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The Ben Ezra Synagogue is Cairo's oldest Jewish temple. PR's Sunni Khalid (SOO-nee KAH-lid) reports on the recent renovation of the ncient structure, which used to be at the center of what once was a thriving ewish community in the city.

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TODAY BEING CANADA DAY, ALEX CHADWICK LOOKS AT A PROBLEM THAT CANADIANS SHARE WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS SOUTH OF THE BORDER - A NATIONAL ANTHEM WHOSE WORDS ARE HARD TO REMEMBER:

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the relationship etween fugitive financier Robert Vesco and Donald Nixon, nephew of the former resident.

WE HEAR, ONCE AGAIN, TAPES MADE BY SCOTT SIMON'S FATHER WHEN SCOTT WAS JUST A CHILD. (MICHAEL SMITH'S SONG "I BROUGHT MY FATHER WITH ME" IS ON HIS NEW CD "TIME" ON FLYING FISH RECORDS - 1-800-FYI-FISH/FF70613. SING OUT! MAGAZINE, P.O. BOX 5253, BETHLEHEM, PA. 18015, 1-800-4-WESING)

7 - Daniel talks with NPR's John Ydstie, who's in Halifax, Canada, where the Group of Seven economic summit ended today. The so-called G-7 spent most of their time on political issues...Chechnya and Bosnia. And today, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who's been in Halifax since yesterday, met one on one with President Clinton.

Mike O'Connor reports on the latest news from the former Yugoslavia. his morning, fighting erupted in the hills outside the city, as Bosnian overnment troops fought Serbian separatists.

FLYING: Essayist Tim Brookes tells us about his fear of flying, nd about his remedy.

GARDENING: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S GARDENING EXPERT KETZEL LEVINE TALK ABOUT MOSS -- AND EVEN COOK UP A LITTLE.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including O.J. Simpson trial Prosecutors Christopher Darden and arcia Clark; Rep. Tom Daschle (D-SD), Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Surgeon eneral Nominee Henry Foster; Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) and Senator James xon (D-NEB) on the budget; The Chairperson of the National Economic Council aura Tyson on Japan trade sanctions; a Japanese hijacked passanger; and resident Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas, saying 1996 will be his last lection.