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SCOTT SIMON RE-INTRODUCES US TO VAUGHN deLEATH, FIRST LADY OF RADIO... BORN AND BURIED IN MOUNT PULASKI, ILLINOIS.

LAST WEEK WEEKEND EDITION MENTIONED THE BIRTHDAY OF THE LATE FRENCH CHEF AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER, THE CREATOR OF PEACH MELBA. THIS WEEK WE FIND OUT FROM A LISTENER HOW THE FAMOUS DESSERT WAS ACTUALLY NAMED.

Daniel talks to Fred Plotkin, the author of "Opera 101" about father-daughter relationships in the operas of Verdi. Plotkin says that recent scholarship has revealed that Verdi had an illigetimate daughter, and that is probably the reason that he explored father/daughter conflicts so much in his work.

Robert Smith of member station KUOW in Seattle reports on the esolution of a dispute between the State of Washington and American Indian ribes over fishing rights. A federal judge has ruled that early treaties give 4 tribes the right to harvest half of the shellfish along Puget Sound. Now, ashington State and the tribes will need to find a way to balance treaty rights ith private property rights.

David Barnett reports on the life and work of author Dawn owell. Her career as a writer spans four decades, yet she is little known. In 987, Gore Vidal, writing in the New York Review of Books, called her "..our est comic novelist. She should have been as widely read as Hemingway or the arly Fitzgerald." Primarily because she is a witty female writer on New York hemes, she has been compared to and overshadowed by Dorothy Parker.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this ast week's news, including an excerpt from President Clinton's State f the Union Address, New Jersey Governor Christina Whitman's epublican response, O.J. Simpson from the audio companion to his book, rosecutor Marcia Clark, Defense Attorney Johnnie Cochran, and House ajority Leader Dick Armey and Congressman Barney Frank.

SCOTT TALKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT ABOUT TOMORROW'S SUPERBOWL BETWEEN THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS AND THE SAN DIEGO CHARGERS. THE NINERS ARE HEAVILY FAVORED...RON DOESN'T DISAGREE.

SCOTT AND WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Daniel talks with freelance journalist Shane Cave who covers business and economics in New Zealand. Cave compares analyzes what's happend in New Zealand in the 10 years since a new political party was voted in and radically changed the way the government there did business. He also talks of how the political changes there are similar to what the Republican Party here wants to do.

NPR's John Greenberg reports on the changing relationship between Washington and statehouses. The republican-controlled Congress has promised states that it will reduce the number of mandates it imposes on states.