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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).

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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.

This week the Texas Legislature passed a law making it LEGAL to carry a concealed weapon. Daniel talks with Democratic Texas state legislator Ron Wilson who authored the bill. And officer Mike Robbins, a Chicago city policeman who opposes laws that legalize the carrying of concealed weapons and who has worked against the passage of similar legislation in Illinois.

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.

HANAN MIKHAIL-ASHRAWI, former spokesperson for the P-L-O from 1991 to 1993. ASHRAWI was the chief spokesperson for the Palestinian delegation at the Middle East peace negotiations. There are two books about her life and her role in the peace process: her personal account, This Side of Peace (Simon & Schuster), and A Voice of Reason: Hanan Ashrawi and Peace in the Middle East by Barbara Victor (Harcourt Brace).