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Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was among the people attending Rabin's funeral last Monday. He wrote us his reflections on the event and on the tragedy behind it.

35 years ago - the then 6 year old Ruby Bridges went to her first day of public school - only to be met by a mob of whites who didn't want a little black girl coming to their school. But, despite rigorous protests, Louisiana schools were under court order to integrate and so Ruby Bridges, escorted by federal marshalls, continued first grade at the Frantz School in New Orleans all by herself. The only other person Ruby saw througout most of her first year was her teacher - Barbara Henry. Daniel talks with Ruby Bridges-Hall and Barbara Henry about their recollections of those historic, precedent setting times.

SCOTT'S THOUGHTS ON THE ASSASINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ITZHAK RABIN LAST WEEKEND

Mark O'Brien was stricken by polio as a young boy and is currently one of the few remaining Americans living inside an iron lung. It is from this restricted position that O'Brien has enjoyed the pleasures of baseball by following the games exclusively on radio, not television. "How I Survived Childhood" is one of several poems O'Brien has written about his favorite sport.

LETTERS: We hear letters and comments from our listeners.

This weekend marks the first annual Patsy Cline Festival in Winchester, Virginia. Jacki talks with biographer Ellis Nassour about the delayed recognition for Patsy--she wasn't always well thought of in Winchester. And we'll hear portions of two Patsy Cline chestnuts.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco talks with a few of the stimated 46-hundred young women under the age of 27 attending the on-governmental Organizations Forum (NGO Forum) in Huairou (why-ROW), China. hese women bring a wide range of concerns to the conference - high rates of HIV nfections, sexual harrassment, unwanted pregnancies, prostitution - and they re helping to draft recommendations to pass on to the United Nations' Women's onference which starts tomorrow.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with NPR White House correspondent ara Liasson about the escalating tensions between President Clinton and ongressional Republicans. The arguments come in anticipation of a possible hutdown of the federal government at midnight tomorrow.

We hear letters and comments from our listeners in response to ast week's panel discussion on racial tensions in America.

WEEKEND EDITION'S DANIEL SCHORR EXAMINED WHAT THE FUTURE MIGHT HOLD AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN WITH WILLIAM QUANDT...AN ADVISER ON MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS TO THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION WHO IS NOW PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA...AND WITH SAMUEL LEWIS, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL DURING THE 1978 CAMP DAVID PEACE TALKS, AND NOW A COUNSELOR AT THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY.