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Jacki talks with Rolling Stone magazine music critic Anthony DeCurtis about the value of Greatest Hits albums. Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits suceeded Garth Brooks greatest hits on the Album charts and DeCurtis talks of the merits of buying such collections.

NPR'S MICHAEL SKOLER REPORTS THAT THE ETHNIC FEARS THAT HAVE LEFT RWANDA VIRTUALLY DESTROYED BY WAR AND GENOCIDE ARE NOW BEGINNING TO PARALYZE ITS SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR...BURUNDI.

lassical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new recording of a major Tchaikovsky opera that''s virtually unknown in the United States. It''s called "Mazeppa" (Deutsche Gramm

orld music critic MILO MILES remembers two musicians who were recently killed by violence: Rachid Baba Ahmed, a producer and musician of Algerian Rai Music, and Tejano music''s Selena.

A new retrospective album of the '60s and '70s Hi Label hits has been released. Mitchell was one of the hit makers for the Memphis based label in its early days and later was the influential producer who made the sounds of soul greats Al Green, Ann Peebles and Otis Clay so well known.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW FILM "MAJOR PAYNE," STARRING DAMON WAYANS AS MAJOR PAYNE.

ok Critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Wonder Boys," by Michael Chabon (SHAY-bin). His first novel, a best seller, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" was originally written as his Master''s Thesis in college.

ITEM VETO - Jacki talks with James Thurber, the head of Congressional and Presidential Studies at American Univeristy in Washington D.C. Both houses of Congress have approved giving the President the Line-Item Veto...the ability of the President to veto specific portions of spending bills. Thurber discusses what the implications are.

The Aum Shinrykio sect is now the principal suspect in the Tokyo subway gassing last Monday. Over the past few days Japanese police have confiscated huge amounts of chemical compounds from their headquaters. But as Anne Garrels reports from Moscow the sect also has a large following in Russia - almost three times as many members as in Japan. But some of them are less willing than others.

ENTERTAINMENT: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE "DON JUAN DeMARCO" STARRING JOHNNY DEPP, MARLON BRANDO AND FAYE DUNAWAY.