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THIS WEEK, CHILE'S SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE CONVICTIONS AND PRISON TERMS OF THE TWO CHILEAN SECRET POLICE OFFICIALS WHO ENGINEERED THE CAR BOMBING ASSASINATION OF ORLANDO LETELIER (leh-TEL-e-er), AN OPPONENT OF CHILE'S FORMER MIITARY GOVERNMENT, IN 1976 ON THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON, D.C.'S EMBASSY ROW. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ISABEL LETELIER, WIDOW OF ORLANDO LETELIER, IN SANTIAGO, CHILE.

Jazz guitarist Jimmy Raney died last month at the age of 67. PR's Tom Cole prepared an appreciation of one of Jazz music's great innovators

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: SHAY STEVENS & LAURA KNOY

Yesterday, Czech President Vaclav Havel remembered the half-million European gypsies who were victimized in camps during the Second World War by unveiling a monument in their honor. The tragedy of this particular group has not been widely recognized by the international community, and Tom Whitehouse reports that the survivors and relatives of those who suffered in the concentration camps are now looking for compensation.

SCOTT READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

SIMON/MITCHELL: WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REMEMBERS FILM ACTOR WOODY STRODE, WHO DIED LAST WEEKEND AT THE AGE OF 80.

Commentator Susan Arnaut Smith describes a real-life yber-nightmare.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the latest ave of violence in the Palestinian territories, and what the Israeli government lans to do about it.

Daniel talks to Charles Hughes of the Univeristy of Utah School of Medicine about a new appendix to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference work on psychiatric conditions. The addition to the appendix deals with culture bound syndromes, which are pathologies specific to certian cultures.

Like many of South America's indians who have suffered virtual cultural extinction in recent years, the Chachi Indians of Ecuador are undergoing a similiar fate. But, a group of U.S. researchers have invited a couple of Chachi's to replicate a Chachi village and Chachi culture at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Boca Raton. NPR's Chris Joyce has this report.