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ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUES FACING CONGRESS UPON ITS RETURN AFTER LABOR DAY IS THE FUTURE OF MEDICARE. WHILE REPUBLICANS SAY THEY ARE COMMITTED TO REFORMING THE PROGRAM IN ORDER TO SAVE IT, DEMOCRATS ACCUSE THEM OF MISLEADING THE PUBLIC. NPR'S PATRICIA NEIGHMOND REPORTS ON A TOWN MEETING SPONSORED BY CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN BILL THOMAS.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WIT BURTON H. THROCKMORTON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF NEW TESTAMENT AT THE BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND AN EDITOR OF NEW "NEW TESTAMENT AND PSALMS: AN INCLUSIVE VERSION," PUBILSHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed today at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Daniel talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein, who is in Jeruselem, about what happened.

Vicki Que reports on some of the issues that will be discussed at the international conference on women, which begin this coming week in Beijing.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH WILLIE NELSON, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF PERFORMER OF "FARM AID," WHICH HOLDS ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOMORROW IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

Jacki speaks with Don Wetzel, inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine about his invention. This week the Smithsonian Institution added an ATM machine to it's collection of 20th century artifacts. Wetzel says that last year alone, more than 8-billion transactions were conducted using ATM's.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THIS FINAL WEEKEND OF BASEBALL'S REGULAR SEASON, THE WILD-CARD POSSIBILITIES, AND THE NEW FOUR-TEAMS-PER-LEAGUE PLAYOFFS THAT BEGIN NEXT WEEK.

Daniel reads letters from listeners.

LIANE HANSEN

Liane speaks with Sen. Paul Simon about his biography of lijah Lovejoy, an avid abolitionist in the 1830's and the first martyr to reedom of the press in the United States.