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WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALKS ABOUT THE UNEXPECTED SUCCESS OF THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL TEAM.

LIANE HANSEN

NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS ON HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE MIGHT KEEP THE PRESIDENCY FOR THREE MORE YEARS -- SOMETHING HE PROMISED NOT TO DO WHEN HE WAS RESTORED TO OFFICE WITH THE HELP OF U.S. TROOPS.

SIMON/"THE TIN GOOSE": SCOTT SIMON ONCE AGAIN TALKS WITH JOHN LEMMO WHO, LAST WEEK, SOLD ONE OF HIS "TUCKER TORPEDOS," DUBBED THE CAR OF THE FUTURE AT THE 25TH ANNUAL AUBURN COLLECTOR CAR SHOW AND AUCTION IN AUBURN, INDIANA.

NPR'S MICHAEL SKOLER REPORTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE IN THE WAKE OF NIGERIA'S EXECUTION YESTERDAY OF NINE DISSIDENTS.

LETTERS FROM LISTENERS:We hear comments from our listeners oncerning our coverage last week of the Rabin assasination.

Jacki talks to Howard Mansfield about the history of traffic laws. Mansfield recently wrote an article on the subject in the Old Farmer's Almanac. He says most of the traffic rules that are in place today can be traced back to one man...William Eno...a wealthy New Yorker who was obsessed with devising ways to bring order to streets and highways in the U.S. and abroad in the early 1900s. He devised rules of the road ranging from speed limits, one way streets, and driving on the right to pavement markings, licensing drivers and traffic tickets.

Danny talks with writer Helena Maria Viramontes (Vee-rah-MOHN-tez) about her new novel, called "Under the Feet of Jesus" (Dutton). It focuses on a Mexican-American family that travels with the harvest in California .. picking oranges and peaches and grapes ... Viramontes says she wanted to recapture some of her own memories ... of the times when she and her parents worked in the fields.

Daniel talks with Bob Ward, author of "The Cactus Garden" (Pocket Books), a novel about U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents. Ward - who was a writer and producer for TV's "Hill Street Blues" and "Miami Vice" - researched his book by hanging out with undercover agents.

NPR's Daniel Schorr comments on the plight of the Dutch ontingent of the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia.