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WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH CARL LEUBSDORF (LUBES-dorf), WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF OF THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS AND WILLIAM NEIKIRK (MIGH-kirk), WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ABOUT THE TWO PRESIDENT CLINTONS: THE GREAT CONCILIATOR AND THE VETO PEN-BRANDISHER.

THE CONTENTS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S POCKETS THE DAY HE WAS ASSASSINATED ARE ON DISPLAY AT FORD'S THEATER.

This past week jazz guitarist Laurindo Almeida died at the ge of 77 years-old. NPR's Tom Cole prepared a tribute to this prolific artist, ho won six Grammy awards throughout his long career. Almeida was the first to ring Brazilian rhythms into American jazz.

Liane speaks with Dorothy Papadakos, head organist at he Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. This past July, the heat wave aused temperatures in the organ loft to skyrocket, and part of the organ xploded, causing extensive damage. People interested in contributing can call he Cathedral Great Organ Restoration Fund at 212-316-7518, or they can write o: Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Great Organ Restoration Fund, 1047 msterdam Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10025.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MARTIN GOLDSMITH, HOST OF NPR'S PERFORMANCE TODAY, ABOUT A NEW CD TITLED "MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH - J.S. BACH," AVAILABLE ON EMI CLASSICS. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH WROTE SIX SUITES FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO, AND MR. ROSTROPOVICH, CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LIVING MUSICIANS, HAS RECORDED ALL OF THEM IN THIS NEW CD.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that with thousands...perhaps a million people expected to participate in tomorrow's Million Man March in Washington, observers are trying to distinguish the message of the event from its controversial organizer Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan drew criticism this week when during an interview with Reuters Television, he made an anti-Semetic remark.

SIMON/SEA TURTLES: FLORIDA HAS BEEN DREDGING SAND FROM THE NEARBY OCEAN FLOOR TO REPLENISH ERODING BEACHES FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. THEIR THOUGHTS OF IMPORTING MUCH NEEDED SAND FROM THE BAHAMAS MAY HAVE BEEN DASHED BECAUSE OF THE THREAT THIS POSES TO THE THEIR SEA TURTLES BECAUSE THE GRANULES ARE TWO DEGREES COOLER AND THE GENDER OF A SEA TURTLE IS DETERMINED BY THE TEMPERATURE OF THE NEST. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH PETER LUTZ, PROFESSOR OF MARINE BIOLOGY AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY TO EXPLAIN THIS.

Daniel talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who's in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, about the latest development in the long Bosnian war. Serb forces have pulled back from the Muslim enclave of Bihac after Croatia's army threatened the Croatian Serb stronghold of Krajina.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK THAT ILLUSTRATE WHAT IS GOOD AND BAD ABOUT THE 1995 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON.

This weekend marks the 20th year of the Twins Days Festival n Twinsburg, Ohio. Host Liane Hansen speaks with participant and researcher Dr. onald Keith about what he hopes to discover by studying some of the 3,000 sets f twins expected to participate in the convention over the next two days.