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Journalist DENNIS COVINGTON. He's written a new book about the practice of snake handling in a Southern Appalachian church. Practitioners use snake handling as a kind of "annointing", in a belief that the Holy Spirit comes down to protect them from fear and danger in handling the poisonous snakes. COVINGTON came to write the book as a journalistic endeavor and it became an exploration of his own faith. He himself handled the snakes. COVINGTON's new book is "Salvation on Sand Mountain," (Addison-Wesley).

SCOTT READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR'S ANTHONY BROOKS REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE 1986 BLAST AT THE THEN-SOVIET UNION'S CHERNOBYL ATOMIC STATION--NOW THOUGHT TO BE MUCH MORE DIRE THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.

SIMON/MITCHELL: WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REMEMBERS FILM ACTOR WOODY STRODE, WHO DIED LAST WEEKEND AT THE AGE OF 80.

SCOTT TALKS WITH 89-YEAR-OLD NORMAN VAUGHAN, JUST RETURNED FROM CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN THAT BEARS HIS NAME IN ANTARCTICA. VAUGHAN WAS PART OF ADMIRAL BYRD'S EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH POLE IN 1928, AND HAD ALWAYS VOWED TO RETURN TO THE MOUNTAIN NAMED AFTER HIM.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER REPORTS ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF TWO GREAT JAZZMEN WHO DIED RECENTLY: JESS STACY, WHO PLAYED PIANO WITH THE BENNY GOODMAN BAND IN THE 1930S, AND CONNIE KAY, THE DRUMMER WITH THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET SINCE 1955.

THE FBI DISCIPLINES 12 AGENTS IN THE 1992 SHOOTING INCIDENT IN IDAHO.

The number of dead is rising on both sides of the ussian-Chechan conflict in and around the city of Grozny (GRAHZ-nee). NPR's rooke Gladstone reports on an anti-war group composed of hundreds of mothers f Russian soldiers who are heading into the war zone to bring their children ome.

Sexologist LEONORE TIEFER. (Tee-fur) has written a new book "Sex Is Not a Natural Act: and Other Essays."(Westview) In her book she looks at our society's anxieties and ignorances towards sex. She also questions what is "normal" sex and how people are to know how to have sex if no one talks about it. . TIEFER received a Ph.D. in physiological psychology with a dissertation on hormones and mating behavior of rats. But TIEFER came to realize she knew nothing of the social norms of sexuality and questoned how sexual norms evolved. She re-specialized in clinical psychology and became a sex researcher, sex therapist and an Associate Professor of Urology and Psychiatry at the Montefoire Medical Center in New York City. Tiefer has also been a sex columnist for the New York Daily News. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews John Sales'' new movie, "The Secret of Roan Innish."

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