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Baseball great Mickey Mantle died early this morning. Daniel talks with 'Sporting News' columnist Dave Kindred about Mantle's incredible skill as an athlete as well as about the tragedy he confronted in his life....a tragedy Mantle cautioned young people to avoid in a press conference shortly before he died.

The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

Two days ago, baseball got faster. Major league owners instituted new rules to speed up the game. Jon Miller, the broadcasting voice of the Baltimore Orioles, talks with Danny about the speedup.

NPR'S JOHN NIELSEN REPORTS THAT THE BLENDING OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE VERSIONS OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW PASSED YESTERDAY BY THE HOUSE COULD BE CRUCIAL FOR SMALL, RURAL TOWNS.

THE DECISION TO DROP THE ATOM BOMB ENDED THE WAR, BUT OPENED ONE OF THE GREAT DEBATES OF THE CENTURY - 50 YEARS LATER, IT RAGES ON. WAS THE BOMB IMMORAL - OR WAS IT JUST NECESSARY? SCOTT SIMON WILL TRY TO RECREATED THE WORLD SURROUNDING HARRY TRUMAN AS HE MADE THAT MOST FATEFUL DECISION.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the issue of abortion occupied the Senate's attention today in a rare Saturday session. At issue: whether to prevent federal employees from using their health insurance to pay for abortions.

HAYDN SONATAS: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MARTIN GOLDSMITH, THE HOST OF NPR'S "PERFORMANCE TODAY," ABOUT A RECENTLY RELEASED CD BY PAUL BADURA-SKODA "SIX LOST PIANO SONATAS BY JOSEPH HAYN - UNAUTHORIZED VERSION" ON THE KOCH-SCHWANN LABEL.

THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF OUR SEMI-REGULAR SERIAL RADIO CARTOON...JULIUS KNIPL(Keh-nipple): REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER. THIS WEEK'S EPISODE..."THE INK ERADICATOR."

This past Friday, the Senate Appropriations ommittee voted to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by forty ercent. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Washington Post reporter Jacqueline rescott about the steps that eventually lead to these final reduction ecisions.

NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI REPORTS FROM BELGRADE ON THE LATEST CROATIAN OFFENSIVE, YESTERDAY, AGAINST THE SERB-HELD REGION OF KRIYINA (cry-YEEN-ah).