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SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION EVANDER HOLYFIELD'S RETURN TO THE RING DESPITE THE FACT HE HAS A HEART CONDITION, AND THE UNFORTUNATE DEATH OF FEATHERWEIGHT JIMMY GARCIA, WHO DIED THIS WEEK FROM A BRAIN INJURY HE SUFFERED IN THE RING ON MAY 6TH.

Writer WILLIAM ADLER. ADLER'S first book, Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest For The American Dream In The Age of Crack (Atlantic Monthly Press) tells the story of the Chambers brothers. The brothers moved to Detroit from Mississippi in the mid-80's in search of economic freedom and found it by setting up the biggest drug business in the city. It was run like a Fortune 500 company with quality control, discounts, employee bonuses and a dress code. William Ferris calls the book a "chilling view of the urban drug scene and the black experience should be read by every American."

2: Two men influential in their communities: CORNEL WEST, professor of Afro-American studies at Harvard, and author of Race Matters, and MICHAEL LERNER, editor of Tikkun, a magazine of Jewish political and social commentary, and author of Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation. They have collaborated on a new book about the relationship between Jews & Blacks. It's called Jews & Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (Grosset/Putnam). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC

2: Country music legend, MERLE HAGGARD. HAGGARD has been on the country music scene since the early sixties and has more number one hits than any country music star except Conway Twitty. Recently two tribute albums of his songs were released: "Mama's Hungry Eyes" and "Tulare Dust." HAGGARD was also recently inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/6/95)Poet and countercultural activist ALLEN GINSBERG. His poems include "Howl," and "Kaddish." GINSBERG was part of the group of Beat poets, which also included Jack Kerouac. A four-CD boxed set of Ginsberg's work, "Holy Soul Jelly Roll - Songs and Poems (1949-1993) was released last November (on Rhino's Word Beat label). (REBROADCAST FROM 11/8/94)Author AMY TAN. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, is the story of four Chinese women who gather to gossip and play mah jong, and of the rebellious ways of their Americanized daughters. The story parallels Tan's own life. Her mother left China in 1952, and TAN grew up torn between her mother's culture of the past and her American surroundings of the present. She is also the author of The Kitchen God's Wife. (REBROADCAST FROM 3

Book critic, MAUREEN CORRIGAN, reviews two summer thrillers The Rainmaker by John Grisham (Doubleday), and Poison by Kathryn Harrison (Random House).

TV critic, David Bianculli reviews old and upcoming TV shows, including NBC''S high rated shows "ER" and "Friends."

Country music singer and yodeler DON WALSER, "the best pure cowboy singer in the state" (Houston Chronicle). At age 60, WALSER has retired from his job as a Texas state internal auditor to concentrate on his music, and has just released an album, "Rolling Stone From Texas" (Watermelon Records). He is "a middle-aged man with a potbelly and glasses" (Houston Chronicle) whose "yodeling is better than sex." (Playboy) (REBROADCAST FROM 12/

Danny speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers, who is in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. They talk about a fire fight today between French and Bosnian Serb soldiers and also assess the UN's reaction to the holding of more than 200 peacekeepers as hostages by the Bosnian Serbs.

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Rock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Elastica" (Geffen) by the punk band Elastica and "Blonder and Blonder" by the Muffs (Reprise).

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S ANDY BOWERS IN SARAJEVO ABOUT U.N. EFFORTS TO RESOLVE THE HOSTAGE SITUATION AND THE SEARCH FOR THE AMERICAN PILOT OF AN F-16 SHOT DOWN OVER BOSNIA YESTERDAY.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH SUSAN WOODWARD, VISITING FELLOW AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND AUTHOR OF BALKAN TRAGEDY, PUBLISHED BY BROOKINGS INSTITUTION - 1995, AND WILLIAM HIGHLAND, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR AND CURRENTLY PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, ABOUT AMERICA'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY OPTIONS IN BOSNIA.