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As cars become more and more high-tech, filled with omputer-controlled devices and sophisticated gadgetry, qualified mechanics with he knowledge to service them are harder to find. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on he push by big automakers to find trainees for the field.

Most military training flight paths are routed hrough the least populated areas of the United States. This cuts down on the oise polution and other potential disturbances in metropolitan and suburban merica. Malcolm Howard reports that the military has announced plans to expand ts military flight areas, and many of the country's rural residents are up in rms.

LUBRANO: Essayist Alfred Lubrano (Loo-BRAH-noh) takes issue with ournalists who use their noteriety to sell products.

NPR'S MICHAEL SKOLER REPORTS THAT THE ETHNIC FEARS THAT HAVE LEFT RWANDA VIRTUALLY DESTROYED BY WAR AND GENOCIDE ARE NOW BEGINNING TO PARALYZE ITS SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR...BURUNDI.

Jacki talks with Rolling Stone magazine music critic Anthony DeCurtis about the value of Greatest Hits albums. Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits suceeded Garth Brooks greatest hits on the Album charts and DeCurtis talks of the merits of buying such collections.

NPR's Isabel Alegria reports on a growth industry in Southern California... the proliferation of fake citizenship documents. Illegal immigrants are finding that for a fee, they can have someone make a fake Social Security card or birth certificate that says they are a legal U.S. citizen.

NPR's Martha Guild reports on a rather sad story. Last September Ann Barrett overdosed on antidepressants. When the police found her they also discovered a 400-page diary which they took for a suicide note. They confiscated it and to the despair of the family .. lost it.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: SHAY STEVENS & LAURA KNOY

SCOTT SIMON AND NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTENBERG TALK ABOUT HOW AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS PLAYING ON THE HILL, ESPECIALLY AS THE 1996 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOOMS.

ENTERTAINMENT: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE "DON JUAN DeMARCO" STARRING JOHNNY DEPP, MARLON BRANDO AND FAYE DUNAWAY.