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Commentator Jack Beatty says Clinton has done everything he can to keep American wages down. He says the re-appointment of Alan Greenspan is a disaster for the American worker...and his other recent appointments, Alice Rivlin and Laurence Meyer are champions of slow economic growth---again, the enemy of the worker.

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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Gerry Adams, President of Sinn ein (SHIN FAIN), political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Adams talks about he proposed plan put forward by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell to restart he stalled peace talks in Northern Ireland, including the proposal for gradual ecommisioning of arms while all-party talks begin.

Linda checks-in with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold who was with the Dole and Buchanan campaigns today -- and with Glenn Frankel who has been writing about Steve Forbes for the Washington Post... about events on the campaign trail today.

STAMBERG/ RON: WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALKS ABOUT THIS WEEK'S TRADE THAT TOOK THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE'S GREATEST PLAYER, WAYNE GRETZKY, FROM THE LOS ANGELES KINGS TO THE ST. LOUIS BLUES.

NPR'S DAVD MOLPUS PROFILES THREE POWERFUL MOTHERS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS AND TALKS TO THEM ABOUT THEIR CAREERS AND VARIED DEFINITIONS OF SUCCESS.

Danny speaks with journalist Tad Szulc (pronounced: Shultz), who has followed Castro and the Cuban revolution since its inception in 1959. They talk about American efforts to undermine Castro, including the CIA's plots to assassinate the Cuban leader during the 1960's.

This week, the United States captured first place in the "Olympics of Bread Baking" Championships in Paris, France. Danny speaks to Tom McMahon, the Executive Director of the Bread Bakers Guild of America and a judge at the three-day event. Teams from eight countries participated in the event. McMahon says the American breads were so popular, the international judges took some home with them at the end of the competition.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that a federal judge has moved the trail of Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh, and Terry Nichols has been moved to Denver. Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the defendents couldn't get a fair trial in the same state where the terrorist attack which killed 169 people had occured. The government wanted the trial in Tulsa, about a hundred miles from Oklahoma City.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the efforts of anti-drug activist Herman Wrice to help small towns in the United States fight crack cocaine abuse through grassroots organizing and regularly confronting suspected drug dealers. Civil libertarians are concerned that this approach is tantamount to vigilanteism. If these people are known drug dealers, they argue, they should be arrested, not harrassed.