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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MIKE VEECK (VECK), OWNER OF THE ST. PAUL SAINTS MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM, ABOUT THE EFFECT THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STRIKE IS HAVING ON MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. AND SYNDICATED CARTOONIST JEFF McNELLY READS FROM HIS RECENT WORK, A TAKE-OFF OF "CASEY AT THE BAT."

Daniel talks to Goeran Carstedt, President of Ikea North America about his company's take on American lifestyles. According to an Ikea report Americans center all their furnishings around the television...which is getting bigger and bigger. By contrast in Ikea's homebase Sweden, people tend to centre their lifestyles around a dining room sets..they talk more and watch T.V. less.

Daniel talks with NPR's Maria Hinojosa, who covered the economic and refugee crises in Cuba six months ago and returned to the island recently to find significant changes in both Cuba's economy and mood. State-sanctioned farmers' markets are flourishing, food is plentiful and Cubans appear upbeat, Hinojosa says. But with the Castro dictatorship still in power, these changes have no legal protection.

Jacki talks to NPR's Brian Naylor about the lastest budget cuts in Congress. Last week House appropriations subcomittes cut $7.2 billion from non-military domestic programs such as low income housing and nutritional programs for pregnant women and children.

SIMON/TEAMSTERS-BASEBALL: THE TEAMSTERS, WHO REPRESENT DRIVERS FOR MANY OF THE U.S. BEER DISTRIBUTORS THAT DELIVER PRODUCTS TO 23 OF THE 26 MAJOR LEAGUE STADIUMS IN THE UNITED STATES, HAVE DECIDED NOT TO CROSS ANY PICKET LINES ORGANIZED BY STRIKING BASEBALL PLAYERS. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH TEAMSTERS UNION PRESIDENT RON CAREY.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

SIMON/BERKELEY HOUSE: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ARCHITECT EUGENE TSUI (t-SOU-ee) ABOUT A HOME HE DESIGNED AND IS CONSTRUCTING FOR HIS PARENTS IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, WHICH HE SAYS IS "QUAKE-PROOF, FLOOD-PROOF, FIRE-PROOF AND TERMITE-PROOF."

CIO - Jacki talks to Michael Kazin - a labor historian at The American University about the AFL-CIO conference that just concluded in Bal Harbour, Florida. At that meeting AFL-CIO leader of 16 years Lane Kirkland was challenged and unionists are hinting at a possible replacement. Kazin discusses the state of the Labor movement and the future of the AFL-CIO.

Jacki talks to Margerie Rosen about the popualar Lady's Home Journal column "Can this marriage be saved" and her new book.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that Palestinian strawberry growers are struggling to export their fruit to foreign purchasers. But an Israeli agricultural company is doing everything it can to keep direct exports from taking place.