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Daniel talks to David Haerle, president of CMH Music and producer of the CD "Doggone Country: All Time Favorite Songs about Dogs." He says that there are not enough country songs about cats to produce a companion CD.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson bout her new book, BEYOND THE DOUBLE BIND - WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP (Oxford niversity Press, 1995). Jamieson is the Dean of the Annenberg School for ommuncation at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fifty years ago this coming week American and Russian troops cut Adolph Hitler's Third Reich in two. So this weeks For The Record features the BBC's Edward Ward reporting in very high spirits from Torgau, Germany the site of the April 25th historic meeting.

Former Secretary of Defense ROBERT McNAMARA has written a book, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Times Books) The book contains the long awaited admission that McNAMARA felt the U.S. policy in Vietnam was wrong and the war was unwinnable. He details the behind-the-scenes decision making policies that escalated the war and the atmosphere of the times which made them feel they had no choice but to do so.

ISRAELI SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERING DOGS...STRAYS, HOUSE-PETS AND SHEPARD DOGS, IN THE WEST BANK TOWN OF HEBRON WHERE THE ARMY HAS IMPOSED A CURFEW ON PALESTINIAN RESIDENTS SINCE A DERANGED ISRAELI SETTLER MURDERED 29 WORSHIPPERS IN A MOSQUE IN FEBRUARY OF 1994.

When Primary Election season comes around, locations designated or the regional events often cause competition among states. From member tations W-U-W-M in Milwaukee, Andrea Rowe (ROH) reports that smaller states may xperience growing pains since so many of the larger states plan to hold their rimaries at the same time.

Baseball legend MICKEY MANTLE. Terry talks with the Yankees' slugger, whose father had his career in pro baseball planned before he was born. Mantle played his entire 17-year career with one team, the New York Yankees. This was recorded in 1985.INT 2: A 1986 interview with former Yankees pitcher JIM BOUTON. In 1970, BOUTON's memoir Ball Four was published. Those who wanted to maintain major league baseball's image as the home of heroes were scandalized by the book; others thought it was about time someone revealed that baseball is full of real people and real problems. Ball Four made an enemy for Bouton of baseball legend Mickey Mantle by reminiscing about Mantle's on- and off-field drunkenness. INT 3: FRANK ROBINSON, Assistant General Manager of the Baltimore Orioles. In 1975, he became the first black manager in baseball, As a player, Robinson was legendary. He is the only player ever to win the Most Valuable Player award in both leagues. His book, Extra Innings, addresses the question of racism in baseball, first broached in a broadly public way when Al Campanis, the former general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers said on a "Nightline" interview that blacks "lacked the necessities" to manage a baseball team. (Originally broadcast 6

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the legacy of the superpower "proxy" war in Afganistan. During the 1980's Afganistan's Mujahadeen captured world attention with it's ragtag resistence to the Soviet invasion. For the past three years the Mujahadeen have been fighting each other.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

25 years ago today 2 people were killed and 11 injured when Mississippi highway patrol officers opened fire on black students at Jackson State University. NPR's David Molpus remembers the events of that day and finds that today's highway patrol is very different.

Journalist JAMES CONAWAY. His 1987 book author of The Kingdom in the Country looks at the wide expanse of public lands in the West and how the myths of the west - cowboys, gunslingers, gold miners - are enduring. (REBROADCAST FROM 10/16/87) REV: Rock historian ED WARD remembers Carl Perkins.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with award-winning lyricist, laywright and screenwriter Betty Comden about the ups and downs of her life as escribed in her recently published autobiography, "Off Stage" (Simon & chuster). With the help of lifelong collaborator Adolph Green, Comden is esponsible for some of the most widely recognized works in Hollywood and the heater, including the screenplay for "Singin' in the Rain," and the lyrics for eonard Bernstein's composition, "On the Town."