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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.

The Legal Services Corporation once again is under attack. NPR's on Greenberg reports the Republican effort to trim the group's budget is just he latest battle the Corporation has had to fight in its long and troubled istory.

Last Friday, President Clinton formally ended U.S. military nvolvement in Haiti and turned peace-keeping duties over to the Haitian people. ost Liane Hansen speaks with former President Jimmy Carter about his eace-making efforts in the Sudan, Haiti and Bosnia.

Jacki talks with James Bicknell of Seattle about his marketing kits that will store DNA. DNA is the genetic code in chromosomes of living plants and animals. Every living thing has a unique and distinct code. Bicknell is selling kits for people to save their DNA for future reference...maybe thousands of years.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR TAKES A LOOK AT VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, PAST AND PRESENT, WITH AND LLOYD CUTLER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE 1969 NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE, AND REPRESENTATIVE BILL McCOLLUM (R-FL), CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, WHICH HELD THIS WEEKS HEARING ON TERRORISM.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:12 This week's on-air player lives in Perry, Florida and listens to WFSU, allah

STAMBERG/WINDSURFERS: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH JIM MARTIN, FOUNDER OF "CALL OF THE WIND," A NEW SERVICE THAT BEEPS WINDSURFERS WHEN THE WIND IS RIGHT.

2: Broadway singer and actor MANDY PATINKIN. He won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Che Guevara in "Evita." He also starred in Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George." He has recorded three solo albums: "Mandy Patinkin," "Dress Casual," and "Experiment." His movies include "The Princess Bride," "Yentl," "True Colors," and "The Doctor." Now he plays Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in CBS' medical drama "Chicago Hope." (REBROADCAST FROM 3

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jim Mills, who was liberated from a erman prisoner-of-war camp fifty years ago this weekend. Mills talks about his apture at the battle of the Bulge, and the harsh conditions he endured at three ifferent P.O.W. camps, until troops from General Patton's Third Army freed ills and other captives just a week before the war came to an end.

Goats that were originally introduced to the woods of the Olympia ational Forest in Washington state for hunting are now devouring the area's reens and plants, including one species that is considered endangered. In past ears, park officials tried a variety of management methods, including snaring he beasts in nets and sterilization. All have failed to stem the goat opulation. Jennifer Schmidt of Seattle member station K-P-L-U reports that many elieve the only alternative is to shoot the goats in order to control their ising numbers. Defenders of wildlife are up in arms about the proposal.

Defense analyst and professor MICHAEL KLARE, author of Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign Policy. (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book explores the current tendency of the Pentagon to focus on Third World countries as the new threat to U.S. national security. KLARE is defense correspondent for The Nation, a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, and Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College