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Neal speaks with Norma Arata (UH-rah-TUH), who makes and sells the authentic Kennedy rocker. Mrs. Arata's late husband, Larry, made 12 rocking chairs for President Kennedy designed to ease his back pains. Two of the rockers sold at a Sotheby's auction this week in New York. (5:00) (The Authentic Kennedy Rocker is available through Norma Arata in McLean, Virginia 703-536

NPR's Anne Garrels in Moscow tells of conflicting reports about the death of Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev (JOH-kar doo-DIE-yeff). Dudayev has led the Chechens in their bid for independence from Russia. ITAR-Tass says Dudayev was killed in a missile attack Sunday. Another news agency, Interfax, said Dudayev is alive. Neither report has been confirmed.

Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Hudson, professor of International Relations & Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studiesat Georgetown University and Alan Makovsky, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about the role Syrian President Assad is now playing in the middle east. Stereo (6:30) (IN S

Retired pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian is on trial again. He is charged with assisting in the suicides of two of his patients. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that this trial raises the question of whether people who are not terminally ill have the right to a doctor's help in killing themselves.

Punishment and Parole in Alabama Robert Siegel tells the story of Lewis Downs. Downs, an elderly church deacon, had an ongoing feud with a younger man- his neighbor, and Downs ends up killing him. Downs is sentenced to 20 years in prison-- but is up for parole after only three and half years served. This man is clearly no threat to society, but the victim's family is outraged. This piece raises many questions about what society believes about crime and about punishment.

SUNDAY MARCH 31,

Bill Zeeble reports on the annual convention of the exas Accordian Association in Fort Worth. 1996 has been declared the "Year of he Accordian."

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editor of "Best of the South", a collection of short stories. The selections were chosen from the past ten installments of "New Stories from the South", an annual collection of southern short stories. Both anthologies are published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.