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Schorr/ Simon: Scott and NPR's Dan Schorr review the week's news.

- Daniel speaks with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who's covered the Middle East for more than 20 years. She's written a new book, called "God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East" (Simon and Shuster). Judith and Danny talk about some of the Arab leaders attending the Cairo summit: Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Hafez el-Assad of Syria.

Linda talks with Mark Souder (SOW-der), Republican freshman from Indiana, about the Contract with America. Souder says it is time for the Republicans to regroup and go to a fallback strategy. He says that the Republican leadership has been too accommodating, and that individual members of Congress should vote independently, even if it causes tension within the party.

Samuel Hendren of member station of WUAL reports that many of the residents of the tiny community of Gees Bend, in Alabama are excited of the prospects that ferry service will be restored to their town after 30 years. The community, one of the poorest in the state, is located in an oxbow of the Alabama River, surrounded on three sides by water. Thirty-five years ago ferry service was terminated to prevent civil rights organizers from working with the residents, who are the descendents of former slaves. (s

Danny talks to Ken Rudin, editor of The Hotline political report, about memorable moments in past New Hampshire primaries: including Ed Muskie's "crying" episode; Ronald Reagan's "I paid for that microphone!" moment; and Eugene McCarthy's "victory" over LBJ, even though McCarthy came in second.

British authorities are reporting an explosion aboard a bus in central London shortly before 6 p.m. eastern time. Danny talks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb.

Danny tells a story of fraud and greed in the art world. Late last year, David Ramus, (RAY-mus) a former art dealer, was convicted in an Atlanta (Georgia) court of fraud. The owner of a painting would ask Ramus to sell a painting on consignment. Ramus would sell the painting,but not tell the owner. Instead, Ramus would keep the money for himself. Ramus now says he never set out to cheat anybody and that he "chose clearly a wrong thing to do." The plot thickens: Last year, the publisher HarperCollins paid Ramus a one-million dollar advance for his first novel, THIEF OF LIGHT, a story about fraud set in the high-stakes 1980's art world. Ramus says he will use part of the proceeds from the book to pay back his former art clients. In this piece, we'll hear from Ramus; Atlanta journalist Vincent Coppola; Larry Ashmead, Executive Editor and Vice President, HarperCollins Publishers; and Constance Lowenthal of the International Foundation for Art Research.

Robert talks with NPR's Andy Bowers in Sarajevo. Following this past weekend's summit in Rome, military leaders representing the Bosnian Serbs, Croatia and the Bosnian Government were to meet on a U.S. Aircraft carrier to work out details agreed to at the summit. Meanwhile in Sarajevo, the Serb exodus continues. And, NATO forces have issued "wanted" posters so its soldiers can recognize indicted war criminals.

Robert remembers musicologist and composer Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, who died yesterday at the age of 86. Eisenstein was the eldest daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism. In 1922, she became the first girl to have a Bat Mitzvah, today a common rite of passage among non-Orthodox Jewish girls.

-NPR'S Andy Bowers reports from Sarajevo on the seizure by NATO forces of what they call a Muslim terrorist training camp just outside the city. Eleven people, including three thought to be Iranians, were arrested at the camp, along with a large arms cache, including rifles, machine guns and booby traps. U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, the commander of NATO forces in Bosnia, says elements of the mainly Muslim Bosnian government may have been involved in training some of the men to carry out terrorist acts.