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Madeleine Brand reports on a public education controversy in New Jersey. The state's high court recently ruled that there is a gross disparity between poor urban and rich suburban public schools. The state is trying to restore equity by cutting back the amount of money is spends on suburban schools. Urban school superintendants fear the money saved from the rich won't wind up in the hands of the poor.

In light of connections made this past week between the CIA and the urders of two Americans in Guatemala, NPR Senior News commentator Daniel Schorr onsiders the history of the Intelligence Agency's use of "sources and methods" s described and influenced by the National Security Act of 1947.

NPR's Melinda Penkava reports on the complicated issue f federal benefits to legal aliens. The new Republican "Contract with America" alls for the cut-off of welfare benefits to all immigrants. While defenders of he plan believe we cannot afford to continue financial support for legal mmigrants, critics find the proposal neglectful and unreasonably inhumane.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr has read two new books by ormer KGB operatives, and finds fiction may be more fascinating than the truth. :30 The books discussed are "My Five Cambridge Friends," by Yuri Modin, and Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America," by Yuri Sh

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:40 This week's on-air player lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and listens to WEMU, psi

SCOTT TALKS WITH STEVE BLASCO ABOUT RESEARCHERS' DISCOVERY OF WHAT LED TO THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC: BRITTLE METAL. THE DETAILS APPEAR IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF "POPULAR SCIENCE."

NPR'S HOWARD BERKES REPORTS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO RESTORE WOLVES TO PARTS OF WYOMING AND IDAHO.

SIMON/THE NATION: AMERICA'S OLDEST WEEKLY MAGAZINE CHANGED OWNERSHIP THIS WEEK. "THE NATION," FOUNDED IN 1865, WAS PURCHASED BY A GROUP HEADED BY THE MAGAZINE'S EDITOR, VICTOR NAVASKY. THE GROUP INCLUDES NOVELIST E.L. DOCTOROW AND ACTOR PAUL NEWMAN.

NPR'S ERIC WEINER REPORTS ON INDIA'S STRUGGLE TO CHANGE FROM A SOCIALIST ECONOMY TO A FREE-MARKET.

WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT REVIEWS THIS WEEK'S AGREEMENT BETWEEN NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYERS AND CLUB OWNERS, WHICH ENDED THEIR THREE-AND-A-HALF MONTH OLD LABOR DISPUTE.