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For the record, we play the sound of a barbershop quartet that won a recent singing competition.

Daniel speaks with Roland Roome, who's with the aid organization CARE, in Kigali, Rwanda. They talk about conditions in Rwanda now that the massacres there have been over for a while. Roome says things in Kigali, the capital, are much improved, but adds that in the countryside, people still fear a return of violence.

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

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS SCIENCE EDITOR PAUL RAEBURN ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK "THE LAST HARVEST: THE GENETIC GAMBLE THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY AMERICAN AGRICULTURE" (PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER), WHERE HE STATES THAT HUMANS HAVE NOT LEARNED FROM IRELAND'S GREAT POTATO FAMINE WHICH BEGAN 150 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH...AND THAT NOT ONLY POTATOES GROWN ON AMERICA'S FARMLANDS ARE AT RISK.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: CRAIG WINDHAM & BILL REDLIN

NPR'S DAVID MOLPUS REPORTS ON OSEOLA (oh-see-OH-lah) McCARTY OF HATTIESBURG (HAT-eez-berg), MISSISSIPPI, WHO IS BEING HONORED TONIGHT AT A DINNER OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. MS. McCARTY, WHO DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL IN THE 6TH GRADE, IS FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS AT HER HOMETOWN UNIVERSITY WITH PREFERENCE GIVEN TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN FINANCIAL NEED...A GIFT OF AT LEAST 150-THOUSAND DOLLARS COMING FROM A WOMAN WHO SPENT 75 OF HER 86 YEARS CLEANING AND IRONING OTHER PEOPLES' CLOTHES.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with James Lilley, a former U.S. mbassador to Beijing and chief American representative to Taiwan, about the ifficulties plaguing the political and economic relationship between the United tates and China.

Daniel talks to Nepeti Nicanor, the founder of New Namibia Books, the first independent publishing company in Namibia, and Jenny Davis - author of one of the books published by New Namibia Books. Davis' book is a collection of stories for children adapted from folktales told by the many ethnic groups in Namibia.

NPR's Mara Liasson has a preview of President Clinton's speech on affirmative action, which will be made this Wednesday. The President is expected to propose some reforms. But he is also expected to take on critics of affirmative action programs.

A U.S. warship fired cruise missiles at Serb forces this evening. It's the first time those type of missile have been used by a U.N. spokesman says that action DOES NOT represent a change in current NATO policy. Daniel Talks with NPR'S Martha Raddatz about today's events.