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SIMON/MINCHKIN CATS: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH PAUL McSORELY, SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUNCHKIN CAT SOCIETY, A BREED OF CAT THAT SUGGESTS THE FELINE MODEL OF A DACHSHUND...THEIR LEGS ARE ABOUT HALF THE LENGTH OF A TRADITIONAL CAT.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH EMINENT VIOLINIST AND CONDUCTOR DMITRY SITKOVETSKY, WHOSE TRANSCRIPTION OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS - ARIA WITH 30 VARIATIONS," INITIALLY COMPOSED FOR THE HARPSICHORD, INTO A WORK FOR A STRING ORCHESTRA CAN BE HEARD ON THE NEW CD "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS," PERFORMED BY THE NEW EUROPEAN STRINGS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AVAILABLE ON NONESUCH RECORDS.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including South Korean President Kim Young Sam (through interpreter) nd President Bill Clinton at the dedication ceremony of the Korean War emorial; Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) and Senator John Kerry (D-MA) on lifting he Bosnian Arms Embargo; former David Koresh-follower Clive Doyle, ATF agent im Cavanaugh, and former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell at the WACO earings; and South Carolina resident Judy McKinney and another unidentified usan Smith trial watcher reacting to the prison sentence, as well as David mith, Susan Smith's ex-husband.

LAWS - Danny discusses the future of Congressional efforts to revamp the nation's environment laws with Bob Benenson of Congressional Quarterly and Stephen Klineberg, Professor of Sociology at Rice University. Yesterday, 51 House Republicans broke ranks with the leadership to join democrats and kill proposals that would have curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's power to enforce the clean air and water acts.

NPR'S MARA LAISSON REPORTS ON THE ANNUAL GROUP OF SEVEN SUMMIT NOW BEING HELD IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.

A FUNGUS, SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH CAUSED THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND ALMOST 150 YEARS AGO IS THREATENING THIS COUNTRY'S POTATO INDUSTRY. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MURRY MAHANY, A FARMER IN ARKPORT, NEW YORK, WHERE POTATO FARMING IS A 50-MILLION-DOLLAR-A-YEAR INDUSTRY.

This past week a round of hearings were held by House nd Senate committees on the future of the United States Department of Commerce. oung Republicans have made the case that the government should not be involved n the regulation of free trade, but NPR's Chitra Ragavan (Chih-trah ah-gah-vahn) reports that the difficulties surrounding the elimination of this epartment and its functions could prove more complicated than the Republicans ntially expected.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that 25 years ago, cigarette advertising on television was banned. He looks back at the ban and the impact it had on the nation's smoking habit.

Ever since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have visited the extraordinary collection of exhibits. But museum organizers noticed that missing among the visitors were D.C. public school kids. And so they developed a program that would bring local young people to the museum where they could not only learn about the holocaust but eventually get a job at the museum. Daniel visits with some of these high school students during one of their 10 week courses and discovers how the program has not only changed the way these teenagers view history, but how it has affected their parents as well.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 8:20 (This week's on-air player lives in Iowa ity, Iowa and listens to