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Country music legend, MERLE HAGGARD. HAGGARD has been on the country music scene since the early sixties and has more no. 1 hits than any country music star except Conway Twitty. Recently two tribute albums of the songs of MERLE HAGGARD were released: "Mama's Hungry Eyes" and "Tulare Dust." HAGGARD was also recently inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame

2: FRANK CARDON is one of three teenagers who was given a video camera for a year to record his daily life in North Philadelphia. His footage is part of the documentary, Teen Dreams. Cardon says he wanted to show a world composed of "a lot of angry people trying to survive."

Among the many social programs on the federal chopping block, rban housing agendas are up for a severe trim. Massive budget cuts that affect ocal housing systems are expected. NPR's Cheryl Devall reports from Chicago on he impact these federal spending cuts are expected to make on regional plans to eplace the city's dilapidated housing projects.

Daniel talks to Geraldine Youcha, author of "Minding the Children: Childcare in America form Colonial Times to the Present." She says that options we discuss for childcare today, such as federally funded daycare for children of working mothers and orphanages, have been tried in the past and that policymakers should look to history to examine the pros and cons of different childcare solutions.

Chris Arnold reports on the devasting effects that the ecent heavy rains and flooding have had on the residents of the Northern alifornia town of Guernville (GERN-ville). It's the second time this year that he town has had to deal with rising flood waters.

2: Interview with JIMMY CARTER continues. In this half, Terry talks with him about his poetry.

Music Critic MILO MILES reviews two CD anthologies of Bobby "Blue" Bland "Turn on Your Love Light" and "Pity the Fool". Bland had a number of hits on the "Black Charts" in his peak years from 1957 to 1964 with his big band blues sound. Bland still makes records and performs.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT BASKETBALL-GREAT MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE CURRENT POPULARITY OF WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL.

NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on the efforts by lobbyists to influence the tort reform debate in Congress. This week, the House of Representatives passed a measure which limits the dollar amount that juries can award plaintiffs who sue doctors and manufacturers.

The Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum is still feeling he repercussions of a decision to scale back an exhibit featuring the "Enola ay", which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. NPR Senior News Analyst aniel Schorr has uncovered another controversy involving a Smithsonian exhibit; his one deals with the air war in Vietnam.

2: Biographer DEIRDRE BAIR (pronounced "Bear") has written acclaimed biographies of Samuel Beckett (which won the 1981 National Book Award) and Simone de Beauvoir (listed as one of the top ten books of 1990 by The New York Times). BAIR's newest subject is writer and diarist Anais Nin. A reviewer in the Kirkus Reviews writes, "Bair's Nin emerges as the complex woman she was, a woman who inspired both wrath and passion in those whose paths crossed hers." Anais Nin: A Biography (published by G.P. Putnam).

inguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG has a review.