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Fresh Air rock historian Ed Ward TBA. REV. : Fresh Air book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN looks at the acclaimed first novel by Edwidge Danticat, "Breath, Eyes, Memory."

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Jacki talks with Dr. Sigmund Eckhouse. He's a former chemical engineer who for 36 years worked for the Army in developing the chemical agents that would be used in chemical weapons. They discuss the history of chemical weapons from World War one and up to the present.

SIMON/JORDAN: SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS PAST "MICHAEL JORDAN" WEEK.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. Will also tells us about the final event in the American Crossword Puzzle ournament, which was held last weekend in Stamford, Connecticut. 7:28 This week's on-air player lives in Houston, Texas and listens to

MARCH 4, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: MICHAEL LENAND, LAURA KNOY

WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH MARTIN TOLCHIN (TOL-chin), PUBLISHER AND EDITOR OF "THE HILL" NEWSPAPER, AND MORTON KONDRACKE (KON-dra-key), EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF "ROLL CALL" NEWSPAPER, ABOUT THE DEFEAT IN THE SENATE OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT, AND WHAT THAT MAY INDICATE FOR SENATOR DOLE AND FOR THE GINGRICH REVOLUTION.

Jacki recently visited the Japanese music group the Kodo Drummers as they prepared for a concert at the Kennedy Center. We have this sound moment of the drummers.

SIMON/RUBE GOLDBERG: THE 8TH ANNUAL NATIONAL RUBE GOLDBERG CONTEST WAS HELD LAST SATURDAY, AND WON BY A TEAM OF EIGHT PURDUE STUDENTS FOR DESIGNING AND BUILDING A GADGET THAT CAN TURN ON A RADIO IN THE MOST ELABORATE MANNER. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH CHARLES KROUSGRILL (krowse-grill), PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, AND A JUDGE IN THE CONTEST.

A sound montage of a few voices in this past week's news, ncluding Senators Byrd and Dole, President Clinton, presidential hopeful Lamar lexander, Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, NASA Capcom (shuttle launch) and Grammy inner Tony Bennett.

Daniel talks with Martha Manning, psychologist and author of "Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression," (HarperSanFrancisco) which recounts her descent into a debilitating depression and her decision to undergo electro-shock therapy as a last resort. She says the treatment, sometimes considered outdated by professionals like herself, helped her regain her ability to function in the world.

2: British poet, novelist and critic A. ALVAREZ. His new book Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams (W.W. Norton & Co.) is about the dark and the night, literally and figuratively. ALVAREZ examines night terrors, dreams, sleep research, fear of the dark, and "the dark night of the soul." ALVAREZ writes, "Daylight, with its routines and busyness, keeps. . . fantasies mostly at bay. But at night, when the external world is hidden, common sense loses its points of reference, and there is space for less amenable figures to make their presence felt."