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Mike Shuster examines the relative ease with which weapons grade nuclear material might be smuggled out of the former Soviet Union and into the United States.

Robert talks with Brian Hanrahan of the BBC about Secretary of State Warren Christopher's trip to Syria. Christopher met with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus to discuss the possibility of securing a ceasefire in Lebanon. President Clinton sent Christopher on a diplomatic shuttle to the Middle East after Israeli shelling killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians last Thursday.

Mitsubishi Motors shut down two assembly-line shifts today and paid for more than two thousand workers to travel to Chicago and protest an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual harassment lawsuit against the company. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that the company-sponsored rally is unprecedented.

A profile of Tracy Nelson, the great blues and gospel singer - and the former leader of the San Francisco sixties band - Mother Earth. Her most famous song she authored "Down So Low." Nelson has a new album out called I FEEL SO GOOD - and while Nelson says she doesn't give a hoot about success - her new album has been doing well. Susan Armistead visited Nelson at her home in the woods outside Nashville and filed this profile. (8:30) [The album is I FEEL SO GOOD / ROUNDER RECORDS] (IN S

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell talks about the ABC drama series "Murder One." The show's season finale aired this week. The network hasn't decided whether the critically acclaimed series will be renewed.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that while many politicians and educators are busily trying to get American schools to work harder at producing students who can compete in the international marketplace, some parents are concerned that their kids are working too hard. They fear the pressure to complete large homework assignments and to get ahead in school is destroying their children's love for learning, and is turning childhood into an ordeal.

Writer LAWRENCE SHAINBERG. His new book, "Ambivalent Zen: A Memoir," (Pantheon) is about his years practicing Zen buddism, and centers on SHAINBERG's relationship with his Zen teacher, Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi. "Both master and student live on in this hilarious, provocative account of what being a student of Zen has been." writes Gretel Ehrlich in her review

After the Oklahoma City bombing, the country suddenly took note of the rhetoric coming from far-right radical groups such as the numerous citizen militias and separatists such as the Posse Comitatus. Now, reports NPR's Howard Berkes, similar links are being made between the suspected Unabomber and the inflammatory language of some radical environmental groups.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH NPR'S HOWARD BERKES ON THE CASE BUILDING UP AGAINST THEODORE KACZYNSKI, THE MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING THE UNABOMBER.

NPR'S MELISSA BLOCK PROFILES ROSE HAMBURGER. FOR NEARLY NINE DECADES, MS. HAMBURGER HAS BEEN PICKING HORSES IN RACES. NOW, AT THE AGE OF 105, SHE DOES IT FOR THE NEW YORK POST.