas about the "intersection of history and the future." One of the books that GINGRICH has suggested that every member of congress read, is the TOFFLERS' newest. It's Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave. (Turner Publishing

SPORTS: WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT IS AT THE MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AND TALKS WITH HOST SUSAN STAMBERG ABOUT THE PAST AND FUTURE OF GOLF, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH BASEBALL.

ROCHELLE & ANTHONY YATES. On July 18, 1988 the YATES' five year old son Marcus was killed in gun crossfire between two drug dealers fighting for turf in a corner store. There were 11 children in the store playing video games, two others were shot but survived, one of them was Marcus' six year old brother. Since the incident the YATES' have become activists against senseless violence; they lecture to high schools, take in foster children who have lost family members to violence, run a day care center and organize community activities to take back neighborhoods.

In our modern, high-tech world, the food we eat is not athered only through traditional agricultural means. Today's "farmers" must nderstand many facets of the food business, including horticulture, food rocessing and chemical engineering. The National Future Farmers of America is a 7-year old organization dedicated to preparing young people, from both rural nd urban backgrounds, for agricultural careers. NPR's Cheryll Devall met with 0-year old Corey Flournoy, the current president of the F-F-A, and reports on he current state of organization and the industry as a whole.

- Danny speaks with Walter Adams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, about corporate mergers and takeovers. This week, Lee Iacocca and Kirk Kerkorian mounted a bid to takeover the Chrysler Corporation, an effort that recalls the merger mania of the 1980's. Adams says corporate takeovers, by and large, don't do the country any good, for they don't as a rule add to the productivity and creativity of the economy.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports from the United Nations that Iraq 's speaker of parliament today rejected a UN offer to allow Iraq to sell oil to finance the purchase of emergency humanitarian supplies. Ever since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq has been barred from selling its oil on the world market. The embargo was imposed by the United Nations, and once the Gulf War ended, it stayed in place...leverage to force Iraqi compliance with Security Council resolutions regarding weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions have hurt the Iraqi people, and yesterday, the U.N. Council told Iraq it could sell two billion dollars worth of oil to help finance purchases of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies. Today, Iraq rejected the U.N. move, and launched a new anti-American propaganda drive.