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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:12 This week's on-air player lives in Perry, Florida and listens to WFSU, allah

Every year for the past 19 years, the Actors Theater of ouisville (Loo-UH-vull) mounts its Humana (Hyu-MAN-ah) Festival of New American lays. During the months of March and April, playwrights have the opportunity to xperience the entire production process of their scripts, as well as experiment ith critic and audience reaction to their works in progress. Naomi Lewin LOO-in) of member station W-K-Y-U spoke to those involved in this year's event, s well as to some who have taken part since the beginning.

STAMBERG/WINDSURFERS: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH JIM MARTIN, FOUNDER OF "CALL OF THE WIND," A NEW SERVICE THAT BEEPS WINDSURFERS WHEN THE WIND IS RIGHT.

Liane Hansen speaks with award-winning poet Li-Young Lee (LEE OUNG-LEE) about his first book of prose, "The Winged Seed - A Remembrance." Simon & Schuster) Lee's account describes the turbulent and colorful history of is family, starting in the early 1950's when his parents fled Indonesia and ame to the United States.

The first installment in a 6-part series from ward-winning producer Julian Crandall Hollick (HAH-lick). Four years ago, ollick was invited to live with the poor, illiterate pavement-dwellers on Apna treet, in downtown Bombay. The pavement dwellers are, for the most part, orking poor people who can't afford traditional housing. In the first episode, The Dance of the Water Spirits," Julian looks at the daily struggle to obtain ne of the necessities of life - water.

GRAMMY WINNING MEXICAN-AMERICAN SINGER SELENA, WHOSE FULL NAME WAS SELENA QUINTANILLA PEREZ, WAS SHOT TO DEATH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, BY A WOMAN REPORTED TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF HER FIRST FAN CLUB.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MARVIN OTT, A FORMER SENIOR ANALYST AT THE C.I.A. WHO NOW TEACHES NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY AT THE NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE HERE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ABOUT ALLEGATIONS THAT THE C.I.A. MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN IN GUATEMALA.

ECONOMY: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH JOE NOCERA, BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR GQ MAGAZINE ABOUT A HUGE BUYOUT IN HOLLYWOOD. SEAGRAMS, THE HUGE LIQUOR COMPANY, IS EXPECTED TO PURCHASE MCA... MCA OWNS UNIVERSAL PICTURES, UNIVERSAL THEME PARKS AND TWO BIG RECORD COMPANIES.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, AUTHOR OF "THE AMERICAN JOURNEY OF ERIC SEVAREID" PUBLISHED BY STEERFORTH PRESS.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR TAKES A LOOK AT VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, PAST AND PRESENT, WITH AND LLOYD CUTLER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE 1969 NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE, AND REPRESENTATIVE BILL McCOLLUM (R-FL), CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, WHICH HELD THIS WEEKS HEARING ON TERRORISM.