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Recently a commission in Germany reached agreement on a Holocaust Memorial that would be built in Berlin. But now, many of Germany's conservatives, including Chancelor Helmut Kohl, say they're not happy with the design. And that's an opinion echoed by Germany's small Jewish community. Deidre Berger reports on the controversy.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR's John Greenberg reports that China today said it had formally arrested a Chinese-American human rights activist named Harry Wu. Wu has been charged with illegally obtaining state secrets and conducting criminal activities. If convicted, he could be executed. Wu has been held by the Chinese since June, when he tried to enter CHina from Kazakhstan.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports on the celebrations in London marking the 50th anniversary of V-E Day. Fifty thousand people gathered at Hyde Park for an afternoon of speeches and music.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH JERRY JASINOWSKI, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS ABOUT A LABOR DEPARMENT REPORT ON JOBS LOST IN MAY, THE THREAT OF RECESSION AND THE CURRENT LOSS OF JOBS IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR.

FROM MEMBER STATION KQED, JASON BEAUBIEN (BOH-bee-ann) PROFILES VETERAN POLITICIAN WILLIE BROWN, WHO IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE WILL BE RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO, AND IF ELECTED, WOULD BECOME THE CITY'S FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAYOR.

World music critic MILO MILES reviews the previously unreleased concert recording by Delta Bluesman Skip James. It''s called "She Lying." (on the Genes label as part of the ''Blues Vault'' series).

2: Interview with DON FRANCIS continued.

2: Poet and translator W.S.MERWIN. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1970 work, The Carriers of Ladders. His books of poetry include The Song of Roland, The Compass Flower, Miner's Pale Children, Houses and Travellers, and The Rain in the Trees. Many of his poems concern the beauty of the natural world and the consequences of man's desecration of it. (Rebroadcast. Originally aired on 5/13/88.)Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz changes hats and becomes Poet Lloyd Schwarts and reads a poem about his mother.

Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Die Hard With a Vengeance" which stars Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons and Samuel L. Jackson.