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NPR's Cheryl Devall talks with a family in Chicago that has benefitted from an Illinois state law that requires a percentage of government contracts be set-aside for minority-owned businesses. The family says it's helped their business grow and helped their family move into the middle class.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with General John Galvin about he military and diplomatic options that could be used to resolve the conflict n Bosnia. Before his retirement three years ago, Galvin was the U.S. Army's upreme Allied Commander in Europe, as well as a State Department special envoy n peace negotiations in Bosnia.

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

Many real estate agents agree that if you are looking to purchase a house right now..its a great time ...prices are relatively low and there are many of them.. And as Nina Teicholtz reports even the mortagage companies are trying to make it easier to buy a house right now...

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that the hostage crisis in the Russian city of Budenovsk (pronounced: bood-YAWN-uhfsk) took a turn for the worse today, as Russian government troops stormed the hospital where Chechen fighters are holding more than one thousand civilians hostage, but failed to end the crisis. Some hostages were freed, around 200. But most remained captive. Negotiations continue. And in Moscow, the political fallout is accumulating, as Boris Yeltsin's government tries to figure out how to end the crisis without further loss of civilian lives.

NPR'S JOE PALCA EXAMINES THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE EBOLA VIRUS, WHICH IS CURRENTLY DEVASTATING ZAIRE, BEING SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH DANIEL PINKWATER, A COMMENTATOR ON NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED AND AUTHOR OF "THE AFTERLIFE DIET" PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE, A NOVEM IN WHICH MR. PINKWATER "TAKES A LIGHT VIEW OF THE WORLD OF THE HEAVY."

"Women Coming Together" is the English translation of "Mahila ilan" (my-luh mil-lun), a group formed by the poor women of Apna Street. After ears of seeing their huts repeatedly torn down, a number of the pavement wellers decided to take control of their destiny by pooling their resources and ealing directly with municipal authorities.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

SIMON/"ART OF SOUP" CONTEST: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH 11-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW BALESTIERI (bah-less-TE-EH-ree), WINNER OF CAMPBELL'S SOUP'S "ART OF SOUP" CONTEST TO FIND THE NEXT ANDY WARHOL. YOUNG MATTHEW WON BY SPELLING OUT THE CAMPBELL'S SOUP LABEL IN EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS.