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WEEEKEND EDITION WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH JEFFERY TOOBIN, FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY IN BROOKLYN, N.Y. AND STAFF WRITER FOR THE NEW YORKER, AND JONATHAN ALTER, SENIOR EDITOR AND MEDIA CRITIC FOR NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE, ABOUT MEDIA AND LEGAL TURMOIL RESULTING FORM THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa visits sidewalk vendors of tropical drinks in New York City. Summer refreshers like sugar cane juice and fresh coconut milk over ice are popular with kids and adults, Latinos and Anglos.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that Republicans are trying to divine the meaning of yesterday's political straw poll in Ames, Iowa, involving Republican candidates for President. Bob Dole and Phil Gramm tied for the number one spot...an outcome Gramm is calling a stunning victory.

Michael talks to British Memeber of Parliament George Walden, a member of the Conservative party, about Tuesday's vote for party leader. Walden says that the issue of Britian's integration into Europe is a red herring in the current political situation and that most of his constituents are more concerned about the economy and taxes.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr comments on how Congressional epublicans are planning to revamp the Medicare system. Schorr says although ost Americans agree that some sort of action is needed on Medicare, there are umerous opinions on just what that action should be.

Michael talks with Skip Brandon, former Assistant Deputy Director of the F-B-I. The person called the "Unabomber" this week said the bombings would stop if certain newspapers would publish his "anarchists manifesto." The FBI is still trying to catch the Unabomber and Brandon describes some of the things the FBI is doing to figure out how to catch the Unabomber who has been on the loose since appearing in 1978.

Washington D.C. is the most recent American city to oin the movement of considering curfews for juveniles as a measure of crime revention. Derrick Ward of member station WAMU reports on the conflicts between hose who are for and against the implementation of such restrictions on teens n the Nation's capital.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including sounds from the Shuttle Atlantis successfully docking with the ussian Space Station Mir; Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson from the Mir Station; BI spokesperson John Grotz (grahtz) on the Unabomber; Senator Robert Dole R-KS) commenting on violence in the movies; Senator Gary Franks (R-CT) on ongressional redistricting; and President Bill Clinton on this week's trade greement between the United States and Japan.

Rebekah Presson has a remembrance of writer Frank Waters, who ied earlier this month at the age of 92. Waters was considered to be one of his country's most prominent writers about the Native American culture and the outhwestern United States.

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